About this Event
Sampradaya Dance Creations is delighted to host renowned Karnatik musician, T.M. Krishna for an afternoon of music and conversation at Sampradaya Theatre on April 6th at 3 pm. Join us for 75 minutes of unplugged music and interaction.
About the Artist
T.M. Krishna is one of the pre-eminent vocalists in the rigorous Karnatik tradition of India's classical music. His tutelage is in this form that originated in the southern peninsula of the subcontinent nearly five hundred years ago. His training has been under the distinguished gurus, B. Seetharama Sarma, Chengalpet Ranganathan, and Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, placing him in the highest reaches of that time-honored system. He has, at the same time, come to occupy a markedly distinct place in the Karnatik universe for the stunning individuality of his renditions, distinguished for an inner luminosity and a passionate intensity that are all his own. Krishna belongs to a tradition, but is not owned by it. His concert stage, whether in his hometown of Chennai or anywhere else in the world, is wholly classical but his concert practice is uncompromisingly his own.
As a public intellectual, Krishna speaks and writes about issues affecting the human condition and about matters cultural. He has started and is involved in many organizations whose work is spread across the whole spectrum of music and culture. He has co-authored "Voices Within: Carnatic Music – Passing on an Inheritance," a book dedicated to the greats of Karnatik music. His path-breaking book, "A Southern Music – The Karnatik Story," published by HarperCollins in 2013 was a first-of-its-kind philosophical, aesthetic, and socio-political exploration of Karnatik music. For this, he was awarded the 2014 Tata Literature Award for Best First Book in the non-fiction category.
His long-form essay "MS Understood," for The Caravan, was featured in The Caravan Book of Profiles, as one of their “twelve definitive profiles.” It has been translated into Tamil and published as a book ‘Katrinile Karainda Tuyar’ by Kalachuvadu Publications. His book "Reshaping Art," published by Aleph Book Company in 2018, asks important questions about how art is made, performed, and disseminated and addresses crucial issues of caste, class, and gender within society while exploring the contours of democracy, culture, and learning. His book "Sebastian and Sons," published by Context in 2020, traces the history of the mrdangam-maker and the mrdangam over the past century. It received the Tata Lit Live Award for the Best Non-Fiction book for the year 2020.
For the first time, T.M. Krishna’s key writings have been put together in this extraordinary collection titled, "The Spirit of Enquiry: Dissent as an Art From," which draws from his rich body of work. This is a collection that reflects the critical and cultural engagement of one of our finest thinkers, public intellectuals, and practitioners of art. His books, "Sebastian & Sons: A Brief History of Mrdangam Makers" and "A Southern Music - The Karnatik Story have been translated by D I Aravindan and published by Kalachuvadu Publications in April 2022.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sampradaya Dance Creations, 3250 Ridgeway Dr, Mississauga, Canada
CAD 25.00 to CAD 35.00