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.
