U Ramesh
Instrumental Music – Classical Fusion
Presenting to you a Classical Fusion of Carnatic Song “Maha Ganapathim”. We have on the stage all prominent artists with their special instruments. Mandolin is played by U. Rajesh, Violin by Late Balabhaskar, Arun Kumar on Drums, Giridhar Udupa on Ghatam and Mohini Dey on Bass Guitar. The concert was staged on the 7th day of 53rd Bengaluru Ganesh Utsava. Balabhaskar (Balabhaskar Chandran) was a famous Violinist, Composer, Musician and promoter of Fusion Music in South India. Born in 1978, he started his professional career at an age of 12 and excelled in his profession until his death in 2018. U. Ramesh is the younger brother of late U Srinivas or the Mandolin Srinivas who is also a great artist. He has performed on various stages with his brother as well as many other famous I...
Instrumental Music – Mandolin Concert
U Srinivas – Uppalapu Srinivas is well known to many as an Indian Mandolin Player in Carnatic Classical Music. He was a Child Prodigy and used to be called as Mozart of Indian Classical Music. He was also a music composer and well known as Mandolin Srinivas. Born in 1969 at Palakollu in the then, Andhra Pradesh he started with Mandolin at the age of five. U Satyanarayana his father, a Clarinettist, had a Mandolin which Srinivas was very much attracted to and started playing with it. He got a new Mandolin from his father and started training under him. Srinivas got training under Sri Vasu Rao a famous Guitarist, Sri Rudraraju Subbaraju and many others. He had his own style of playing the Mandolin, developed all by himself. He entered the Western Music arena in 1976. Public Appearance ...