Composers
and Musicians |
Tripunithura,
Krishnan Embrandiri, Govinda Rao, who hails from a family of musicians
from Kochi-Kerala, is a leading vocalist of Indian Classical Karnatak
Music. In 1949 he joined the then Central College of Karnataka Music
at Madras where under the care of great musicians like Sangita Kalanidhi
Tiruppampuram Swaminatha Pillai and Smt. T. Brnda, he completed
the course of Sangita
Vidwan |
TKG was fortunate to have as his guru, the founder-Principal, Padmavibhushan,
Sangita Kalanidhi, Isaip Perarinar Sri Musiri Subrahmanya Iyer, the doyon
of Karnatak Music. A rigorous gurukula training spread over fifteen
years followed by many years of close association with his Guru, marks
him as a faithful representative of the Musiri style of Bhava-laden renderings.
All these assignments, however, did not deter him from his prime vocation
as a vocalist and teacher that took him, over the years, all over India
and abroad: Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, UK, USA (S.V. Temple, Pittsburgh,
among other cities), Canada and Muscat, where he has taught hundreds of
students.
Titles like Sangita Kalanidhi, Sangita Cudamani, Sangita Sastra Ratnakara,
Sangita Ratnakara (USA), Ganakala Tilaka, Nadakkanal, Swara Samrat, Sangita
Samrat, Sangita Acarya, Gayaka Sikhamani besides the Academi Award from
the Central Sangit Natak Academy- the National Academy of Music, Dance
and Drama, and Asthana Vidvan of Sri Kanci Kamakoti Pitham have been conferred
on him for his contributions to the field of Karnataka Music.
As the renowned senior music critic Sri P.N. Krishnamurthy, quoted in
the well known music Magazine “Sruti” said. “T.K.G. is veteran of the
old school who has played a prominent role in the preservation of all
that is precious in the truly classical rendition of Karnataka Music.”
To promote, preserve and propagate the time-tested oral traditions of
Classical Karnataka Music, he founded a body named “Ganamandir Trust”
with the object of publishing works on music, producing audio/video CDs
and cassettes in his “Ganamandir Studios”; organising seminars and workshops
on music in India and elsewhere, also providing them to the donor-members
free of cost.
TKG has completed the second face of his monumental project of compiling and editing all the so far available, authentic compositions of TRINITY of Karnataka Music, compositions of Maharaja Sri Swathi Tirunal, in diacritical Roman & Devanagari scripts with meanings in English and SRGM notations in Roman scripts. Presented in comprehensive volumes, the common scripts help to bridge, not only the language barrier, but also the generation gaps, while preserving the essence and identity of the original that remain characteristically and traditionally Indian. He has performed at the Navarathri Mandapam and is one of the rare artists who has in his repertoire very rare Swathi Krithis.
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