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! 

World Music Day June 21 @ Bangalore for Handshake Concert

This was another great Day in Sathya’s Musical Carrier 

Sathya got the oppurtunity to perform in Handshake Concert presentation for World Music Day - June 21, 2011 held at Chowdiah Hall, Bangalore. This was a presentation by Rattle & Hum Music Society,  Nagalan University in collabaration with NEZCC, Dimapur and Nagaland Tourism. The list of participants included bands of  legendary Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Grammy Winner), Ms Anuradha Pal, SOULMATE, SWARATHMA - from Bangalore, Divine Connection (Winner MTC ROCK ON 2011) Lohe Sisters from Nagaland presenting folk music, MELODRAMA and Kenei Chale (Brand Ambassador of Nagaland Torism and Finalist Ms Nagaland 2010) and Sathya was blessed to get a 15 mts slot which by chance became the inaugural performance!

This performance was seen by almost every participant and a large audience and what was interesting is that Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt got so impressed on Sathya, he blessed him with a big hug and also asked him to perform with him that evening for about 5 mts (the first video of this post) What a great human Pandit ji is !! he was all praise and it is indeed one of the greatest recognition / blessing Sathya has got on World Music Day!! I am sincerely proud of him and hope Sathya picks up the nature of Humility from these great Musicians along with their musical blessings!


Here is the link for the photos taken at the venue: https://picasaweb.google.com/113488920649341170028/20110621WorldMusicDayHandshakeConcertBengaluru?feat=directlink

Sincere thanks to Sri. Dhayanidhi - a Morsing artist who helped us taking the video. He is brother of Ms Lakshmi a mrudhanga vidwan who performed in the band of Ms Anuradha Pal after Sathya's performance, the same evening. 


It was interesting to see this family of musicians in all true sense, Father Karnataka Kalashree Sri. Thangavelu, Mother on the Thambura, First daughter Ms Maragadhavalli on Vocal Musician, second daughter Ms Bhuvaneswari on Violin, third daughter Ms Lakshmi on Mrudhangam, 1st son Sri. Balaji on Tabla and second son Sri. Dhyanidhi on Morsing.

An appraisal - Review of my efforts in Sathya's musical life!

Dear Sri Sankar,

Let me take this oppurtunity to thank you for sparing your valuable time to go through the blog / videos of Sathya and also taking time to register your wishes.

I read your comments in this blog for two of my postings. As you have not mentioned your email id or your contact details I am posting this as not only reply but also as a self appraisal! I also received your impressions through the link in Sathya’s website and in that also we have not received your contact details. I would appreciate if you could forward same for our records. I extend my sincere thanks also to express your viewpoint on his father’s role i.e. myself and I take it in all good spirits as your opinion / suggestion.

Part played by Sathya’s father i.e. myself:

You would appreciate that Sri Shrinivas sir is Mount Everest and Sathya has not even reached the foot hold of this great Mt. Everest in Music. If Sathya can qualify / match a percentage or two of musical knowledge it would be a great accomplishment. Let me be honest to state that your idea to compare me with Great Maestro Sri Mandolin Shrinivas’s father is just not right as my roll on stage today with Sathya is totally different as I act as manager / anchor / MC for all his concerts.

With regard to my position on stage please note I view myself as a MC on stage and maintain / put thalam during his concerts. I am always sure that Hyped talents can not sustain! There is always a saying - Talent if genuine, can never be suppressed / hidden. If Sathya ever has one, I am sure and confident that he will come good! There has never been an attempt to hype Sathya’s talent and I would like to say that Promotion, Information and Hype has different meanings in respective contexts and I always try and inform people about the talent available in Sathya. I will be first person to absent my self / keep mum if that is going to enhance Sathya’s values and it is just for that betterment we as family are working for!

The audiences who attend concerts in various forums / occasions differ these days & it is this present age practice which requires information to be shared and I sincerely feel I am trying to do that in different media viz... Stage / blogs etc... If you read the post History in the making in which you have commented I have sincerely communicated to express my views on the Instrument Keyboard making History and that Sathya also becomes a part of it. I do not think there is any hype involved in this as it is indeed a fact that his was the first live broadcast of Classical concert on Keyboard broadcast by AIR for the first time! This is just an example only.

In my experience I feel it is important in the present days to express what you are performing before or after a krithi / song is performed and doing so with just the name sounds good some times and also doing it in anchoring style is received well by many depending on the forum / occasion you perform. Normally in a sabha environment I do just announce the details of the krithis and if it is a private show or in certain forums, few elaboration is needed and I do it accordingly. It is also to note that I conduct the concerts for fusion concepts / film music concerts and need to coordinate with all the artists – the job of a conductor in a film music concert. May be actions like this might have been the point you are raising and even this I have been trying to minimize as now the team is already set and artists have also started communicating with Sathya and vice versa.

Bringing up a child of his nature is indeed a challenge without disturbing his childhood! We as parents try not to disturb this and by the Grace of The Almighty and wishes of his Gurus & well wishers we have been leading a comfortable life. I also want to make a point clear that if making money with Sathya’s talent was the only concept we had in mind, it is easy for us to do so by engaging him in film music field on a permanent basis and an offer for this was there when he was just 10 years old, from a music director of repute. However our intention are to bring him up as a complete musician and hope we are slowly succeeding in that direction. With regard to playing Film numbers, I wish to inform that Sathya’s mother is working in that industry with many leading music directors and in particular with Maestro Illayaraja sir for the past 28 years!  We do value that music as well. Also I feel it is for the child to decide what he wants to ultimately establish and we are only giving him directions. Sathya while playing film numbers also makes his own BGMs and that is also welcomed by many and this gives him scope for his imaginations. It is also interesting point to see that fusion concept is catching up fast with even the Leading musicians of date who team up with various combinations and perform. It is also a fact that Great musicians like GNB, MLV, Kunnakudy to present day leading musicians play their part in film music including his present Guru Dr. Balamuralikrishna sir!

Sathya on teaching:

It has been a great hard journey for us to actually travel to the level we are, with Almighty’s grace and wishes of his gurus and well wishers. I sincerely believe Sathya is too young to be put to teaching and it might be a struggle for him to add up one more area to cope with apart from enjoying childhood, learning music, doing academic studies (in X1 std now), socializing and performing concerts. We are in the process of studying fingering techniques and making a format and in the near future would like to spread it to every one. It is our desire to spread this as this is one instrument which has caught up with young and old alike to learn our traditional music and if we could do a little in bringing some system we would be the happiest people in the world.

It is just that I thought of clarifying not only your point of view, I am taking this post as an appraisal / self study for me as well and would also be a information to many who probably has not made this impressions on the blog but could be carrying it in their minds.

Looking forward to your contact details.

With best regards and respects Krishnababu

f/o K. Sathyanarayanan

April 21, 2011 Villiwakkam Sath Sangam, Rajaji Nagar Concert.

It is indeed a second home for Sathya as the rasikas here are so fond of him and so is the organisation, with President Sri Sambamoorthy being the best of the cheer leaders! He is so particular that he gives Sathya the best comforts whenever he comes there to perform. This concert today as enhanced by Sri Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan on Violin, Sri Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam and Sri Ambattur Sundar on Tabla. It is is indeed a great point to note that whenever Sathya teams up with Sri. Sundar it always becomes a landmark concert and this was also one which was attended by Sri. Gopalji, Director of Dinamalar - a leading Tamil daily as Chief Guest and which print media is one of the reasons for Sathya's success growth story. 

Sathya has been performing almost every year from 2006 and so decided to present krithis which was not presented in this forum. It was also interesting that the song Alaipayudhey requested by the Chief Guest has not been played here before by Sathya. Audio tracks of this concert is available in the link :

http://www.mediafire.com/?rdue77r4eym3i

Video link is in http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=110B51945C927FFF

1. Vathapi Ganapathim - Hamsadwani - Adi - Dikshidar (S)
2. Mahasuram - Shanmugapriya - Rupakam - Dikshidar (R)
3. Raja Raja - Niroshta - Adi -Tisranadai (S)
4.NinnuJoochi - Sourastram - Adi Tyagaraja
5. Kaligiyunte - Keerawani - Adi - Tyagaraja (R,S,T)
6. Alaipayudhey - Kaanada - Adi - OVK
7. Thillana - Behag - Adi - Lalgudi Jayaraman
8. Medley - Garland with diferent songs.

Many songs were requested and Sathya did this last piece as a medley combining Pallavi, Anupallavi or Charanams of the requested songs which idea was well received by the audience.  Mr Murali, forum official was so nice to remember instances of Sathya's concerts performed there and blessed him with great future.

PS - S - Kalpanaswaram, N - Nraval, R - Raga aalapana, Th - Thanam, Thani avarthanam

Back to home ground - Ayodhya Mandapam, West Mambalam April 20, 2011

This happened to be Sathya's 801st concert and a blessing indeed to perform this for Sri Rama Samajam, Ayodhya Mandapam in his home turf i.e. West Mambalam. It was a team of local artist from West Mambalam with B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin, NC Bharadwaj on Mrudhangam and Chnadrasekarasharma on Ghatam. Ananthakrishnan was at his usual best and NC Bharwaj playing was very pleasant and also gave a great presentation with Chndrasekarasharma on ghatam during the Thani avarthanam. The concert in totality was remarkable and was with a large audience in spite of the fact that it was scheduled at 5pm.  The details of the krithis performed are as follows:

01. Varnam - Shanmugapriya - Adi - Dr.Balamuralikrishna
02. Raghunayaka - Hamsadwani - Adi - Tyagaraja (S)
03. Durmagachara - RAnjani - Rupakam - Tyagaraja (R, N)
04. Jaya Jaya Padmanabha - Sarasangi - Adi - SwathiThirunal
05. Budhamasrayami - Natakurinji - MisraJampa - Dikshidar
06. Bajare Manasa - Aberi - Adi - Mysore Vasudevachari (R, S, T)
07. Chinanchirukiliye - Ragamalika - Tisranadai - Bharathi (AR)
08. Chnadrasekara - Sindhubhairavi - Ekam - Yanai Vaidhyanadha Iyer(AR)

R - Aalpana S- Kalpanaswaram N- Niraval T Thaniavarthanam AR - Audience request

April 09, 2011 Concert for Karpagam Gardens Sath Sangam

The concert at this place is always held at high esteem as the audience are very knowledgeable and many are actually artists and their relatives who come and listen. If your presentation is good  people never mind staying back to listen to the performance even it is beyond 9pm. Sathya's concert here was enhanced by Sri. Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan on violin, Sri Kumbakonam Swaminthan on Mrudhangam and Hariharasharma on Kanjeera. Sathya was blessed with many in the audience actually singing along and maintaining thalam! He was also happy to note a person in the front row who got very involved with the tem's presentation and appreciated and blessed Sathya at the end revealing himself as brother of Sri Mannargudi Eswaran. He also was in high praise of Sathya's laya gnana! Indeed a great blessing! The details of this presentation is as follow:

----to be updated----

AIR Concert on March 16, 2011 - A Dream Come True Moment

Yes it is one of the best days in our life with a concert in All India Radio! What a great bonus with Sri V. V. Ravi on Violin and Sri Papanasam Kumar one of the senior vidwans of AIR enhancing this first of its kind AIR broadcast of Carnatic concert on Keyboard! Sathya is really blessed and so is the family! It is indeed a Proud moment and a Joyful Day which we can never forget!

We as family would like to thank one and all who were all responsible for having the instrument recognised by AIR from the respective Minister in the Union Ministry to Local AIR Station people, Blessings of all his gurus, wishes of well wishers and his own efforts!

It was so nice of Sri Tee Vee Gee, a leading uploader of Sangeethapriya to have recorded the concert and also upload it in his folder sooner the concert was over. Thanks to Sri Diwakar and also Mr Raman of Koratur also to have recorded the concert and forwarded the same. It is blessings and wishes like this, which has taken the instrument and the artist to the level they are in!  

The link is follows:  

http://66.182.253.251/www.sangeethamshare.org/public_html/tvg/UPLOADS-1601---180\
0/1795-K_Sathyanarayana-Keyboard/

or listen from  the link http://www.mediafire.com/?r26mtc07lgb89 

  

Sathya performed the following: 

1. Siddhi Vinayagam – Samaram – Rupakam – Dikshidar
2. Dinamani VAmsa – Harikamboji – Adi – Tyagaraja
3. Thillana – Brindhavani – Adi – Dr. Balamuralikrishna

Please listen to the tracks,  if possible and forward your feedback.  We once again thank you all for the support, wishes and Blessings to Sathya.

2011 March 13 - Concert at Periyava Padhugai Temple - Mylapore

Sathya performed a concert and for the first time he tried performing on a Harmonium!

It was indeed a divine atmosphere Sathya performed for the second time in Maha Periyava's Padhugai Temple located in PS Sivaswamy Salai. This time enhanced by Sri SP Ananthapadmanabha on violin, Sri Delhi Raja Subramaniam on Mrudhangam and Sri Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam & Morsing. Sri. Murugan made the audio arrangements.

Sathya thought of trying Harmonium and as we were searching for one his friend Sri Harikrishnan's family was contacted through Sri Keerthivasan - a Mrudhaga vidwan and thanks to that family, Sathya could perform on Harmonium. Just an attempt and hope he also pursues this also! I feel the performance is asking me to think on this line!

Audio tracks of this concert can be listened / downloaded from the link

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Great News - History in the making!

It is indeed a great news that "All India Radio" will be broadcasting a Carnatic concert on Keyboard for the first time on the March 16, 2011! Yes it will be broadcast in FM Gold Radio Channel which can be listened in 102.3 mhz from 11:30 am for 30 mts. It will be a history made with this concert and looks like Sathya will be part of the history as he is scheduled to do this concert. A long awaited dream which will become a reality!!

I request one and all to tune in to AIR on March 16th 2011 and also forward all your opinion to AIR and if possible to us also. This will be a great source of encouragement to Sathya!!!

January 22, 2011 Concert at Kakinada

This was indeed one of the special concerts with local state artists in AP after a long time with M. Sathyanarayanansarma on Violin, Mandapakkam Ravi on Mrudangama and Hanumantha Rao on Ghatam

The concert went very well with large audience presence and appreciation coming to the team in a big way. Here is a clipping probably for the first time taken in the side view as the camera was positioned on the stage! Sathya presented a mix of different composers and the ragas & krithis selected along with the way presented by him was very much appreciated by the enhancement artists. The greatness of the Mrudhangam vidwan was that he also informed many of is friends, dear & near to see the link in youtube! 

The interesting thing in this concert was that as we reached Kakinada  and was met by a volunteer of teh sabha, he asked Sathya to perform Sriranjani as main and also wanted a krithi in Sivaranjani. To our surprise we could not recollect any krtihi Sathya was familiar with and an idea came to me! I asked Sathya if he could play the bhajan Krishna Bajo Krishna Bajo set to a different raga in Sivaranjani and he immediately accepted it as a good idea and executed it on stage with no real hesitation! The person who asked for it was thrilled on hearing this bhajan and praised him so much! The secret of winning the heart of rasikas is very important and  will help artists like Sathya a long way!!

The list of krithis rendered are as follows:

01. Varnam - Valaji - Adi- Lalgudi Jayaraman
02. Raghunayaka - Hamsadwani - Adi- Tyagaraja (S)
03. Ramachandram Bhavayami - Vasantha - Rupakam-Dikshidar(R)
04. Karunajudu - Sri - Adi - Shyama
05. Marivere-Lathangi-Kandachapu-Patnam Subramanya Iyer(S)
06. Brahmakatigina - Mukari - Adi - Annamaya
07. Kavave Kanyakumari - Sahana - Misrachapu - Dr. BMK
      (audience choice of Raga) (R)
08. Marubalka - Sriranjani - Adi - Tyagaraja (R, S, TH)
09. BajareGopalam - Hindolam - Adi - SadhasivaBrahmendrar
10. Ramachandra ra ra-Shankarabaranam-Tisranadai-Annamaya
11. Bhajan - Sivaranjani - Ekam
12. Thillana - Madhuvanthi - Adi - Lalgudi
R - Raga Aalapana, S- Kalpanaswaram, TH- Thaniavarthanam

January 13, 2011 - Nadasudha Concert

With SP Ananthapadmanabha - Violiin, Trivandrum V Balaji - Mrudhangam, Chandrasekarasharma - Ghatam the team was ably enhanced with Balaji - Nithya Audio - on PA System at Sri Ganapathy Sachidananda Hall, Velachery for Nadasudha on the 13th January'11.The team presented the following and had a good audience turnout. The krithi Neelothpalambikayam is one of the rare krithis performed on stage and thanks to Mr N. Balsubramanian, President of the sabha, Sathya took up and presented in a satisfying manner. The details of other krtihis are:

01_Varnam_Sahana_Adi
02_Gananayakam_Poornashadjam_Adi_Dikshidar [S]
03_Neelothpalambikayam_Poorvaaula_Rupakam_Dikshidar
04_Manasulonima_Varamu_Adi_Tyagaraja [R, S]
05_MurugaMuruga_Saveri_Misrachapu_Thooran
06_NeevadaNeeGana_Saranga_Kandachapu_Tyagaraja [S]
07_DinamaniVamsa_HariKamboji_Adi_Tyagaraja [R, N, S, T]
08_SrichakrarajaSimhasaneswari_Ragamalika_Adi
09_Thillana_Paras_Adi_Lalgudi
S - Kalpanaswaram, R - Raga aalapana, N - Niraval, T - Thani avarthanam

You can see the video clipping of this concert here above and can also log on to www.sangeethamshare.org and listen to the tracks of this concert vide serial number 056 under the up-loader name Sathya (Keyboard)

January 09, 2011 - Concert for IIT Music Club under Youth Festival

As part of the 2011 Youth Music festival Sathya performed in IIT for their Music Club for the first time and incidentally this has come on All India Radio giving the recognition for the instrument! May be it is a coincidence! The team comprised of M. Rajeev on Violin, Sumesh Narayanan on Mrudhangam and Sunilkumar on Kanjeera. The PA system was of great order and all this ensured that the concert reached the knowledgeable audience in the right manner.

Sathya started the concert with Dr. Balamuralikrishna's varnam in the ragam Shanmugapriya and as this was his first concert in IIT Youth Fest decided to do a small lec-dem on the usage of the gadget's in the instrument in producing the nuances of Carnatic  music! The idea was Rajeev to take up a raga and Sathya to present same on the keyboard and  leaving the judgment to the audience regarding the level Sathya could match! Here Prof. Narendran was present and he suggested to take up all gana ragas namely Bhairavi, Kalyani, Kamboji, Thodi, and Sankarabaranam. The fact is that after the concert Prof. Narendran has got good impression on Sathya and he is already a good well wisher now to him! A great personal milestone for Sathya to have won the heart of a good Vainika and a knowledgeable person! The details of other krithis are as follows and when time permit please do give a view and forward your thoughts!

01 Varnam_Shanmugapriya_Adi_BMK
02 SriMahaganapathim_Gowla_Misrachapu [S]
03 Sugunamule_Chakravagam_Rupakam_Tyagaraja [R]
04 RamanukkuMannanMudi_Hindolam_Adi_SeerkazhiArunachalakavirayar [S]

05 Mokshamugalada_Saramathy_Adi_Tyagaraja
06 Lecdem-on-ragastructure-Bhairavi, Kalyani, Kamboji,
      Thodi and Sankarabaranam
07 Tholijenma_Bilahari_Kandachapu_Tyagaraja [S]
08 RagamalikaMallari_Gambeeranatai_Gaula_Arabhi_Varali_Sri_MisraTriputa [R, S, T]
09 KandenKanden_Bagyashree_Tisranadai_Arunachalakavi
10 Bhajan_Vasanthi_Ekam
11 Thillana_Desh_Adi_Lalgudi
12 Mangalam_VazhiyaSenthamizh

S - Kalpanaswaram, R - Raga aalapana, T - Thani avarthanam

You can also log on to www.sangeethamshare.org and listen to the tracks of this concert vide serial number 055 under the up-loader name Sathya (Keyboard)

Concert for Rasika Fine Arts January 02, 2011

After back to back concert in the morning and evening on the first day of the year i.e. on the 1st January Sathya also performed on the 2nd January 2011, morning for a chamber concert! Yes it was a hectic schedule right from the late evening concert on the 31st December, 2010 with heArtbeat concert for Sri Rama Baktha Jana Sabha from 8 - 10pm then on to Music Academy for the New Year Bash till 1 am on 1st Jan'11, IFA concert at German Hall @ 9am followed by 2 and hour concert for Kunnakudy School of Music at Sri Marundheeswarar Temple, Thiruvanmiyur from 630 pm and now this concert at Rasika Fine Arts, K. K. Nagar held at Jayagopal Garodia School! 

Well it was indeed a hectic schedule and kudos to Sathya, he did justify every concert with different approaches with various artists involved and taking up different ragas / krithis! A great test of endurance and by the Grace of Almighty he took it up in the right way.  Do listen to all the links of the audio / videos of these concert and you can come to your own conclusion on his abilities!

In this concert he was enhanced by B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin, Arjun Ganesh on Mrudhangam and Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam. The challenge Sathya faced here was little hard as his concert was after a soul filing excellent presentation by Sow. Sriranjani Santhanagopalan on vocal! By the Grace of God  Sathya not only was able to hold the audience but also got great appreaciation from one and all! The President of teh sabha had a speacial mention on the audience turn out and the way Sathya held them!

This concert recording is available in www.sangeethamshare.org vide serial number 053 under the folder Sathya (Keyboard) on the main page under Rasika Uploads. You can listen / download these logging in with your google or yahoo ids.

The list of krithis performed are:

01_Varnam_Chakravagam_Adi_Walalajapet Venkataramana Baghavathar
02_PariPari_HAmsadvani_Adi_Dr. Balamuralikrishna (S)
03_ThayeTripurasundari-SuddhaSaveri_Kandachapu_Thooran (R)
04_Yevaritho-MAnavathi_Adi_Tyagaraja (S)
05_Buntureethikolu_Hamsanadham_Adi
06_Kadhambari_Mohanam_TisraTriputa_Dikshidar (T, S)
07_RamabadraRara_Sankarabaranam_Tisranadai
08_Thillana_Kamas_Adi_LalgudiJayaraman

S - Kalpanaswaram, R - Raaga Aalapana, T - Thanam, Th - ThaniAvarthanam. 

Concert for The Indian Fines Arts on January 01, 2011 - German Hall, T. Nagar

It has been long time i wrote on the blog as i was a little held up due to various reasons! I shall continue to do this work without fail in future! Wishing every one a Very Happy 2011.

ஜனவரி ஒன்றாம் தேதி நடந்த இந்த கச்சேரி ரொம்ப நல்ல இருந்தது. முதல் தடவை பெங்களூர் சுசீந்திரா மிருதங்கம் சத்யாவுக்கு வாசித்தர். After the late night music show at the Music Academy all of the artists were little tired and as this was in the morning 9 am slot we did not expect muh audience as we thought people normally go to temple and relax at home watching the famous programmes in TV channels. To our luck we also had some people for our concert and this was enhanced very well by Sri B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin and Sri H. Sivaramakarishnan on the ghatam. Mr Srinivasan as usual came on stage and appreciated SAthya for all his efforts & congratulated him on getting the recognition from "AIR". He almost also tested him by making him play phrases on "Desh" and saing "துன்பம்நேர்கயில் யாழெடுத்து நீ", He appreciated his efforts and praised every artist on stage for their  super enhancement. 

This concert recording is available in www.sangeethamshare.org vide serial number 051 under the folder Sathya (Keyboard) on the main page under Rasika Uploads. You can listen / download these logging in with your google or yahoo ids.

The list of krithis performed are:

01_Varnam_Gambeeranatai_Adi_BMK
02_EkaDhantham-Bilahari_Misrachapu_Dikshidar [S]
03_GarudaGamana_Nagaswaravali-Rupakam_Tyagaraja [R]
04_Narayana_SuddhaDhanmyasi-Kandachapu_Purandaradasar[S]
05_Enthukubedhala_Sankarabaranam_Adi_Tyagaraja R,T,N &Th]
06_IrakamVaramal_Behag_Rupakam_GopalaKrishnaBharathi
07_Thillana_Jonpuri_Adi_SatturKrishnaAiyyangaar

Or - Outline Ragam, S - Kalpanaswaram, R - Raaga Aalapana, T - Thanam, N - Niraval, Th - ThaniAvarthanam.

Ps. The recoding was done on open mike basis on the IPOD.

AIR's recognition - Official with letter of grade awarded to Sathya

I am happy to inform and place on record that "All India Radio" - The Prime body in India for recognising artists / instruments has issued letter to Sathyanarayanan with "B" grade. Remarkable achievement for a 15 year old! He has surely been also a cause for this instrument to be recognised by AIR. Sri Ravisankar who also took up the audition was also granted this grade. These two have become one the first in the country to get this recognition!

Above is the first cocnert Sathya performed after becoming a AIR graded artiste and turned out to be a mile stone sort of concert as he performed here amidst rain / drizzle! Yes at some part of time he has covered the instrument with plastic sheet and without seeing the keys was performing with ease! Yellam Iraivan Seyal!!!

Concert for Kalararasana on 20th December, 2010

Performed at Rani Seethai hall for Kalarasana on the 20th December, 2010 with B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin, Thillaisthanam R. Suiyanarayanan on Mrudhangam, Hariharasharma on Kanjeera and Chandrasekarasharma on Ghatam during December Music festival 2010 called the Marghazhi Music Festival - Chennai 2010.



A report in the Sakshi Telugu Newspaper appeared on the 22nd December, 2010.

Sri KrishnaGana Sabha Concert - 14 December, 2010

Details follows:

MFAC Concert on 13th December, 2010

It is indeed sad to note from the news in "The Hindu" that Sri Venkataraman, secretary passed away yesterday 13th Dec'10 around 6pm. Even though belated we sincerely dedicate yesterday's concert to him as he was one of the main reason for Sathya's growth in the Industry with the staunch support he had extended to Sathya with great opputunities to perform for MFAC.

Sathya and team of M. Rajeev on violin Kumbakonam Swaminathan on Mrudhangam and Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam gave a concert soothing to the ears of the decent turn out in spite being the first working day of the week. This concert is probably one of the last Sathya had from the Chennai sabhas and sad to note that it was also probably one of the last Mr. Venkataraman has confirmed / recommended this year.

The video audio links will be updated soon and the details of the krithis are as follows:

1. Varavallaba - Hamsadwani - Adi (Or & S)
2. Guruleka - GowriManohari - Kandachappu (R & S)
3. Neepadhame - Nalinakanthi - Rupakam (R & S)
4. O Jagadamba - AnandaBhairavi - Adi (R)
5. RTP Varali - Kanda Triputa - Kamkshi Mathangi Bhavani Brovave
                                                 Kamala Vadhani - Kanchi
    edupu after four aksharams
6. Muralidhara - Maandu - Adi
7. Thillana - Desh - Adi

December 10, 2010 for Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

A concert to be termed a pleasant presentation in terms of the ambiance, the kalapramanams of the krithis and the way audio was set! Yes every one - the artists and the audience liked this! It is always difficult to hold the audience after a vocal concert, especially the great way Ms Dharini had rendered just before Sathya's team! Her song selection and her diction added value to this element.



Sathya Started with teh Gambeeramana "Atana" raga krithi "Sri Mahaganapthim Bhaje hum" and the audience were truly pulled by this team and the writing for a good presentation was on the chords. Rajeev and Arjun Ganesh were brilliant in enhancing this concert and i leave it to you all to evaluate this onseeing these video clipping in which only the Thillana is missing as was the bike keys of Arjun Ganesh! Hope he gets it.

The list includes:

1. Sri MahaGanaptim Nhaje Hum - Atana - Adi [Or, S]
2. Paripalayamam - Reethigaula - Rupakam [R & S]
3. Bagayanayya - Chandrajothi - Adi
4. Deva Devam - Hindolam - Kandachapu [R]
5. ParvathiNayakane - Shanmugapriya - Adi - [R, N, S & Th ]
6. Kaliyugavaradhan - Brindavani - Adi [audience choice of raga]
7. PremaMujidha - Sai Bhajan
8. Thillana - Dhanashree - Adi

Bharat Kalachar Concert - 02 December, 2010

A home turf concert this time from 5 - 7 pm had a decent number of audience which improved as the concert proceeded.. There were some very known faces who have become good well wishers of Sathya and the highlight was the presentation / felicitation by Padmashree Dr. Mrs YGP- The Chairman. She not only appreciated Sathya but also gave him the extra confidence in telling him not to worry too much about the marks in the curriculam but ensure to concentrate on his performing skills and grow to become a great musician.  

Sathya performed with Karaikal Venkatasubramanian on Violin, R. Sankaranarayanan on Mrudhangam Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam and T. Krishnababu (self) on thalam. Started the Lalgudi's Valaji raga varnam the team gave a great Mohanakalyani in Siddhi Vinayakam. Probably they got engrossed too much in the Kalpanaswaram there was a slip in the korvai which the team ensured to play it again and got a round of applause. Thats the spirit! As far as the artists the team of Karaikal Venkatasubramani on violin, R. Sankaranarayanan on Mrudhangam and Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam proved yet again that this is always a team that along with Sathya gets to the heart of the rasikas and get appreciation from them. Kudos to the volunteers of the School who reallymadeup the auditorium with the chairs and ensured all were wiped of the dust too. Appreciation also to the Audio person who enhanced the concert with his knowledgeable presentation from is side.
 

The list is as follows:

1. Varnam - Valaji - Adi

2. SiddhivinayaKam - Mohanakalyani - Adi [Or & S]

3. Ramachandram - Vasantha - Rupakam [R]

4. Mariveredikevvaru - Lathangi - Kandachapu [Or & S]

5. Ramaneeve - Narayani - Adi

6. Chankaniraja - Karaharapriya - Adi [R, T, N & Th]

7. Annamaya Krithi - Dwajavanthi - Tisranadai

Or - Outline Ragam R - Ragam S - Kalpanaswaram T - Thanam N- Niraval Th - Thaniavarthanam

December Music Season 2010

It has been a great start for this music season with teh first concert on the 1st december, 2010 for the 93rd Jayanthi Celebrations of Baghwan Yogi Ramsurathkumar at Vani Mahal mini Hall from 9 - 10am. It was a concert with full of devotional numbers and the audience enjoyed and appreciated the team of Sathya on keyboard, B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin, R. Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam, Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam and Rajagopal on the percussion. We look forward to a good season ahead with lots of listening experience as well as performing in this festive month!

Kanchi Sankara Math, West Mambalam - October 13, 2010

This concert is also uique as Sathya was teaming up with Sri Senthil Kumar on Thavil & Sri V.S. Raghavan (sishya of Sri Pathri athishkumar) on Mrudhangam along with Sri Adyar Balasubramani on the Nadaswaram. Thanks to Hamsavinodhini Sri Balasurbramaniam and Sri Raghuklumar of Sankara Math we had this concept to be taken on stage and indeed came out very well. Here is the audio tracks and hope to ahve some feedback, if you could listen to them when you find time.

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The details of the krithis performed are:

01. Varnam - Natakurunji - Adi
02. Varavallab Ramana - Hasadwani - Adi (Or, S)
03. Karpagambike - Bilahari - Rupakam (R)
04. Jagajanani - Rathipathipriya - Adi (S)
05. Visalakshi - Panthuvarali - Misrachapu (R, N, S, T)
06. SrichakrarajaSmahasaneswari - Raagamalika - Adi
07. Chinanchirupenpole
08. Chandrasekara
09. Mangalam

Ps. Or - Outline raga aalapana, R - raga aalapana, N - Niraval T Thani avarthanam

Here is the link for the video clippings: http://videosonsathya.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-post.html

Concerts during Navarathri 2010 - October 12, 2010 Sri Vedha Vyasar Tabovanam, Chennai

It is always festival time once Pillaiar Chathurthi is celebrated and Navarathiri is one good festival which involves one and all at home! Yes. Men to assist women to make Kolu steps, Women making kolu and also making sundal, Children to go around and invite people to their house and one all involved in eating sumptuous sundal variety every day. For artists it is time they are made to rehearse for the busy December to follow with concerts almost everyday - in particular lady vocal musicians. For Sathya it has been good with concerts on the 12th , 13th, 15th and on 17th of this month at Sri VedaVyasar Tabovanam - Tambaram, Kanchi Sankara Math- West Mambalam, Sri Lakshmi Balaji Temple - Pallikaranai and a Restaurant opening function - Egmore respectively on the above dates.Here is the details of the concert performed on the 12th October, 2010 at Tambaram.

It was a concert oppurtunity which came on the last minute and Sathya has been blessed to perform here with the Grace of Almighty and the blessings of Guruji Sri Kasi Vishwanathar. t was also nice of Sri Kovai Chandran (Violin artists) and Sri  Neyveli Ganesh (Mrudhangam artiste) to have enhanced this concert with Sri Sivaramakarishnan on the Ghatam. 

The highlight was the sum up / felicitation speech by Dr. Lakshmi - Director of the Music institution run by Sri Vedha Vyasar Tabovanam, with Doctrate in Music from Kerala University to have analysed the concert and appreciated Sathya's efforts especially in the Suriti raga sketches and in the tempo maintained in the krithi Angaragan set to Rupaka thalam in Vilamba kalam (retta kalai). She was all praise for his efforts in bringing out teh nuances and mentioned that it was equal to a vocal concert - a great credit - as she explained that the tone from the instrument could almost bring out the words because of teh abitlity to handle the instrument and bringing the raga swarupa & bhavam in the krithi.

The details of the krirhis rendered are as follows:

01. Sri Mahagnapathey - Abogi - Kandachappu (Or, S)

02. Sri Saraswathi  - Arabhi - Rupakam (R, S)

03. Nammamma Sharadhey - Hamsadwani - Adi 

04. Angaragan - Suruti - Rupakam

05. Bhuvaneswariye - Mohanakalyani - Adi  (R)

06. KrishnaNeeBegane - Yamunakalyani - Misrachapu

07. Meenakshi Memudham - PoorviKalyani - Adi (R, Th, N, T)

08. Bo Sambo - Revathy - Adi

09. KarunaiDeivame - SindhuBhairavi - Adi

10. Thillana Jonpuri - Adi

11. Mangalam

Or - Raga outline, R - Raga Aalapana, Th - Thanam, N - Niraval, T - Thaniavarthanam

A concert we were looking forward to! Warren Raod Pillaiyar Temple

Yes it is one of the divine location to perform and it was a great blessing that Sathya got the blessing to perform at this Temple premises during this year's Vinayaga Chathurthi festival Music series. Thanks to the temple authorities and Sri Raghunathan, Amutham Audios for this oppurtunity.

This concert would be remembered for ever by Sathya! Yes it was indeed a great gift after the Teacher's day on the 5th Sep, (this concert was on the 6th September, 2010), Sathya was blessed to have his Maths teacher with her family and what a great blessings!!! The audience had many vidwans, vidhushis and also ordent rasikas who almost stayed back for the entire concert! well the concert started at aroudn 840pm and went on till 1110pm! When you get audience of this kind artists also get pepped up and give their best and thats what happend at Warren Road (Bhakthavatchalam Salai) Pillaiyar Temple yesterday - September 06, 2010.

The team of Sathya with B. Ananthakrishnan (who was kind enough to accommadate for the last minute chnage of violin artist) on violin, R. Sankaranarayanan on Mrudhangam and Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam lifted theri spirits and were at their peak probably because of teh energy level created by the Ambience! Every one who attended the concert had a feeling of having attended great quality concert and thats the best gift / acknowledgement an artist can get! It was moving and interesting to see (Approx) a 80 year old lady asking for Bindhumalini as she wanted to listen to this ragam on Keyboard! 

The details of krithis rendered are:

01. Varnam - Hamsadwani - Adi
02. Gajavadhana Karuna-Sriranjani-Adi - Papanasam Sivan (Or, S)
03. Bajanaseyaradha-Dharmavathi-Rupakam-MysVasudevachar-(R)
04. NiravathySukadha - Ravichandrika - Adi - Thyagaraja
05. KrupayaPalaya-Charukesi-Misrachapu-SwathiThirunal(Or, N,S)
06. Sabapathikku - Aboghi - Rupakam - GopalaKrishnaBharathi
07. Bajare Manasa-Abheri-Adi-Mys.Vasudevachari-(R,T, S,Th)
08. Endhamudho-Bindhumalini-Adi-Thyagaraja(audience request)
09. Mangalam - Vazhiya Senthamizh

Or - Outline ragam R - Raga aalapana
N - Niraval, T - Thanam S - Kalpanaswaram
Th - Thaniavarthanam

Audio of this concert can be listened / downloaded in www.sangeethamshare.org and get to serial number 038 of  the folder - Sathya (keyboard) with your Google or yahoo id.
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An appreciation from Media for our new thought!

Having got the acceptance in a forum - Hamsavinodhini during the concert held at Sri Kasi Viswanathar Temple, West Mabalam on August 15, 2010, this report in Mambalam Talk dated August 29, 2010 gives us a satisfaction of taking a step forward of our new thought of Sathya on keyboard to perform with a nadaswaram artist. Hope to repeat this concept in many more forums and to get wide acceptability from general public.  

The video clippings link for the reported concert is
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=37A07CC9711439AF

The audio link is: http://www.esnips.com/playlist/1bd9483d-669f-4481-95b7-a523243992dc

Concert at Sree Narayana Gurudev Mandiram - 25 Aug'10

It was a short but a divine atmosphere which enhanced this concert as Sri. B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin and Sri S. Sridharan on Mrudhangam did for Sathya. Thanks to Smt Janaki, devotee on seeing Sathya & his other team perform at Matha Amruthanandamayee Ashram, Chennai wanted this to happen here during the 156th Sree Narayana Gurudev Jayanthi celebrations and accepted at once by the Swamji and the committee.

Starting with Mahaganapathim in Naatai Sathya dedicated PavanaGuru in
Subhapanthuvarali - a composition of Sree Narayana Guru himself and later performed Dasar Krithi Narayana followed by Krishnanee Begane. SAthya made a sketch of anlinakanthi and performed brisk krithi in Tyagaraja's Manavyalakimchara for which kalpanaswaram exchange had both Ananthakrishnan and Sathya doing some nice turns. Sri Sridharan rounded off with a short thani avarthanam in this piece. The concert ended with Gurudev's own words Siva Shankara sharva. A divine feeling of having the blessings of the Gurudev in person!
You tube link: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=42F5E13C3237ABAD

audio is available in Sl no.037 of www.sangeethamshare.org/sathya. You can log in with google / yahoo ids.

heArtbeat Concert for YACM at Music Academy

It was one of the best presentations Sathya has been involved in heArtbeat ensemble presented at the Music Academy on August 24, 2010, as part of  YACM's 25th Anniversary celebrations from 21 - 29th August, 2010. It is a fact the Audio system and the acoustics & ambiance present at Music Academy added great enhancement to teh high quality performance from the team led by Dr. Ghatam Karthick, Embar Kannan, Poongulam Subramanian, Bangalore Arunkumar, B. Sundarkumar and Sathya was also part of this group.

Kudos to YACM for having made this concert and all others too, to be available live on the internet in www.yacm.in and it was viewed all over the world.

Photos courtesy Sri Bharath Sundar

Concert at Tirupur for "Eppadi Padinaro" - August 22, 2010

The team of Sathya with Karaikal Venkatasubramanian on Violin and R. Sankaranarayanan on mrudhangam with Krishnababu on thalam traveled to Tirupur for a concert under "Eppadi Padinaro" organised jointly by Tirupur Shanmugananda Sabha and Sri krishna Seets. The concert was held at the famous Lord Easwaran Temple, Tirupur, premises. A good ambience indeed and the audio was also of good nature. However due to shortage of time proper sound check was not done due to some power fluctuations. Still the presentation came out very well and audience stayed back for full length of the concert and that showed really the acceptance level for the instrumental music among knowledgeable audience.

Special mention to be made on Sri G.Sengottaiyan , a rare Rasika who has the passion of recording all the concerts held - with permission from artists- and uploads same in his YouTube channel! It is indeed not a easy job to sink the camera frames to that of the audio recording as he mixes them both before uploading. A needs not only dedication but also commitment and Passion to got through this process! Thanks to him one of the songs performed - "Sabapathikku" in Aboghi was already uploaded in his you tube channel http://www.youtube.com/sengottaiyang Here is the link for the same:

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The details of the krithis performed performed by Sathya on keyboard, Karaiklal Venkatasubramanian on violin and R. Sankaranarayanan on mrudhangam are:

01. Varnam - Charukesi - Adi - Lalgudi Jayaraman
02. VathapiGanapathim-Hamsadwani-Adi-Dikshidar- [S]
03. MarivereDikevvaru-Lathangi-Kandachapu
      PatnamSubramanyaIyer [R, N & S]
04. SabapathikuVeruDeivam-Aboghi-Rupakam
      GopalakrishnaBharathi [Or & S]
05. Mariyadagadayya - Bhairavam - Adi - Tyagaraja
06. Karunajoodu - Sri - Adi - Syama Sastri
07. MahadevaSivaSambo - Revathy - Adi
      Thanjavur Sankara Iyer [R, S & T0]
08. Parvaionre Podhume - Suruti - Adi - Oothukadu Venkata Kavi
09. Thillana - Brindavani - Adi - Dr. Balamuralikrishna

R - Raga aalapana, Or - Outline Raga Aalapana
S - Kalpanaswaram, N - Niraval, T - Thani Avarthanam

August 15, 2010 - A sort of Trend setter concert

It was indeed a trend setter concert for Sathya teaming up with a Nadaswaram artiste for a full length classical concert! It was clear from the thought of this combo that he will be walking on tight rope in terms of presenting the nuances of Carnatic music for the fact he was playing alongside an instrument which is accepted as the Raja Vadhyam to produce the best of the nuances in our music tradition. Es both past and present great vidwans and vidhushis has mentioned and accepted this fact and it was a litmus test indeed for both the instrument – Keyboard and Sathya to produce their best.

Being Independence day the concert started off with Aduvome Palli Paduvome bring the mood of India on the very same day in the year 1947! Pancharathna Mallari was performed with short raga alapana of the ragas involved. Bhairavi swarajathi was taken up and as the duration of the concert was reduced to 95 mts as the concert started a little late due to technical reasons the team decided to expand same with kalpanaswaram followed by short thani. Both R. Sankaranarayanan on Mrudhangam and Trichy Krishna on Ghatam enhanced the melodic instruments to present a concert to the best satisfaction of all present.

Here is the link of the audio and video clippings and I leave it to the individuals to conclude on the percentage of success achieved by Sathya. It will be nice if one can forward his / her opinion to us so that Sathya can do his best in future. Thanks to Hamsavinodhini to have accepted to make this new combo of instruments and hope this will have a wider acceptance in future. The ambience at Sri Kasi Viswanathar Temple in West Mambalam was indeed good and we all can look forward to listen to more and more concerts happening in time to come.

The details of krithis performed are:

01. Aduvome Palli Paduvome - based on Misra Maandu
02. Gajananayutham – Chakravagam – Adi (R & S)
03. Pancharathna Mallari – Gambeera Naatai, Gowla, Arabhi,
Varali & Sri – MisraTriputa Thalam (SR & S)
04. Sivaloganathanaiandu – Mayamalawagowla – Rupakam
05. Amba Kamakshi – Bhairavi Swarajathi – Misrachapu (Or, S & T)
06. Sri Chakraraja Simhasaneshwari – Raagamalika – Adi

Audio link :

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Lord Balaji's blessings continues! - August 14, 2010 at TTD

After the concert at TTD, Chennai it was the concert at TTD, Tirumala - Tirumala Headquarters for Nada Neerajanam 1st anniversary special concert.

When we got a call from Sri Embar S. Kannan asking if Sathya will be available on the 14th August, 2010 to perform at Tirumala along with Malaldi Brothers for the 1st anniversary celebrations of Nada Neerajanam concept at Tirumala, we did not imagine that this will be of this magnitude! What an oppurtunity for Sathya to be on a stage where Legendary Sri Nedunuri Krishnamurthi Garu lead a galaxy of Stalwart musicians both present & to be vidwans like Sri Malladi Suri Babu, Malladi Brothers, Sri Abhisek Raghuram, Sri Pattabiram Pandit, Vidhushis Smt Nithyashree Mahadevan, Smt. M.S. Sheela, Smt Tirupathi K. Vandana, Smt. Ranjani Hebbar, Sow. Nisha Rajagopal, Sow. K. Gayathri, Violin Vidwans Sri Perri Sriramulu, Sri Embar S. Kannan, Veena vidhushi Smt. Jayalakshmi Sekar, Sri Palghat Sriram on Flute, Mrudhanga vidwans in Sri M.L.N. Raju, Sri Arun Prakash, Sri Udipi Sridhar on Ghatam, Sri Ganapathy on Tabla and Sri A.S. Krishnan on the Morsing.

The great aspect of this concert presentation was that even though musicians were from different schools of music they were presenting one concept and presented same in unison giving no value to individual brilliance. Vidwan Suribabu’s explanation about the krithis before it was rendered was well appreciated. Kudos to the PA system team which was excellent for the fact that they had very little time to play around and still presented a great quality of balance. While there is always room for doubts on the balance aspects for shows with long rehearsals and sound check this team should be complimented for their brilliant team work within a short time.

The team presented jewels of different composers and concluded with poetic lines from the thoughts of Sri Pappu Venugopal Rao who was coordinating the show which was in praise of all the composers whose numbers they had taken to sing this day. It has been tuned by Sri Malladi Suri Babu proud father of Malladi Brothers under the guidance of Sri Nedunuri Krishnamurthi Garu in ragam Kalyani and it turned out to be a fitting finale. Hwever as requested by the Chairman and E.O. of TTD, the team presented “Entharo Mahanubhavullu” which was a on the spot group rendition and came out very well too!

The 8 jewels presented were:

01. Koluvaiyunnade – Devaganthari – Adi – Thyagarajar
02. RamabadraRaRa – Sankarabharanam – AdiTtisranadai - Bhadrachala Ramadas
03. Sri Venkata Gireesam – Surutti – Adi - Sri Muthuswamy Deekshithar
04. Pahi Pahimam – Jonpuri – Adi – Narayana Theerthar
05. Bhajare Gopalam – Hindolam – Adi - Sadasiva Brahmendra
06. Karuna Joodu - Sri – Adi Sri Syama Sastri
07. NavaneethaChora - Senchurutti – Adi - Tallapaka Annamacharya
08. Venkatachala Nilayam – SindhuBairavi – Adi – Purandara Dasa

These were followed by the kalyani raaga composition - Lyrics Sri Pappu Venugopala Rao and music Sri amlladi Suri babu under the guidance of Sri Nedunuri Krishnamurthi Garu and Entharo Mahanubhavulu. A violin ensemble with Kum. A. Kanyakumari and 6 other violin artists was presented after this concert.

Review in Dinamalar for the TTD concert

Thanks to Dinamalr - Rasigapriya - for anexcellent review covering all aspects of a concert. It is also satisfying to note that this has been reviewed on the basis of his concert performed rather than looking at him as a child trying to give performance. Also the mention of AIR recognising the instrument is indeed a great boon as general public will be more receptive! 

Concert on 4th August, 2010 at TTD, Chennai

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GuruPoornima day Concert at Mata Amritanandamayi Math, Chennai - 25th jul'10

As it stands Public concerts for any Instrumental artist is indeed rare and to get a concert oppurtunity to perform on the Guru Poornima day at Amma Mata Amritanandamayi Math is indeed a great blessing.

Sathya had this blessing on the July 25th, 2010 when he performed with Sri. B. Ananthakrishnan on the violin and Sri K. Swaminathan on mrudhangam. Thanks to Sri Vinayamrutha Chaithanya Swamiji of this Math in Virugambakkam this concert was well received with large audience and a quality PA system provided by the Math.

The team started off with a varnam composed by the great legendary Dr. M. Balamuralikritshna in Gambeeranaatai Ragam set to adi thalam and followed it with a Ganapathi Thuthi in raagam Reethigowla. As per request of many in the audience Sathya decided to perform song as per the request with Pavana Guru in Hamsanandhi, Raghuvamsasudha and Krishnanee i Yamuna Kalyani. Both Sathya and Ananthakrishnan presented a good aalapana for Hamsanandhi which was well appreciated. Inspired by one of his guru Sri MAndolin Shrinivas's presentation of Bindhumalini, Sathya tried his best to perform Endha Mudho. Swaminathan playede a short & sweat Thani after the krithi.

Sathya followed this with a Utchavasambradhya krithi Srirama in ragam Sahana & Sri Lalgudi's thillana in raagam Desh. As requested by a rasika Sathya presented a medley and the entire audience were seen clapping which sound became actually the main percussion at many places.

Please log on to http://videosonsathya.blogspot.com/ to view some of the video clippings, thanks to Sathya's amma Smt. Lalitha Krishnababu for taking it.

Concert at Mahaperiyava Padhugai Temple, Mylapore

It was a great blessings for Sathya to have got an oppurtunity to perform at this temple in P.S. Sivasami Salai adjacent to Nilgiris on Radhakrishnan Road, Mylapore, Chennai. It was the Jayanthi day of "MahaPeriyava" and the performance was indeed blessed with a small but knowledgeable audience. It was indeed the devince ambiance which was great and inspiring to the artists who perform. This year the artist line included many leading artists like Sri T.V. Sankarnarayanan,  Sri Santhanagopalan, Smt Jayanthi kumaresh and others. 

Sathya had S.P. Ananthapadmanabha on violin, Arjun Ganesh on Mrudhangam and Hariharasuramanian on Gatam & Morsing to enhance with Sanjay - the audio person who really was also the reason for the success of the concert. The audio recording is available in www.sangeethamshare.org/sathya under sl. n0. 034. You can log on to www.sangeethamshare.org with your yahoo or gmail account and access this folder under the link sathya in uploader's section.

The krithis rendered are as follows:


01_SriMahaganapathim_Gowla_Misrachapu - (S)
02_Yevaridho_Manavathi_Adi - (S)
03_DevaDeva_Mayamalavagowla_Rupakam (R, N, S)
04_Sankaracharyam_Sankarabaranam_Adi.
05_Needhyaradha_PoorviKalyani_Adi.
06_Palinchukamakshi_Madhyamavathi_Adi - (RT, S & ST)
07_SrichakrarajaSimhasaneshwari_Raagamalika_Adi
08_BoSambo_Revathy_Adi
09_Jagajanani_Rathipathipriya_Adi
10_Felicitiation
11_Mythrimbhajatha_Bhajan
12_Chandrasekara_Sindhubhairavi_Ekam

S - Kalpanaswaram, R - Raga Aalapana, N - Niraval RT Ragam & Thanam
ST - Short Thani Avarthanam.

Goddess Garmarakshambika Temple Utsavam Concert May 22, 2010 after Keyboard entering "AIR"

What a blessing from the Almighty to have got an oppurtunity to perform at this temple after  appearing for the long awaited Audition in "AIR"! Yes its the same feeling of a couple getting the first news of the woman knowing that she is carrying! We are now waiting for "Suga Prasavam" in terms of god result. This oppurtunity indeed makes it really feel moved and the concert was indeed a huge audience in spite of the fact that this is the first time ever Sathya is performing in this temple Town.

The audience was more of locals and to respect their music knowledge and also to satisfy their film music requirements Sathya's team presented a concert with a mix of popular numbers in both the genres. Sathya also performed a piece composed with Drums Sridhar during his recent holiday trip in Kodaikannal. 

The highlight of the concert was the Pancharathna Mallari with ragams Naatai, Gowla, Varali, Arabi & Sri set to Misra Thriputa Thalam which was performed so well by the team of Sri Adyar Balasubramani on Nadaswaram, Sri Karakurichi Balaji on Veena, Kumbakonam Swaminathan on Mrudhangam, Tabla Pradeep, Drums Sridhara, Valangaiman Hariharasubramanian on Ghatam, Ghata Singari Rajagopal and Vijay on Timing. While Balaji performed Malardhum Malaradha, BAlasubramani performed Ullathul Nalla Ullam as their solo popular numbers from film side, Sathya chose Senthamizh Then Mozhiyal, OrulanalPodhuma, Paatum Nane and Maraindhirundhu Parkum Marmamenna. 

The melody team performed Vathapi Ganapathim, Buntureethikolu, Bo sambo apart from Sathya's composition and topped up with Madurai Somu's - this village is the birth place of this great legendary singer, Marudhamalai as the penultimate song which was very well received by a large audience. Sathya performed his medley which indeed got the appreciation from one and all. It was almost a 3 hr concert which was well received and thanks to Mr & Mrs Kridhnamurthy, Auditor from Aiyanawaram, Chennai this was indeed a great blessing for Sathya & team.

All India Radio Auditions Keyboard as a lead Classical Instrument

It is indeed a great news to the Music lovers in general and Keybaord artiste community in particular that Keyboard has been accepted as a lead Classical Instrument, thanks to the Almighty and the I & B Ministry.

Yes. Henceforth like any other classical instrument artists Keyboard artists over and above 16 years of age can take up audition test of All India Radio - AIR, and get themselves graded.

It is also a great news for all the well wishers of K. Sathyanarayanan that he has been one of the major factors in this effort. He has been given special exemption on the age limit. Sathya took up the Local Audition on the 19th May'10 and we are awaiting the results for the same. It has been a great blessing from the Almighty for this long awaited  grade status for this instrument and we sincerely hope Sathya will come out successful to take take up the next level. Sri Nanganallur Ravishankar, a Vocalist, Mrdhangam Vidwan, Keybaord artiste and presently a prime contestant in the "Hariyudan Naan" of Jaya TV also took up this audition on the 19th May and made history.

It is also a news that Keyboard is one of the subjects in Madras University - B. Mrudhangam course and understand that Bharathidasan university is also offering courses on Diploma and under graduation levels.

Great times ahead for Keyboard artists and  let us all pray for their grand success.