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Hails from the Rudrapatnam family of musicians;
born on October 4, 1966; son of Smt. Kusuma Krishnamurthy
& Shri. R.V.Krishnamurthy; grandson of the respected veteran
violinist Sangita Kalaratna Shri R.K.Venkatarama Shastry.
Had initial training in violin playing from Smt. Savitri Satyamurthy;
then had advanced training from his grandfather, Shri R.K.Venkatarama
Shastry. Presently receives guidance from Vidwan Shri V.V.Subrahmanyam.
Also had training in vocal music from Sangita Kalanidhi Shri
D.K.Jayaraman.
Received blessings and performed in the divine presence
of the Acharyas of Jagadguru Shri Shankaracharya Mahasamsthanam,
Dakshinamnaya Shri Sharada Peetam, Sringeri and Shri Kamakoti
Peetam, Kanchipuram.
Accompanied most of the senior musicians of the Carnatic music
firmament and has had the blessed and distinguished privilege
of accompanying in many concerts doyens such as Sangita Kalanidhi
Shri D.K.Jayaraman, Sangita Kalanidhi Smt. D.K. Pattammal,
Sangita Kalanidhi, Bharat Ratna Smt. M.S.Subbulakshmi, Sangita
Kalanidhi Shri K.V.Narayanaswamy, Sangita Kalanidhi Shri.
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Sangita Kalanidhi Smt.T.Brinda,
Sangita Kalanidhi Shri T.Vishwanathan & Padma Bhushan
Dr. S.Balachander.
Has also had the privilege of performing in the company of
veteran percussionists such as Sangita Kalanidhi Shri T.K.Murthy,
Vidwan Shri Vellore Ramabhadran, Vidwan Shri Palghat Raghu,
Vidwan Shri Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman, Vidwan Shri Trichy Shankaran,
Vidwan Shri Karaikudi Mani, Vidwan Shri Guruvayur Dorai, Vidwan
Shri V. Nagarajan, Vidwan Shri Palghat Sundaram and Vidwan
Shri T.H.Vinayakaram.
Performed for all the prestigious organizations
& festivals in India including Sadguru Shri Tyagaraja
Aradhana Festival, The Music Academy, Madras, Shanmukhananda
Sangita Sabha, Bombay, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi,
the ICCR, the ITC Sangeet Sammelan, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation,
the All India Radio and Doordarshan.
Performed at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi accompanying
Smt. Geeta Rajshekhar in 1988 and Padma Vibhushan Shri Semmangudi
Srinivasa Iyer in 1995 in the elitist presence of the then
Prime Minister of India Shri. Rajiv Gandhi and the then Presidents
of India, Shri. R.Venkataraman and Shri. Shankar Dayal Sharma.
Visited the USA, Australia, Canada, UK, Europe, Singapore,
Malaysia, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Muscat on concert tours
accompanying Smt Geeta Rajshekhar, Shri N.Vijay Siva, Shri
Sanjay Subrahmanyan, Shri K.V. Narayanaswamy, Shri S.Balachander,
Shri T.N.Seshagopalan, Shri N.Ravikiran and Shri P.Unnikrishnan.
Performed for the prestigious Theatre De la Ville at Paris
accompanying Shri Sanjay Subrahmanyan.
Released a recording of a solo recital and also has provided
violin accompaniment in various pre -recorded cassette and
compact disc recordings of Shri D.K.Jayaraman, Smt. M.S.Subbulakshmi,
Smt. D.K.Pattammal, Shri K.V.Narayanaswamy, Shri N.Vijay Siva,
Shri Sanjay Subrahmanyan, Shri P.Unnikrishnan and others.
Received many awards and prizes from premier institutions
such as The Music Academy, Madras. Recipient of the All India
Radio National Competition prize, the ‘Yuva Kala Bharati’
award from Bharat Kalachar, Madras and the Kalki Memorial
Award from the Kalki Krishnamurti Memorial Trust, Madras.
Graduate in Mathematics from the Madras University;
alumnus of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School
and Shri Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Madras.
Founding member and former treasurer of the Youth Association
for Classical Music, Madras and former committee member of
the Madras Chapter of SPICMACAY.
R.K.Shriramkumar
61, Tirumalai Pillai Road,
T. Nagar,
Chennai - 600 017.
Tel: 825 6552
Email: rksbala@vsnl.com
, rkshriramkumar@hotmail.com
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