Srikanth, Jyotsna

Jyotsna is attending this year's Classical Next to meet string orchestras, string quartets and musicians interested to collaborate with her on her project, Raga Seasons. She is also interested in meeting festival directors and venue directors too.

Raga Seasons is six seasons of India experienced through six Indian ragas, orchestration and rich embellishments featuring Indian Ragas [modes] with generous sprinkling of Western harmony and arrangements.

Raga Seasons, creatively explores the overlap between the West’s four seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn) with India’s six seasons (vasanta, grishma, varsha, sharad, hemanta, shishira) and their related ragas (melodies)

Its a unique ‘never-before’ exciting musical collaboration, bringing together the beauty of the pure Western and the Indian classical music, culminating with a major collaborative piece that is a delight to the ears.

Jyotsna Srikanth (South Indian Carnatic Violinist): Jyotsna Srikanth is the most sought after South Indian carnatic violinist in Europe and composer known for her versatility and ability to collaborate with different genres seamlessly and with ease. She is intensely rooted in South Indian classical music alongside exploring lush ground in the crossover between Indian music and a variety of contemporary flavours. Jyotsna also had formal traning of Western classical violin too. Her violin playing has a nice blend of 'bhava' [musical expression and emotion] & fingering technique, a result of three ‘decades of experimentation’ as per a critic. Having played violin for more than 300 Indian films, she is now currently working on numerous large scale music experiments – in a way bringing communities together. She is the Artistic Director of the London International Arts Festival (www.liaf.co.uk)

‘..Jyotsna Srikanth is an extraordinary and versatile violinist... free-flowing, often mesmerising' The Guardian

Jyotsna was selected for Womex 2017 showcase at Katowice.

Jyotsna's manager S.Sharma will be accessible on mail info@gmail.com and his UK phone/whatsapp number 0044 7984 170750 during Classical Next.

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