Tripunithura N. Radhakrishnan
Tripunithura N. Radhakrishnan is a Ghatam exponent from Kerala, India. He is the first artist to receive the noted Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Fellowship for Ghatam. He has played the Ghatam in tens of thousands of venues across hundreds of countries. Biography N. Radhakrishnan is the youngest of four children of Alamelu Ammal and Poonithura Valiya Parambu Meethil house G. Narayanaswamy, a renowned musician fondly called as ''Achasamy'' by the people in music field in the region. It was his father who taught him the first lessons in mridangam. Thrippunithura Mahadevan, the son of his father's sister, was a Ghatam scholar. Many of the relatives were also percussion instrument artists. He started practicing the Ghatam from a young age, and made his debut at the age of ten. Later he got expert training from Parassala Ravi and his cousin Padmabhushan T. V. Gopalakrishnan. He passed ''Gana Bhushan'' from RLV College of Music and Fine Arts, Thripunithura in 1982. Then he passed '' ...
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Carnatic Music
Carnatic music, known as or in the Dravidian languages, South Indian languages, is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and Sri Lanka. It is one of two main subgenres of Indian classical music that evolved from ancient Hindu Texts and traditions, particularly the Samaveda. The other subgenre being Hindustani music, which emerged as a distinct form because of Persian or Islamic influences from Northern India. The main emphasis in Carnatic music is on vocal music; most compositions are written to be sung, and even when played on instruments, they are meant to be performed in ''gāyaki'' (singing) style. Although there are stylistic differences, the basic elements of (the relative musical pitch), (the musical sound of a single note), (the mode or melodic formulæ), and (the rhythmic cycles) form the foundation of improvisation and composition in both Carnati ...
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