Sathya's 1st public concert after his upanayanam was at the sannadhi of St.Thyagaraja's at Sri Thyagaraja Sangeetha Vidwath Samajam, Mylapore, Chennai. He was teamed up with SP Ananthapadmanabha on Violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam and Harihara Subaramaniam on Ghatam. It was a learned audience who were very patient inspit of teh powercut faced for about 10 mts.
Sri Parur M.A. Krishnaswamy during his speach said that "Sathya's performance today has onle endorsed the view to say that Keyboard is to be added to the list of instruments in the field of carnatic music forum like that of Violin, Mandolin and Saxaphone". He also added to say that Sathya handled all the ragas and krithis rendered today very well particularly the difficult Thodi raga alapana and kalpanaswara for St. Thyagaraja's Koluvamaragatha. He appriciated the efforts of the other team members for having played an effective role to make this concert a pleasant one.
Mr Vijayakumar - a Carnatic music rasika from Mumbai was present for the concert and he has left a note as under: " The concert was indeed an excellent one. The reason why I say this because Keyboard is indeed a difficult instrument to play classical carnatic music & it was played in a very nice & Professional manner. It was indeed very great thing that he is playing at the age of 12 and especially the thodi ragam for Thyagaraja's Koluvamaragatha was indeed very thrilling". For more personal impressions and details please contact Mr Vijaykumar at jet_vj@yahoo.co.in
Above are the video clippings of this concert on ragam Thodi.
The list of songs are as under:
01. Varnam - Sriragam- Adi
02. VAravallaba - Hamsadhwani - Adi (ragam & K'Swaram)
03. Guruleka - Gowri Manohari - Kanda Chappu (Raga alapana)
04. Seethamma _ Vasantha - Rupakam (Krithi with K'swaram)
05. Theliyaledhu rama - Denuka - Adi
06. Deva Deva - Mayamalavagowla - Rupakam (Niraval & K'swaram)
07. Vitajalauthura - Janaranjani - Adi
08. Koluvamaragatha - Thodi - Adi (Ragam, K'swaram with Kalayani, Mohanam Srothaswani and thani)
09. Sri Lalgudi's Thillana - Desh - Adi
