Mrdangam maestro Trichy Sankaran
Dr. Trichy Sankaran is a world-renowned percussion virtuoso, Indian music scholar and composer. He has performed at major festivals in India, South-East Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. In his more than 50 years of concert experience in Carnatic music, he has accompanied all top rank artists of India. In addition to his usual traditional settings, he has performed with gamelan, jazz, electronic, African music ensembles, and World Drums. While representing his famous guru Sri Palani Subramania Pillais style, Vidwan Sankaran has given new dimensions to the art of mrdangam, thus making his style traditional yet innovative. He has dedicated himself for the cause and propagation of Carnatic music in North America in various ways as an educator, global artist, composer, and collaborator.
Prof. Trichy Sankaran is the Founding Director of Indian Music Studies and Professor of Music at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he has been teaching since 1971. He has received numerous honours and awards including the degree of Doctorate in Music for his outstanding achievements in the academic and professional fields from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1998. The titles conferred upon him include Talakkalai Arasu (1980), Talavadya Prakasa (1983), Sangeetha Choodamani 1984), Mrdanga Kala Shironmani (1990) to name a few.
Professor Trichy Sankaran is the founder and artistic director of Kalalayam, an institution founded by him in Toronto, Canada for the promotion of the science and techniques of percussive arts. He has trained many South Asian and North American students in the theory and techniques of South Indian drumming.
"Maestro Trichy Sankaran has astounded the audience for decades with his evocative and lyrical style of playing. His ecstatic display of rhythmic virtuosity and aesthetics in mrdangam playing has been the object lessons in percussionists logistics"-Indian Express
Trichy Sankaran, Zakir Hussain and Harishankar percussion trio
Trichy Sankaran and Steve Smith
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