Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Concert at Indian Fine Arts - 30 Dec'08


It was early morning today with the concert timed from 9 - 1030 am. There was indeed a decent number of audience present who were appreciative of the performance of the team of Sathya with B. Ananthakrishnan on violin and R. Sankaranarayanan on Mrudhangm. Sathya had praises from both his team mates in many places and they also excelled as ususal in thier field of play. Sri Srinivasa, Secretary of India Fine Arts was lavish in his praise for Sathya's efforts on the keybaord and wanted to listen to a Behag krithi "Irakam varadhadharku enna karanam". Sathya readily responded and won his heart. The list of krithis performed are as under and viewing the follwoing link do forward your comments.


01. Varnam- Charukesi - Adi (S)
02. Siddhivinayagam - Shanmugapriya - Rupakam (R & S)
03. Ramaneeve - Narayani - Adi (R)
04. Tholijenma - Bilahari - Kandachapu (S)
05. Inthasowkyamu- Kaapi-Adin (R,S & T)
06. Irakam - Behag - Rupakam
07. Thillana - Desh - Adi

R - Raga aalapana S - Kalpanaswaram and T - Thaniavarthanam

Concert at MFAC on 28th Dec'08 3 - 5 pm




It is kind of home turf for Sathya at the Mylapore Fine Arts Club and there was indeed a good amount of audience who were there to listened to Sathya's concert. It is a great recognition and appreciation Sathya has received from Sri Venkatraman, Secy of MFAC as he has been promoted to this slot and with the views of rasikas after the concert it looks like he has come up with good performance. This new combination of artists had a perfect understanding among each other and the concert was a great success for their team effort. Both Balasubramanyan in Vishnupriya and Yeramuni in Vakulabaranam were rendered with details and got great applause from the audience. You can log on to the link for the audio of this concert and do pass on your views for us to improve upon.


Artists and song details:

B. Ananthakrishnan - Violin
R. Sankaranarayanan - Mrudhangam
Nerkunam Sankar - Kanjeera

List of songs:

01. Varnam - Valaji - Adi
02. Gajavadhana - Sriranjani - Adi (R&S)
03. Eeshaahimam - Kalyani - Rupakam (S)
04. Balasubramnya-Vishnupriya-Adi-Thanjavur Sankar Iyer(R & S)
05. Sarasasamadhana - KaapiNarayani - Adi
06. Yeramuni - Vakulabaranam - Misrachapu (R,S & T)
07. Karpagame - Madhyamavathi - Adi
08. Thillana - Mohanakalyani - Adi

R - Raga Aalapan - S - KalpanaSwaram - T - Thani avarthanam

Friday, December 26, 2008

Vipanchee cocnert - A great concert for Sathya with blessings of Dr Balamuralikrishna presence



Yes December 25, 2008 is a day which is to be considered a great day for Sathya as he was blessed to perform at "Vipanchee" a forum under the Chairmanship of Dr. Balamuralikrishna who was present in the auditorium for almost 35 - 40 mts of Sathya's cocnert at R.K. Swamy Hall, Mylapore, Chennai. Dr. Balamuralikrishna sir came on to the dias after the programme and gave a golden Saraswathi vigragam - "Saraswathi from Gana Saraswathi" and followed it by announcing that, "When we both have free time, I am ready to teach whatever little i know to Sathya". What a great blessing for Sathya to have received this blessing!!


Thanks to Dr Saraswathi madam and Sri Raja for having given this opurtunity to perform infront of this great legendary r. Balamuralikrishna ji. It was like the best appreciation Sathya has ever got till date. This has given us more confidence that Sathya's efforts to bring the nuances on this instrument is getting recognised and is indeed one of the greatest day in Sathya's life! He also had great dancer & his amma's Bharathanatyam gurus Smt. & Sri Narasimachari who were there through out the concert and blessed Sathya.


Sathya's song list was very much appreciated by the knowledgeble audience as he had taken three of Dr. Balamuralikrishna's composition. Karaikal Venkatasubramanian on Violin was at his best and so was Sri M.R. Srikrishnan on Mrudhangam and Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam presenting a sweat and short thani. Please view the concert clippings in http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CDC6B710245D2E36 and forward your views.

01. Mahaganapathim-Naatai-Ekam-Dikshidhar (S)
02. Enthanerchina-Saveri-Adi-PatnamSubramanyaIyer (R & S)
03. KavaveKanyakumari-Sahana-Misrachapu-Dr. BMK (R)
04. Needhayaradha-Poorvikalyani-Adi-Dr. BMK (R & S)
05. Gayathi Vanamali-MisraYaman-Adi
06. Thillana-Kunthalavarali-Adi-Dr. BMK
OR - Outline Raga, R - Raga alapana, S - Kalpanaswaram and N - Niraval

Sathya in heArtbeat ensemble for Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru 25Dec08

It was indeed a great concert for Sathya as he got appreciation from each one of the artists on stage and almost from all the audience during his performance today with Dr. Ghatam Karthick's heArtbeat Ensembel for Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru organised by Laxman Sruthi & Kalalaya, USA. All credits to Late Sri C.R. Gopinathan of Coimbatore, Ms. Kala Iyer of USA and Laksman Sruthi that Sathya got this assignment and the success is seen by the fact that he has been requested to be a part of this Ensemble on the 31st Dec morning 10 - 12 noon for Brahma Gana Sabha and also on the 12th Jan'09 for Chennai Sangamam - a park festival concert. Please watch this concert on Zee Tamil channel and forward your views.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Concert for Brahma Gana Sabha on 24th Dec'08

It was inded a great blessing for Sathya to have been bestowed to perform with the team of Sri B.U. GaneshPrasad on violin, Sri TrichurNarendran on the Mrudhangam and Sri Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan on the Ghatam on the 24th Dec'08 which was announced as a tiketed concert. This team of senior vidwans gave great encouragement for Sathya and in total gave a good presentation for the audience who had turned out inspite being a working day and that too from 4 - 630pm.

Sathya started off with a Natakurinji Varnam and rendered a RTP on the same ragam. Good try indeed! He also did raga alapana, thanam, Niraval and kalpanaswaram in the ragams Nattai & kurinji apart from Nantakurinji. The final aruthi for this RTP had notes of all the three ragam like a chain and it sounded very good. Sathya sang the sahithyam thrice before starting to play on his instrument which was welcomed by the audience.

The list of krithis rendered are as under and i would appreciate if you can take your time to listen / view the links which will be uploaded soon and forward your comments / opinion. Sri Narendran, Sri Gopalakrishnan and Sri Ganesh Prasad were all praise for Sathya for his performance and this was indeed a great blesing for him.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=61BDE1B05C75D914
01. Varnam-Natakurinchi - Adi
02. SriMahaganapathim- Gowla-Misrachapu (OR & S)
03. Durmagachara-Ranjani-Rupakam (R & S)
04. NeevadaneeGana - Saranga - Kandachapu (S)
05. Kanjadhalayadhakshi - KamalaManohari - Adi (R)
06. NinneNamidhi-SimendraMadhyamam-Misrachapu(S)
07. RTP - Natakurinji - Adi (retta kalai) Pallavi Sahithyam - Naatai Kurinji Enbar - Sirandha Engaladhu (Pallavi with niraval followed by thrikalam)
08. Ethudayunadu - Bujangini - Adi
09. Thillana - Kaapi - Adi (thisra Gathi)

OR - Outline Raga, R - Raga alapana, S - Kalpanaswaram and N - Niraval

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Sathya under Narada Gana Sabha on 20th Dec'08



Sathya performed for Narada Gana Sabha in Mini hall on 20Dec'08 from 1230 - 1345 hrs with Karaikal Venkatasuramanian on Violin and Thillaisthanam R. Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam. The ambience was pretty much to the liking of the artists and the audio was also handled very well the Sabha person. This concert was preceded with Ms Sangeetha Swaminathan concerts which was really excellent. Special mention for the ragamalika RTP which she sang very well and so did the team. Hope Sathya will catch up on it and perform in one of the forums in the future.

Sathya performed following krithis and mentioned the first song's composer as Sri GNB. H/ever we found that it is a compositio of EV Ramakrishna Baghavathar. We should be more careful to this respect in the future concerts.

01. Vinayaka - Hamsadwani - Adi - EV Ramakrishna Baghavathar
02. Diwakarathanujam - Yadhukula Kamboji - Ekam - Dikshidhar
03. Manasayatulo - Malayamarutham - Rupakam - Thyagarajar
04. Thulasibilva - Kedharagowla - Adi - Thyagarajar
05. Parathpara - Vachaspathi - Adi - Papanasam Sivan
06. Brooghi Mukundehi - Sadhasiva Brahmendrar
07. OmNamo - Karnaranjani - Kandachapu - Ambujam Krishna
08. Saibhajan - Vasanthi - Ekam (Krishna Madhava)

There was a good audience present in the hall throughout the concert and i shall upload the concert later & look forward to the opinion of all our valued members on same. Watch the video clippings in http://videosonsathya.blogspot.com/

or in http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=936C518E7C1FB9EE

Sunday, December 14, 2008

A grand start for Sathya in Madras Music Festival 2008

It was indeed a great start for Sathya for this year's music festival and he could not have asked for a better stage! Sathya was so comfortable playing in Dr Ghatam Karthick's heArtbeat Ensemble which was performed on the 14th Dec'08 for and in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mylapore. He was appreciated by the large audience present and at the end of the concert also by all teh great vidwans on stage namely Ghatam Karthick, Silent Violin Embar Kannan, Mrudhangam Poongulam Subramanian, Kanjeera KV Gopalakrishnan and senior Pro Morsing king Raman. Here is the video clipping link for this concert and i leave it for you to make an opinion on the concert.


http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=837414C3C45BBBEA

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Sathya being awarded "Yuva Kala Vipanchee" on 31st December 2008

It has been a great start for Sathya's December 2008 Chennai Music festival with the new of being awarded "Yuva Kala Vipanchi" by the prestigious forum "Vipanchee" which is under the Chairmanship of the great legendary Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna. This award will be received on the 31st December'08 by Sathya.

December performance has began with a performance of bhajans in his school group at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha from 5 - 630pm and it is indeed a great oppurtunity to be a part of Namasankeerthanam.

Sathya also got a prelude of December season with blessings of Sri B.U.Ganeshprasad on Violin, Sri J. Vaidhyanathan on Mrudhangam and Sri Purushothaman on the Kanjeera when they enhanced him in a private concert on the 22nd Nov'08. Here is few video and audio clipping links of that concert.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8BE1122D8E78207A
Audio: http://sangeethamshare.org/sathya/022_Nov08_Privatecocnert_GaneshPrasad_JV_Purushothaman/