God answers the question raised by Rasigapriya, Dinamalar !!

Bharat Kalachar awards Sathya with their prestigious "YUVA KALA BHARATHI"

Yes it is indeed a recognition for the efforts of a journalist - Ms Rasigapriya of Dinamalr !! We sincerely feel so that God has answered the question raised by her in the article "When will Keyboard be recognised?" with this great recognition for Sathya's efforts to perform Carnatic on Keybaord for teh last 10 years starting on teh December 09, 2001 with his first concert at his age of 6!

This is indeed a team effort and we dedicate this award to all his enhancement artists who have been performing with him, forums and individuals who have been patronizing him, well wishers who have been his pillars of strength with their wishes, blessings of all his Gurus and to the Grace of The Almighty!!

Concert in A I R - September 16, 2011

It was another joyous day for our family as we were ready to listen to SAthya;s concert in All India Radio - FM Gold 102.3 Mhz, a concert for 30 mts for teh second time from 1130 am to 12 noon on teh September 16, 2011. It so happened that both Sathya - being on the USA & CAnada heArtbeat ensemble tour - and myself were out of station and were not in a position to listen this broadcast.

Here came the Sama Sanjeevi Sri. T. V. Gopalakrishnan to whom Sathya's mother requested and he not only recorded but also uploaded in www.sangeethamshare.org under his folder and it is available in the link:

http://www.sangeethapriya.org/down.shtml vide Album ID:01-C2037.

I am also grateful to my friend Sri. M. Diwakar and Nadaswaram vidwan D. Balasurbramani who also have recorded the concert and the link for that recording is availbale in

                

 The 30 mts concert was enhanced by Sri. V. V. Srinivasa Rao on Violin and Sri Trichur Narendran on Mrudhangam and the list of songs performed are:

1. Parathpara - Vachaspathi - Adi
2. Etulobrova - Chakravagam - Misrachapu
3. Sivaganga - Nagaswaravali - Adi

Starting 2011 - 12 with Mankula Vinayagar, Pondicherry Temple Concert

Yes as per our Hindu mythology Vinayaka Chathurthi is probably the start of the festival beginning for a year and for this year it was on teh September 01, 2011 and Sathya had the greatest blessing to perform at Sri Manakula Vinayagar Temple, Pondicherry. With another Vinayagar Temple concert behind him, Sathya had a great day with enhancement for his concert being Adyar D. Balasubramani on Nadaswaram, Kumbakonam Swaminathan on Mrudhangam and Valangaiman Hariharasubramanian on the Ghatam and Morsing.

It is interesting to note that the E.O. of this temple had seen Sathya perform the earlier year Chathurthi day for a private function where he had been and decided to have him perform in this temple! It so happened with the blessings of The Almighty it turned out to be on this wonderful day!

It was a cocnert with mix of pure classical and devotional numbers with devotees flowing like the steady water flows in Niagara Falls!! Yes indeed we actually sat for checking sound at 535pm and without break went on to perform till 930pm!! Almost 4 hrs of music and still we were seeing sea of people lining up to ahve dharshan of the Almight Ganesha!

List goes like this:

1. Ganapathiye Varuvai 2. Arupadai Veedu konda thirumuruga 3. Karpoora Nayagiye 4. Adikondar 5. Nagumomu 6. Vinayagane 7. Singara velane Deva 8. Brahmam Okate 9. Pattum Nane 11. Bantureethikolu 12. Charanu Siddhi Vinayaka 13. Marudhamalai Mamuniye 14. Vwenkatachalanilayam 15. Bo Sambo 16. Notes 17. Raghuvamsa 18. Kurai onrum Illai 19. Muthai tharu - Thirupugazh 20. Bagyadhalakshmi Baramma and 21. Mangalam.

Sathya performed ragas for fewkrithis and kalpanaswram was indeed flowing as well. Thani was sweet and short and the concert was indeed a unforgettable experience for all the artists! ThAnother news was that he had an exam the following day and has scored 80% as well in that!! "Yellam Iraivan Seyal"

August 25, 2011 Concert at Sri Sakthi Vinayagar Temple, Vadapalani, Chennai

August 25, 2011 - Sri Sakthi Vinayagar Temple concert 

under the aegis of Sri Sakthi Vinayagar Samajam

The above is self explanatory and it was indeed a good presentation by the team of enhancing artists in Sri. B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin, Sri. R. Sankaranarayanan on Mrudhangam and Sri Harihara subramanian on Ghatam & Morsing. The surprise package was the Soolini raga Tyagarajar krithi - Prananatha.in which Sathya explored kalpanaswarams and was equally enhanced by the enhancing artists. Sri Ananthakrishnan was at his usual best in raga aalapanas and actually helped to bring the best of Sathya's abilities with his expert performance. Sankaranarayanan and Hariharasubramanian were so good that few of teh auidence after the concert actually told Sathya to try and keep the same team as it was indeed a grand show! Well every concert performance is indeed a Velvi and this day it prooved to have been done with dedication from all teh team members.

It was also nice of the Secretary of the organisation to come up to the stage and requested Sathya to perform Entharo MAhanubhavulu and Ninuvina as listener's choice! While this is not new the special event was this was done after the main krithi! Muisc is for teh rasikas and when it is asked by a dedicated audience to perform, Sathya without any hesitation performed the krithis apart from a krithi in Neelambari as per request of an elderly rasika.

The greatest blessings for Sathya in this concert was the presence of Harmonium Exponent Sri  Palladam Venkataramana Rao, who was actually instrumental for Sathya to look out for a apt instrument during 2006 and selected Korg TR and now its all history!!!

While the title of the Article seems to be little strong the fact remains that it shows the feeling of this Journalist and we are happy to see that someone other than us, are also thinking in this direction! Kudos to "Rasigapriya  Dinamalar"  for bringing out this article

The live recording of this concert is available in under the concert id -  14-C0057 in www.sangeethapriya.org You can also access this under the up-loader section in the front page of this site under the link Sathya(Keyboard) and you need to click on the serial number 058 for this concert..

http://www.sangeethamshare.org/sathya/058_2011_Aug25-Sri_SakthiVinayagarTemple/ 

Please do listen to the tracks and forward your opinion / comments.

The details of the krithis rendered are as follows:


01. Varnam - Valaji - Adi - Lalgudi Jayaraman
02. Siddhi Vinayagam - Mohanakalyani - Adi - Harikesanallur Muthaiah Baghavathar [ Or, S]
03. Ninuvina - Reethigaula - Rupakam - Shyama Sastri [R]
04. Prananatha - Soolini - Adi - Tyagaraja [Or, S]
05. Chitham Irangadhadhenaiya - Sahana - Misrachapu [Or]
06. Enthukubedhala - Sankarabaranam - Adi -Tyagaraja [R, Th, S, T]
07. Entharo Mahanubhavulu - Sri - Adi - Tyagaraja [Audience choice]
08. Ninuvina - Navarasakanada - Rupakam - Tyagaraja [Audience choice]
09. Boe Pandari Baba - Vakulabaranam - Bhajan
10. Mamava Madhava - Neelambari - Adi - Narayana Theerthar [Audience choice]
11. Thillana - Maandu - Adi - Lalgudi Jayaraman
12. Mangalam

R - Raga alapana, S - Kalpanaswaram - Th- Thanam - T - Thani avarthanam

August 06, heArtbeat Ensemble for "Mythrim Bhajatha"


This was one of the important concert for Sathya as this had great vidwans like Sri S.R. Janakiraman, Smt. R. Vedavalli and many more who generally are looked like hardliners as far as the Carnatic field is concerned. It was a great blessing that many of the vidwans not only stayed back for the entire concert of about 80 mts, some of them came on stage and appreciated and few had passed on good comments of Sathya's playing techniques on the instrument to Dr. Ghatam Karthick when he had the oppurtunity to perform wioth few of them on the following days!

Report on public concert held in 23 JUL at Kumaran Kundram, Chrompet, Chennai

This is one of the pleasant environment Sathya has been to! It was the first time we as family were seeing this temple in a Mountain in Chennai!! Wow it was a real great site to see Chennai from the top of the mountain!! Great Blessings was that the Temple Deity - Utsavar and the Pallakku was supposed to be brought down that evening and we were asked to give a helping hand to do it! What else a blessing you need we as team with B. Ananthakrishnan (violin) Nadaswaram Balasubramani, Sathya and myself had a great experience doing this. It was indeed heavy and we were around 8 men involved to do this!

With great blessing of the Almighty the concert with B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin and Thillaisthnam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam went excellently well and had a good number of audience too! I mention this because there was a day change in this concert and we had people inquiring the next day if Sathya was to perform as per schedule!! It was nice of teh organisers to ahve changed the date for Sathya as hehad a bhajan competition to participate with his schoolthe next day!