This IAS officer is also a CM musician: http://www.thehindu.com/arts/music/article1776325.ece
"For all those skeptical souls who pledge by music that it has to be pursued with no other avocation on hand, Ramachandran defies this archaic concept and has proved that a matured intellectual is able to imbibe the nuances of classical singing rather quickly, realise the objective of real music, aim at it and achieve it. What else can one ask for? Last but not the least surprising is that the Tamil Nadu officer is actually a Telugu person belonging to the community of Thyagaraja!"
Has anyone heard this vidwan?
TK Ramachandran
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Re: TK Ramachandran
http://www.sruti.org/concerts/2007/Jaya ... rtists.pdf
Also came across this writeup on the artiste at the Sruti site:
"T. K. Ramachandran was initially exposed to Carnatic music at a tender age through his mother Leela Krishnamoorthy. When he was 11 he won the first prize in the All India Vande Mataram competition, which he received from venerable freedom fighter Acharya Kripalani. Later while he was a student at IIT he underwent intensive training under Chitraveena Narasimhan and Ravi Kiran in Chennai. He subsequently came under the tutelage of Sangeetha kalanidhi T.K. Govinda Rao at Delhi, from whom he absorbed some of the finest aspects of the Musiri School like bhava-laden singing with stress on the raga and sahitya 'bhavas'. In the midst of his busy career as an IAS officer in Tamil Nadu , he has been performing extensively all over India. He has also appeared on TV and accompanied Shri T K Govinda Rao and Shri Ravikiran on several occasions. Currently, he is on a sabbatical at Princeton University where he is pursuing a Masters Degree in Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School."
Also came across this writeup on the artiste at the Sruti site:
"T. K. Ramachandran was initially exposed to Carnatic music at a tender age through his mother Leela Krishnamoorthy. When he was 11 he won the first prize in the All India Vande Mataram competition, which he received from venerable freedom fighter Acharya Kripalani. Later while he was a student at IIT he underwent intensive training under Chitraveena Narasimhan and Ravi Kiran in Chennai. He subsequently came under the tutelage of Sangeetha kalanidhi T.K. Govinda Rao at Delhi, from whom he absorbed some of the finest aspects of the Musiri School like bhava-laden singing with stress on the raga and sahitya 'bhavas'. In the midst of his busy career as an IAS officer in Tamil Nadu , he has been performing extensively all over India. He has also appeared on TV and accompanied Shri T K Govinda Rao and Shri Ravikiran on several occasions. Currently, he is on a sabbatical at Princeton University where he is pursuing a Masters Degree in Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School."