Sathya in Ghatam Karthick’s heArtbeat team at Isha Foundation 26th Feb 06 Sivarathri Celebrations.

Sathya had a great Sivarathri experience on the 26th night with the opportunity to perform in Ghatam Karthick’s ‘heartbeat’ for Isha Foundation’s Sivarathri celebrations at Veliangiri, Coimbatore.

Just after the performance of Remo Fernandez and party at 415 am on the 27th Feb’06 the heartbeat team headed by S Karthick on the ghatam comprising Embar S Kannan on violin and Sathya on the keyboard for melody and Sri Poongulam Subramanian on the mrudhangam, Gopalakrishnan on the Kanjeera, Kalaimamani A. S. Krishnan on the morsing and Sri Sowrirajan on the thavil performed an inspiring concert.

The team started with a traditional Mallari – ragam Gambeera nattai set to Kandajathi thiruputa thalam with all four kalapramanams and straight away won the hearts of the audience and in particular that of Sathguru Jaggi Vasudev who applauded the team. They went on to play few electrifying numbers on ragams Rathipathipriya, Vanaspathi and Srothaswani. Embar Kannan gave a brief alapana for all the numbers and in Srothaswani Sathya also played and exhibited his prowess of playing gamakas during his alapana. This number had the thani avarthanam where each one of the percussion artist excelled each other.

Ghatam Karthick’s singing also was well received particularly the Siva sthothra presented by him as the last item in which the audience involved themselves and chanted together the phrases line by line. On Satguru’s specific request Sathya played a solo number on kavadi sindhu – Chenni kulanagar and had the audience dancing with the perfect rhythm support of quality percussion artist supporting Sathya.

Sathya performing with heArt beat's core team on the 27th Feb evening

Sathya had the oppurtunity to perform with Ghatam Karthick's heArtbeat team's core team comprising Sri Embar S Kannan on the violin, Sri Poongulam Subramanian on the mrudhangam and Sri Karthick on the Ghatam this evening for a private concert. Sathya enjoyed every moment of this concert as he was so happy to perform with his uncle as one of his enhancement artist.

Sathya for Isaai Mazhalai in a private wedding concert 23rd Feb'06

Sathya today performed for Isaai Mazhalai at Hotel Woodlands for a private function for 2 hrs and his enchansement artists were K P Nandhini on Violin, Bhardwaj on Mrudhangum and Chandrasekara Sharma on the Ghatam. The team performed a wonderful concert.

Felicitation to Music Ambassadors

Sri Nalli with Dr T P Naidoo and Mrs Naidoo from Durban, South Africa

Sri Nalli Chettiar, a music patron ikon, under Bharathi Kala Mandram felicitated the Music Ambassadors namely, Dr T P Naidoo - Durban South Africa, Cleveland Sundaram, Cleveland Balasubramaniam and Toronto Venkatraman. This function was held at the Woodlands Hotel today, 22nd Feb'06 which was attended by almost 1000 people, from officials of various sabhas, artists and rasika apart from media persons.

22nd Feb Concert for Hamsadhwani

I take this oppurtunity for the presence of many and wishes of everyone for Sathya's concert today for Hamsadwani which concert performance was appriciated by almost all in the audience which was indeed a good turn out considering the time slot of 5-630 pm. I give below a report as told by many in the audience.

Sathya started the concert with a ada thala varnam in ragam Bhairavi which was of high quality particularly the gamakams for the raga brought out on this western instrument. He then went on to a brief alapana on Hamsadhwani for the krithi Gum Ganapathim with crisp speed and kalpanaswarams. The enchancement artist Sri Rajeev on violin gave excellent support and so was Sri Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on mrudhangam.

Sathya's next number was on ragam Poorvi Kalyani - krithi Meenakshi for which he gave an ellobrate alapana and made one understand that even this instrument can produce gamakas provided it is handled in the way required. Rajeev's alapana presentation for this was also appreciated by the knowledgble audience. Sathya went on to play Vandhey Sadha Padmanabam on ragam Navarasa kanada set to adi thalam and followed it with Muralidhara in ragam Maandu which was very pleasing to the ears.

Sathya took Gowri Manohari as the main item and made a detailed alapana and Rajeev on violin also matched every score and the team got good appriciation from the audience. The krithi Guruleka was performed with apt kalapramana and during the kalpana swara prayogam Sathya went on to show his knowledge on playing Kalyani and Charukesi which were complimented by the aidience with loud applause. Suriyanarayanan's crisp thani was also well appriciated.

Sathya with the inspiration of western numbers played a spanish piece named 54 beats with scale changes provided at the end and was well supported by both the accompanying artist. This also received well by the rasikas. Sathya played Jonpuri thillana and ended the concert with Raghupathi Raghava Rajaram.

Thanks and best regards
T Krishnababu
f/o KeyboardSathya

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Photos at the venue of AOL celebrations

Poojya Shri Ravisjankarji


Sathya in front of Dr Abdul Kalam at the AOL Silver Jubilee celebrations, Bangalore.

A section of the huge crowd in lakhs!!

Shri Ravishankar Guruji on stage.

Sathya at Poojya Shri Ravishankarji's AOL celebrations

Sathya in front of Gurji during the rehersals at the venue on the 16th Feb'06

A section of violin artists on stage

It was indeed a greatest experience for Sathya to have got an opportunity to be a member of 3800 artists who performed a grand music performance for Sri Sri Ravishankarji's "Art of Living" silver jubilee celebrations held at the Jakkur Airfield, Bangalore on the 17,18 & 19th Feb'06. The opportunity was given to Sathya thru Kalaimamani Kum A Kanyakumari who was one of the lead player for this grand musical performance. The artist name list included the legendary Shri Lalgudi, Shri M S Anatharaman, Shri Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Shri Bakthavatchalam, Shri T N Seshagoplan, Shri T V Gopalakrishnan, Shri Kadri Gopalnath, Shri Ravikiran, Shri Sashikiran and many others.

It was also an unique experience to be on stage in front of almost 10 - 15 lakhs of people who had assembled to have dharshan of Sri Guruji and get his blessings. The artist group performed two songs a day and the kritis performed were

Song detail Ragam Thalam Composer

1. Mahaganapathi Naatai Adi Muthuswamy Dikshidhar

2. Entharo Mahanubhavulu Sri Adi St. Thyagaraja

3. Samajavaragamana Hindolam Adi St. Thyagaraja

4. Ninuvina Navarasa Kanada Rupakam St. Thyagaraja

5.Visweswara Sindhu Bhairavi Rupakam Swathi Thirunal

6.Shiva shiva sankara Sumeru Priya Adi Sri Sri Ravishankar ji

7.Musical Notes Sankarabaranam base Thisra Nadai Dr Madurai Mani Iyer

It has been reported that around 700 veena, 700 flute, 800 violin, 600 mrudhangam 200 ghatam and manyother instrumentalists performed togeher of whic and keyboard had the presence of 20 artists which is again a recognition this instrument has achieved over the years in the carnatic platform.

The invitees included many Presidents of various countries, Saints, Intelectuals and many more and the star among them was our President Dr Abdul Kalam who gave an inspiring speech.

Rgds T Krishnababu
f/o Mstr K Sathyanarayanan

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Sathya performing at the Talkatora Stadium

Sathya performing at the Talkatora Stadium.

Sathya's performance at the Capital for AAIWWA on 10th Feb'06

10th Feb'06 was indeed a great day for Sathya as he had the opportunity to perform in front of a large audience of around 3000 people at the Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi for the programme titled 'Spring Tide 2006' for Kalyanmayee, Airport Authority of India Women Welfare Association. He also had the blessed audience of Smt Usha Uthup, who performed a 90mt concert after Sathya's 60mt show.

Sathya had Sri Suri on Bass Guitar, Sri Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhunagam & Kanjeera, Sri Harihara Subramaniam on Ghatam, Sri Padmanabhan on Rhythm Pad, Sri Rajagopal on Tabla and his parents Lalitha and Krishnababu to give vocal support.

Sathya started the concert with Vathapi Ganapathim and followed it with

* a Spanish music number titled 54 beats.

* Bolere Pappi - sung by his mother Lalitha

* Musical notes on Sankarabaranam

* Papa Kehathey hey - instrumental

* Hungarian dance number

* Own composing based on keerawani, kaapi and gowrimanohari ragams

* Konjaneram konjum nerum - song from the film Chnadramuki sung by Lalitha & Krishnababu

* Namavali - Raghupathi raghava rajaram

* Vandhey Matharam

The crowd enjoyed the show and this was evident from the loud applause the group received after each song. Almost the entire crowd joined for the namavali - raghupathi raghava rajaram and he was complimented by Smt Usha Uthup for his excellent concert presentation . This was indeed a great blessing for Sathya and hope he grows to great levels slowly and steadily.

5th Feb'06 Sathya presented with Sangam Child Prodigy Award

Sangam Kal Group, a Delhi based organistion sponsored by Hero Hondo promoted in memory of a great child prodigy 'Sri Madan', today had their Chennai chapter musical evening with competitions in various categories in non film and fil music. Almost around 150 persons participated and the function was held through out the day at Raga Sudha Hall, Mylapore, Chennai. The chief guest was Ms Subhashri Thanikachalam a well known personality, Director Music Programmes on various Television channels.

Sangam Kala Group, Chennai Chapter presented the ' Sangam Child Prodigy Award' for this year to Sathya for his talents and achievements. In this function Sathya also gave a short 25 mins solo concert with his Yamaha keyboard giving the rhythm pattern and melody was played on the Korg board.

Sathya at the Pancharathnam Aradhana concert at Bharat kalachar

It was indeed another great day for Sathya as he was given an oppurtunity to perform with great artsits to render Thyagaraja's Pancharathna Krithis at Bharat Kalachar. The welcoming factor is that, not only the stage was full of artsits, even the audience section was to its full capacity which shows the support given by both artists and rasikas for Bharat Kaalachar and its noble cause.

Senior vidwans in all fields of carnatic music were honoured and the chief guest for the day was Sri Murali, Prseident, Music Academy. The notable contribution to the artsits section was from Issai Mazhalai, Sri Ramjhi's carnatic section students who were around 20 - 30 in number on stage.

03 Feb'06 a private concert

Sathya performed today with his enhancement artists being Ms Aanuthama on violin, Mr Kumabakonam Saravanan on the mrudhangam and Mr Adambakkam Sankar on ghatam for a private concert at the Aringar Anna Arangam, Chetput.

Wedding reception concert on the 28th Jan'06

Sathya performed with Sri B Ananthakrishnan on violin, Sri Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on mrudhangam and Sri Pradeep on Tabla.

Private concert for relative's wedding on 25th Jan'06

Sathya today performed in his relative's wedding reception with Sri Ananthakrishnan on the Violin, Sri Melakaveri Balaji on Mrudhangam and Sri Harihara Subramaniam on the ghatam.

Private concert on the 23rd Jan'06

A private with today's enhancement artists being Sri Ananthapadmanaba on violin, Sri Kumbakonam Saravanan on mrudhangam, Sri OPapanasam Sethuraman on Kanjeera and Sri Harihara Subramaniam on Ghatam for teh wedding reception of Mrs & Mr Krishnamurthy's (Gm Thai Airways) daughter.

Private Concert on 21st Jan'06 in Chennai

Sathya had the oppurtunity to perform with Mannargudi Srinivasan on violin and Sri Kanrthigeyan on the Mrudhangam for a private concert.