Wishes for A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

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Pls get to the link to look at an articel in The Hindu - Downtown - Tnagr issue dated 31st Dec'06

Article in The Hindu

Also log on to http://keyboardsathya.blogspot.com for Sathya's personal blog.

Sathya's video clippings at Nadasudha - Velachery

Sathya's performing Thaye Thripurasundhari

You can also log on to Video Here and listen to Sathya's concert performance recorded live at MFAC on the 24th Dec'06. For this concert Sathya had teamed up with Sri Mannargudi Srinivasan on violin and Thillaisthanam on Mrudhangam.

Sathya at MFAC on 24th Dec06

Sathya performed for Mylapore Fine Arts with Mannarkudi Srinivasan on violin and Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on mrudhangam from 130 to 3pm on the 24th Dec with Sri Mahaganapathey on ragam Aboghiset to Kanda Chaappu. He then rendered Dikshidhar's Navagraha Krithi "Suryamoorthey" on ragam Sourastram which became the hit of this concert.

He then followed alapana on Mohanam for the krithi Pahimam Parvathi with a short swra prayogam. This was followed by Hamsanadha krithi Bantureethigolu with a great speed and every one enjoyed the presentation of the swaras by both Sathya and Srinivasan. Suriyanarayanan's mrudhangam enhanced the concert and gave a good thani.

Madhayamavathi alapana by both the artist were excellent and so was the kalpana swara by them. Sathya then rendered Aiye meththakadinam a ragamalika as the last song for this concert.

Sathya performing at his school presmises

Sathya had a great day today as he was performing a full length concert in his own school premises, PSBB K.K.Nagar branch at the silver jublee Hall. This Hall has been made as the venue for Sri Rama Baktha Jana Sabha. K.K.Nagar. Sathya had a good crowd and this is probably because of being in his own school.

The team of Sathya with B Ananthakrishnan on violin and Arjun Ganesh on Mrudhangam entertained the rasika with a good list of songs. The concert was full of energy and was going in a brisk pace through out. The list of songs performed were:

01. Varnam - Mohanm - Adi

02. Varavallaba - Hamsadhwani - Adi (ragam & swaram)

03. Ramanannu brovara - Harikamboji - Rupakam (ragam outline & Swaram)

04. Entharomahanubhavulu - Sri - Adi

05. Vandhey sadha - Malayamarutham - Adi

06. Mairivere - Anandha Bahairavi - Misra Chaappu

07. Ramanukku mannan mudi - Hindolam - Adi (ragam, swram with ragamalika & thani)

08. Mythrim Bajatha - Bhajan

09. Nandha Nandhanu - Meera Bajan

10. Enna Kavi - Neelamani - Adi

11. Raghupathy raghava rajaram

Kudos to the organisers that they had a projection of video made available at the outside of the auditorium and it was Sathya's first experience this way.

Sathya Performed for NGS for the first time - 23DEC06

Sathya performed at the Narada Gana Sabha mini hall for the first time under NGS. The team of B Ananthakrishnan on violin and Trivandrum Balaji on mrudhangam gave great enhancement and the concert was indeed a great success in terms of retaining the almost full house throughout the 85mts of concert. 1230 - 1355

Sathya started the concert with Ata thala varnam on Bhairavi with the right tempo and followed it by Jaya Jaya on nattai with a good alapana and swaraprayogam. He then went on to perform a good raga alapana of Nalinakanthi followed by the krithi Neepathamegathi. Oothukadu Venkatakavi's Balasarasamurali on keeravani was played at a crisp speed.

Mathurambika krithi on Hemavathy was followed by Adamodigaladha on charukesi which had a great alapana renedered by Sathya and Ananthakrishnan. Vanaspathi and RAsikapriya were the ragas chosen for swararagamalika which was followed by a short sweet thani by Trivandrum Balaji. Sathya, on the request of a rasika played Katrinile varum Geetham and rounded off with Revathy raga thillana copmosed by Lalgudi sir.

The crowd present showed the responsibility Sathya has in the future to increase his reporte and also choice of krithi's and raga presentation. As Sathya mentioned in his POGO finals with Sri Sivamani, he is aware of the expectatios of his rasikas and hope he will surely live up to it.

Sathya performing at Ashok Nagar Sri Anjeneyar Temple

Sathya performed at the premises of Sri Anjeneyar Temple, Ashok Nagar on the 22nd Dec'06 after the after having performed at Kamaraj Hall for Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru. This was after a gap of one year and the team of Villivakkam Raghuram on the violin, Siva Subramaniam on the mrudhangam, Pradeep on Tabla, and Harihara Subramaniam on Ghatam gave a evening full of good - pleasing music to the audience who had gathered in good numbers. The team was successful in holding a large crowd with a list of songs which went well with rasikas.

The concert included the following songs:

01. Varnam - Hamsadwani - Adi

02. Mahaganapathi - Naatai - Ekam (ragam & Swaram)

03. Sobilli - Jaganmohini - Adi

04. Sadimchane - Arabi - Adi

05. Hanuman Bhajan

06. Nagumomu - Aberi -Adi (audience request)

07. Sai Bajan

08. Buntureethikolu - Hamsanadham - Adi (ragam & Swaram with thani)

09. Alaipayudhey - Kaanada - Adi

10. Raghuvamsa sudha - Kadhanakudhukalam - Adi

11. Kurtai onrum illai - Ragamalika - Adi

12. Bo Sambo - Revathy - Adi

13. Bramamokate - Annamacharya krithi

14. Harivarasanam

15. Chinnan chiru kiliye

16. Jagajanani

17. Raghu pathi raghava

Songs 1 3 - 17 performed as desired by rasikas.

Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru - Sathya in Kamaraj Hall for the first time

It was indeed a great moment for Sathya as he was playing a concert just after his guru Kalaimamani Kum. A Kanyakumari had performed a concert with his uncle Embar. S.Kannan for Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru. This was also the first time Sathya was performing at the Kamaraj Hall a full length concert and had the blessings of both his guru and uncle staying for some time before leaving the hall. He was also blessed with the presence of Sri Guitar Prasanna for almost close to 45 mts. Sri Prasanna & his father were all praise for Sathya's ability to bring the nuances of carnatic on the keyboard and expressed same to Sathya's mother before leaving the hall. All credits to the organisers of this event especially to Sri Coimbatore Gopinathan, Smt Kala Iyer and Laxman Sruthi for having this oppurtunity to Sathya.

Coming to the concert Sathya had his team of B Ananthakrishnan on Violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam and HariharSubramaniam on the Ghatam. The team presented a wondeful concert from 1 - 250pm with good list of songs suited for this hour in particular. You always tend to take a nap after the lunch and the was successful in keeping the audience awake with their efforts of producing good music.

Song list:

01. Varnam - Vasantha - Adi

02. Thathwamariya tharama - Reethigowla - Adi (ragam & swaram)

03. Nadhaloludai - Kalyana Vasantham - Rupakam (ragam & krithi)

04. Niravathysukadha - Ravichandrika - Adi

05. Narayanan - Suddha Dhanyasi - Kandachappu

06. Varuvaro - Sama - Adi

07. Krishna nee Begane - Yamin Kalyan - Misra chappu

08. Vasudevayeni - Kalyani - Adi (ragam, swaram and thani)

09. Vanathu meddhu - Vallalar krithi

10. Tahumbiri meetidhava - Sindhubhairavi - Athi (thisra nadai)

11. Kurai Onrum illai - Ragamalika - Adi

12. Lalgudi sir's Thillana - Mohana Kalyani - Adi

Thanks to Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru - Sathya in big posters all over the city

After the POGO promotions which featured in huge hoardings, now it is time for us, the family of Sathya to thank every one involved in "Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru." Yes. They have given huge posters for Sathya with a title "ILAN THENDRAL" and one can see these posters every where in the city.

The greatness is this type of poster has been made for all artists irrespective of the time slot they are featuring in this festival. Kudos to the team and may be next year they should also try to focus attention along with the enhancement artist. May be a picture have all the artist for that session would be a great boost for all the artist performing on stage.

In the days where the accompanying artists names does not find place in many advertisements on a daily basis, this probably is too much for the asking but i think they should give a thought as it is just the team work which ultimately stands winner in any concert.

Sathya for first time in Kapali Fine Arts

Sathya got the oppurtunity to perform for Sri Kapali Fine Arts at for the first only this December season and it was held at Srinivas Sastry Hall. Incidentally the hall from where his carnatic music journey started on the 9th December, 2001. Karaikal Venkatasubramaniam and Delhi Raja Subramaniam where his team members and it was a pleasant concert on the whole.

Sathya took up SAhana Varnam as the first number followed by Sri Gananatham in Kanakangi with a great speed. While it was good to hear this krithi as rarely rendered, may be he should check the speed so that it could be even more pleasing. He did a brief alapana for SAraswathi with the krithi Saraswathi followed by Thyagaraja's Siva Siva on ragam Bandhuvarali in which he made an elobarate kalpana swaras. Karaikal Venkatasubramaniam matched every phrase.

Muruga Muruga on Saveri was taken in the correct kalapramanam and was really soothing to the ears with Sathya trying to give the nuances of this raga clearly. The next one was Marugelara on Jayanthasri and an RTP was rendered in the ragam Keeravani set to Kandajathi Thruputa thalam for which both Sathya and Venkatasubramaniam gave a good alapana. (Sathya sang the phrase MAL MARUGANAI MURUGANAI PANI MANAME GANAME DHINAME NINAINDHIDU before performing on the instrument after the thanam) The thanam was well rendered and audiance appricited the remarkable improvement to the one that he had performed last year.

Sathya gave a taste of Kalayani and Kaapi with swara ragamalika and Raja Subramaniam played a crisp thani. With Radhasamedha Krishna followed by Chinnanchiru kiliye (rasika's choice) Sathya completed the concert with a Sai bhajan. The audience wanted him to render few more songs and Sathya had requested them to come to his next concert for hearing same as he had to give the stage at 4pm.

The response in terms of attendance was very good considering the time slot of 2 - 4pm. Sathya is looking forward to greater support in the days to come.

Sathya felicitated by Ramjhi's Issai Mazhalai group

It was a great get together arranged by Sri Ramjhi with all his group members of Issai mazhalai mostly gathered with their parents to felicitate Sathya and Vignesh the winners of POGO 2006 awards. It was organised at teh Dancer's union on Burkit Road, T. Nagar. Ramjhi uncle presented them with a telephone which lookied like a Coca-Cola in a sipper!! Cute one.

After the function it was gala time of the food and what a long menu Mr Ramjhi had arranged for with good quality indeed.

It looks like there would be more participants for this award next year and our sincere wishes to all the aspirants. Photos of the celebrations displayed above.

Innagural Concert for Nada Sudha Velacherry's 7th annual festival

Sathya today performed for Nada Sudha, a 7 year old organisation in Velacheri celebrating their 4th Music festival, on the innagural day under Secy. Sri Balasubramaniam. Sathya was felicitated by Sri N Balasubramanian's family with three great books written by Sri T K Govind Rao with notes on the compositions of Dikshidhar, Swathi Thirunal and Sama Sastrigal.

Sri J Chandramouli GM Finance Great Lakes presided, Sri T.S. Raghavan EX-Chairman Indian Bank inagurated and Sri N Balasubramanian gave a special speach. The Secy of the sabha Sri Balasubramaniam explained how hard it is for conducting the music festival due to paucsity of funds and support. His dream is to make this a great forum for Carnatic music in this area. There was a good number of rasikas present and were enjoying the concert later after the function.

Sathya has Sri L. Ramakrishnan - violin, Sri Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan - mrudhangam and Sri E.M. Subramaniam - ghatam were the enhancement artists for the concert today and it was indeed a great presentation in all. Sathya & Ramakrishnan were enjoying themselves with good understanding and were competing each other during the kalpanaswaras.

Being the first time for this area the rasikas showed great interest in knowing the details on Sathya with regard to gurus and his practice sessions at home. It is a fact that it was one of the few concerts where no request papers were received and still the crowd stayed for the full 2 and half hours. Everyone present appreciated the song list and the list is as follows:

01) Varnam - Navaragamalika - athi

02) Varavallabha - Hamsadhwani - Athi (Ragam, Krithi & Kalpanaswaram)

03) Ananda Natamaduvarpillai - Poorvi Kalyani - Rupakam (Raga, Niraval and Kalpanaswaram)

04) Bagadhanaiye - Chnadrajothi - Athi (Krithi & Kalpanaswaram)

05) Akilandeshwari - Dhujavanthi

06) Thaye Thrupurasundhari - Suddha Saveri - Kanda Chaappu

07) Bhuvaneswariye - MohanaKalyani

08) Manasayathulu - Malayamarutham - Rupakam (Krithi & Kalpanaswaram)

09) Marubalka - Sri Ranjani - Athi (Ragam & Kalpanaswaram)

10) Nanda Nandhanu - Meera Bhajan

11) Muralidhara - Sindhu Bhairavi - Athi

12) Thillana - Jonpuri - Athi

13) Sai Bhajan

Felicitation from Great Patrons and Musician.

Issai Mazhalai, in association with Mudhra, felicitated the two prodigies SAthya and Vignesh of Chennai who were the winners of POGO Awards under the category Musician and Singer respectively, in a grand function on the 13th December, 2006. The event was organized by Mudhra at the Infosys Hall, T. Nagar. Dr. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti, Shri. A. Natarajan, Smt. Sudha Raghunathan and Sri. Ramjhi felicitated the young artistes.

Dr. Nalli, in his speech, said, “Brahma Gana Sabha has been the first to provide Sathya a platform to showcase his talents the day after his receiving the award. This is a mark of recognition of Sathya’s prodigious talent to play Carnatic music on the keyboard”. He also wished the awardees the best for a bright future.

Shri. A. Natarajan emphasized the greatness and responsibilities of being a prodigy. He advised the artistes to learn all they can from their gurus and establish themselves in the frontline of their respective fields.

Smt. Sudha Raghunathan started her speech by referring to “Vidwan Sathyanarayanan and Vidwan Vignesh” which brought forth a tremendous round of applause. She went on, “It is my privilege to share a stage with these young achievers who, in spite of having tasted so much success, are still retaining their childlike simplicity and humility. The greatness of their achievements lies lightly on them and this innocence of childhood is to be treasured”.

Shri. Ramjhi thanked Mudhra for organizing the event at very short notice and the guests of honour for consenting to grace the occasion. He said, “It is my fond hope to find and promote more such talent and I will strive to achieve that”.

Brahma Gana Sabha greets sathya with a concert call.

God prooved the recogniton of the Country's viewers of POGO with a call to Sathya from Brahma Gana Sabha to perform immediatley after landing in Chennai on the 11th Dec'06 evening 515pm for them. Yes Sathya proceeded from airport straight to Pethachi Auditorium to perform a 2 and half hour main slot from 7 - 930pm same day.

This call was made as Sri T.N. Seshagopalan who was supposed to sing that day could not make it due to unforseen circumstances. How ever this prooved a real test for Sathya and also a mark of recognition for his just received POGO AMAZING KID MUSICIAN AWARD 2006, as a carnatic musician on keyboard.

It is interesting to note that Sri Neyveli Narayanan on mrudhangam and Sri B Purushothaman on Kanjeera, the artist who played the concert on the 18th Nov'06 just when Sathya was proceeding to perform in the finals of POGO competition were there to enhance his for this concert also & it was indeed a great blessing for Sathya. B Ananthakrishnan was the violin artist who accepted the last minute call made and gave an excellent performance.

All the artist were very encouraging and Sathya did not show his tiredness and gave an excellent performance as told by Sri Gopi mama from Coimbatore who blessed Sathya by being there for the entire concert. It was also blessing for Sathya to have had Sri Ravikiran at the hall to take his blessings who also highlighted appreciated the vast improvement in his performance as he was seeinghim perform after a gap of almost 8 months.

Keyboard Sathya wins the POGO Award - A recognition for Carnatic on Keyboard

Master K. Sathyanarayanan, 11–year old, 6th Std student of Padma Seshadri School (K.K.NAGAR) Chennai has won the POGO Amazing Kid Musician Award 2006. The grand finale was held in Mumbai on the 10th December, 2006. Having been short-listed to be among the TOP 3 from thousands of entries, KeyboardSathya (as he is fondly referred to by his well wishers) was chosen by thousands of viewers of POGO channel as the winner through SMS voting. It is indeed a great recognition for Sathya's effort to perform Carnatic on Keyboard.

The award carries a child benefit insurance policy for Rs. 5 lakhs apart from a golden trophy.

Shri. Sivamani, the "Prince of Percussion" presented this award to Sathya in Mumbai on the 10th December, 2006. When asked what he would like to be in 10 years from now by Shri. Sivamani, Sathya replied, " When any one thinks of India they think of Gandhiji. Think of children and we think of Nehruji and think of drums we all think of you. Like that when any one thinks of Keyboard I want my name to be in their minds".

A recording of the event will be relayed by POGO on the 17th December, 2006 from 11 a.m.

Apart from Sathya, Master Vignesh Chandrasekar his colleague in Shri. Ramjhi's Issai Mazhalai, won the POGO Amazing Kid Singer Award 2006. It is indeed a double treat for Shri. Ramjhi as two of his stars have won this prestigious award in the Musician & Singer Categories.

Photo 1 left top: with winners of all 8 category & organising unit Ms Anuradha, Ms Charu, Ms

Shamppy and Mr Mahavirwinner

Photo 2 top right: with conctestants of all categories

Photo 3 left bottom: Just the 8 winners of different categories

Photo 4 right bottom: Sathya getting blessings from Sri Sivamani as other 2 finalists looking on.

Sathya is a pride of our school - Remarks Mrs YGP

Sathya’s December 06 music festival started in a high note of appreciation from Mrs YGP, Chairman Bharat Kalachar where he performed his 1st concert for this December on the 2nd
from 4 – 630pm.

“Sathya is a pride of our school and he played so well today that he was bringing out the melodious sounds of Veena & Mandolin from keyboard. I sincerely felt that he was bringing out every essence of Carnatic music on his keyboard – a western instrument, and I have never heard anybody play this instrument to this high level.

Mrs YGP also spoke very high of the enhancement artists. On her view B Ananthakrishnana on violin gave not just support but also challenged Sathya in his alapanas & swaras and the concert came out well with this factor. Regarding the percussion artists she went on to say that it was like a Tiger – Phalgun on Mrudhangam, Lion – Sri E M Susbramaniam and a Leopard – Yuvakalabharathi Sowrirajan on Morsing were of to paunch on a deer – Sathya and yes at the end this jungle game came out to a halt with all the four of them becoming friends and they did give a pleasing concert to the ears of the audience.

Many of the rasikas who had attended Sathya’s concert at Sri Karaneeswarar Temple, Saidepet appreciated the krithi Diwakaram in Yadhukula Kambhodhi here as they felt it had its additional modulation than what he played there on the 18th Nov’06. Special mention and appreciation from the audience came for the alapana of Bandhuvarali and Kaapi apart from the kalpanaswara prayogams, particularly the kanakus he performed during the main krithi Inthasowkyamu in Kaapi.

Thyagarajar krithi Nadha dhanumanusham on Chithranjani & Lalgudi’s thillana on ragam Paras which were taken up by Sathya for the first time also received well by the audience. The song details performed are mentioned here under:

01. Varnam – Vasantha –Adi – Tacchur Singarachari
02. Gumganapathim – Hamsadhwani – Adi – Muthiah Baghavathar (Ragam, Niraval, Swaram)
03. Diwakar – Yadhukula Kambodhi – Ekam –Dikshidhar
04. Nadha dhanumanisham - Chitharanjini
05. Sivasivasiva – Bandhuvarali – Adi – Thyagaraja (Ragam & Swaram)
06. Kamatchi – Bhairavi – M’chaappu – Sama Sastry (Ragam & krithi)
07. Samana Rahithe – Sarangatharangini – Rupakam – GNB (Krithi & Swaras)
08. Inthasowkyamuu – Kaapi – Adi – Thyagaraja (Ragam, Swararagamalika on Kaapi, Swarasammohini and Vanspathi)
09. Theeradhavillayatu pillai – Raagamalika – Adi – Bharathiyar
10. Katrinilevarum geetham
11. Thillana – Paras – Adi – Lalgudi Jayaraman

Sathya had the pleasure of having iddlis from Mrs ygp who ootufied him after the concert. A great present indeed from Mrs YGP to Sathya for his performance on this day.