Carnatic concert - 12th April in Chennai for a private function

Sathya & family takes this oppurtunity to thank one and all for pouring wishes vide emails and telephone calls for the "Sahana Saral" track from Sivaji.

Today it was a different Sathya on stage with B Ananthakrishnan on violin Sri Neyveli Narayanan on mrudhangam and J Sowrirajan on Kanjeera & Morsing. Sathya stared the concert with Mohana varnam and performed a 2 and half hour concert which had the audience spellbound.

One of the audience wanted a krithi in Karaharapriya and Sathya used the raga for the kalpana swara ragamalika in the main number - Karpagame - Madhyamavathy. This made the person who requested very happy. The knowledgeble audience also aprreciated Sathya for his music composition on 6 Thirukurals which he performed as a trial version. This is to be staged on the 14th April'07 in a concert for Brahma Gana Sabha at Pethachi Auditorium in his music ensemble. The concert was enriched and enchansed by the sheer presence of a senior artist in Sri Neyveli Narayanan and it was indeed a great experience interms concert presentation for Sathya.

This is Sathya's favorite song from Sivaji for which A R Rehman has composed great music. He just heard it buying the original cd album, and have played it with his Yamaha 640 for rhythm and KORG TR for melody.

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A private concert in Chennai on the 8th April'07

It was indeed a good gathering for which Sathya performed with his team of Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan - Mrudhnagam, Sowrirajan - Kanjeera & Morsing and Harihara Subramaniam - Ghatam gave a pleasant evening, as said by the audienace. It was also nice to know that there were people enquiring about forthcoming trip of Sathya to DOHA.

The team gave a great presentation and were offered a concert during first week of June'07. H/ever Sathya has made holiday plans to got to Varanasi & Nepal during that period. The gathering had knowledgeble audience and the team enjoyed every krithi performed. Sathya had lots of request and had performed many including Manirangu ragam and Rahuvamsa requested by Sri Ramamurthy who had co-ordinated this concert.

Concert for Sri Rama Baktha Samajam - Chrompet 6th April'07

It has been a long pending request of Sri Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan for Sathya to perform in this forum and the oppurtunity was there on the 6th April with himself on Mrudhangam teaming with Villiwakkam Raghuraman on the violin and HariharaSubramaniam on the ghatam.

Starting with Mohan Varnam Sathya presented a good concert and he was blessed with the presence of Sri Kothandaraman, a senior vidwan and teacher on keyboard & Harmoniam. Sri Chrompet Suresh, a mrudhangam artist had organised this concert and appreciated Sathya for his improvised presentation. The list of songs of performed as follws:

01. Varnam - Mohanam - Adi
02. Mahaganapathim - Naatai - Ekkam (Ragam & Swaram)
03. Seethamma - Vasantha - Rupakam (RAgam & Swaram) audience choice
04. Ithinyayama - Malavi - Adi
05. Brovabaramma
06. Krishna Nee Begane - Yaman Kalyan (Ragam & krithi)
07. Theliyaledhu Rama - Dhenuka - Adi
08. Jagadhodharaka - Kaapi - Adi (Ragam & krithi)
09. Vasudevayeni - Kalyani - Adi (Ragam, Swaram with Thani)
10. Bo Sambo - Revathy - Adi
11. Kuraionrum Illai - Raagamalika - Adi
12. Raghupathy Raghava - Namavali

Concert at Sri Mukkur Swamy's Ashram 05 April, 2007

It was indeed a great experience for Sathya's family to be performing at the Temple premises of Sri Yagyamyrthy Lakshminarasimha sannadhi of Sri Mukkur Swamigal Ashram on the 5th April'07. It was just a feeling of presenting exclusively for the Gods and Sathya attempted to perform Nannupalimpa on Mohanam with ragamalika kalpanaswaram on ragam Bowli for the first time. With the grace of Sri Yagyamurthy it came out well. It is a day which i cannot forget as i sang a song composed by myself, on the avathara of Sri Narasimha and the birth of Prahaladha.

The credits for arranging this concert should go to Ananthakrishnan as it was he who had suggested Sathya to perform, while he was asked to perform a solo by his uncle. It was so nice of Sri Calcutta Karhick - Student of Sri Umayalpuram Sivaraman, to have enhanced this concert.

Kindly get to see the small video clipping http://tinyurl.com/2foz6j taken at the premises where the concert was held and if you feel you may please contact them at:

Sri Swathi Narasimha Maha Yagna Trust (ct person Mr Aravamudhan)

New No 34 Venkatesan Street

T Nagar Chennai - 600 017.

Phone: 044 24353704

I am pleased to give below a protion of the email sent by Sri Srikanth Venkatesan sumahema@gmail.com who had attended this concert and sent a mail to Sathya the same evening.

Qte:

Let me tell about myself. I am music lover and have been hearing music since my childhood. Music is my past time.

Today you took my memory back to my younger days.Few inner feeling I just want to share with you as It stikes me.First,I recalled Sri U Srinivas(Mandolin) who came to our Sesha sayee Paper Mill colony,Erode in the year 1986 for a concert arranged by Sesha gana sabha.He was very young at that time.I Knew he is going to become one of the greatest exponent of mandolin that day itself. Same Feeling I got yesterday when i saw you playing the same.

Secondly,When I heard the Ragam Kalandihi played by you it reminded me of Sri G S Mani mama at erode way back in 1988 at Erode again at sesha gana sabha .Your expression and the bhava and the nuances was so great that it recalled me of mani mama. When you can bring about such an expressions at this age, your expressions will only move to a higher plane as you advance.

Not only that, many of your today's songs reminded me of the all time greats in the field of music. Like ,Bhavayami gopalabalam recalled me MS amma, your mohanam ragam and Yam kalyani recalled me Santhanam mama and Kanya Akka. Finally,What a way to end with Kurai ondrum illai and more so at a place where really the truth lies. and I have no doubt in my mind that your musical journey will be blessed by Lord Nrisimha.

unqte.

Private concert on the 4th April'07

Sathya teamed up with Melakaveri Balaji on violin, Trivandrum Balaji on Mrudhangam and Anirudh Athereya on the KAnjeera for the first time and performed for a private function on the 4th April in Chennai. It was an audience who paid keen attention and this gave great enthusiaism to the artist which brought out the best for the day in them.

The songs performed probably went well with the requirement of the audience that there was great appreciation from every one and it looked as though it was a Sabha concert. The list included : Gumganapathim, Swaminatha Paripalayam, Sriman Narayanan, Narayana, Entharo Mahanubhavulo, Utsava smabradhaya krithis, Manasancharare, Marugelara, Old film song medley, Bavayami Gopala, SAmaja Varagamana, Brahmamokate, Bo sambo and the carnatic medley.

A memorable concert on the 30th Mar'07 350th of Sathya

This is one of the mile stone concert for Sathya being his 350th. Performing this concert at the Sri Baktha Anjeneyar Temple, 7th Avenue, Ashoknagar is in itself a great blessing for Sathya. The team of Villiwakkam Raghuraman - Violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan - Mrudhangam, Hariharasubramaniam - Ghatam and Rajagopal - Table along with Sathya gave a good concert which went very well with the audience expectation.

Sathya tried Yochana - Dharbar raga krithi for the first time time and with the grace of Sri anjaneya it came out very well. The song list is as follows:

01. Varnam - Mohanam - Adi

02. Vathapi - Hamsadwani - Adi (with kalpana Swaram)

03. Seethamma - Vasantha - Rupakam(Ragam & Swaram)

04. Manavyalakim - Nalinakanthi - Adi (Krithi with Swaram)

05. Raghuvamsasudha - Kadhanakudhukulam - Adi

06. Yochana - Dharbar - Adi

07. Theeradha Vilayatu pillai - Ragamalika

08. Niravathy Sukatha

09. Alaipayudhey - Kanada - Adi (ragam, Krithi & Swaram)

10. Srichararaja Simhasaneswari - Raagamalika(audience request)

11. Bo Sambo - Revathy - Adi

12. Sankarabaranam notes

13. Mythrim Bajatha

14. Janaki Ramana - Kaapi - Adi

15. Kuraionrum Illai - Ragamalika - Adi

16. Raghupathy Raghava Rajaram - Namavali

A good performance for Karpagam Gardens Sath Sangam, Adyar, Chennai 29th Mar'07

Review of the concert of Sathya on the 29th Mar'07 for Karpagam Garden Sath Sang written by Sri Sethuraman Ph: 24914880 & Sri Ganapathy Raman Ph. 24914221:

A scintilating performance on the keyboard was given by Master K Sathyanarayanan on Thursday 29th Mar'07 at Sri Karpaga Vinayagar Temple, Karpagam Gardens, Adyar, Chennai - 20 on the occasion of the temple's Sri Rama Navami Celebrations. Sathya was accompanied on the violin by Sri L. Ramakrishnan, on the Mrudhangam by Sri Arjun Ganesh and on Ghatam by Sri Harihara Subramaniam.

Right from Vasantha Varnam till the end with the bhajan Raghupathy Raghava Rajaram, Sathyanarayanan enlightened the knowledgeable audience throughout particularly in Sri Raga PancharathnaKrithi of Thyagaraja, Ragasudharasa in Andolika, Buntureethikolu in Hamsanatham and the main item 'Koluvamaragatha' in Thodi. Sathyanarayanan's manodharma in rendering the raga alapana and kalpana swaras was indeed superb. Ithinyama in malavi was presented in the right tempo and time just after the pancharathnam. Sathya played the audience request of a krithi in Sindhubhairavi.

Violinist Ramakrishnan's vidwath is remarkable. So also were Arjun Ganesh on the mrudhangam and Hariharasubramaniam on ghatam and the percussion team carried special applause for the excellent thani rendered. The audience only grew in number from the start to the finish and were very knowledgeable & appreciative.

The list of songs performed are:

01. Varnam - Vasantha - Adi

02. Vinayakaninnu - Hamsadwani - Adi (raga outline, krithi & Kalpanaswaram)

03. Ramanannu Brovare - Harikambodhi - Rupakam

04. Entharomahanubhavulu - Sri - Adi

05. Ithinyayama - Malavi - Adi

06. Ragasudharasa - Andolika - Adi (Ragam & Kalpanaswaram)

07. Krishnanee Begane - Yaman Kalyan - Misra Chaapu

08. Buntureethikolu - Hamsanadam - Adi (Krithi & kalpanaswaram)

09. Koluvamaragatha - Thodi - Adi (Ragam & Kalpanaswaram)

10. Vandhanamu - Sahana - Adi

11. Sai Bhajan - Revathy - Ekkam

12. Venkatachalanilayam - Sindhubhairavi - Adi

13. Lalgudi Sir's thillana - Desh - Adi

14. Raghupathi Raghava Rajaram

Concert on the 7th Mar'07

This was a concert very near to Sathya's residence and infact for the first time he travelled by hisbike to perform a full fledged solo concert. The team of Sri Ananthapadmanabha on violi, Sri Kumbakonam Saravanan on mrudhangam and Papanasam Sethuraman on Kanjeera did a wonderful enhancement to make this concert a great success.

Sathya performed a medley of old tamil songs which included lines from the songs

1. Mannavan vandhanadi 2. Masilanilave nam 3. Maraindhirundhu parkum marmam enna 4. Mullai malar mele and 5. Manamagale manamagale va va and the audeince cheered the team with a great applause after this medley. Sathya also performed a audience request of Nadha dhanu manusum on Chitharanjani which was very much appreciated.

Log on to http://keyboardsathya.blogspot.com for the concert dtls on 10th & 11 th mar'07

Private Concert on 6th Mar'03

It was indeed a hectic time last week with back to back concerts from 5-7th and also on 10th and 11th. This concert which was a for a family settled in Bangalore was performed with Sri Ananthakrishnan on the violin, Sri Trivandrum Balaji on mrudhangam and Sri EM Subramaniam on the ghatam.

It was also interesting to note that the bridegroom's family was related to a leading artist and it was indeed a honour for Sathya to ahve performed this concert. The highlight of the concert was the utsava smabradhayakrithis learnt from his thaatha that evening and the medley he performed which were much appreciated by the audience.

Sathya's grandfather Sri Embar S Sadagopan was also present and this made the concert more a memorable one for Sathya.

Sathya at - Govt. Music College. A different home coming for Sathya's mother

It was indeed a great in the life of Sathya's mother as she was witnessing her own son perform as a lead artist in the college she studied for their music festival on the 5th Mar'07. The concert was well attended and the Govt. Music College had given a great oppurtunity for Sathya to team up with Sri Melakaveri Thyagarajan on Violin (first time with Sathya), Sri Melakaveri Balaji on Mrudhangam, Sri K.V. Gopalakrishnan on Kanjeera and Sri Madipakkam A Murali on the Ghatam (first time with Sathya).

Sri Pakirisamy, Principal of the college spoke very high of Sathya's ability and praised his efforts to bring in the nuances of our traditional form of music & his layam. He also spoke well of teh team members in particular Sri Melakaveri Thyagarajan and Sri Balaji for theri great presentation. Sri Gopalakrishnan and Sri Murali were pointed out to have the true enhancement part for the success of the concert.

The lsit of songs rendered during the day is as follows:

01. Anname - Varanam - Arabi - Adi

02. Varanamuka - Hamsadwani - Rupakam

03. Thaye thrupurasundari - Suddha Saveri - Kanda chaappu

04. Samana rahithe - Sarangatharangini - Rupakam

05. Krishnanee Begane - Yaman Kalyan - Misra Chaappu

06. Devi neeye thunai - Keerawani - Adi

07. Katrinile varum geetham - A MSS favourate

08. Chinanchirukiliye - Ragamalika

09. Sri Lalgudi's thillana - Desh - Adi

GNB Krithis performed by Sathya on Keyboard

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Performance in the team heArtbeat - 25th Feb’07.

Sathya was happy to perform in Ghatam Karthick’s heArtbeat for a private concert in Trichy after his solo concert at Kumbakonam. While Sathya is happy to perform with anybody this day performing with his uncle Embar S Kannan he was only too happy.

Concert for Janaranjani Sabha, Kumbakonam 24th Feb’07

Mr Gopalan, Secy was not expecting a big crowd on this day the 24th Feb’07 as there were many activities taking part for audience participation including the episode of Kalakapovadhu Yaaru for a TV Channel. How ever god was kind to Sathya with a good turn out of audience for his concert which he started with an Athi thala Mallari in Gambeera Naatai, as wished by Mr Gopalan.

Sathya was having Sri Poongulam Subramaniam as his enhancement artiste on Mrudhangam with B. Ananthakrishnan on Violin. It was indeed a great rendition of Vaathapi by Sathya with Poongulam Subramaniam’s percussion. The entire concert was filled with great energy. Ananthakrishnan exhibited his proves during the alapanas, kalpanaswaras and gave a perfect enhancement during the krithis.

Mr Gopalan was so happy that Sathya had the turnout of large audience in spite of a busy day and the song list for the day was as follows:

01. Mallari Gambeera Naatai Adi
02. Vaathapi Ganapathim Hamsadwani Adi (R, N, KS)
03. Nadhaloludai Kalayanavasantham Rupakam (R)
04. Entharomahanubhavulu Sri Adi
05. Deva Deva Mayamalavagowla Rupakam (N & KS)
06. Vitajalathura Janaranjani Adi
07. Marivere Anandhabhairavi Misrachappu
08. Chinnanchiru kiliye Ragamalika Thisra nadai Ekam
09. Marubalka Sriranjani Adi (R, KS & Thani)
10. Om Namonarayanan Karnaranjani Kandachaappu
11. Sankarabaranam Notes Sankarabaranam Adi Thisra Nadai
12. Bo Sambo Revathy Adi
13. Thillana Jonpuri Adi
14. Mangalam.

R - Raga alapana N - Niraval KS - Kalpana Swara Thani - Percussion solo

Chennai Sangamam Concert on 23rd Fe'07 Back to back concert for teh third day

The concept of “Chennai Sangamam” is surely a great success and who ever masterminded this project should be appreciated. In the days of all the sabhas complaining about the low attendance this concept would definitely boost and initiate the people to attend concerts from now on. Yes this has really shown a new way of spending time usefully for people who probably thought music was not their preference against movies and TV channel.

The audience present for this morning concert did imply this and Sathya presented an audience friendly concerts with almost all popular numbers. The reason was to make even people hearing / attending concert first time to get interest and lure them to attend more such concerts.

B Ananthakrishnan on Violin and Kumbakonam Swaminathan on Mrudhangam gave an excellent enhancement and the team did achieve what probably the organizers of “Chennai Sangamam” wanted namely creating interest to the mass.

Fusion Music under Chitraveena Sri Ravikiran 22.02.07

It was indeed a great recognition extended once again by Sri Ravikiran to have Sathya as one of his team member for the Fusion concept concert rendered for “Chennai Sangamam” at Mada Veedhai, Mylapore in front of Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple (Main Gopuram).

Sri Ravikiran leading the team of Sri K.V. Prasad on Mrudhangam, Sow. Akkarai Subulakshmi on violin, Smt Anuradha Pal on the Tabla (the only women tabla artiste in the world as introduced by the organizer) and Sathya gave an excellent concert.

The concert was presented in a manner that even a novice / first time listener of our traditional form of music relished and enjoyed. Well this is the motive of the concept “Chennai Sangamam” and the artist to the caliber of Sri Ravikiran did extend his full support with this concert.

Starting the concert with his own compositions 1. Cold coffee on ragam Kaapi and 2. Moon flowers on ragam Suryagantham, Sri Ravikiran performed the ever melodious ragam Kadhanakudhugalam. Sri Ravikiran gave a great exposure to Sathya during the raga alapana of Suryagantham in which he brought out the nuances of Carnatic music on the keyboard by guiding Sathya to play the phrases he performed on the Chitra Veena. The audience was very appreciative and this will go a long way to register the arrival of Keyboard in the Carnatic music forum. He also gave ample opportunity to Sow. Akkarai Subbulakshmi to showcase her talents. Sri K V Prasad & Smt Anuradha Pal’s’s excellent accompaniment on the Mrudhangam added flavor and so was the thani avarthanam.

Sri Ravikiran then completed the concert with a Bharathiar’s composition Aasai Marandhu Poche in ragam Jonpuri, The large audience enjoyed every moment of the concert and so did our Chief Ministers wife and the Smt Kanimozhi with her family. A blessed opportunity & experience for Sathya once again to be performing with Sri Ravikiran’s team.

Upanayanam cocnert for TamilNadu Champion

It was a concert for the upanayanam of Master Shashank S. Yogesh who is the State Table Tennis (under -10) Champion. The team of Anathakrishnan on violin, Arjun Ganesh on mrudhangam and Harihara Sharma on Kanjeera (first time he is performing with Sathya) got appreciation from the well attended and knowledgeble audience. Sri Charukesi - a leading msuic critic introduced Sathya to the audience and Sri Bagyam Ramasamy (the writer of famous Seethapatti & Appuswamy thatha) the grandfather of Mstr Shashank appriciated and blessed Sathya for his bright future.

Jugalbandhi on Keyboard - Brahma Gana Sabha 20th Feb'07

It is indeed for the first time ever this concept was happening. Thanks to the thought of Sri A Natarajan, former Director Doordharshan Madras, who had this idea and staged it for Brahma Gana Sabha on 20th Feb'07 at Narada Gana Sabha. Yes, a Jugalbandhi on keyboard - may be a lighter subject today but indeed a history was created with Carnatic on Keyboard Sathya and Hindustani on Keyboard Adithi joined together and performed a show.

With Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam and Ganesh Rao on Tabla the team of 4 gave a good presentation which had a august gathering with Padmashree Sri Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti and Sri Natarajan to name a few. There were also artists, press and rasikas and a sincere thanks to each one of the audience who had turned up here.

Starting with Hamsadwani raga alapana the duo of Sathya and Adithi gave a brief alapana in thier own style of music and then after playing the pallavi of Vaathapi Ganapathim went on to explore their kalpanai for the swara elaboration.

It was then a individual session with Sathya performing detailed raga - Nagumomu on Aberi followed with swaram which was uplauded by one and all. Adithi took up Beemplas the similar colour of raga and made alapana and played gat with kalapanaswaram receiving appriciation from all.

Then the duo took up Hindolam - Malkouns combination as the main to play a popular phrase. Both gave a great presentation of the raga alapana and exhibited their manodharma. Both Suriyanarayanan and Ganesh Rao gave excellent enhancement with their style of playing their instruments and also gave a crisp thani.

The concert concluded with a brief expansion of Desh raag aalapana followed by Vandhey Matharam. It was indeed a great presentation by the team considering the fact that the team rehersed for just 2 hours due to paucity of time. I think we can look forward to more such concerts in future.

"Beethovan Re-incarnated Award"- by Rotasia to Sathya

It was indeed a great surprise to us on the 16th Feb'07 evening when we were informed by the ROTASIA organizer that Sathya is to be given an award under the title of "Beethovan Re-incarnated Award". Rotasia also honoured Mstr Siddharth Nagarajan and Ms Athira Krishna with award titled Master of Percussion and Princess of String respectively on the same day.

All the three awardees gave a performance for almost an hour and it was a great evening for the audience. While Siddharth made every one dance to his foot tapping rhythm solo Sathya & Athira mesmorized the crowd with their masterly own compositions. The result of the Trio's success came out in the form of Sri AVM Balasubrmaniam - AVM Studios, coming forward to offer his studio time free of cost for the trio to make a project. Kudos to the Trio of Sathya, Siddharth and Athira.

Concert for Hamsadwani - 16th Feb'07

Sathya performed at Hamsadwani on the 16th Feb'07 dedicating the concert to the Late Sri S V Krishnan, Nadha Inbam.

Sathya was teamed up with Sri Villiwakkam Raghuraman on violin and Sri Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhangam. Starting off with Hamsadwani varnam Sathya then played Varasiddhi vinayaka on ragam Kaanada with a brief alapana and a crisp kalpana sawra. He then had an elaborate alapana of Saranga tharangini for the Krithi Samanarahithe followed by kalpana swaram.

Sathya's next krithi was a swara jathi in ragam Bhairavi set to Misra thalam. An elaboration of alapana for Sankarabaranam by both Sathya and Raghuraman was well applauded and so for the crisp thani performed by Suriyanarayanan on the mrudhangamfor this number. Sathya concluded the concert with Paras thilana. The concert had a decent attendence at around 515 pm itself with over 50 people which raised to almost 250 - 275 persons.

Everyone present appreciated and informed that there has been a remarkable improvement on Sathya's presentation. This is due to gainining experience and also with new handling techniques for the new KORG TR board which he started using it from the 1st Aug'06. Sri Ramachandran, Secy. Hamsadwani, spoke well about Sathya's efforts in playing carnatic on keyboard and also announced about his recent awards namely "Aasthana Vidwan of Sri Kalahasthi" and the Rotasia award which he received late in the evening titled "Beethovan Re-incarnated Award"