Concert trip to Kakinada in January 2014 with a Good Team!

It was the third time Sathya got a call from Kakinada Sangitha Vidwath Sabha this time during their 68th Music Festival. This time it was with the Team of Sri. Sathyanarayana Sharma (who ahd also performed with Sathya in Arasaville many years back) on violin, Sri. Sadgururajan on Mrudhangam and Sri. G. Venkatesh on Morsing. These artists were from Andhra Pradesh and did give a great enhancement to Sathya's concert.  Mr. Manian Babu, Treasurer on knowing that Sathya had performed PrathapaVarali in Thiruvaiyaru wanted him to perform same here and Mr. Nageswara Rao, the Host wanted a krith in Amir Kalyani which were performed and so was Jagadho Dharana!

It was so nice of Mr. Sadgururajan who indeed is facet personality, who after the main piece of Amir Kalyani raga krithi Venakatasailavihara of Subhraya Sastri which was performed on request, picked up the mike and appreciated Sathya for his efforts saying the nuances brought out on this instrument was almost equivalent to that of the sound produced on a String instrument. He also gave Rs 100/- as his humble blessing to Sathya and this was indeed a great gesture! The entire audience were very appriciative of this Team's presentation! 

The details of the krithis performed by the Teas was as under: (Audio to be uploaded soon)

01. Varnam - Mohanam - Adi

02. Pranamamyagam - Gaula - Adi - Dikshidar [OR & S]

03. Budhamasrayami - Natakurunji - Misrajampa - Dikshidar

04. Pariyachakama - Vanaspathi - Rupakam [R & S]

05. Vinanasakoni - PrathapaVarali - Adi [on request]

06.  Marivere - AnandhaBhairavi - Misrachapu

07. Venkatasailavihara - Amirkalyani - Adi - Subraya Sastri [R, S & T]

08. Akativela - Revathy - Adi - Annamaya

09. Jagadhodharana - Kaapi - Adi - Purandaradasa [on request]

10. Thillana - Madhuvanthi - Adi - Lalgudi G. Jayaraman

PS. OR - short raga alApana, S - Kalpanaswaram, R - rAga Alapana, T - Thani Avarthanam

Devine trip to Thiruvaiyaru and a wonderful Team presentation!

Performing in Thiruvaiyaru is always a great blessing and performing there with huge audience is indeed fabulous as it is always full of Learned Music Rasikas! Sathya had the blessing and performed with Sri. Raghuram on violin, Sri. M. S. Venkatasubramanian on mrudhangam and Sri. Balamurugan on Morsing at Thiruvaiyaru for a 15 minutes duration on the 20th January 2014. 

The team vina nAshakoni in Prathaba Varali understandably not performed for a long time, gnAnamu sakarAdha in poorvi kalyAni and bAle bAlIEndu in reethigaula and was very well received and appreciated by the learned Music audience of Thiruvaiyaru! Here is the playlist of the videos!

A Grand Start in January 2014

It has been a wonderful start to the New Year 2014 for Keyboard the isntrument with a great Recognition of Sathya blessed with an opportunity to perform with this year's Sangeetha Kalanidhi Smt. Sudha Raghunathan ji for the release of her Coffee Table Book on the 4th January 2014 along with Sri. Rajhesh Vaidhya!

Then it was on to a concert for Sri Panjamuka Anjaneyar Committee Issai Vizha 2014 on the 5th January 2014 with Sri. Karaikal Venkatasubramanian on violin and Sri. R. Sankaranarayanan on Mrudhangam! (Audio tracks will be uploaded soon)

On the 6th January it was a perofrmance for Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan, Mylpore with Sri. B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin, Sri. Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mruhangam and Sri. Valangaiman Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam. This was a concert attended by Sri Bhaskaran Shivaraman, a journalist who was writing Music reviews this season in many leading print media this year and he also praised the efforts of the team on stage this day. (Audio tracks will be uploaded soon)

Concerts with Veena Exponent Sri. Rajhesh Vaidhya in his ensemble at UDIPI on the 8th January

and the one at Kamaraj Hall on 14th Jan'14 for Kalaivizha organaised by Abbas Cultural were indeed a great experience for Sathya.

This was followed by a prestigious concert on Army DAY, 15th January at Army Office Southern Headquarters in Chennai in Sri. Embar Kannan's CROSSROADS followed by the public concert for HAMSADWANI were indeed fabulous as well!