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Music is a gift.
I am a composer/performer specializing in Indian classical Carnatic music on saxophone, among other creative music.
Check here for real important news regarding my music as well as some fun stuff.
New releases and occasional free tracks will be posted here.
I live in the Bay Area with my wife and cat.
Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone, Anantha R. Krishnan on mridangam.
Ethavunara - Kalyani - Adi - Thyagaraja
Please join us for a wonderful day of activities Thursday, April 1 courtesy of the SADHANA foundation. Please buy tickets to support this full day of events. I will be participating in a panel discussion in the afternoon and VidyA will be performing in the evening after Srinivas Reddy and New Directions.
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Just got this link in my e-mail. Thanks to this student at SMU who wrote a brief article about our performance at SMU back in September featuring Patri Satish Kumar and Thiripunithura N. Radhakrishnan. It's nice to see a perspective of how the music made her feel rather than a song list and technical breakdown of ragas/talas etc. I was moved. A little excerpt:
The first song starts with Radhakrishnan on the saxophone, and it draws me in. I can feel all tension in the air start to melt away, leaving a sense of raw, unadulterated discovery hanging overhead. The man to the left of me closes his eyes, hums softly, and becomes enveloped in the music. As the percussionists enter the song, Radhakrishnan plays as if in a trance. He and his instrument are one and we as the audience witness a conversation between man and music. It is just extraordinary! There is really no way with words to describe the kind of communication between Radhakrishnan and the notes he is playing around him, or the way that it makes me feel.
The whole thing is at http://www.smu.edu/Meadows/NewsAndEvents/2009/090930-WorldMusic.aspx#
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Hi folks. It has been a great summer for VidyA playing concerts at San Jose Jazz, SFJazz and Yoshi's. Now we are doing a much more relaxed, and much longer appearance at the Cheeseboard co-op bakery in Berkeley.
Steve, one of the main folks at the co-op has told me that the pizza that they will serve that day will "change my life." So its probably best you don't miss the pizza August 15!We are doing 2 sets: Saturday, August 15, 11:45 am-2:45 pm and 4:45 pm to 7:45 pm. 6 hours of Indian-themed pizza and VidyA music!With guests Eric Vogler, Bass and Howard Wiley, Drums. It should be fun. Of course, its free.More info here:
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The VidyA concert hosted by SFJazz at Stanford was a blast! These photos are courtesy of a listener named Ron who was nice enough to approach me after the concert with copies.
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The VidyA concert hosted by SFJazz at Stanford was a blast!
These photos are courtesy of a listener named Ron who was nice enough to approach me after the concert with copies.
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Hi folks,
Thanks again for the amazing support at our Yoshi's concert. It was great. Now, we are giving a FREE concert at one of the really fun and prestigious jazz festivals in the Bay Area, SFJazz's Stanford series.
We are performing this Thursday, July 16 at 6:30pm at the Stanford Shopping center. It's outdoors. Join us!
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I also just finished an interview with Shri in his Stanford 90.1 FM radio show, Itsdiff. There might be some archives up soon at http://www.itsdiff.com/.
Also, if you haven't checked out the KPFA interview on Music of the World with Kutay Derin Kugay, check that out too.
See you soon!
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