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I am a composer/performer specializing in Indian classical Carnatic music on saxophone, among other creative music.
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VidyA Live at UCSB. Paavana Guru.
Here is a live track for you -- a more relaxed version of the Carnatic classic krithi Paavana Guru. We recently performed at the UC Santa Barbara Multicultural Center February 26, 2011.
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Enjoy.
Oh, and here's a little clip of our drive down from the Bay Area. It actually started snowing -- or maybe hailing. An uncommon occurence.
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VidyA: Ascent remixed...live
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Red Poppy concert 4/23/10
Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone, Anantha R. Krishnan on mridangam.
Ethavunara - Kalyani - Adi - ThyagarajaHiranmayeem Lakshmi - Lalita - Rupakam - Dikshitar
Adamodi - Charukesi - Adi - Thyagaraja
intermission
Ellara Krishna - Kambodhi - Rupakam - Thyagaraja
RTP - Lathangi - Misrachapu
Thillana - Shankarabaranam - Tisra Adi - Ponnia Pillai
Bhagyadhe Lakshmi - Madhyamavati - Adi - Purandaradasa
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VidyA at SADHANA conference, Julia Morgan Hall and more
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.
Here is the program below and link here http://www.sadhanafoundation.org/conference.html:
First Annual SADHANA Conference 2010
Tradition as Innovation - South Asian Classical Music in the Next Decade
UC Berkeley and The Julia Morgan - Berkeley, CA, April 1, 2010
LECTURE & DISCUSSIONÂ -Â Townsend Center, Gabelle Room - 1pm-3:30pm
         Welcome - Alexander von Rospatt, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies
         Opening Remarks - Srinivas Reddy, UC Berkeley/SADHANA Foundation
CHATUR PANDIT MEMORIAL LECTURE -Â Pandit Partha Chatterjee
          "South Asian Classical Music in the 20th Century - A Practitioner's Perspective"
Panel Discussion - moderated by Partha Chatterjee and Srinivas Reddy
          Gautam Tejas Ganeshan (Sangati Center)
          Prasant Radhakrishnan (Vidya)
          Sameer Gupta (Namaskar)
FILM SCREENINGÂ - The Julia Morgan, 5pm-7:30pm
          "That Which Colors the Mind" - Pt. Nikhil Banerjee documentary
         A Conversation with filmmaker Steven Baigel
PERFORMANCEÂ - The Julia Morgan, 8pm-10:30pm
         Introduction - "Listening to South Asian Classical Music"
          Sitar and Tabla - Srinivas Reddy and Michael Lewis
          New Directions - Gautam Tejas Ganeshan and Anantha R. Krishnan
          VidyA - Prasant Radhakrishnan, Sameer Gupta and David Ewell
Tradition as Innovation - South Asian Classical Music in the Next Decade
UC Berkeley and The Julia Morgan - Berkeley, CA, April 1, 2010
LECTURE & DISCUSSIONÂ -Â Townsend Center, Gabelle Room - 1pm-3:30pm
         Welcome - Alexander von Rospatt, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies
         Opening Remarks - Srinivas Reddy, UC Berkeley/SADHANA Foundation
CHATUR PANDIT MEMORIAL LECTURE -Â Pandit Partha Chatterjee
          "South Asian Classical Music in the 20th Century - A Practitioner's Perspective"
Panel Discussion - moderated by Partha Chatterjee and Srinivas Reddy
          Gautam Tejas Ganeshan (Sangati Center)
          Prasant Radhakrishnan (Vidya)
          Sameer Gupta (Namaskar)
FILM SCREENINGÂ - The Julia Morgan, 5pm-7:30pm
          "That Which Colors the Mind" - Pt. Nikhil Banerjee documentary
         A Conversation with filmmaker Steven Baigel
PERFORMANCEÂ - The Julia Morgan, 8pm-10:30pm
         Introduction - "Listening to South Asian Classical Music"
          Sitar and Tabla - Srinivas Reddy and Michael Lewis
          New Directions - Gautam Tejas Ganeshan and Anantha R. Krishnan
          VidyA - Prasant Radhakrishnan, Sameer Gupta and David Ewell
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A review of our SMU concert
via smu.edu
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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VidyA at Cheeseboard August 15 for India Independence fun!
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:
P.S. We are doing a concert September 11 at De Young Museum as part of Jazz at the Intersection series. More on that soon. Mark your calendars!
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VidyA at SFJazz Stanford Photos
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.
Thanks, Ron!
Prasant Radhakrishnan: Saxophone
David Ewell: Bass
Sameer Gupta: Drums.
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