Sid Sriram travelled to Singapore to perform a concert at the Mandala festival of the famous Sri Sivan temple, after Kumbabishekam. He may have had to take a call on the character of the concert, ...

For decades, our city has quietly nurtured an eclectic but deeply committed community of classical musicians — artistes who ...

Having grown up on, and studied Carnatic music in Mumbai, Shanker Krishnan discovered a new and a different world, once he was at the University of California, Berkeley (for a course in applied ...

While Hindustani music began to change due to external influences, Carnatic music continued to develop along the same path as before. Sri Vidyaranya (1320–80), the Shankaracharya of Sringeri Sharada ...

At 11, Sandeep Narayan took a flight from California to Chennai to learn Carnatic music. Such a decision was unheard of in the 90s. To explore his roots, Narayan left the lure of the West behind, and ...

Born into a family that breathes Carnatic music, the melodious cadences of ragas seeped into USA-based Indian-American composer Shanker Krishnan’s system quite early in life. The legendary vocalist ...

For 35 years, O.S. Arun has been a professional singer of Carnatic music, a classical genre popular in South India. It's an embellished form of singing frequently backed by the tanpura, a long-necked, ...