Saturday, February 17, 2007

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"