Title: U. Srinivas (mandolin)
Description: U. Srinivas. Carnatic music.

Title: Indian Mandolin by U Srinivas
Description: Interview & part performance of this maestro of South Indian style Mandolin. Superb eerie sounding stuff.

Title: U. Shrinivas & U. Rajesh - Raghupathi Raghava Rajaram
Description: From the 'Maestros in Concert' VCD. Live in Concert at Indian Gate, Swarytsav 2002

Title: U.Srinivas & D.Bhattacharya - jugalbandi
Description: An South & North traditions jugalbandi with 2 masters of classical music: U.Srinivas on mandoline & D.Bhattacharya on guitar,Paris 05/2007 video excerpt from Mondomix

Title: U. Srinivas (mandolin) and U. Rajesh with ghatam & mdringam
Description: Brothers U. Srinivas and U. Mandolin magic.

Title: Music Academy Concert
Description: U.Srinivas & U.Rajesh at Music Academy on 23rd December.

Title: Amazing young indian mandolin player (U. Shrinivas)
Description: Years ago I recorded this young mandolin player on VHS. From the comments I received, it seems to be of a young U. Shrinivas. This helped me to find out he's older now, and still a mandoling maestro. Go check his site: http://www.mandolinshrinivas.org/

Title: Mandolin Srinivas
Description: Mandolin Srinivas live at Vani Mahal

Title: Mandolin Srinivas
Description: Live at Vani Mahal

Title: Mandolin Srinivas
Description: at Vani Mahal

Title: Remember Shakti: Giriras Sudha
Description: Fitting end to a great show John McLaughlin (guitar) Zakir Hussain (tabla) V Selvaganesh (percussion) U Shrinivas (mandolin) Shankar Mahadevan (vocal)

Title: Remember Shakti: Sakhi
Description: If there is a music of the gods, this is probably it! Amazing! John McLaughlin (guitar) Zakir Hussain (tabla) V Selvaganesh (percussion) U Shrinivas (mandolin) Shankar Mahadevan (vocal)

Title: Begum Parveen Sultana: Queen of Indian classical music
Description: Vocals -- Parveen Sultana Tabla -- Mukundraj Deo Harmonium - Shrinivas Acharaya The 'Queen of Indian classical music', the "Poetess of Music' and the 'Ultimate Saprano', Parveen Sultana is one of the most influential female khayal vocalists of the modern era. She has a distinctively sweet voice, which displays an incredible virtuosity, clarity and purity, and covers a range of nearly four octaves. A child prodigy at the age of 12, she has one numerous awards, and mesmerized audiences throughout the world. In this evening's performance to bring this year's festival to a fitting close, she is accompanied by Yogesh Samsi on Tabla, Ajay Joglekar on Harmonium, Sandeep Mishra on Sarangi and Nina Virdee -- talented vocalist in her own right on Tanpura. "Her matchless voice ..... held the audience spellbound" (The Times of India) "Not since Ravi Shankar's music took America by storm has the audience been treated to such a musical feast as Parveen's music... the audience stood up applauding thunderously" (News and Cine India Review, New York, USA) "We forget ourselves in the extraordinary and spiritual and blessed voice of Parveen Sultana. We do not need to think twice about her unrivalled position as one of the greats in terms of purity of voice". (Kerala Kaumudi, India) "Her voice flowed like a light, soothing breeze and the crowd was swayed by it" (Mathru Bhoomi, India)

Title: Srinivas Reddy - Rag Hemant Alap
Description: Excerpt of Rag Hemant Alap from Naada Yoga: Raga Music as Contemplative Practice, Brown University Contemplative Studies Lecture Series. http://www.srinivasreddy.org http://www.contemplativestudies.org View the full video at http://www.video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2740279887543120033 -------- Srinivas Reddy is an Indian-American sitarist, guitarist and composer. In 1998 he came under the tutelage of Sri 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.

Title: Carnatic - Valaji Varnam
Description: Artists: Deepti Navaratna (voice) Garrett Field (electric guitar) Aaron Paige (mridangam) October 27, 2008. Wesleyan University Bios: Deepti Navaratna was trained under the tutelage of Smt. Rohini Manjunath, Bangalore. She is an A-grade artiste of All India Radio since 2000 and has won numerous awards and prizes. Currently she is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Garrett Field is an ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate at Wesleyan. His M.A. thesis "U. Shrinivas' Mandolin Ecstasy" was a hands-on study of Shrinivas' improvisations and explored recent changes in Karnatak instrumental music. He began his studies with Kalpana Venkat and now trains under B. Balasubrahmaniyan and David Nelson. Aaron Paige is currently a Master's degree candidate in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. He has been studying South Indian percussion for the last nine years under the tutelage of Professor David P. Nelson and mrdangamist Palladam R. Ravi of Madurai, Tamil Nadu and was a 2004-05 Thomas J. Watson Fellow.