N. Ravikiran profile
Chitravina N Ravikiran hails from Chennai, capital city of Tamilnadu state in the southeast of India. He is a highly accomplished chitravina and gotuvadyam player (these are two very similar slide lutes of South India); he is also a fine singer and composer.
As a child of two he stumped the authorities with his deep knowledge of the intricacies of South India's classical music. His is a family of musicians; his father (Ravikiran's first teacher) and his late grandfather being excellent gottuvadyam players.
He is active in performance, and creates intercultural music with a fine aesthetic sense.
He is the elder sibling of Sashikiran, a vocalist and co-founder of Srishti's CARNATICA - the pioneering portal for all things Carnatic, Hindustani and a premier learning organization.
http://www.carnatica.net
See his website for more information: www.ravikiranmusic.com/
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As a child of two he stumped the authorities with his deep knowledge of the intricacies of South India's classical music. His is a family of musicians; his father (Ravikiran's first teacher) and his late grandfather being excellent gottuvadyam players.
He is active in performance, and creates intercultural music with a fine aesthetic sense.
He is the elder sibling of Sashikiran, a vocalist and co-founder of Srishti's CARNATICA - the pioneering portal for all things Carnatic, Hindustani and a premier learning organization.
http://www.carnatica.net
See his website for more information: www.ravikiranmusic.com/
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
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