Chitravina Kala Praveena award conferred on Ravikiran
The Federation of Sabhas, under the auspices of Brahma Gana Sabha, felicitated Chitravina N Ravikiran on his fifty-year musical journey, on Sunday.
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Ravikiran has over 800 compositions with over 750 classicalcompositions to his credit in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Sanskrit and Hindistarting from geetams to krtis, varnams , swara-krtis , padams , javalis ,tillanas and more. Besides recently setting a record by tuning 1,333 verses ofTirukkural in 16 hours, Ravikiran has also set tunes to several other workslike Tiruppugazh and Nachiyar Tirumozhi. He is also a celebrated teacher ofmusic, tutoring students in many countries.
A combination of traditional guru-sishya way and moderntechnology is nurturing traditional musical talent of young Indians in US. Atthe forefront of this style of teaching is Chtravina N Ravikiran, whose sishyaSanjay Suresh’s debut concert on the violin was held at Brahma Gana Sabha onSunday, as part of Aadi Isai Vizha.
A resident of Madison, Wisconsin, US, Sanjay has beenlearning from Ravikiran from the time he was nine years old. Ravikiran uses the‘Slip Teaching Methodology” (STM), whereby students can learn at their pace. “Heused to visit Madison for two weeks at a stretch and train students directly.He would also post video lessons on his website. He would follow this up withmasterclasses. STM also allows students an opportunity to learn on their own,which is also essential for learning music,” says Vanitha Suresh, Sanjay’smother, who works as an IT professional in Madison and also runs a musicschool. A number of Indian students are leveraging their interest in classicalmusic by availing of STM and other methodologies, she adds.
Apart from a solo concert, Sanjay was also in concert withSikkil Gurucharan, Mannargudi Easwaran (mridangam) and BS Purushottaman on thekanjira.
The Federation of Sabhas honoured Ravikiran with theChitravina Kala Praveena award.
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