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Vidwan R.S. Ramakanth |
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Rudrapatnam Srikantan Ramakanth hails from a distinguished family of musicians, familiarly known as R.K. Family
from the village of Rudrapatna in Hassan district of Karnataka.
He took to Carnatic music at a very tender age of eight
and his initial training in music was from his distinguished musician-father Sri. R.K. Srikantan,
a well known exponent of Carnatic music in India and later from his uncle
Sri. R.K. Venkataramasastry, a well known violinist.
Provided with rich, reedy and flexible voice, profound
imagination and traditional style of singing, Sri Ramakanth has already a string of successful
public concerts to his credit in many of the leading sabhas in India.
An M.Sc. in Botany, Ramakanth has participated in the
Dasara Music festival conducted by the Govt. of Karnataka, undertaken several tours to U.K.,
Swiss in 1989 and Australia during 1990 through 1992. He was invited by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan,
London to give benefit concert which won him a wide acclaim.
He has also performed in many leading sabhas like
Bangalore Gayana Samaja, Bangalore ; Music Academy, Madras ; Indian Fine Arts Society, Madras ;
Music Club, Delhi ; Sadguru Sangeetha Sabha, Kerala ; Vijayakala Bharati, Andhra Pradesh ;
Rasika Ranjana Sabha, Calcutta.
He has been recently selected by International
Biographical of Cambridge and American Biographical Society for inclusion in the international
Who's (International Youth achievement). He was honoured in the International Year of Youth
(1985) by the confederation of 3 music institutions Saraswati Ganashabha, Stuti Soundarya and
Sripuram Cultural Association and was given the title
Sangeetha Kala Praveena. He has also won the Best Musician Award by Bangalore
Gayana Samaja in 1975 and by Music Academy in 1993.
He also established Vidwan R.K. Srikantan Trust in 1995.
Under this Trust, every year, activities like Annual Music Festivals featuring both young
and senior musicians, lecture demonstrations, publishing of informative monographs on
music are being conducted with the help of public patronage. He only hopes that this would
continue to inspire him to serve classical Carnatic music's cause still better if the Trust
gets liberal financial support from music lovers both from India and abroad.
For further details about Trust activities,
R.S. Ramakanth can be contacted at
Vidwan R.K. Srikantan Trust,
#4, Puttaranganna Layout,
Seshadripuram, Bangalore - 21.
Ph. : 91-080-23368190
e-mail:
rkstrust@culturalindia.org
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