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Biography | Mysore A Chandan Kumar

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Biography

MUSICAL LINEAGE

Mysore A Chandan Kumar hails from a family of great musical heritage.He is the great grandson of the legendary violinist,Sangeetha Kalanidhi,Sangeetha Ratna late Mysore Sri T.Chowdaiah(1895-1967),who was a celebrated carnatic icon of south India.Sri Chowdaiah was known for his mind blowing performances as an accompanist to great stalwarts of his times and a successful solo artiste as well.As a mark of respect the Government of India has initiated an award in the name of the violin wizard to outstanding senior artistes of the country.The government of Karnataka has honoured the great soul by building an auditorium in the shape of violin ,which is found no where in the world .Hence,Chandan Kumar was inherited to music from childhood and could pursue from the very environment at home.


GURUS

Chandan Kumar learnt the art of Flute playing from his revered Guru Sri M.Gopalakrishna.Chandan is also seeking guidance under Padmabhushan Sri P.S.Narayana Swamy of Chennai.

MUSICAL JOURNEY

Chandan was directly promoted from B Grade to A by the audition board of All India Radio in the year 1999.Chandan performed the prestigious Akashavani Sangeeth Sammelan before an invited audience at Vijayanagaram,Andhra Pradesh during the Year 2008.He has also performed in the South Zone hook up program on the Doodarshan.

The main characteristics of Chandan's virile style are powerful blow, soul-moving melody and refreshing creativity all resting on rigour. His innovative mind is ever in quest of new horizons and fresh expositions. Thus each of his concerts has rightly earned the epithet "a singing flutist". When he develops any musical composition(vaggeyakriti) a discerning listener can 'hear' the text syllable by syllable. It is called gayaki style. He is also technically skilled to knit himself in Jugalbandhi concerts with prominent hindusthani artistes and also leads in prestigious percussion ensembles, which makes his rendering Versatile.

Chandan’s concerts and interviews have been telecasted in the Doordarshan,the BBC,Radio Munich(Germany) and in many popular TV Channels of south India including Jaya TV,Kalignar TV,Asianet,Amrutha TV,Bhakthi Channel,MAA TV,Zee Kannada,SVBC-TTD Channel,ETV,TV9 and others.

Chandan has performed in esteem platforms of the country and abroad.To name a few;The Music Academy(Madras),Sangeet Natak Academy(New Delhi),Kerala Kalamandaam,Sruthilaya Centre(Hyderabad),Bharathiya

Vidya Bhavan(Kolkata),The Darbar Hall(Mysore Palace),Sri Krishna Gana Sabha(Chennai),Rasika Ranjani Sabha(Trichy),Sri Thyagarajaswamy Samadhi(Tiruvaiyyaru),The Department of Culture(Ravindra Bharathi,Hyderabad),Bhaktha Rasika Ranjani Sabha(Mumbai),Shanmukhananda Sabha(Mumbai),Nadabrahmam-The India Habitat Centre(New Delhi),Sri Swathi Tirunal Sangeetha Sabha(Trivandrum),The Bangalore Gayana Samaj,Karnataka Ganakala Parishat(Banlagore),Udupi Sri Krishna Temple for Krishna Janmastami,333rd Aradhana of Sri Sri Sri Raghavendra Swamigalu at Mantralayam,60th Birth Celebrations of His Holiness Sri Sri Bharathi Theerta Swamiji at Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetam,Sri Guruvayur Sri Krishna Temple Festival,Sri Chidambaram Nataraja Temple for Shivarathri,Sri Lakshminaraya Global Festival conducted by Padmabhushan Sri L.Subramaniam,South Indian Music Academy(Los Angeles),Nadabrahma(Germany,Switzerland,Luxemburg),

The Civic Centre of Kuala Lumpur(Malaysia),Darbar South Asian Arts Festival(London),SPIC MACAY-State conventions,SPIC MACAY- Virasat and others .

TOURS OVERSEAS

Chandan has toured Malaysia,the United States of America,United Kingdom,Germany,Switzerland,Luxemburg and Mexico.

Chandan toured Malysia with His Holiness Sri Ganapathi Sacchidanada Swamiji for a thematic concert “Music for Healing and Meditation” held at the prestigious Civic Centre of Kuala Lumpur in the year 2001.Violin Wizard Padmabhushan Dr.L.Subramaniam also performed with Pujya Sri Swamiji.

Chandan had an unique honour of being the first carnatic musician to perform conventional carnatic concert at the Darbar South Asian Arts Festival held at London during April-2007.This concert was recorded and broadcasted on the BBC Radio along with stalwarts like Begum Parveen Sultana and Sri Vishwamohan Bhatt.

Chandan was invited by several American Universities to educate ,interact and perform Carnatic Classical Music among American University students.To name a few important ones,John Hopkins University(Washington),The Mary Washington University(Maryland),University of Athens(Georgia),University of Ohio and many others.

ASSOCIATIONS

Chandan Kumar is an empanelled artiste of various premier organizations of the country.He is empanelled by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations(ICCR) where Artistes are sent as cultural ambassadors of the country to different continents/countries across the globe.Chandan had that privilege of being invited by the ICCR to perform at the 39th Cervantino International Arts Festival held at the prestigious venues of Mexico.

Chandan is also an empaneled Artiste of SPIC MACAY(SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND ARTS AMONGST YOUTH,NEW DELHI).Chandan often performs at reputed universities and institutions to educate and popularize Indian classical music exclusively amongst the Youth.He has performed in various State conventions,Curtain Raisors and Virasat of the SPICMACAY Ventures

IMPARTING KNOWLEDGE

Apart from a full time performing schedules,chandan has also dedicated himself to impart his musical knowledge to many young aspirants.Few of his students are full fledge concert players and few are in the edge to climb the concert dais.Master

Prayuth .N and Sri C.Gaurishankar are few of Chandan Kumar’s disciples who are pursuing music on platforms and teaching as well.

Chandan’s lecture demonstrations and educative concert sessions for SPIC MACAY have been well received by large mass of Youngsters across the country.

NADASANGAMITHRA: A rare combination of Flute-Sitar-Mridangam and Ghatam featuring Sri Chandan,Pandit Rahul Chatterji,Vidwan Culcutta V.Shekar and Vidwan Chennai V.Suresh respectively.This unique Jugalbandhi album was released by Cosmic India Private Limited.

HERITAGE: A Solo Flute album featuring Chandan Kumar with Sri Mysore M.Nagaraj(Violin),Sri Tumkur B.Ravishankar(Mridangam) and Sri Tumkur B.Shashishankar(Ghatam).This pre-recording was released as a tribute to Chandan’s spiritual inspiration Sri Chowdaiah.

SIMA: The South Indian Music Academy of Los Angeles has released a full length live concert recording of Chandan Kumar in 3 sets in the year 2009.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Chandan Kumar holds a master degree in commerce from the University of Mysore.