Krithika & Deepikaa Sreenivasan

Krithika Sreenivasan

A BE degree holder, a Karnatik musician, a writer, a music educator and a Special

Projects Executive at the Indian Music Experience Museum, India’s first interactive

music museum – this sums up Krithika’s musical journey. She comes with years of

training and experience both in performing and teaching of music. Currently receiving

advanced training from Vidwan Chitravina Ravikiran and Vidwan Anoor

Ananthakrishna Sharma, she has imbibed the best of the abilities of both her Gurus.

Always working on conceptualizing newer thematic presentations, she has amassed a

vast repertoire of compositions and compositional forms.

GURUS & MUSICAL TRAINING

Krithika is  undergoing advanced training from Sangeet Samrat Chitravina N Ravikiran

and Layakalapratibhamani Vidwan Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma in various

aspects of Manodharma and specialization in Ragam Tanam Pallavi presentations.

She is  also trained under Ganakalabhushana Vidushi.T.S. Vasantha Madhavi.

AUDIOBOOK

Based on her Kannada book on musicians that she co-authored with her mother,

Prof Geetha Sreenivasan, on “Great Musicians who died young”

(Alpaayushyada Mahan Sadhakaru), she has released an audiobook of the

same in Kannada and English. This audiobook feature is a unique concept and is

the first of its kind in Carnatic Music as well. This audiobook features 22

musicians who died young, rising to great heights in a short life span. Each

musician is featured as a chapter in the audiobook, where there is a brief

narration about their life achievements, followed by a musical presentation that

she has presented, of one of the compositions composed/popularized by them.

Deepikaa Sreenivasan

Deepika Sreenivasan, one of the few performing female percussionists in the country, is a

young mridangist, rising fast to establish her position in the musical field. She received her

initial training under Vidwan Nandyala Ramamurthy and is now under the tutelage of

Vidwan Patri Satish Kumar. 

Achievements and Accolades

• She has completed Vidwath degree in mridanga, conducted by the Karnataka

Secondary Education Board, with distinction.

• She is a “B-High” graded artiste of the All India Radio, Bangalore.

• She is a recipient of the prestigious Scholarship for Young Artistes from the

Ministry of Culture, Government of India (adjudged by Vidwans T.K. Murthy

and T S Sankaran)

• She has received a Music Scholarship awarded by the Karnataka Sangeeta

Nritya Academy

• She has won many prizes at percussion competitions, noteworthy among them

are Vellore Ramabhadran Endownment from the Sri Shanmukhananda

Sangeetha Sabha, Mumbai and Amruthur Janaki Ammal Endowment from the

Percussive Arts Centre, Bangalore.

• She has provided mridangam support to the project “Kalyani Pravaaham”, a

digital album of compositions of Vidushi Kalyani Varadarajan, a prominent

composer of 700 kritis, whose compositions have been sung by stalwarts like TRS

and S Rajam. The album will see an overseas release this November.

• She has arranged music for a tripartite YouTube series, “Kannada Kavya

Kamanabillu”, which explores the presentation of medieval Kannada poetry in a

Carnatic classical setting.

• She has also performed for programmes produced for television (Doordarshan,

Shankara, Zee Kannada, InSync).

❖ Notable Performances

• She has performed for prestigious music festivals like “Parampara by Drs Raja

Radha Reddy, Kamani hall, Delhi”, “Naada Neerajana, Tirumala”, “Rangayana-

Mysore Dasara”, “Alva’s Nudisiri, Moodbidre”, “Brahmotsava, Tirupathi”,

”Kalavanta-National Youth Festival”, “Mahamastakabhishekha- Dharmasthala”,

“Rashtriya Yuva Sangeethotsava- Samskara Bharathi”

• She has given concerts for prestigious Sabhas like “NCPA, Mumbai”, “Madras

Music Academy – HCL and Radel concert series”, “Sri Shanmukhananda

Sabha – Rising Stars Series”, “KK Murthy Annual Festival , Academy of

Music, Chowdiah Memorial Hall”, “Narada Gana Sabha“, “Yuva

Sangeetotsava – Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha”, “ViolinVaibhavam –

Lalgudi Trust”

• She has accompanied stalwarts like Vidushi Bhagyalakshmi Chandrashekhar

(Veena), Vidushi T S Sathyavathi (Vocal) and Vidushi T S Vasantha Madhavi

(Vocal)

• She has performed in percussive ensembles, accompanying on Mridanga and

Konnakkol, with world-class percussionists like Pandita Anuradha Pal (Stree

Shankthi), Vidushi Sukkanya Ramgopal (Stree Taal Tarang) and Vidushi Sumathi

RamMohan Rao.

• She was a part of a special performance for the former President of India, Late Sri

A P J Abdul Kalam, in Bangalore.

• She has directed a special 30-minute percussive segment in the complex taala

“Chapu Taala Maalika”, under the auspices of Udupa Foundation, Bengaluru.