Saturday, May 21, 2011

INDIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA




I am writing this to share with you the joy of starting something new and exciting called the Indian National Orchestra for the first time in India.
Indian music is known world wide for its sophistication in expression, its melodic subtlety and the freedom of improvisation within the scientific boundaries of grammar.
Several Indian musicians have reached international acclaim and have become a musical sensation in the past and the present.
It is surprising though, that in spite of all of this, there is no comprehensive team called THE INDIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA consisting of performing musicians in their prime both from North and South India who can jointly perform Indian Music together and represent India in a national or international event.
This initiative of mine the INO (Indian National Orchestra) has been formed in the year 2011 with the continued ideas and enthusiasm of my friend Girishh Gopalakrishnan, a gen X music director to give its very first performance in Chennai on the 25th of June 2011 at the Sri Krishna Gana Sabha. This will be followed by subsequent performances of the INO in all the major cities of India and abroad.
The INO 2011 will consist of extraordinary talents from pan India covering both North Indian and South Indian classical music forms. This combined collaboration would present what can be called as SHASTRIYA SANGEETH, which is both Carnatic and Hindustani music, but with a contemporary feel. Hence the music presented by INO will truly reflect India, as it is today---diverse in texture and variety, but united in spirit and purpose!
It brings together about 22 artists from both North and South Indian classical music on a common platform. The INO would try and showcase the best of Indian music at national and international level and also seek to acheive unity among Indians through music.

Who is part of INO?
22 artists, 15 different instruments/talents, but one common purpose!
Listed below are the Artistes of INO 2011 (In no particular order):
Veena – Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh
Voice – Abhishek Raghuram
Arrangement – Girishh Gopalakrishnan
Violin – Akkarai Subbulakshmi
Akkarai Sornalatha
Charulatha Ramanujam
Flute – Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar
Naveen Iyer
Sarangi – Murad Ali
Sitar – Rafeeq Khan
Shafeeq Khan
Nadaswaram – Sri Lakshman and group
Thavil - Raja
Mridangam – Patri Satish Kumar
Neyveli Narayanan
Ghatam – Dr.S.Kathick
Kanjeera – Guruprasanna
Tabla – Uday Raj karpoor
Special percussion – Pramath Kiran
Veena artists – Ambarish Amaravadi and Ramya Raghavan

12 comments:

Mim said...

Akka,

This is terrific! I hope it all comes together like you have envisioned, and have no doubt that it will be a tremendous success, just like everything you do! Wish I could be there for the first performance.

Rajesh said...

Dear Akka,

Vazhga Valamudan !

No doubt this will be a huge success and it will create enough waves in the Indian Music.

Vazhga INO :-)

Regards
Rajesh

Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam said...

Very exciting! Best wishes.

Silent Sensations said...

Am excited Akka!
This sounds simply great! The concept and idea are novel too... Need to talk to you about this for my pozhappu akka!
Will call morrow!
Love!

Durga said...

Dear Jayanthi ji

Concept of INO is great. Hope this work may be unique and reflect great Indian Classical music and unlike Fusion work of Rajesh Vaidya.

I wish this experiment a grand success every where in the globe.

Regards
Durga Prasad

Leadership Team said...

The program was great!!.. thanks for the marvelous treat ;)

http://dilpu.blogspot.com/2011/06/indian-national-orchestra-classical.html

lucid_madhu said...

I attended the inaugural performance at Krishna Gana Sabha on Saturday, the 25th of June. Thank you for a flawless performance.

Jayanthi Kumaresh said...
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Jayanthi Kumaresh said...

Thanks everyone for contributing to the success of this event. With gods grace we will take it all over the world...do visit www.indiannationalorchestra.com

Nandhitha said...

Dear Akka,

This is an exciting idea. All the very best for all the performances. Please keep the spirits high, as always. Do keep us posted on the concerts. Best wishes :-)

Nandhitha

Unknown said...

Jayanthi ji. I was STUNNED by the performance! I could only hear the 'reethigowlai' segment completely. I am frantically searching fot some kind of records of the performance on web. I am desperate for them. can you please share the link with us?

Unknown said...

hi... thanks for sharing the post.i love music,without music life would be a mistake.sankar is one of the best singers in bangalore and my favorite too.if you people want to enjoy music apart of your problems just go to his shows,damn sure you will like it ...