The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
SRUTI, The India Music & Dance Society
Instrumental Maestros of Indian Classical Music
2009 Grantee
$21,500
SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society was awarded $21,500 to present “Instrumental Maestros of Indian Classical Music,” a three-part series featuring a Carnatic saxophone concert by Kadri Gopalnath; a Carnatic chitraveena concert by N. Ravikiran; and a jugalbandi (fusion) concert featuring Shashank Subramanyam playing the flute in the Carnatic style and Ustad Shahid Parvez playing the sitar in the Hindustani style, presented in collaboration with the Painted Bride Art Center.
Founded in 1986, SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society, is a volunteer-run organization dedicated to presenting Indian classical music and dance programs. Over the past 20 years, SRUTI has presented artists such as sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar (as part of the organization’s tenth anniversary celebration) and Sudha Raghunathan, one of the world’s most acclaimed Carnatic vocalists. http://www.sruti.org
N. Ravikiran, no photo credit