Come and join me in two performances soon at the splendid Northwest Folklife!
Sunday 25th May 2014 :
1:10-1:40pm at the Center Theater, Seattle Center: http://sched.co/
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What is music devoid of meaningful words set to tune? Can music portray depth and meaning owing just to the notes and the melody? I invite you to experience this intriguing concept with me within the boundaries of carnatic music. Playing with me this afternoon are Ravi Ramamurthy on the violin and Murali Krishna on the ghatam.
About my talented co-artists:
Ravi Ramamurthy is interested in all forms of music and has a profound interest in Carnatic music and its interpretation using the violin. He has studied with the late Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman, one of India’s greatest classical violinists and composers. He has performed in Seattle as both an accompanist and a solo artist (including performances in Utsav and the Northwest Folklife). Outside of music, he works for Microsoft.
Murali Krishna is a student of T.H.Subashchandran, a renowned South-Indian classical percussionist. In addition to his Ghatam training Murali also trained as a singer. He brings his musical sensibility to his Ghatam playing. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Thursday 22nd May 2014
I will be performing at the NW Folklife Pre-festival at the magnificent Chihuly Glass Museum auditorium. Come and enjoy a condensed glimpse of a carnatic music concert. Sharing the stage with me this evening are Rajiv Bharadwaj on the flute and Jagadeeswaran on the Mridangam.
Sunday 25th May 2014 :
1:10-1:40pm at the Center Theater, Seattle Center: http://sched.co/
Upload Update: Listen to this piece at http://www.nwfolklife.org/may-
What is music devoid of meaningful words set to tune? Can music portray depth and meaning owing just to the notes and the melody? I invite you to experience this intriguing concept with me within the boundaries of carnatic music. Playing with me this afternoon are Ravi Ramamurthy on the violin and Murali Krishna on the ghatam.
About my talented co-artists:
Ravi Ramamurthy is interested in all forms of music and has a profound interest in Carnatic music and its interpretation using the violin. He has studied with the late Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman, one of India’s greatest classical violinists and composers. He has performed in Seattle as both an accompanist and a solo artist (including performances in Utsav and the Northwest Folklife). Outside of music, he works for Microsoft.
Murali Krishna is a student of T.H.Subashchandran, a renowned South-Indian classical percussionist. In addition to his Ghatam training Murali also trained as a singer. He brings his musical sensibility to his Ghatam playing. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Thursday 22nd May 2014
I will be performing at the NW Folklife Pre-festival at the magnificent Chihuly Glass Museum auditorium. Come and enjoy a condensed glimpse of a carnatic music concert. Sharing the stage with me this evening are Rajiv Bharadwaj on the flute and Jagadeeswaran on the Mridangam.
About my talented co-artists:
Jagadeeswaran (aka Jaggu) started learning Mridangam at the Pondicherry Music college from Sri.Gopakumar, a senior disciple of Sangeetha Kalanidhi Dr.TK Murthy, Sri.Sridharan and was also mentored by veteran Guru Sri.Tiruvarur Krishnamurthy. He had the opportunity to learn at different times from Smt.Sukkanya Ramgopal in Bangalore and Ghatam Vidwan Sri.SV Ramani. He is now a disciple of Sri.B.Ganapathyraman in Chennai. He holds an Interdisciplinary masters in Music and Computer Science from GeorgiaTech - Atlanta, where his research focused on algorithms that analyze and interpret Indian Classical Music.
Rajiv Bharadwaja began taking flute lessons at a young age from Sri. S. A. Shashidhar in Bangalore. He also trained under vocalist Sri. C. M. Venkatachalam in San Diego and then from Sri. Ashok Kumara in Bellevue. Learning vocal has helped him refine his fingering techniques on the flute, and appreciate the finer aspects of shruthi and laya. Rajiv resides in Redmond and is a software engineer at Google. When he’s not working and/or listening to music, he enjoys skiing, and analyzing the various ways in which the cosmos and music are intertwined.
I am excited to collaborate with such talented musicians from the Northwest and look forward to seeing you there!