Carnatic @ Berkeley Arts Festival: Gautam Tejas Ganeshan
Organization:
Berkeley Arts Festival
Category:
Cultural/Indian Descent
Geographical Area:
Oakland
Start
Date:
2/28/2016
End Date:
2/28/2016
Start Time:
3:30 PM
End Time:
6:00 PM
Event
Info:
South Indian music gets re-upped! Original songs along traditional lines + improvisations backed by tambura drone lutes + mridangam double drum & ghatam clay percussion.
"A dream...passionate, knowledgeable, mindblowing." - Asian Art Museum (SF)
"A magnet for local Indian classical musicians..." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Subversive...affecting and bold." - East Bay Express
Gautam Tejas Ganeshan has performed widely in the SF Bay Area since 2004, including at the SFMOMA, BAM/PFA, SFJAZZ, Asian Art Museum (SF), Hertz Hall at UC Berkeley, and more, as well as having given workshops at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Stanford Jazz Workshop, and guest-lectures for music courses at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. He is the founder and director of the Sangati Center, a non-profit chamber music concert series in San Francisco that has hosted more than 400 public chamber concerts in SF, Oakland, and Berkeley since 2006, and has earned support from the NEA, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, and more. In 2013 Gautam was awarded the Creative Work Fund, supporting the creation of a song cycle entitled "Story of This Place," and has received a number of commissions, including "By Daylight" at the ODC Theater, "Silhouette of Songs" by the LEF Foundation, and "New Directions in Indian Classical Music" by the San Francisco Foundation in 2008.
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