Drawn to an instrument that sounded exotic to him, he became one of the most prominent classical musicians in India. By Giovanni Russonello Kadri Gopalnath was a youngster growing up in a village in ...

Kinsmen is the physical actualization of a long path that started with alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa's desire to create a music that is a hybrid (not a fusion) of American jazz and classical ...

Mr Gopalnath has the distinction of being the first Carnatic musician to be invited to perform in a BBC promenade concert in the Royal Albert Hall in London, in 1994. This famed saxophone 'samrat' has ...

Rudresh Mahanthappa's Kinsmen blends South Asian music with American jazz. The jazz saxophonist says his inspiration to explore Indian music on the saxophone came from a CD his brother gave him as a ...

Born to Taniyappa and Gangamma, Kadri Gopalnath was a trailblazer in the world of Carnatic music. His accolades include the Kalaimamani Award from the Tamil Nadu government and the Karnataka ...

Kadri Gopalnath Academy for Arts, Mangaluru, will present the lifetime achievement award to Mohan Veena exponent Vishwa Mohan Bhatt at a function in Mangaluru on Saturday. Mr. Bhatt will receive the ...

It's hard to know what key will open a locked door. For Rudresh Mahanthappa, the door was his desire to meld the compositional and improvisatory esthetics of jazz and Indian classical music.

The Kadri Gopalnath Academy for Arts, Mangaluru, has chosen Hindustani singer Pandit Venkatesh Kumar for its Kadri Gopalnath Lifetime Achievement Award for 2023. The award carries ₹50,000 in cash and ...

This year, the Dr Kadri Gopalnath Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, the creator and player of the Mohan Veena, who is renowned worldwide and a recipient of the ...