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ABOUT

KARNATAKA GANAKALA PARISHAT

Established in the year 1969, the ‘Karnataka Ganakala Parishat’ has been a forum of musicians dedicated to the principle cause of propagation of Karnatik Classical Music. It owes its genesis to the great musicians of yesteryears; primarily Vid. A. Subbarao, Vid. Bangalore K. Venkataram, Prof. H.V. Krishnamurthy, Vid. A. Veerbhadrayya, Vid. Anoor S. Ramakrishna, Vid. B.V.K. Shastri, Vid. H.P Ramachar, Vid. Honnappa Bhagavathar, Vid.  L.S. Sheshagiri Rao, Vid. V.N. Rao, Vid. Raja Rao and Vid. Tirumale Rangachar.

 

Karnataka Ganakala Parishat is one of the noble institutions in India that has been created and nourished by a forum of like-minded musicians for the development of music. With the enormous support & encouragement of artists and music patrons, the first conference was conducted in the year 1970 under the presidency of Vidwan B. S. Raja Iyengar. Various technical lecture demonstrations and interactions were initiated in the conference of the Parishat.

 

It has been successful in bringing together musicians and connoisseurs of music, year on year under the umbrella of the much-acclaimed Annual Music Conference.

MANAGEMENT

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Vid. R.K. Padmanabha

President

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Dr. A.H. Rama Rao

Vice President

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Vid. Vidyabhushana

Vice President

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Dr. S.C. Sharma

Vice President

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Vid. M. V. Sampathkumara

General Secretary

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Vid. V. V. Srinivasa Rao

Treasurer

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Sri. N.R. Anantha Narayan

Internal Auditor

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Vid. Nagamani Srinath

Joint Secretary

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Vid. R. N. Thyagarajan

Member

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Vid. M. A. Jayarama Rao

Member

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Vid. Raghavendra Prakash

Member

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Vid. Sathyakumar R.

Member

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Vid. Gayathri Rajapur

Member

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Sri. Lakshmi Keshav

Member

YOUTH WING

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MS Deepak
Convenor

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Vishwajit Mattur
Member

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Ranjani Vasuki

Member

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Anjali Sriram

Member

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Sachin Kolarkar
Member

PRESIDENT'S VISION

I took over as the president in the year 2004. My vision as a president, was and is, to take Karnatik music to the masses, mainly in the rural areas of Karnataka. On this forethought, out of 13 music festivals under my tenure, 8 conferences were held outside Bangalore, like Ramanathapura (Hobli), Nanjangud (TW), Holenarasipur (TW), Siddapur (NK/TW), Tumkur, Gadag, Bijapur and Belur. The other important aspect on my mind was to not let classical music weigh any less and not be considered as a mere entertaining medium. Karnatic music is a healing force by itself which is the need of the hour for the generation today! Hence the commitee at parishat also targets audience of all age groups while it formulates its events.

 

It has around 1200-1300 musicians as members. I want to involve each musician to contribute his mite to bring awareness among public about the values of this fabulous art form. I have always believed that music is the only medium which brings harmony and peace and eradicate terrorism, corruption etc. and I want to see a complete revolution through classical music, which makes our country an abode of peace and tradition in the world. I request all like-minded friends to come forward to chalk out the necessary strategies to achieve our objective and take a pledge to keep the flame of karnatic music bright for our generation next. All efforts to support this idea are always welcome.

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