RECOGNITION FOR MUSIC IN THE FORM OF A GIFTED PIANO TO SATHYA!

Yes its Ten years since 2004 November when Sathya was gifted with a KORG PRO keyboard by Dr. Ravi Dattatreya, USA which transformed him to achieve what ever he has in this 10 years and the biggest of all is The Gift of "Goddess of Music" - PIANO by Mr. Sumanth, M/s Sumanth and Co in collaboration with Musee Musicals, Chennai

We Pray The Almighty for him to become a complete musician and also be a Humble Human with a mind set to help the needy in the years to come!

A Musician cannot be replaced is No More - Our Numble Pranams to Sri. Mandolin U Shrinivas

We owe out life to you sir! If Keyboard has been recognised it is because of your presence in the first album Launch of Sathya and because you took him under your fold as sishya and moulded him! 

You are the inspirer for us and many like us to have a liking towards Indian Classical Music! We have been taken away with 30 - 40 years of great Creative Music from you with your departure today!

Honestly we would have never thought of sharing / posting this message in our life time! 

Pranams to you, your human values, Musical values and hope we are blessed & will inherit all these good values from you!

A Concert in a Divine Atmosphere June 20, 2014

It was indeed a great Divine atmosphere, which is indeed an Artist's delight, prevalent at this Sri. Maha Periyava Padhugai Temple located in PS Sivaswamy Salai, Mylapore which attracts performing artists of all caliber and all the performances becomes highly satisfying ones to both the audience and the Artists.

It was another opportunity came in way for Sathya and the team with Sri. Karaikal Venkatasubramanian on violin and Sri. Kumbakonam Swaminathan on Mrudhangam gave a wonderful concert. The link for the live concert recording is given here and would appreciate if you can listen to them and send your valuable feedback.

Sathguru Sath Sangam Concert, Home Ground concert April 15, 2014

After the Concert with Sri. Abhishek Raghuram on the March 09, 2014 at Shanmughananda, Mumbai it was the Home Ground Concert for Sathguru Sath Sangam, Villiwakam on the April 15, 2014. This concert was enhanced by Sri. Villivakkam Raghuraman on Violin, Sri. Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam and Sri. Valangaiman Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam.

Once again with the great audio support provided by Mr. Babu this concert was a great success and Sathya & Team enjoyed the true ambience which gives positive energy and most of all the blessings of Lord Rama and the good wishes of knowledgeable audience.

The details of kritis rendered are as follows and this will be updated with the audio link soon.

2014 Shivarathiri Concert at Bandikavanoor Shiva Vishnu Temple

A wonderful concert opportunity to perofrm at a 300 plus years old Temple in Bandikavanoor Village

Sathya with Sri. Embar Kannan on violin, Sri. Sumesh Narayanan on Mrudhangam and Sri. Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam presented a concert well received in the divine ambience with Sri Sachidhananda Swamiji on the Background with his lively presence, in the late evening of 27th February 2014 for Shivarathiri from 1030 pm till 1230 am the next day!

We welcome you to view (short clippings) and also listen to the tracks in full in the following link http://www.4shared.com/folder/_YAihqYY/2014-Bandikavanoor-ShivaVishnu.html and forward your humble opinion / suggestion / comments.

This was organised, courtesy the Temple authorities, especially Sri. Narasimhan, Official of Karthik Fine arts for having extended this opportunity.     

The details of the kirthis performed are as follows:

1. Gajananayutham - Chakravagam - Adi - Dikshidar [s]

2. Varuvaro Varam Tharuvaro - Sama - Gopalakrishna Bharathi

3. Saraswathi Namoshthuthey - Saraswathi - Rupakam - GNB [R]

4. Pirava Varam Tharum - Lathangi - Adi Sivan [short S]

5. Thaye Thripurasundari - Sudha Saveri - Kandachapu

6. Paratpara - Vachaspathi - Adi - Sivan [R, S, T]

7. Satre Vigidum - Poorvikalyani - Rupakam - Gopalakrishna Bharathi

8. Bo Sambo - Revathy - Adi - Swami Dhayananda Saraswathi

Ps - R - Raga Aalapana, S - Kalpanaswaram, T - Thani Avarthanam

Fabulous start to February with IOB Youth Excellence Award to Sathya!

Yes! We were surprised to receive a call from IOB's CMD's office yesterday informing that Sathya was being chosen for Indian Overseas Bank's Youth Achievement Award, 2014 which was given today February 10, 2014 on the 78th Foundation Day of IOB in Vani Mahal, T. Nagar, Chennai. Sathya received this prestigious Award along with the Doyens namely Sri. Murari IAS rtd., Sangeetha Kalanidhi Smt. Sudha Raghunathan, Sri. Sankar - CMD Sanmar Group, Sri. Veeramani - CMD, Gem Granites, Sri. Narayanaswamy - Senior Auditor, Dr. Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti and Sri. Munirathnam - Chairman RKM Engineering College. Sri. Narendra, CMD IOB with IOB Executive Directors are also in the photograph above. 

It was indeed a great moment and it is all because of the Grace of The Almighty and the wishes of his Well Wishers! Sathya in his acceptance speech dedicated the Award to his Gurus (including his Grandpa) and informed that he sincerely understands the responsibility and will work harder to achieve a percentage or two of what these Giants has achieved, in his life time! We sincerely thank every one who have been cause for his selection for this award. 

Looking forward to all your wishes and blessings to Sathya, as always.  

Concert trip to Kakinada in January 2014 with a Good Team!

It was the third time Sathya got a call from Kakinada Sangitha Vidwath Sabha this time during their 68th Music Festival. This time it was with the Team of Sri. Sathyanarayana Sharma (who ahd also performed with Sathya in Arasaville many years back) on violin, Sri. Sadgururajan on Mrudhangam and Sri. G. Venkatesh on Morsing. These artists were from Andhra Pradesh and did give a great enhancement to Sathya's concert.  Mr. Manian Babu, Treasurer on knowing that Sathya had performed PrathapaVarali in Thiruvaiyaru wanted him to perform same here and Mr. Nageswara Rao, the Host wanted a krith in Amir Kalyani which were performed and so was Jagadho Dharana!

It was so nice of Mr. Sadgururajan who indeed is facet personality, who after the main piece of Amir Kalyani raga krithi Venakatasailavihara of Subhraya Sastri which was performed on request, picked up the mike and appreciated Sathya for his efforts saying the nuances brought out on this instrument was almost equivalent to that of the sound produced on a String instrument. He also gave Rs 100/- as his humble blessing to Sathya and this was indeed a great gesture! The entire audience were very appriciative of this Team's presentation! 

The details of the krithis performed by the Teas was as under: (Audio to be uploaded soon)

01. Varnam - Mohanam - Adi

02. Pranamamyagam - Gaula - Adi - Dikshidar [OR & S]

03. Budhamasrayami - Natakurunji - Misrajampa - Dikshidar

04. Pariyachakama - Vanaspathi - Rupakam [R & S]

05. Vinanasakoni - PrathapaVarali - Adi [on request]

06.  Marivere - AnandhaBhairavi - Misrachapu

07. Venkatasailavihara - Amirkalyani - Adi - Subraya Sastri [R, S & T]

08. Akativela - Revathy - Adi - Annamaya

09. Jagadhodharana - Kaapi - Adi - Purandaradasa [on request]

10. Thillana - Madhuvanthi - Adi - Lalgudi G. Jayaraman

PS. OR - short raga alApana, S - Kalpanaswaram, R - rAga Alapana, T - Thani Avarthanam

Devine trip to Thiruvaiyaru and a wonderful Team presentation!

Performing in Thiruvaiyaru is always a great blessing and performing there with huge audience is indeed fabulous as it is always full of Learned Music Rasikas! Sathya had the blessing and performed with Sri. Raghuram on violin, Sri. M. S. Venkatasubramanian on mrudhangam and Sri. Balamurugan on Morsing at Thiruvaiyaru for a 15 minutes duration on the 20th January 2014. 

The team vina nAshakoni in Prathaba Varali understandably not performed for a long time, gnAnamu sakarAdha in poorvi kalyAni and bAle bAlIEndu in reethigaula and was very well received and appreciated by the learned Music audience of Thiruvaiyaru! Here is the playlist of the videos!

A Grand Start in January 2014

It has been a wonderful start to the New Year 2014 for Keyboard the isntrument with a great Recognition of Sathya blessed with an opportunity to perform with this year's Sangeetha Kalanidhi Smt. Sudha Raghunathan ji for the release of her Coffee Table Book on the 4th January 2014 along with Sri. Rajhesh Vaidhya!

Then it was on to a concert for Sri Panjamuka Anjaneyar Committee Issai Vizha 2014 on the 5th January 2014 with Sri. Karaikal Venkatasubramanian on violin and Sri. R. Sankaranarayanan on Mrudhangam! (Audio tracks will be uploaded soon)

On the 6th January it was a perofrmance for Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan, Mylpore with Sri. B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin, Sri. Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mruhangam and Sri. Valangaiman Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam. This was a concert attended by Sri Bhaskaran Shivaraman, a journalist who was writing Music reviews this season in many leading print media this year and he also praised the efforts of the team on stage this day. (Audio tracks will be uploaded soon)

Concerts with Veena Exponent Sri. Rajhesh Vaidhya in his ensemble at UDIPI on the 8th January

and the one at Kamaraj Hall on 14th Jan'14 for Kalaivizha organaised by Abbas Cultural were indeed a great experience for Sathya.

This was followed by a prestigious concert on Army DAY, 15th January at Army Office Southern Headquarters in Chennai in Sri. Embar Kannan's CROSSROADS followed by the public concert for HAMSADWANI were indeed fabulous as well!