Ghatam Giridhar Udupa (born 1980) (Kannada:ಘಟಮ್ ಗಿರಿಧರ್ ಉಡುಪ) is a leading percussionist from India.^[1] He plays the Ghatam, which is a percussion instrument used in South Indian Carnatic music. He is the son of acclaimed Mridangist Vidwan Ullur Nagendra Udupa. He has been critically acclaimed by the press, and has been compared with Ghatam legend Vikku Vinayakram.^[2] Udupa currently resides in Bangalore. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Kannada - aptly described as sirigannada (known to few as Kanarese) is one of the oldest Dravidian languages and is spoken in its various dialects by roughly 45 million people. ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ... T.H.Vinayakaram playing the Ghatam A ghatam is a percussion instrument, used in South Indian Carnatic music. ... A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ... South India is a geographic and linguistic-cultural region of India. ... Carnatic music is a style of Indian classical music. ... The mridangam is a percussion instrument from South India. ... Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. ... Press is a general term having a number of related meanings stemming from the original definition of pressing as the physical action of applying force: Things relating to Metalworking: Machine press, a machine that shapes material by the application of pressure; Flypress, a machine that cuts material by pressing with... T.H.Vinayakaram playing the Ghatam A ghatam is a percussion instrument, used in South Indian Carnatic music. ... A legend (Latin, legenda, things to be read) is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. ... Bangalore or BengalÅ«ru (Kannada: ; pronunciation: in Kannada and in English) is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. ...

Personal life

Ghatam Udupa was born in 1979 to Mridangam musician Vidur Ullur Udupa. He took to music at an early age of 4. Indeed, like his father, he also wanted to be a Mridangist and for a few early years, he did concentrate only on Mridangam, but a chance performance by Ghatam wizard Vikku Vinayakram caught his imagination and he took to the Ghatam as his primary instrument.^[1] Since then, he has performed with various Carnatic instruments. He holds a graduate degree for commerce from Bangalore University. Udupa also plays the Mridangam, Kanjira and Morsing. He also renders the Konnakol (syllable). This page refers to the year 1979. ... The mridangam is a percussion instrument from South India. ... Look up Graduate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Commerce is the trading of something of economic value such as goods, services, information or money between two or more entities. ... Bangalore University is a public university located in Bangalore, Karnataka State, India. ... The mridangam is a percussion instrument from South India. ... The ganjira or kanjira (or south Indian frame drum) is an instrument of the tambourine family. ... A Morsing is a percussion instrument, mainly used in Carnatic music concerts. ...

Tutelage

Ghatam Udupa took his basic education of percussion from his father Vidwan Ullur Udupa, who taught him such instruments as Mridangam and Kanjira. He is currently a student of Vidushi Ghatam Sukanya Ramgopal and Vidwan Ghatam V.Suresh.^[3]

Music career

Ghatam Udupa is well-known as an exponent of layered Carnatic music. He has performed with Indian classical music stalwarts such as Dr.L. Subramaniam, M.S. Gopalkrishna, Palghat Raghu, Ganesh and Kumaresh, Yesudas, Hyderabad Brothers and Mandolin Srinivas. However, apart from Carnatic music, Udupa also fusion, jazz, blues, flamenco, Celtic Music, Symphony Orchestra, World music and Jugalbandhi (Hindustani classical music) concerts. Ghatam Udupa has also played with Western musicians such as John Neptune, Lewis Pragasam, Virginia Mayhew and Alex Rostotsky.^[2] Carnatic music is a style of Indian classical music. ... The origins of Indian classical music, the classical music of India, can be found from the oldest of scriptures, part of the Hindu tradition, the Vedas. ... L. Subramaniam in action at a 2003 concert in Chennai. ... Ganesh and Kumaresh are a well known duo of violin players who are a part of the south indian carnatic music fraternity. ... Dr. Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born January 10, 1940), is a noted South Indian musician. ... U.Shrinivas U. Srinivas (also spelled U. Shrinivas; born February 28, 1969 in Palakol, in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh) is a musician in the Carnatic musical tradition of southern India. ... Fusion typically refers to the merging of two or more entities into a single one: In physics and technology nuclear fusion is the combination of two atomic nuclei into a single nucleus, usually the isotopes of hydrogen, Deuterium and Tritium. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ... Blues music redirects here. ... Bailaora(dancer) of Flamenco Belén Maya, photograph taken by Gilles Larrain at his studio, 2001 Flamenco is one of the great European nonacademic musical forms. ... Celtic music is a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Western Europe. ... This article is about the genre of classical music in the Western musical tradition. ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ... A jugalbandhi (also spelled jugalbandi) is a performance, in Indian classical music, featuring two solo musicians. ... Hindustani (हिन्दुस्तानी/ہندوستانی) Classical Music is an Indian classical music tradition that took shape in northern Indian subcontinent circa the 13th and 14th centuries AD in the courts of Delhi Sultanate[citation needed] from existing religious, folk, and theatrical performance practices. ... Western music is a broad category of music that includes all musical genres that use a 12-note chromatic scale, including Western classical music, rock and roll, and many other forms of popular music. ... John Kaizan Neptune John Kaizan Neptune (b. ...

Udupa is a founder Member of "Layatharanga", a team of Indian classical musicians who blend different forms of classical, folk and world music. He is also the core percussionist of the Celtic-fusion band "Nasha" that plays Celtic music fused rhythmically with Indian Percussions. The band's other members include Fabrice de Graef and Alain Genty. He is also a member of Poland-based Flamenco Band "Indialucia" featuring Miguel Czachowski, Jan Kubek and Adam Glosnicki. He has performed live on the Berlin radio and recorded CDs for a leading German audio recording company Autogram.^[3] The origins of Indian classical music, the classical music of India, can be found from the oldest of scriptures, part of the Hindu tradition, the Vedas. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ... Celtic music is a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Western Europe. ...

Ghatam Udupa has also performed with some of the leading names in the Indian Music Industry in many international music festivals in India and abroad. Some of the popular Indian musicians he has performed with, include Kavita Krishnamurthy, Pandit Jasraj, Keith Peters and Shivamani. He has recieved praise from such stalwarts of Indian music, as R.K. Srikantan, Raghu Palghat and Trichur Ramachandran. Indian music is: The music of India or Native American music This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Kavita Krishnamurthy is an Indian playback singer born Sharda Krishnamurthy in Delhi. ... Pandit Jasraj is a famous classical Indian singer, born in 1930. ... Shivamani 9848022338 is a 2003 Telugu film written and directed by Puri Jagannadh. ...

Ghatam Udupa has performed at the El Violin Global festival, La Coruna in Spain as the accompanying percussionist to L. Subramanian. He has toured the USA and Canada as well. Udupa has performed with musicians Ganesh and Kumaresh at International Music Festivals at Theatre de la ville and Theatre guimet, Paris. Udupa has also performed as a part of the Celtic band Nasha at the de Bouche a' Oreille International Festival, Parthenay. Among his state performances, he has performed on Indian percussions for Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Svenn Skipper at Oman Auditorium, Muscat. The grand concert was specially organized for 50 years of Indo-Oman diplomatic ties. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land... The words Celt and Celtic can have a variety of meanings. ... A classical music concert in the Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. ...

Other notable achievements

Apart from recieving critical acclaim for his instrumental abilities, Ghatam Udupa has also recieved many national honours and internatonal awards. He was conferred with title "Yuva Kala Bharati" by Bharath Kalachar, Chennai in 2004. Udupa was conferred the "Vijaya Kalashree" title in 1997. In a move which surprised many, he won the Aryabhata Award for the year 2000 at a young age of 20. He is the recipient of the Central Government Scholarship for ghatam from 2002. Chennai   (Tamil: ), formerly known as Madras  , is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu and is Indias fourth largest metropolitan city. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... ... Scholarship is the pursuit of academic research, whether in the arts and humanities or sciences, and in all such fields means deep mastery of a subject, often through study at institutions of higher education. ...

Besides the general honours, Ghatam Udupa has also won numerous "Best Percussionist" and "Best Ghatam Player" prizes. The most notable among them was the Ananya Yuva Puraskara he won for being the “Best percussionist of the year" in 2003. The Ananya Yuva Puraskara is a award specially conferred on the youth. He also won the "Best Ghatam Artist Award" from Gayana Samaja, Ganakala Parishat and Malleshwaram Sangeetha Sabha for the years 1992, 1996 and 1999 respectively. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Ghatam Udupa is also the first Indian percussionist to perform at the prestigious Krakow International Percussion Festival in 2005.^[2] This article needs cleanup. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

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External Links

• Official Website
• About Krakow Festival (Polish)
• Concert Review in The Hindu