Jayaprada Ramamurthy - Indian Classical Flute Virtuoso from India
Link to the Concert Poster
 Orchard Ridge Smith Theater
Friday, September 29th 2006
7.30 PM to 10.00 PM
Tickets - $10 Available at all OCC Bookstores
Jayaprada will be accompanied by Srikanth Mallajosyula on the violin and Rohan Krishnamurthy on the Mridangam (Percussion).
JAYAPRADA RAMAMURTHY - Flute Artiste & Music Composer
Jayaprada Ramamurthy, the renowned Indian Classical Bamboo Flute Artiste of Hyderabad, is the daughter of famed Indian Classical Musician Mrs.Prema
Ramamurthy. She is the disciple of Flute Maestro Sangita Kalanidhi Padmasri Dr.N.Ramani (Chennai, India) & Sri. N.S.Srinivasan (Hyderabad,
India). Within a short span of time Jayaprada has gained immense popularity as a Solo Flutist in India and Abroad. She is one among
very few female flautists who perform Solo Flute Recitals in Indian Classical Music.
Jayaprada is a full time Musician and Director of Uttaraa Center for Performing Arts, Hyderabad, India. Jayaprada holds a Master’s Degree
in Business and a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications.
Innovations In Flute: Jayaprada is the first ‘GIRL FLAUTIST’ from the state of Andhra Pradesh, who has performed as a SOLO FLUTIST, both
at the National and at the International level. She has also been acclaimed as the first Flautist among women, to use the Base (Long)
Flute and the ‘Western Key-Flute’ on the concert platform, for playing Carnatic Music, using transposed fingering technique.
Jayaprada has performed extensively in India and has toured several cities in the USA, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Bangladesh, and U.A.E.
A memorable concert for Jayaprada was at the Tropical Hall Amsterdam in March 2004, where she received a standing ovation.
A little about the accompanists -
Srikanth Mallajosyula started his music lessons early in violin and was a recipient of the National Talent Search Scholarship
from the Govt. of India, in the field of violin. He has learnt under the front ranking violinist A. Kanyakumari, who is also his maternal aunt.
Srikanth is the recipient of many awards and prizes - among them the "Best Violinist" award (sub seniors) in 1997 from the Sri Krishna Gana
Sabha, Chennai. He has provided violin accompaniment to many senior artists such as Nedunuri Krishna Murthy, R.K. Srikantan, Chitraveena Ravikiran,
Trichur Ramachandran and others and has provided violin support to his aunt and Guru, Vidushi A. Kanyakumari, on many occasions. He works as
a software consultant and lives in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
Rohan Krishnamurthy Acclaimed a “percussion prodigy” and “virtuoso” by distinguished music critics and musicians, Rohan
Krishnamurthy has carved an exciting musical niche on the South Indian Classical drum, the mridangam. Having initially received mridangam
training one-on-one and later over a novel telephonic setup in the US from Damodaran Srinivasan, Rohan now continues advanced study from the
India-based maestro Guruvayur Dorai. Rohan has performed extensively in North America and India since the age of nine with leading Indian
musicians, and has been invited to perform for nine consecutive years during the celebrated December Music Season in Chennai, India. He
has collaborated in numerous cross-musical ventures with well-known symphony orchestras, jazz ensembles, etc., including a recent weeklong community
outreach performance of “Echoes,” a creative concerto for mridangam and string orchestra, with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra during their
“Youth Concerts” for over 13,000 elementary schoolchildren in Southwest Michigan.
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