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Lecture Demonstration on Mridangam
MITHAS and MIT Swara Present Lecture Demonstration on Mridangam by
Rohan Krishnamurthy Saturday, October 6, 2007 - 6 PM, Wong Auditorium, MIT Admission: FREE
Q & A to follow after the lecture
Acclaimed an "international performer and promoter" of the South Indian drum, the mridangam, by USA Today, Rohan Krishnamurthy is today considered a young musical ambassador in the Indian music scene. Having initially received training with Damodaran Srinivasan over a telephonic setup in the US and continuing advanced training from the leading mridangam maestro Guruvayur Dorai in India, Rohan has performed in hundreds of concerts in North America and India since the age of nine with leading Indian musicians, that includes maestros like Padmabhushan T.N. Krishnan.
He has been performing for ten consecutive years at the celebrated December Music Season in Chennai, India and has spearheaded numerous cross-musical ventures with well-known symphony orchestras, jazz ensembles, and world percussionists. Recently, he presented a weeklong performance of "Echoes," a novel concerto for mridangam and string orchestra, with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, an event that attracted nearly 13,000 schoolchildren from across Michigan. "Echoes" has since been programmed by several professional orchestras in the US.
Rohan has presented numerous Indian percussion summer camps, workshops, academic lecture-demonstrations, and ambassadorial events throughout the US and India, and is the recipient of several awards, including USA Today's "All-College Academic Second Team," "Yuva Kala Bharathi" by Bharat Kalachar (Chennai, India), Best Mridangist by Partha Sarathy Swamy Sabha, Chennai, Kashyap Award by Nadlaya Chennai, Lilian Pringle Baldauf Award for Music, USA and "Prodigy in Performing Arts" by the Indo-American Center in New York City.
An innovator, Rohan has redesigned the ancient mridangam to make it more user-friendly and durable. His work resulted in a publication in the premier music journal, Percussive Notes, last year. The design will be patented and commercially available by next year.
Rohan's multifaceted accomplishments earned him a one-on-one meeting and performance for the President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam, in july this year at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The President commented, "You an expert in your field and are doing wonderful things to bridge cultures through music. You have a very bright future!"
This fall, Rohan will be a fourth-year Heyl Foundation Scholar at Kalamazoo College double majoring in music and chemistry.
Date: 10/06/2007
Location: MIT Wong Auditorium E51 Tang Center MIT 70 Memorial Dr Cambridge, MA
Time: 6:00 pm
Organized By: MIT-Swara and MITHAS
Cost: Free
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