Shri Ramani Thiagarajan (born 1962) is an Indian musician.
He is the son of the Carnatic flutist
N. Ramani. Ramani Thiagarajan is a
musician
A musician is someone who Composer, composes, Conducting, conducts, or Performing arts#Performers, performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general Terminology, term used to designate a person who fol ...
who performs with a number of instruments, including the
flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...
, the
violin
The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
, and several Indian classical music instruments such as Kanjira and Clarinet. Sri Thiagarajan has passed with distinction and won the first prize in the
Post-Graduate Diploma in Music "Sangeetha Alamkar" (equivalent to an
M.A. Music) from the ''
Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya'', the premier Indian Institution of Music.
Thiagarajan has been awarded Top Rank in All India Radio & Doordharshan Kendra (Government Radio & TV).
Thiagarajan has performed over 4,000 concerts all over the world. He has accompanied the
Palghat Mani Iyer,
M. S. Gopalakrishnan,
Umayalpuram Sivaraman,
T. N. Krishnan,
Palghat Raghu,
V. V. Subramaniam, among others, on the flute.
He has also accompanied many performers on the violin, including his father
N. Ramani,
D. K. Jayaraman
Damal Krishnaswamy Jayaraman (popularly known as DKJ), the renowned brother of D. K. Pattammal, was a professional Carnatic music singer. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1990.
After learning music from his sist ...
, and
U. Srinivas. He has also a large student following in India.
In addition, he has accompanied on the violin and flute for all forms of classical dances of India. He recently taught music at the
Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society.
Thiagarajan is also an excellent Kanjira player and has accompanied many concerts on Kanjira.
External links
Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society
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1962 births
Living people
Indian flautists
Carnatic instrumentalists