Sathya's guru Kum A Kanyakumari's Concert with ESK

Sathya's guru Kalaimani Kum A Kanyakumari gave a violin duet with Embar S Kannan for Saraswathi at Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall today. Sri Pathri Sathishkumar on Mrudhangam and Sri Purushothaman on the kanjeera perfromed to their best today. Sathya could not attend this concert and he felt very bad for the same.

Mr Pyarilal, owner of Carnaticsangeetham.com was there to take photos and the same can be viewed in his site www.carnaticsangeetham.com Here in the 1st photo he is seen in action.

Sathya at SICA - Hyderabad

a video clipping of the speach of Dr Narayana Raddy http://tinyurl.com/enkoq

Sathya performed for SICA - South Indian Cultural Association, Hyderabad on the 22nd Aug'06 at Rabindra Bharathi a beautiful auditorium with a good number of audience. The team of Sathya on keyboard, Smt Durga Bhavani on violin, Trivandrum Balaji on Mrudhangam and Sri Somayajulu on Ghatam gave the audience a good evening full of music which was evident from the fact that the strength almost remained intact till the end.

SICA had made all efforts to promote this concert and the concert started off with mallari and Sathya then performed Mohana Varnam after which Sri Gananatham on Kanakangi was taken for elaborate kalpana swaras. Deva Deva a Swathi thirunal krithi on Mayamalavagowla was performed with a short alapana and a good crisp swaras. This was followed by Entharo Mahanubhavulu on Sri ragam which moved the audience. Every song received great aplause and this was a great effort of the team which produced these applause.

Krishna Nee begane was followed by Sivasakthi - krithi Srichakra Raja nilaye of GNB's which had elobaration of Ragamand swaram. Chinanchirukiliye and Nagumomo was followed by the main item of the day Vasudevayini on Kalyani as requested by Sri Chakrapani - Secretary SICA. Trivandrum Balaji and Sri Somayajulu performed a crisp thani and exhibited their brilliance as they were doing for the krithis. Sathya rounded off the concert with Brahmamukate, Chennikula nagar - a kavadi Sindhu, Sai bhajan, Jonpuri Thillana and the mangalam.

Sathya was blessed to have Dr Narayana Reddy's presence ( a gnana peeta Awardee) who incidently was the chief guest for the concert of Sri Mandolin Shrinivas when he perfomed for the first time for SICA way back around 30 years ago. It was to be mentioned that Sri Somayajulu was the one who as infmd by him, was accompanying Sri Shrinivas that day. It is indeed a great coincidence and every one present wished Sathya of a great future. This concert oppurtunity has brought in the confidence to Sathya and family and is a feather in Sathya'scap as he has now been recognised for his ability to perform Carnatic on Keyboard.

Sathya's Concert at Padi - August 20, 2006

Sathya today performed for a Wedding reception at Thirumal Thirumagal Hall for Smt Sri Balachandran's daughter's wedding and it was with the team of L Ramakrishnan on violin, Trivandrum Balaji on mrudhangam and Sri EM Subramaniam on Ghatam. It was a real entertainer for teh audience as Sathya was probably in full form right from the start with Mallari on Gambeeranaatai followed by Vathapi Ganapathim on Hamsadhwani.

Vaathapi had niraval and swarams and the team presented a great interaction among them and it was indeed a treat to watch. This was followed with Ninuvina - Navarasa Kaanada and Sadhimchane. A sper the request of Sri Nagarajan from the Bride's family Sathya performed Om Namo Narayanan on Karnaranjani a composition of Smt Ambujam Krishna. This he learnt from Smt Sudha Raghunathan's album on Saturday.

Sathya also performed a fast paced Siva Siva Siva on ragam Panthuvarali which he learnt from Sri Chembai's cassette. He then played Krishna nee begane, Tahnburi meetidharu, Sabapathikku - a Gopalakrishna Bharathi's krithi, Bo Sambo and the main song Samajavaragamana on Hindolam as per the request of the wedding families. It was indeed a crisp thani avarthanam played by the percusion team of Balaji and EMS which was a real treat to the audience.

The lighter section was full of audeince choice with Enna Thavam, Konjum purave, Sri chakra rajasimhasaneswari, Bramamokate, Kuraionrum illai, Enna thavam and Lalgudi's thillana onragam Desh. Special applause was for teh krithi Raja Raja on Niroshta and the Sai bhajan with which Sathya concluded the concert. It is sure this team has impressed the audience, which fact was seen with almost 100 - 150 peopl in a wedding to sit back and hear the concert, giving a feel of a sabha atmosphere.

Video Links:

01. Sathya performing Siva Siva Siva - Panthuvarali
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6213887462957584035

02. Sathya performing Om namo on 20 Aug'06

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1891641642370098873

Sathya at a private concert August 19, 2006

Sathya today performed with Mannargudi Srinivasan on violin, Kumbakonam Saravanan on mrudhangam and Adambakkam Sankar on ghatam for a wedding reception at Chrompet. While the concert was supposed to have started at 7pm, it started a bit late and became a full length listener's choice right from the first song.

Everyone enjoyed the concert including the artists and the rasikas had great satisfaction of having got the songs they asked for. Sathya also performed Bhuvaneswariye in ragam Mohana Kalyani deicating it to Sri Sai Prasad , a email friend - well wisher of Sathya. Here are two video and a audio link of the concert. All the enhancement artist of the day enjoyed the new KORG TR board for which they are accompanying for the first time.

Audio : http://tinyurl.com/kubpt Bhuvaneswariye song.

Video 1 : GNB's Varavallaba - Hamsadwani http://tinyurl.com/rojxd

Video 2 : Sobillu http://tinyurl.com/zzyqk

The song list included

01. Sriragam - Varnam
02. Varavalaba - Hamsadwani
03. Guruleka - Gowri Manohari
04. Sadimchane -Arabi
05. Sobillu -
06. Nagumomu - Aberi
07. Bhuvaneswariye - Mohanakalyani
08. Jagadhodharaka - Kaapi
09. Chinanchirukiliye - Ragamalika
10. Katrinile varum geetham
11. Kartrinile varum geetham - a movie number
12. Sriman Narayanan
13. Thaye Yesodha
14. Rara - from chnadramuki taken as main song todayfor elaboration
15. Alaipayudhey - Kaanada
16. Kuraionrum illai
17. Bagyadhalaxmi - Madhyamavathi
18. Jonpuri Thillana
19. Rama Namam

An evening of great learning for Sathya at KGS on Aug18, '06

Sathya had a great day today as he had the oppurtunity to get live lessons on a concert environment by attending Sri Mandolin U Shrinivas's concert held at the Krishna Gana Sabha, today.

It will do a world of good for him as he is getting intoseries of concet for theis month starting from tmrw, 20th, 22nd at SICA HYD and then on 26th, 27th and 31st in Chennai.

He enjoyed every sec of this concert and we can see the sea side implications in the concerts to follow.

For his impressions on the concert visit http://keyboardsathya.blogspot.com

Sathya interviewed by Sri Chandrasekar, Kumudham

Sathya was interviewed by Sri Chandrasekar, Chief Reporter Kumudaham today August 11, 2006 for thier kumudam.com website. This will be beemed in their site probably in the next 15 days time.

It is interesting to note that Sri Chandrasekar had interviewed Sathya about 3 years ago and has published an article titled "8 vayadhinile" after intereacting for almost 3 hours. Today he had interviewed for about 20 mts and later informed great happiness on the qualitative improvement SAthya has gone thru' over the years in handling the western instrument to perform Carnatic music with the next to near perfection of its nuances.

You can see the team of people Sri Venkada Prakash, Sri Ganesh - Camera Incharge with is collegue and Sri Chandrasekar in the photograph with Sathya.

Experience with KORG Technician

Sathya had a great oppurtunity to interact with Mr Francis, KORG technician from Mumbai who was here in Chennai recently for exhibiting KORG Products on the 3rd Aug'06..

This meeting was possible only with the information given by the owner of Sruthilaya to Sathya's dad and the kind co-operation extended by owner Mecho Tronics. It is also to be mentioned that the employees of Mecho Tronics extended great help when the interaction took place from 8 -930pm in thier office.

We are sure Sathya's level of confidence has got boosted with this meeting and hope to get continued support from KORG team in the future.

Sathya receives Award from Sri Krishna Gana Sabha

Photo Courtesy - carnaticsangeetham.com

Photo courtesy - carnaticsangeetham.com

Sathya today today Talent Promotion Music concert Award under Gottuvadhyam Narayana Iyengar's Endownment for the Year'05 from the hands of Sri S Vaidhyanatha Krishnan, Advocate & Musicologist from Coimbatore in the inagural function of 51st Gokulashtami Sangeetha Uthsavam of Sri Krishna Gana Sabha held on the 5th Aug'06.

Sathya had the opputunity to share moments and take blessings from this year Sangeetha Choodamani awardee Smt Aruna Sairam during the function.

Sathya for a birthday party July 30, 2006

Sathya performed a one man show with his Yamaha 640 as the rhythm source and with the new KORG TR workstation as the melody source for the birthday celebration of Mstr Thrinav from USA, held at TAG CENTRE, Alwarpet, Chennai.

Sathya gave the audience a 90 -100 mts of mixed music with carnatic, film, light classical and also some western numbers. The timely Happy Birthday tune, the video clipping http://tinyurl.com/zgf2q was a classy one apart from all the other numsers which were real gems as said by the audience. Here is a clipping of the Hindi number "Thuje Deku Deku Sona", vido clipping http://tinyurl.com/ndayu from the film Kalyug which he started liking from the first time he heard this songs, thanks to Mr Diwakar his father's friend who had given the cd.

Sathya had special guests, his two latest friends on mailand today they got the oppurtunity to see each other namely Gayathri and Prathyusha. It was indeed a nice evening not only for the audeince but also for Sathya as he played little bit of shooting game and also could meet some friends.

28th Jul 2006 Sathya at the Anusham Chamber Concert Series

Sathya performed on the 2nd day of the 2nd Anniversary of "Anusham Chamber Concert Series" conducted by Veenai Vidwan Sri Rajesh Vaidhya at Sri Ramakrishna Kalyanamandapam, # 18 Rajunaicken Street, West Mambalam, Chennai - 33 from 27 - 30th July 2006.

It is to be mentioned that Sri Rajesh Vaidhya and team has put up a grand show for this event with many programmes for the four day function. The most interesting of all is the Photo Exhibition of rare photos of Periyava - a collection of Sri Photo Kannan which is excellent. This video links shows the rare photos and the mohana varnam performed. http://tinyurl.com/ncpgy

Sathya today started off with Mohana Varnam doing 3 kalams in one avarthanam i.e. Madhyama kalam, thisra kizhkalam followed by Thisra melkalam in two speeds for pallavi and anupallavi follwed by madhaymakalam for charanam. It is to be mentioned here that this style of playing mohana varanm was taught by Annathakrishnan to Sathya and this was the first time they performed this piece together. He then went on to perform Sri Gananatham a Kanakangi keerthana with crisp kalpana swara prayogams well matched by Anathakrishnan on violin, Suriyaranarayanan on mrudhangam and Chandrasekara Sharma on ghatam.

Third song was Thaye thripura sundari on ragam Suddha Saveri set to Kanda Chaapu. Oothukadu Venkatakavi's Balasaramurali on keeravani followed with brief alapana with the essence of the raga by the both Sathya and Anathakrishna. GNB's composition Sri Chakra raja nilaye on Sivasakthi presented by the team carried great applause from the audience and so was Mythrim Bajatha - a composition of Periyava. Sathya went on to elobarate ragam Madhyamavathi which was presented well by Anathakrishnan also for the krithi Palinchu Kamatchi. It had a brisk paced kalpana swaram and due to the shortage of time the percusion utilised every oppurtunity prevailed in the krithis to showcase their talents while making sure they did not disturb the main artist.

Sathya rounded off the concert with Thamburi meetidharo, Srichakraraja Simhasaneswari (thanks to raikapriya.net members) and Lalgudi sir's thillana on ragam Jonpuri. Sathya felt very much the ashirvadhams of Periyava in the form great appriciation form the knowledgeble audience present.

July, 23 2006 at Bapatla

Sri Ram Mohan Sastry, Founder Sarada Fine Arts, Bapatla who had known about Sathya decided top hold concert at Bapatla on the 23rd July'06 and also organised a concert at Guntur thru Gayathri Mahila Sangeetha Samandali.

It has to mentioned here that Sathya and his team were hosted to the best in this small team and Sathya enjoyed visitng the 2nd Century AD built temple, Sri Bhavana Venkateswara Temple and drinking Cold Badam Milk at a small corner shop located at the Tower Clock corner.

The same team of Smt Durga Bhavani on violin, Suriyanarayanan on mrudhangam and Harihara Subramaniam on ghatam performed today the following numbers most of which were audience request. Sathya had the satisfaction of playing full length concert without disturbance as it was a closed hall. Mr and Mrs Sastry travelled with the team to Guntur the earlier day and they were discussing about of Amridhavarshini and its impacts in the form of rain. Mr Sastry jokingly said to Sathya to play Amruthavarshini as he wanted Bapatla to get rain as they were going thru' hot climate.

Sathya performed Vasudevayini, a krithi on Kalyani as the main item and suddenly remembered the mention of Amrudhavarshini and decided to do a swara raga mlika with Amrudhavarshini, Charukesi, Sivasakthi and Vanaspathi. Mr & Mrs Sastry were there at the tation to see off the team and to every one's surprise it started rainning around 1130 pm in Babpatla and the team had to take a covered shelter while waiting for thetrain to Chennai. Mr Sastry metnioned that it was indeed god's reaction to the discussion they had the earlier day on the raga. A video link of Kalyani raga alapana http://tinyurl.com/quyk8

The list of song is as follows:

01. Varnam - Abogi - Adi

02. VAthapi Ganapathim - Hamsadhwani - Adi
03. Ramanannu brovera - HAri Kambodhi - Rupakam
04. Entharomahanubhavulu - Sri - Adi
05. Samajavaragamana - Hindolam - Adi
06. Karedhare barebharathe - Swrasammohini - Adi
07. Krishna nee Begane - Yamen Kalyan
08. Ksheera Sagara Sayana - Devaganthari - adi
09. Brocheva - Kamas - Adi
10. Raghuvamsa - Kadhanakudhukalam - Adi
11. Sankarabaranam notes
12. Vasudevayini - Kalyani - Adi
13. Chenikulanagar - Kavadi sindhu
14. Bramamokate
15. Sri Lalgudi's thillana - Jonpuri - adi
16. Raghupathy raghava - Namavali where all the audience joined and made the concert a
memorable one.

It is also to mentioned that Sathya liked the rasam long with potato and banana fry which was prepared and served with great love by Mrs Sastry during thiermenu and stay alongwith that of the lunch hosted by Mrs Malleswari which was better than a buffet menu in a five star hotel with taste at its best, on the 22nd July in Bapatla.

Guntur Concet on 22nd Jul, 2006

Sathya for his 275th concert was in Guntur for the second time and now under Gayathri Mahila Sangeetha Samandali Samaj and had the oppurtunity to perform at the Sri Venkateswara Temple premisses with a crowd of almost 1000 people. He had Smt Durga Bhavani, a senior Violin artist of All India Radio, Vijayawarda along with Sri Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on mrudhangam and Harihara Subramaniam on ghatam as his enhancement team. The concert was co-ordinated thanks to Mr Sastry, Founder, Sarada Fine Arts Academy, Bapatla.

While he was performing his main item for the day, Nagumomu on Aberi as per the request of the audience and just before the start of charanam rain started pouring and the concert had to

end abruptly being on the open grounds. A video link of the song Varavallaba http://tinyurl.com/hd54e

The song list performed is as follows:

01. Varnam - Mohanam _ Adi

02. Varavallaba - Hamsadwani - Adi

03. Sobillu - Jaganmohni - Rupakam

04. Entharomahanubhavulu - Sri - Adi

05. Guruleka - Gowrimanohari - Kanda Chappu

06. Niravathisukatha - Ravichandrika - Adi

07. Bramamokete

08. Deva Deva - Mayamalawagowla - Rupakam

09. Raguvamsasudha - Kadhanakudhukalam - Adi

10. Western notation based on natabhairavi

11. Nagumomu - Aberi - Adi

The President of the Mahila sabha wanted Sathya to perform Jagadho dharaka and Mohana Kalyani Thillana which request request could not be fulfilled due to rain., The entire crowd present was for once feeling bad the rains as it interupted SAthya's concert. Well this has probably given way for Sathya to perform here in the premises of Lord Venkateswara Temple again in the near future.

Sathya with a new team at Chennai July 06, 2006

Sathya today performed for a wedding reception in Chennai teaming with Smt Srilakshmi Venkatraman on violin, Sri B Sivaraman on mrudhangam and Sri E M Subramaniam on ghatam. It was agreat team work exhibited by this group and the audience enjoyed every minute of this 2 hour 15 mts concert.

A video clipping http://tinyurl.com/khma4

Sathya with Ganesh Prasad and J Vaidhyanathan - a new combination

Sathya today performed with a new team of Sri Ganesh Prasad on violin and Sri j Vaidhyanathan on mrudhangam (one of his favorite) and it was indeed a great concert fullfilling particularly for Sathya and his audio team of SK Audios who got the oppurtunity to place the audio system for Sathya's new keyboard. It was for a private concert in Chennai and well the audience enjoyed the concert so and so that one of them had video taken of the entire concert.

Sathya's concert schedule Jul'06.

05 Jul'06 Private concert in Chennai B U Ganesh Prasad -Violin
J Vaidhyanatahan - Mrudhangam

06 Jul'06 Private concert in Chennai Sri Lakshmi - Violin
B Sivaraman – Mrudhangam
E M Subramaniam - Ghatam

09 Jul'06 Private Concert - Chennai Ramakrishnan - Violin
Trivandrum Balaji - Mrudhangam

22 Jul'06 Public Concert – Guntur Gayathri Mahila Sangeetha Saba Madali - Guntur
To be advised - Violin
Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan - Mrudhangam
Harihara Subramaniam - Ghatam

23 Jul’06 Public Concert – Papatla Sarada Fine Arts Academy

To be advised - Violin
Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan - Mrudhangam
Harihara Subramaniam - Ghatam

Sathya in Zee News Channel on July 02, 2006

Sathya had a live interview with questions over the phone from Delhi and visual from Chennai in Zee News Channel today. The video link is here for you. http://tinyurl.com/k8ghc

Sathya at Neyveli Book Fair June 30, 2006

Sathya performed at the Neyveli Book Fair as part of Neyveli Lignite Corporation's Golden Jubilee Celebration on the inagural day on the June 30, 2006. He had Karaikal Venkatasubramaniam on violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on mrudhangam and Harihara Subramaniam on Ghatam.

Sathya played with such an ease with his new board for the 2nd time and he handled it as if he had performed for more than 100 times. May god shower the best for this child.

Video links for your viewing:

http://tinyurl.com/ftea5 and http://tinyurl.com/ee3hp

Sathya received his new board from Flute Maestro Dr N Ramani

It was indeed a great day for Sathya and family as Sathya received his new Keyboard - Korg TR Music Workstation, blessed from the hands of great Flute Maestro Sangeetha Kalanidhi Dr N Ramani. Sri Ramani was felicitated by Sri Vijayaraghavan, a leading Advocate. This was a concert organised by Ragatarngini, Mylapore a leading classical forum. It was so nice of Sri Flute Ramani sir to have accepted to have come and blessed Sathya amidst his busy schedule which showed his humility!

The video link of this concert clipping is http://tinyurl.com/kyhmd

Sri Ramani's blessings and the inspiration was stright away noticed what with Sathya starting off the concet with a crisp Arabi varnam in 3 speeds followed by a GNB's Hamsadvani krithi. This was followed by Oothukadu Venkatakavi's saptharathnam on ragam Naatai.

Sathya next item was on ragam Gowri Manohari with elobarate raga alapana and with good kalapana prayogams. B Anathankrishnan on violin gave an excellent coordination for sathya with great alapanas and commandable swara prayogas. It was a great enchansement for the cocnert with Trivandrum Balaji on mrudhangam and with Sri E M Subramaniam on ghatam. The team of 4 gave a great treat to the ears and the audience were really spell bound by their effort.

Sathya performed another GNB's krithi Srichakra raja nilaye on ragam Sivasakthi with brief alapana and a good kalpana swara. Periyasamy Thooran's Muruga Muruga on ragam Saveri brought out the capacity of the new board to play the nuances of carnatic with a rgam Saveri. This was followed by a Ragam Thanam Pallavi on ragam Lathangi with the words 'Kalaimagale varam arul purivai neeye Potri vangi thudhipom' set to Adi thalam and the percusion team gave an excellents sweet thani.

Sathya rounded of the concert with Radhasamedha Krishnan followed by Sri Lalgudi's Desh Thillana.

Sathya day with the new board has really given immense confidence to him and it is sure with this he would be going further up in his endeavor to perform to perfection. Isaai Mazhalai Sri Ramjhi, Ms Athira - violin artist thru her Father, Smt Parimala -Secy Ragatharangini and Mrs Jaya Srinivasan gave away gifts to Sathya for his excellent new innings started with his new board.

Thanks to Sri Palladam Venkataramana Rao's blessings, suggetion and encouragement to find the board to perfection, with this board it seems, Sathya has found a board almost matching to the expectations.

We thank everyone who had come today and blessed Sathya and request do drop to any of his future concerts and bless him.

Tks n brgds Krishnababu.

Sathya's performance for a private funtion June 28, 2006

Today Sathya performed for a private concert arranged by Shristi's Carnatica and it was indeed a well appreciative crowd which watche and encouraged Sathya. Sathya played carnatic, fi,lm and western numbers and the enhancement artsits for the day were Suri on Bass guitar, Sridar on Drums, Ravi Sankar on mrudhangam/vocal and Rajagopal on Tabla. His parents lent voice support.

Sathya played some melodeous film numbers which went well with a attentive audience which was appreciative of the idea of putting together all forms of music for a gathering of this nature.

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Sathya to get a new KORG

Sathya having a feel of a new Korg board, Thanks to his close rasikas.