Violin Recital By Ashok Gurjale: Events in Hyderabad

REVIEW FOR VIOLIN RECITAL BY ASHOK...

Most artistes take pride in their own biodatas. Gurjale take pride in the biodatas of his students. One of the city's foremost violin teachers takes stage himself tonite.

Shilparamam, as part of the on-going All-India Crafts Mela from 16th to 31st December, is organising a violin recital by Ashok Gurjale today, the 9th day. Gurjale will start the recital as per tradition, with Vatapi Ganapathim in Hamsadhwani raagam, followed by a couple of Annamacharya keertanas, the sweet Swara Madhuri, and a special composition called the River Godavari. He will be accompanied by Vijay Sarathi on the mridangam, Ravikanth on the octopads and Pavan on the keyboard.

Ashok Gurjale initially learnt music from Late Nori Srinivasa Sarma and perfected the skills under late Marella Keshava Rao. He is an outstanding student from the Government Music College, Ramkote, and pursued Western Classical from Chennai.

A top Classical and Western violin artist, he has been a regular violin player in the film industry, having accompanied renowned music directors like M M Keeravani, Manisharma, S A Rajkumar, Koti and Sreelekha. He also accompanied Dr Shobha Naidu to Mauritius, and is a permanent artist for Dr Nataraja Ramakrishna, Sumathy Kaushal, Anuradha Jonnalagadda, Vanaja Uday, Rajeswari Sainath, Dr Raja Reddy and Alarmelvalli from Chennai.

He specializes in Indian classical and Western classical fusion, and has enormous experience in conducting and composing classical symphonies with a minimum orchestra of 110 artistes. He has played in many towns and cities of India, as also in Dubai and London, and has even composed Classical dance ballets for many artistes.

He has started a violin school christened as Aarabhi - The Violin School in Hyderabad city, with an ambition to produce child prodigies and reach even the poorest of music-eager families. Aarabhi