Performance in the team heArtbeat - 25th Feb’07.

Sathya was happy to perform in Ghatam Karthick’s heArtbeat for a private concert in Trichy after his solo concert at Kumbakonam. While Sathya is happy to perform with anybody this day performing with his uncle Embar S Kannan he was only too happy.

Concert for Janaranjani Sabha, Kumbakonam 24th Feb’07

Mr Gopalan, Secy was not expecting a big crowd on this day the 24th Feb’07 as there were many activities taking part for audience participation including the episode of Kalakapovadhu Yaaru for a TV Channel. How ever god was kind to Sathya with a good turn out of audience for his concert which he started with an Athi thala Mallari in Gambeera Naatai, as wished by Mr Gopalan.

Sathya was having Sri Poongulam Subramaniam as his enhancement artiste on Mrudhangam with B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin. It was indeed a great rendition of Vaathapi by Sathya with Poongulam Subramaniam’s percussion. The entire concert was filled with great energy. Ananthakrishnan exhibited his proves during the alapanas, kalpanaswaras and gave a perfect enhancement during the krithis.

Mr Gopalan was so happy that Sathya had the turnout of large audience in spite of a busy day and the song list for the day was as follows:

01. Mallari Gambeera Naatai Adi
02. Vaathapi Ganapathim Hamsadwani Adi (R, N, KS)
03. Nadhaloludai Kalayanavasantham Rupakam (R)
04. Entharomahanubhavulu Sri Adi
05. Deva Deva Mayamalavagowla Rupakam (N & KS)
06. Vitajalathura Janaranjani Adi
07. Marivere Anandhabhairavi Misrachappu
08. Chinnanchiru kiliye Ragamalika Thisra nadai Ekam
09. Marubalka Sriranjani Adi (R, KS & Thani)
10. Om Namonarayanan Karnaranjani Kandachaappu
11. Sankarabaranam Notes Sankarabaranam Adi Thisra Nadai
12. Bo Sambo Revathy Adi
13. Thillana Jonpuri Adi
14. Mangalam.

R - Raga alapana N - Niraval KS - Kalpana Swara Thani - Percussion solo

Chennai Sangamam Concert on 23rd Fe'07 Back to back concert for teh third day

The concept of “Chennai Sangamam” is surely a great success and who ever masterminded this project should be appreciated. In the days of all the sabhas complaining about the low attendance this concept would definitely boost and initiate the people to attend concerts from now on. Yes this has really shown a new way of spending time usefully for people who probably thought music was not their preference against movies and TV channel.

The audience present for this morning concert did imply this and Sathya presented an audience friendly concerts with almost all popular numbers. The reason was to make even people hearing / attending concert first time to get interest and lure them to attend more such concerts.

B Ananthakrishnan on Violin and Kumbakonam Swaminathan on Mrudhangam gave an excellent enhancement and the team did achieve what probably the organizers of “Chennai Sangamam” wanted namely creating interest to the mass.

Fusion Music under Chitraveena Sri Ravikiran 22.02.07

It was indeed a great recognition extended once again by Sri Ravikiran to have Sathya as one of his team member for the Fusion concept concert rendered for “Chennai Sangamam” at Mada Veedhai, Mylapore in front of Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple (Main Gopuram).

Sri Ravikiran leading the team of Sri K.V. Prasad on Mrudhangam, Sow. Akkarai Subulakshmi on violin, Smt Anuradha Pal on the Tabla (the only women tabla artiste in the world as introduced by the organizer) and Sathya gave an excellent concert.

The concert was presented in a manner that even a novice / first time listener of our traditional form of music relished and enjoyed. Well this is the motive of the concept “Chennai Sangamam” and the artist to the caliber of Sri Ravikiran did extend his full support with this concert.

Starting the concert with his own compositions 1. Cold coffee on ragam Kaapi and 2. Moon flowers on ragam Suryagantham, Sri Ravikiran performed the ever melodious ragam Kadhanakudhugalam. Sri Ravikiran gave a great exposure to Sathya during the raga alapana of Suryagantham in which he brought out the nuances of Carnatic music on the keyboard by guiding Sathya to play the phrases he performed on the Chitra Veena. The audience was very appreciative and this will go a long way to register the arrival of Keyboard in the Carnatic music forum. He also gave ample opportunity to Sow. Akkarai Subbulakshmi to showcase her talents. Sri K V Prasad & Smt Anuradha Pal’s’s excellent accompaniment on the Mrudhangam added flavor and so was the thani avarthanam.

Sri Ravikiran then completed the concert with a Bharathiar’s composition Aasai Marandhu Poche in ragam Jonpuri, The large audience enjoyed every moment of the concert and so did our Chief Ministers wife and the Smt Kanimozhi with her family. A blessed opportunity & experience for Sathya once again to be performing with Sri Ravikiran’s team.

Upanayanam cocnert for TamilNadu Champion

It was a concert for the upanayanam of Master Shashank S. Yogesh who is the State Table Tennis (under -10) Champion. The team of Anathakrishnan on violin, Arjun Ganesh on mrudhangam and Harihara Sharma on Kanjeera (first time he is performing with Sathya) got appreciation from the well attended and knowledgeble audience. Sri Charukesi - a leading msuic critic introduced Sathya to the audience and Sri Bagyam Ramasamy (the writer of famous Seethapatti & Appuswamy thatha) the grandfather of Mstr Shashank appriciated and blessed Sathya for his bright future.

Jugalbandhi on Keyboard - Brahma Gana Sabha 20th Feb'07

It is indeed for the first time ever this concept was happening. Thanks to the thought of Sri A Natarajan, former Director Doordharshan Madras, who had this idea and staged it for Brahma Gana Sabha on 20th Feb'07 at Narada Gana Sabha. Yes, a Jugalbandhi on keyboard - may be a lighter subject today but indeed a history was created with Carnatic on Keyboard Sathya and Hindustani on Keyboard Adithi joined together and performed a show.

With Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam and Ganesh Rao on Tabla the team of 4 gave a good presentation which had a august gathering with Padmashree Sri Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti and Sri Natarajan to name a few. There were also artists, press and rasikas and a sincere thanks to each one of the audience who had turned up here.

Starting with Hamsadwani raga alapana the duo of Sathya and Adithi gave a brief alapana in thier own style of music and then after playing the pallavi of Vaathapi Ganapathim went on to explore their kalpanai for the swara elaboration.

It was then a individual session with Sathya performing detailed raga - Nagumomu on Aberi followed with swaram which was uplauded by one and all. Adithi took up Beemplas the similar colour of raga and made alapana and played gat with kalapanaswaram receiving appriciation from all.

Then the duo took up Hindolam - Malkouns combination as the main to play a popular phrase. Both gave a great presentation of the raga alapana and exhibited their manodharma. Both Suriyanarayanan and Ganesh Rao gave excellent enhancement with their style of playing their instruments and also gave a crisp thani.

The concert concluded with a brief expansion of Desh raag aalapana followed by Vandhey Matharam. It was indeed a great presentation by the team considering the fact that the team rehersed for just 2 hours due to paucity of time. I think we can look forward to more such concerts in future.

"Beethovan Re-incarnated Award"- by Rotasia to Sathya

It was indeed a great surprise to us on the 16th Feb'07 evening when we were informed by the ROTASIA organizer that Sathya is to be given an award under the title of "Beethovan Re-incarnated Award". Rotasia also honoured Mstr Siddharth Nagarajan and Ms Athira Krishna with award titled Master of Percussion and Princess of String respectively on the same day.

All the three awardees gave a performance for almost an hour and it was a great evening for the audience. While Siddharth made every one dance to his foot tapping rhythm solo Sathya & Athira mesmorized the crowd with their masterly own compositions. The result of the Trio's success came out in the form of Sri AVM Balasubrmaniam - AVM Studios, coming forward to offer his studio time free of cost for the trio to make a project. Kudos to the Trio of Sathya, Siddharth and Athira.

Concert for Hamsadwani - 16th Feb'07

Sathya performed at Hamsadwani on the 16th Feb'07 dedicating the concert to the Late Sri S V Krishnan, Nadha Inbam.

Sathya was teamed up with Sri Villiwakkam Raghuraman on violin and Sri Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam. Starting off with Hamsadwani varnam Sathya then played Varasiddhi vinayaka on ragam Kaanada with a brief alapana and a crisp kalpana sawra. He then had an elaborate alapana of Saranga tharangini for the Krithi Samanarahithe followed by kalpana swaram.

Sathya's next krithi was a swara jathi in ragam Bhairavi set to Misra thalam. An elaboration of alapana for Sankarabaranam by both Sathya and Raghuraman was well applauded and so for the crisp thani performed by Suriyanarayanan on the mrudhangamfor this number. Sathya concluded the concert with Paras thilana. The concert had a decent attendence at around 515 pm itself with over 50 people which raised to almost 250 - 275 persons.

Everyone present appreciated and informed that there has been a remarkable improvement on Sathya's presentation. This is due to gainining experience and also with new handling techniques for the new KORG TR board which he started using it from the 1st Aug'06. Sri Ramachandran, Secy. Hamsadwani, spoke well about Sathya's efforts in playing carnatic on keyboard and also announced about his recent awards namely "Aasthana Vidwan of Sri Kalahasthi" and the Rotasia award which he received late in the evening titled "Beethovan Re-incarnated Award"

A day to remember - 15th Feb'06 For Signal Corps Day

It was indeed a great day for Sathya to remember as he had his performance in front of our Army personnel and their families during the 96th Anniversary celebrations of Signal Corps Day on the 15th Feb'07. As per their request Sathya performed classical, western and his own compositions before winding up the show with Vandhey Matharam.

Sri Kalahasthi concert 12th Feb'07 - A concert to remeber for life time

It was indeed a great evening for Sathya as he was performing with Sri Premkumar, brother of Percussion Maestro Sri Sivamani. Mr Prem not only looked like his brother Sivamani but also showed his proves on his playing style during this programme held as part of Sivarathri festival conducted by Sri Kalahasthi Temple. It was a kind of fusion / ensemble organizers asked for and the team of Ananthakrishnan on violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam, Bass guitar Suri, Ghatam Hariharasubramaniam and Rajagopal on tabla along with Mr Prem on drums and Sathya gave an excellent performance for about 3 hrs.

The concert started at 915pm (after almost a delay of 2 hrs as the earlier programme were going a little slow) and as it ended at 0015 hrs on the 13th morning Sathya was in a for a great appreciation from the organizers with the title of “Aasthana Keyboard Vidwan of Sri Kalahasthi Temple” which was announced by Sri Kola Anand, Chairman of the Temple Committee. Mr Prem Kumar was also declared as “Asthana Drummer of Sri Kalahasthi Temple”

It is indeed a great honour for Sathya as this came after the Chairman has witnessed his performance and made instant decision to declare him as Aasthana Vidwan and he is now in the list of Dr Sri Balamuralikrishna, Sri Kunnakudy Vaidhyanadhan, Sri Unnikrishnan, Sri Mandolin Shrinivas to name a few of the Asthana Vidwans of this great temple.

Sathya’s song list included 01. Mallari 02. Vathapiganapathim 03. Sobillu 04. Niravathysukatha 05. Chinnanchirukiliye 06. Bo Sambo 07. Own co[position on Jog 08. Sankarabaranam notes 09. Azhan muruganidum a devotional number 10. A medley of songs comprising Chennikulanagar – Kavadi sindhu, Nadhabindu & Muthaithiru – Thirupugazh, Raravenu gopala, Beethovan’s notes, Vandhey Matharam fisnishing with the last lines of our National Anthem.

Sathya was extended special praise for his own composition and the medley & Sri Premkumar was appreciated for his grand solo. The team was encouraged as well and they gave an excellent presentation. Their performance was very important for the organizer’s to award the title of “Aasthana Vidwan” to both Sathya and Mr Prem, with their great enhancement.

11 Feb'07 concert in Chennai

Sathya performed a cool concert today with the team of Ananthakrishnan on violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam, Pad Padmanabhan, Bass guitar Suri, Ghatam Hariharasubramaniam and Sri Sundar on tabla.

It was a evening were Sathya performed concert as a mix of classical, devotional and few old film numbers. Most of the full house audience came to Sathya after greeting the newly wedded couple, as he was performing, and appreciated him as they were coming out after greeting the wedded couple.

First Public Concert after his Upanayanam - 5th Feb'07

Sathya's 1st public concert after his upanayanam was at the sannadhi of St.Thyagaraja's at Sri Thyagaraja Sangeetha Vidwath Samajam, Mylapore, Chennai. He was teamed up with SP Ananthapadmanabha on Violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam and Harihara Subaramaniam on Ghatam. It was a learned audience who were very patient inspit of teh powercut faced for about 10 mts.

Sri Parur M.A. Krishnaswamy during his speach said that "Sathya's performance today has onle endorsed the view to say that Keyboard is to be added to the list of instruments in the field of carnatic music forum like that of Violin, Mandolin and Saxaphone". He also added to say that Sathya handled all the ragas and krithis rendered today very well particularly the difficult Thodi raga alapana and kalpanaswara for St. Thyagaraja's Koluvamaragatha. He appriciated the efforts of the other team members for having played an effective role to make this concert a pleasant one.

Mr Vijayakumar - a Carnatic music rasika from Mumbai was present for the concert and he has left a note as under: " The concert was indeed an excellent one. The reason why I say this because Keyboard is indeed a difficult instrument to play classical carnatic music & it was played in a very nice & Professional manner. It was indeed very great thing that he is playing at the age of 12 and especially the thodi ragam for Thyagaraja's Koluvamaragatha was indeed very thrilling". For more personal impressions and details please contact Mr Vijaykumar at jet_vj@yahoo.co.in

Above are the video clippings of this concert on ragam Thodi.

The list of songs are as under:

01. Varnam - Sriragam- Adi

02. VAravallaba - Hamsadhwani - Adi (ragam & K'Swaram)

03. Guruleka - Gowri Manohari - Kanda Chappu (Raga alapana)

04. Seethamma _ Vasantha - Rupakam (Krithi with K'swaram)

05. Theliyaledhu rama - Denuka - Adi

06. Deva Deva - Mayamalavagowla - Rupakam (Niraval & K'swaram)

07. Vitajalauthura - Janaranjani - Adi

08. Koluvamaragatha - Thodi - Adi (Ragam, K'swaram with Kalayani, Mohanam Srothaswani and thani)

09. Sri Lalgudi's Thillana - Desh - Adi

Concert on his Date of Birth 01 Feb

Not every one will have the oppurtunity to have good things coming your way for both your star birthday and also on the DAte of birth. Yes Sathya had the oppurtunity to be busy with concerts on both his star b'day and date of birth this year as he turned 12 years.

The date of birth was celebrated in the wedding concert stage with cake cutting and Sathya performing calssical, western and film music as like 23rd concert with the team of:

Ananthapadmanabha - Violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan - Mrudhnagam, Suri - Bass Guitar, Saravanan - Rhythm Pad and Rajagopal on Tabla. In this concert Sathya's mother also sang a song.

Wedding concert on the 23rd Jan'07

It was a concert with a difference with Sri Ranganatha Battachariar performing Thavil for the concert along with Sathya for the entire concert. Sathya performed classical, devotional, western and film numbers for this concert and the team members here were Villiwakkam Raghuraman on violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam, Rajagopal on Tabla and Suri on Bass Guitar.

Concert at Nanganallur Sri Thyagaraja Sangeeetha Samajam

Sathya was blessed to perform a concert on his star birthday (sadhayam) on the 22nd Jan particularly for NSTSS a renowned and a holy forum. It was with the team of Sri Anayampati Venkatasubramaniam on the violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on mrudhangam and Harihara Subramaniam on the ghatam which gave an impressinve performance.

The hall was full for almost the entire concert and every one appreciated the team's effort and particularrly the effort of Sathya performing the Thodi alapana for the first time on stage along with Dikshidhar's krithi Srikrishnam baja. The other notable performance was for the krithi Chadrambaja in Asaveri a navagraha krithi.

The list of songs performed in that concert are:

01. Varnam Mohanam Adi
02. Vinayakaninnu - Hamsadhwani - Adi (with Ragam & Swaram)
03. Chandrambaja - Asaveri - Mattiyathalam
04. Balasarasamurali - Keeravani - Adi(ragam)
05. Seethamma - Vasantha - Rupakam Ragam & Swaram)
06. Theliyaledhu rama - Dhenuka - Adi
07. Krishnanee Begane - Yamen Kalyan - Misra Chaappu
08. Sri Krishnambaja - Thodi - Adi (ragam, Niraval,swaram & Thani)
09. Vanathumeedu - Vallalar Krithi
10. Sai Bhajan on revathi followed by mangalam