Place: Kuchipudi
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Email : haranadh.pasumarthi@gmail.com
Phone : +91 9542104565
Door No: 1-102/1
Temple Street
Kuchipudi
Movva Mandal
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Pasumarthy.Haranadha Sastry was
born in Kuchipudi, a birth place of one of the famous six dance forms of India,
a village with rich cultural heritage, to a family of Kuchipudi connoisseurs.
Personal life
Pasumarthy.Haranadha Sastry was
born on 15th September 1979 at Kuchipudi Village, a small village in the Krishna
District, Andhra Pradesh to Sri.Pasumarthy. Kesava Prasad and Smt. Gnana
Prasunamba. Belonging to a Kuchipudi traditional dance family, young Haranadh took
to Mridangam as a duck takes to water and had early training at young age of
15.
Tutelage
Haranadh was initiated to
learn Mridangam by Vidwan Sri Puvvula Satyanarayana, who was a highly
accomplished Mridangam artist and a senior staff at Sri Siddhendra Yogi
Kuchipudi Kalapiitham Campus, affiliated to Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University,
Hyderabad. On completion of his early training, his artistry grew under the tutelage
of Mridangam maestro Shri Dandamudi Ramamohan Rao, a legendary percussionist.
Guru Ramamohan Rao, was the deciple of Pazhani Subramanian Pillai, a great
mridangam and Kanjira Vidwan, an A-Grade artist in AIR, Sangeetha Natak academy
awardees. Under Shri Rao's guidance, Haranadh blossomed into a full-fledged
Mridangist with a capacity to accompany all the leading kuchipudi dance
performance.
Credentials
Post Graduated in Commerce
from Nagarjuna University, Guntur.
Certificate Course and
Diploma degree in Mridangam from G.V.R. Government College of Music and Dance,
Vijayawada
Performances
Before he turned twenty, Haranadh
had the good fortune to accompany number of kuchipudi dance ballets all over
India and abroad like US under various renowned contemporary kuchipudi dance stalwarts on prestigious stages like
Sangeetha Natak Academy New Delhi. As an accomplished percussionist, Haranadh also
participated in major events organized by prestigious platforms like
Akhilabharatha Kuchipudi Natya Kalamandali, Kuchipudi convention by
Siliconandhra in Unitied States of America.
To maintain continuity and
consistency prolific art, Haranadh an accomplished artist, currently working as
an accompanist in Sri Siddhendra Yogi Campus, Kuchipudi
affiliated to Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad.
Haranadh besides being a
prolific Mridangam artist also can play other percussion instruments such as Tabla
and Kanjira with the same felicity and with ease.
What's So Special with Haranadh?
Haranadh believes that
rhythm is an essential and integral part of any music. Predominance of the soft
and simple sarvalaghus to sweeten music, their logical development into astonishing varieties and
tirmanas and the clarity of strokes in fast play formed fascinating traits in Haranadh
artistry.
Compared to the double
headed Mridangam with its rich tonal quality, the single headed Kanjira with
its limited tonal quality is more difficult to handle but Haranadh equaled in
duet.
