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About the Artistes:
Shashank Subramanyam stormed into the music world
at the age of 12 with a stunning flute performance at The Music
Academy, Madras
in 1990. He happens to be the youngest
musician in the
history of South Indian Music to have performed the most prestigious
“SADAS”
concert at The Music Academy - Chennai, often performed by legends of
Indian
Music. Since then he has performed and
taught in most prestigious institutions across India and around the
world. Trained by father Subramanyam and
vocal
maestros R.K. Srikantan and Palghat K.V. Narayanaswami, he is presently
considered one of the best Bamboo Flute artists and is hailed so by the
Indian
and international media alike. With scintillating, primal tones he truly sings
through
the most organic and ancient of all instruments. His logic-defying
virtuosity
is the result of a magical innate talent coupled with the best possible
training. Shashank has propelled the Bamboo flute into
an
enviable position by his playing techniques of which “the multi flute
transposed fingering technique” and the dual octave production”” have
won him
world acclaim.
Now abiding at the pinnacle
of his genre, Shashank’s
landmark concerts include Rashtrapathi
Bhavan (The President's Palace at New Delhi), The
Smithsonian, Kennedy Center and National
Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C., J. Paul
Getty Hall -Hollywood, Cerritos Performing arts
center in Los
Angeles, Eastman School of Music -
Rochester, World Music Institute -
New York, Asian Art Museum -
San Francisco, Xebec Hall and Across
Fukuoka in Kobe and Fukuoka, Japan, Hong Kong Museum of Art - Hong
Kong, World Flute Conference - Nashville, Sawai gandharva Festival - Pune,
Saptak Festival - Ahmedabad, Dover Lane Music
festival - Calcutta, India Music Group - Bombay,
Theater De- La-Ville, UNESCO
& Musee Guimet in Paris -France, Tropical Institute - Amsterdam, The
Lowry in Manchester-UK, The Sage in
Gateshead - UK, Modigliani Hall -Padova-Italy,
Museum Rietberg -Zurich, The Munchen Residency in
Munich-Germany, The
Adelaide Festival- Australia, Improvisation
Festival in Lausanne- Switzerland, Seoul Plaza
in Seoul- Korea and
a host of other prestigious institutions across the world. The BBC World TV
recently telecast a documentary on Shashank titled
“Destination Music”.
Shashank
has collaborated with many legendary
musicians from India and around the world including Guitarist John
McLaughlin,
Tabla Maestro Zakir Hussain, Ustad Sultan Khan, Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt,
Pt.
Ajoy Chakraborthy, to name a few.
Shashank
was one of the youngest “A Top” ranking artistes on All India Radio and
Doordarshan TV. A recipient of the
“Kalaimamani” from the Tamil Nadu Government, Shashank has 33 CDs and 2
DVDs to
his credit. Shashank is currently taking Hindustani music lessons from
the
legendary vocalist Pt. Jasraj.
B.U.Ganesh
Prasad, a talented
disciple of the violin maestro V.V.Subramaniam caught the
imagination of music lovers at a tender age with his flawless bowing
and pure
tonal quality of his violin. An accomplished vocalist himself, he is
able to
vocalize his violin style with fluency .He combines his intuitive grasp
of
ragas with strict adherence to the tenets of the classical tradition
that
brings an individual flair to his renditions. Ganesh
is among the most sought after violinists in
India and his talent
has taken him world over for performances both as an accompanying and
solo
artiste. Music critiques often marvel at his ability to produce deep
sounds and
aesthetic values he cherishes most.
Ganesh Prasad has won many
awards & accolades from prestigious music organizations including
'The best
violinist of the season' from the Music Academy of Madras .He is a
recipient of
national scholarship for young artists and a National award winner of
All India
Radio.
Parupalli
Phalgun -
An
extremely talented and dynamic performer, Phalgun was trained from the
age of
five by the Late Radhakrishna Raju and later under his son M.L.N. Raju
of AIR
Vijayawada. Hailing from a family of great musicians such as Parupalli
Ramakrishnaiah Pantulu, the guru of vocal
Maestro M. Balamurali Krishna, has provided Mridangam and Khanjira
accompaniment to many stalwarts in the field of Carnatic music
including M.
Balamuralikrishna, Ravikiran, Shashank, Kumaresh & Ganesh,
Chitravina
Ravikiran, Sudha Raghunathan, Hyderabad Brothers, T.V.
Shankarnarayanan,
Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, etc in India and
abroad.
Phalgun has been a recipient of many awards and is an “A” grade artist
of the
All India Radio and Television. Phalgun’s name appears on scores of CDs
and
DVDs produced in India and abroad.
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