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Starting their 26th twelvemonth with celebrations, Suswaralaya College of Music is hosting concerts, performances and different events this week, opening with its yearly euphony awards ceremony.
“This year, we are honouring veena vidwan Geetha Ramanand with the elder grant Swaralayashrunga for her immense publication to music,” says HS Sudhindra, main and managing trustee of Suswaralya.
Geetha, a erstwhile enforcement astatine Akashvani, has directed galore euphony programmes and mentored hundreds of students who are performers today. “Apart from presenting lecture demonstrations, Geetha has besides been a proponent of the veena, an instrumentality that was dilatory being edged retired aft the instauration of the violin astatine concerts,” says Sudhindra, who is simply a renowned mridangist is his ain right.
Suswaralaya College of Music volition bestow the Swaralayarathna grant connected mridangist and vocal artiste Kanchana A Ishwara Bhat. “Ishwara Bhat is not conscionable a vocalist, but performs connected the mridanga arsenic well. He has been teaching and propagating some forms to arsenic galore arsenic 300 students successful the Udupi and Dakshin Kannada parts of the state,” says Sudhindra.
Senior mridanga artistes M Vasudev Rao, Srimushnam V Raja Rao and Rajyothsava awardee SN Omkar volition beryllium conferring the titles connected the recipients connected October 24. This volition beryllium followed by a show presented by the awardees aboriginal successful the evening.
Musician Kanchana A Ishwara Bhat | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
According to Sudhindra, the three-day lawsuit comprises lec-dems connected the ‘Vijaya Yatra of Tyagaraja Swami’ by Srikrishnan V and the ‘Relevance of Haridasa Compositions’ by Justice V Srishananda, arsenic good a Laya Vinyasa connected the 5th Mela Tala Maanavathi, a Tala Vadhya and a Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi followed by Kolluru Vandana’s evening vocal performance connected October 25.
“This year, we person representations from Andhra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, that see a mother-and-son morsing duet by Bhagyalakshmi M Krishna and KM Likhith, and a vocal performance by D Raghava Chary of the Hyderabad Brothers connected October 26,” says Sudhindra.
Musical outreach
The Suswaralaya College of Music not lone functions arsenic an institute to larn music, but besides gives students a instauration successful the domain of their choice. “We assistance funny students scope retired to institutions specified arsenic the Centre for Cultural Resource and Training (CCRT) to further their learning, support them informed connected State authorities scholarships, and assistance them get their grading astatine All India Radio,” says Sudhindra.
Suswaralaya brought retired the Directory of Musicians and Danseuses (Karnataka) about 20 years agone with much than 3,000 listings, and isolated from regular updates, it has also devised a aesculapian assistance strategy for deserving musicians successful distress. Over the past 25 years, the institute has released implicit 20 CDs and arsenic galore books related to Carnatic music.
“From the time I was being trained successful percussion arsenic a teenager, both my gurus M Vasudev Rao and Srimushnam Raja Rao, have taught maine to scope beyond euphony to see societal work for music, musicians and society. “‘Use your hands and dependable for percussion and music, and your bosom for philanthropy to execute a cleanable balance,’ they ever reminded me,” says Sudhindra, who has been performing for the past 4 decades.
Suswaralaya College of Music’s day celebrations volition beryllium held from October 24 to 26 astatine the Indian Institute of World Culture. Open to all. Call 94480 59595 for details.
