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THE
CARNATICA GROUP
Started in 1998 as the brainchild of Sowmya and
Shashikiran, the pioneering young musicians who authored the world's
first encyclopedic CD-ROM on Carnatic music titled Nadanubhava,
Carnatica is now a global organization involved in various activities
aimed at promoting and propagating Carnatic music worldwide. The
Carnatica group is comprised of:
- Srishti's Carnatica Pvt. Ltd.
- Carnatica Interactive Music Solutions Ltd.
- Carnatica Archival Centre for Music &
Dance
- Carnatica Arts Center USA
-
The
Sound of Silence - Our
new state-of-the-art recording studio!
PROMOTERS
S.
Sowmya, Managing Director:
Top-ranking popular vocalist, with a reputation for being strong on both the
theoretical and practical aspects of Carnatic music. E-mail: sowmya@carnatica.net
K.
N. Shashikiran, Executive Director: Well-known young vocalist,
music scholar and teacher, an intelligent and enterprising musician full of
ideas and a fine business sense. E-mail: shashikiran@carnatica.net
Ramanathan
N. Iyer, Director & Editor-in-chief: Wireless Communications
engineer by profession, die-hard sangeetha rasika and avid
collector of concert recordings. One of the
founder-directors of Carnatica Arts Center USA. E-mail: editor@carnatica.net
ADVISORS
Sri. Mohan
Parasaran:
Additional Solicitor General of India and patron of the
arts. Chairman of the Carnatica Archival Centre.
'Nalli' Sri. Kuppuswami Chettiar:
Industrialist & arts patron.
Sri. R.
Sridhar: Software technologist.
CONSULTANTS & SPECIAL
CONTRIBUTORS
Prof. S.
R. Janakiraman:
Veteran
musician & musicologist.
Smt.
Seetha Rajan: Musician & teacher.
Dr.
V. V. Srivatsa: Composer
& musicologist. Secretary (Music Academy, Madras)
Sri. V. Subrahmaniam:
Noted vocalist and guru.
Sri. N. Rajagopalan:
Author of the popular
Garland series (a collection of biographies of composers and
musicians).
Dr.
S. A. K. Durga:
Expert in voice culture and
Ethnomusicology.
Dr.
Premeela Gurumurthy:
Head of the
Dept. of Indian Music (University of Madras)
Dr.
P.
P. Narayanaswami: Mathematician,
Professor of Mathematics & Statistics at the Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Canada.
PERMANENT FACULTY
S. Sowmya, K. N. Shashikiran,
Chitravina P. Ganesh, Neeraja Badrinath, S. Baanumathi, Delhi Raja
Subramanian
STAFF
Jaisree Raghavan (Co-ordinator), K. Ashok Kumar
(Marketing), Santhosh Narayanan, Hriday Goswami & V. Pradeepkumar
(Sound Engineers), Vijay & Saravanan
(Showroom & Sales), Preetha
(Front Office), S. Kannan & K. Babu (Drivers)
PRESS REVIEWS
A selection of newspaper
clippings featuring our organization and products.
Administrative Office
Srishti’s Carnatica Private Limited
13, Krishnabai St., I Floor,
Gokulam Colony, T. Nagar,
Chennai - 600 017, India.
Telephone: (91)-44-4212 4130 Mobile: (91)-94440-18270
Registered Office
A302, Manasarovar,
19, III Seaward Road, Thiruvanmiyur,
Chennai - 600 041, India. E-mail:
carnatica@carnatica.net |