Dear Friends,
I gives me great pleasure to announce another great Carnatic vocal concert, happening this Friday, June 20th at 7:30pm. It has been an exciting season with many visitng artists from
India performing here in New York City.
We have the honor of presenting the legendary T.V. Gopalakrishnan
this Friday in Manhattan. We hope that you will join us for this
concert. Please see the details below and please spread the word to
make Carnatic music alive and strong in Manhattan.
Thank you,
Sonali Skandan
Carnatic vidwan
TV Gopalakrishnan in Concert
Friday, June 20, 2008 7:30 PM
The Arch
66 West 39th St.
New York, NY 10018
Tickets: $20 General Admission
For Ticket Reservations call The Arch at 212-924-0718
Accompanied by Arun Ramamurthy on Violin & A.R. Balaskandan on
Mridangam
presented by The Arch & Jiva Performing Arts
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A grand concert featuring the celebrated Carnatic musician T.V.
Gopalakrishnan will be presented by the Arch and Jiva Performing Arts
on Friday June 20, 2008 at the Arch Space in
Manhattan.
TV Gopalakrishnan is hailed as one of the leading Carnatic musicians
today. He is truly a total musician, having excelled not only in vocal
music and mridangam, but also instruments such as the violin, and
saxophone. TVG has performed in thousands of concerts in a career
spanning over 60 years and is a composer par excellence.
He takes credit for being the first vocalist who performed with equal
felicity both in Carnatic and Hindustani classical music. TVG has been
honored with a number of titles and awards from and abroad and has
brought a rich crop of disciples to prominence such as K.J.Yesudas,
Illayaraja, A.R. Rahman, Rajkumar Bharati, etc. besides a number of
others from abroad. TVG runs a
music
Academy in Chernnai, the
Academy of
Indian Music and Arts - Vidyaa Peetam.
He will be accompanied by Arun Ramaurthy on violin. Arun is a young
up and coming violinist who has trained originally with the esteemed
A. Ananthakrishnan. Later Arun got the good fortune to learn from the
celebrated violin brothers, Mysore Nagaraj and Mysore Manjunath. A.R.
Balaskandan will accompany on the mridangam. Balaskandan is a
versatile mridangist as well as violinist who hails from the renowned
Karaikudi R. Mani style of playing.