Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Jayateertha Mevundi - Dhwani 2008

Pt. Jayateertha Mevundi performed at JSS Auditorium Bengaluru as a part of Dhwani 2008 - 5th BKF Mallikarjun Mansur Music Festival, organized by Bangalore Kidney Foundation, on 21-Sep-08. He is accompanied on the tabla by Sri. Gurucharan Garud and on the Harmonium by Dr. Ravindra Katoti.

1. Raag Puriya2. Raag Shahana Kanada

3. Thumri

4. Kannada Bhajan (Purandara Daasa)

Shruti Sadolikar - Dhwani 2008

Smt. Shruti Sadolikar performed at JSS Auditorium Bengaluru as a part of Dhwani 2008 - 5th BKF Mallikarjun Mansur Music Festival, organized by Bangalore Kidney Foundation, on 20-Sep-08. She is accompanied on the tabla by Sri. Vishwanath Nakod and on the Harmonium by Sri. Vyasmurthy Katti.

1. Raag Maru Bihag

2. Raag Kaunsi Kanada


3. Thumri (Bhairavi)

Shruti Sadolikar

Shruti Sādolikar (Shruti Sādolikar-Kātkar) is a classical music singer of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharānā.

Shruti hails from Mahārāshtra. At her early age, she started learning classical music from her father, Pandit Wāmanrāo Sādolikar, who was a disciple of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana founder, Ustad Alladiya Khan, and his son Ustad Bhurji Khan. Shruti then trained for twelve more years under Ustad Gullubhāi Jasdanwāllā, who was renowned for his repository of rare compositions and complex Ragas of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharānā. Shruti continues to learn from Ustad Bhurji Khan's son Ustad Azizuddin Khan. (More here, including a couple of audio clips)

Jayateertha Mevundi


Jayateerth Mevundi hails from the land of great vocalists and maestros of Hindustani Classical Music, like Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Dr. (Mrs.) Gangubai Hangal, Pt. Mallikarjun Mansur, Pt. Basavraj Rajguru and Pt. Kumar Gandharva and so on. Born in the year 1972, Jayateerth, according to many connoisseurs and critics of Hindustani Classical Music, is considered to be a torchbearer of Kirana Gharana.

Jayateerth received his initial training in music under the tutelage of Sangeet Ratna Pt. Arjunsa Nakod of Gwalior Gharana for about 10 years. Since the year 1994 on wards he has been receiving musical lessons under the able guidance of Pt. Shripati Padegar, who is a disciple of great vocalist of this country, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi of Kirana Gharana.