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orn to late Sri Rama Murthy
Pantulu of the Pithapuram Estate Office and Smt. Vijayalakshmi
on 10th October 1927 at Kothapalli, Pithapuram Taluk, Andhra
Pradesh, INDIA. Sri Krishna Murthy bears deep musical heredity
through his mother and maternal uncle.
Sri Krishna Murthy joined the Maharajah's Music College at
Vizianagaram in the year 1940 and received his initial training
in Violin and Vocal from the Late Sri Dwaram Narasinga Rao
Naidu and has started giving Vocal Music performances since
1945. In 1949 he came under the influence of great master
SANGITA KALANIDHI - PADMABHUSHAN Dr. Sripada Pinakapani. Under
his guidance formed a style of his own, followed by many.
Sri Nedunuri is a 'TOP RANK' artiste in the A.I.R. and has
been performing in the Madras Music Academy for more than
five decades continuously, since 1951. Nedunuri is well known
as one of the front rank artiste all over India and abroad.
Sri Krishna Murthy worked in the government as Principal
of G.V.R Govt. College of Music & Dance, Vijayawada, Govt.
College of Music & Dance, Secunderabad, M.R. Govt. College
of Music & Dance, Vizianagaram and also worked on deputation
at Sri Venkateswara College of Music & Dance, Tirupati.
Nedunuri retired from government service in 1985.
Sri Krishna Murthy was the Dean of Faculty of the Fine Arts
and also the Chairman of Board of Studies in Music of Sri
Venkateswara and Nagarjuna Universities. He is a Member of
The Carnatic Music Audition Board of All India Radio and also
a Member of Experts Committee of the Madras Music Academy.
Sri Krishna Murthy has been appointed as 'Asthana Vidwan'
of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams(T.T.D) in recognition of
his valuable services rendered for popularizing the compositions
of the great composer Sri Annamacharya. T.T.D has released
two cassettes of his renderings of Annamacharya's compositions.
Nedunuri has established a trust by name 'Nadasudha Tarangini'
with the aim of preserving and popularizing the traditional
values of Carnatic Music for posterity. Under the auspices
of 'Nadasudha Tarangini' three volumes of Annamayya Pada Sourabham
consisting of 108 Annamacharya compositions (set to tune by
Nedunuri) with notation have been published. These Publications
were partly funded by T.T.D., Tirupati, AP, INDIA, Sri Annamacharya
Project of North America (SAPNA), and Sri Venkateswara Swamy
Devasthanam of Mysore. Further, three audio cassettes were
also released with the sponsorship of Smt. Sridevi Rangaraj
(Chicago, U.S.A) and Smt. Jyotsna Potaraju and Sreedhar Potaraju
(Potomac, U.S.A). 'Annamacharya Padartha Prakasika' a treatise
giving the quintessence in Telugu, of the 108 compositions
of Annamayya tuned by Nedunuri was the latest release by Nada
Sudha Tarangini in April 2002.
Sri Nedunuri released a CD in 1995 with the sponsorship of
Sri Garimella Ramarao, USA. He also released one CD in 2000,
rendering the compositions of Annamacharya. A second CD of
Annamacharya's compositions was released in 2002, with the
special financial grant from the Dept. of Tourism and Culture,
Govt. of India.
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