Naada Yoga: Raga Music as Contemplative Practice

"Naada Yoga: Raga Music as Contemplative Practice"
Lecture with Sitar Demonstration
Brown University
Thursday, November 29 8 PM
Smith Buonnano 106
Srinivas Reddy
Sitarist and Educator
www.srinivasreddy.org
A brief introduction to Hindustani
raga music and its spiritual origins
followed by a short sitar performance.
Srinivas Reddy is an Indian-American sitarist, guitarist and composer. In 1998
he came under the tutelage of Pandit Partha Chatterjee, a direct disciple of the
late sitar maestro Pandit Nikhil Banerjee. Since then Srinivas has rigorously
trained with his teacher in the traditional guru-shishya style. Both here and
abroad he continues to imbibe and practice the subtleties of the Hindustani
musical tradition.
Srinivas is a professional concert sitarist and has given numerous recitals in the
US and India. He is also an experienced teacher and educator. Srinivas holds a
BA from Brown University and an MA from UC Berkeley, both in South Asian
Studies. He has taught several college level courses on both South Asian
literature and music.
After nine years of study and performance in the San Francisco Bay Area,
Srinivas has recently relocated to New England where he plans to establish a
center for South Asian music, art and literature. He can be reached at
sitarsrini@gmail.com.