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List Of Indian Violinists
There are two styles of violin playing in India: the Carnatic music, Carnatic and the Hindustani classical music, Hindustani. Carnatic violinists such as Malaikkottai Govindaswamy Pillai, Tirukkodikaval Krishna Iyer and Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu performed concerts as early as the 1900. Indian violinists today such as Manoj George, L. Shankar, Balabhaskar have successfully adapted the Western culture#Music, Western music style of playing the violin and have been performing concerts outside of India. Violinists such as N. Rajam and Sangeeta Shankar are highly accomplished international performers in the Hindustani style. Violinists such as T.N. Krishnan, A. Kanyakumari, H.K. Venkatram and Mysore brothers have remained Carnatic classical violinists and have yet been able to reach out to audiences outside of India. Also, artists such as Jyotsna Srikanth, L. Subramaniam, Ambi Subramaniam, and Roopa Revathi have satisfactorily managed to perform both Carnatic and Western music on the vio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnatic Music
Carnatic music, known as or in the South Indian languages, is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and Sri Lanka. It is one of two main subgenres of Indian classical music that evolved from ancient Hindu Texts and traditions, particularly the Samaveda. The other subgenre being Hindustani music, which emerged as a distinct form because of Persian or Islamic influences from Northern India. The main emphasis in Carnatic music is on vocal music; most compositions are written to be sung, and even when played on instruments, they are meant to be performed in ''gāyaki'' (singing) style. Although there are stylistic differences, the basic elements of (the relative musical pitch), (the musical sound of a single note), (the mode or melodic formulæ), and (the rhythmic cycles) form the foundation of improvisation and composition in both Carnatic and Hindustani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gagan Chandra Chatterjee
Gagan Chandra Chatterjee was a North Indian classical violinist of the Senia Gharana who is known for inventing the ''gatkari'' style of North Indian classical violin. Early life and training Gagan Chandra Chatterjee was born in Allahabad on 1890. He learnt Hindustani classical music on sarod from the Senia gharana master Ustad Keramatullah Khan. However, he chose a different instrument for expressing the music he learnt. He could accurately play the ''gatkari'' styles of sitar and sarod on the violin and spent the rest of his life with this instrument. He also learnt from Lachhmandas Munimji, a well-known harmonium player, and Pran Krishna Chattopadhyay, a well-known dhrupad singer. Career Gagan Chandra Chatterjee played extensively in music conferences of his time. He recorded a few classical tracks accompanied by piano in which he is credited as 'G.C. Chatterjee'. Style Prior to him, Hindustani classical violinists used to play by mimicking vocal Hindustani classical mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embar Kannan
Embar S. Kannan is a violinist in the fields of Carnatic Music and Tamil Film Music. Trained in Carnatic as well as Western Classical methods, he is a Grade 'A top' artist of the All India Radio and is universally acclaimed as a soloist and an accompanist. Carnatic music career Born in a family of great musicians to Sangeetha Bhooshanam Sri Embar Sadagopan, Kannan took to playing the violin at the age of six. His initial training in Carnatic music was with Sri Subbanna Bhagavathar and Sri Vittal Ramamurthy. In 1986 he received a talent scholarship from the Government of India and earned a place under the mentorship of Kum. A. Kanyakumari. Shortly thereafter he received the Yuva Kala Bharathi from Bharat Kalachar and the ‘Best Violinist Award’ from the Madras Music Academy for eight consecutive years. Over the course of his Carnatic career he has accompanied many leading artists such as T. V. Sankaranarayanan, Trichur Ramachandran, T. N. Seshagopalan, Sudha Raghunathan, Kad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao
Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao () (15 June 1924 – 24 July 2000) was famous Violinist and son of legendary Padmasri Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu. He is born to Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu and Venkata Jaggayyamma on 15 June 1924 at Bapatla. He is married to Gummuluri Varadamma. He was educated in Chennai. He was trained by his father, and the late Prof. P. Sambamurthy. He has worked as Principal of Maharajah's Government College of Music and Dance at Vizianagaram from 1962 to 1973. He has also worked as Principal of Government Music College at Vijayawada. He has translated the Brihaddeshi of Matanga Muni, Chaturdandi Prakasika of Pandit Venkatamakhi and Dattilam of Dattila Muni into Telugu language and published it. He was also translated some of the music theory books but they were not in print. He died of Cardiac arrest at his residence in Visakhapatnam on 24 July 2000. He was 76 years of age and is survived by wife, three sons and two daughters. Honours He was the recipient of Andhr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delhi P
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions. The NCT covers an area of . According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, while the NCT's population was about 16.8 million. Delhi's urban agglomeration, which includes the satellite cities of Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Noida in an area known as the National Capital Region (NCR), has an estimated population of over 28 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in India and the second-largest in the world (after Tokyo). The topography of the medieval fort Purana Qila on the banks of the river Yamuna matches the literary description of the citadel Indraprastha in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'', also known by its abbreviation ''TOI'', is an Indian English language, English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is an Indian "newspaper of record". Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (B.C.C.L.), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harikumar Sivan
Harikumar may refer to: *Harikumar (actor), actor in Tamil movies *Hari Kumar (director), Indian film script writer and director in Malayalam movies *E. Harikumar, Malayalam novelist and short story writer * N. Harikumar, sound editor and recordist known for his works in Malayalam films *Harikumar Pallathadka, social activist *Hari Kumar Audichya Hari Kumar Audichya (14 August 1930 – 17 September 2014) was an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Rajasthan. He was a member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Kota Kota or KOTA may refer to: People and languages *Kōt ..., Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Rajasthan * Harikumar Madhavan Nair, Indian film audiographer and sound designer {{disambiguation, hndis, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrol Corelli
Arrol Corelli is an Indian music composer. He made his debut in the Tamil film '' Pisaasu'' (2014) directed by Mysskin and produced by director Bala's B Studios. Early life and career Arrol Corelli was born and brought up in Maraimalainagar near Chennai in a middle-class family. He started learning Indian classical violin at the age of five under Shri. Ravi Kumar and later on under Kumari A. Kanyakumari. At a very young age, he started performing in various concerts across south India, winning prizes in competitions held at The Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha and Mylapore Fine Arts etc. He started learning Western classical piano at the age of ten from the Trinity College of Music, London. He did his schooling at Shri Anand Jain Vidhyala, Tambaram and became a qualified Chartered Accountant in the year 2008. He approached film director Mysskin who hired him to score the music for '' Pisaasu'' produced by director Bala. As Arul is not an uncommon name, Mysskin also suggeste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhijith P
Abhijith (born 30 July 1963) is an Indian actor, singer, producer and director working in Kannada cinema, Kannada films. Starting his career as an actor in the late 1980s, he went on to act in many films through the 1990s and 2000s. He mainly played lead roles and villains in the 1990s and some supporting roles as well. Career Abhijith started his career in the late 1980s playing small roles in feature films. It was the 1990 release, ''College Hero'', that made him a successful villain of the Kannada film industry. He played villains even after being a successful hero in films such as ''Muddina Maava'', ''One Man Army'', and ''Vairi''. Abhijith has acted in more than 150 films in the Kannada film industry. As director Abhijith's first directorial venture, ''Jodi No. 1'', was a suspense and action movie, and the second one was ''Vishnu'' which had led to controversy with the title. As producer Abhijith has produced films under the banner Shree Balaji Creations. Playbac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravikiran 33A
Narasimhan Ravikiran (born 12 February 1967) is an Indian slide instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, and orator, who created the concept of melharmony. He is the son of gottuvadhyam player Chitravina Narasimhan and the grandson of Narayan Iyengar, who was also a Carnatic music, Carnatic musician. Early life Ravikiran was born in Mysore, Karnataka. He made his first appearance at the age of two, in April and again in August 1969, in Bangalore, and was interviewed by Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Pandit Ravi Shankar, M S Subbulakshmi and Flute T R Mahalingam. He also performed at the XLIII Madras Music Conference held at The Madras Music Academy in December 1969, and was awarded a scholarship from the academy. He was able to identify about 325 ragas (melodic scales) and 175 talas (rhythmic cycles) of Carnatic music. Ravi Shankar is said to have declared "If you don't believe in God, look at Ravikiran". Soon after, he was presented at leading institutions such as Shanmukhananda Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
