Vid S A SHashidhar - Flutist in Bangalore

[metnanda]

Vid S A Shashidhar hails from a family of musicians and music lovers from Bangalore, Karnataka, South India. At the age of 13 inspired by his mother and maternal uncles, he started learning Carnatic Classical Music (flute) under Vid. Sri. M.R. Doreswamy. He has also received training under Padmashree Dr. Ramani for some time. Sri. Shashidhar is a graded artist of Prasara Bharathi (All India Radio), Doordarshan (Television) and has been performing for the past 25 years. Sri Shashidhar has a Physics (Hons) degree and a Masters Degree from Bangalore University. He is also the Hon. Secretary of Banashankari Fine Arts Society, Bangalore (an association to promote culture).

He has performed all over India, at several prestigious venues such as Bangalore Gayana Samaja and Karnataka Ganakala Parishat. His performances have been sponsored by the Governmentt of Karnataka, Ganamrita Sabha Chennai, Mumbai Anushakti Nagar, Bhilai Kannada Koota, Kolkata Rasika Ranjini to name a few, and have been favorably reviewed by eminent art critics. He has been honored recently by Bangalore Gayana Samaja as Artist of the year. He has performed at various venues in the US since 1988. In addition he is an excellent teacher, and has trained several upcoming flautists in Bangalore.


His wife Smt Nagaratna Shashidhar, is a reputed veena player, his elder son Supradeep is an upcoming flautist and his other son Sughosh Pavan is an upcoming violinist. A unique feature being that all the family members have performed together on many occasions, in different sabhas.

For further details visit the following website

https://sites.google.com/site/aksvidyalaya/

warm regards

[Sreeni Rajarao]

Nandan,
Thanks for this thread!

I have listened to Sri. Shashidhar's music - please upload some samples if possible.

Also, please check with Sri. Shashidhar if any recording of his Guru Sri. M R Doreswamy is available that you could upload - Sri. Doreswamy was a great vidvAn and Guru as well.

Sreeni Rajarao

[metnanda]

Dear Sir,

I will definitely check from him & post. By the way you can listen to Vid S A Shashidhar songs in the media section. Alternatively click on the link below & afterwards on individual songs
https://sites.google.com/site/aksvidyalaya/home/media

regards
nandan