Dr. Karaikudi S. Subramanian

Veena Maestro, Music Composer and Music Educator

 

Standalone Workshops

  • Duration: 6 sessions, 2 hours each
  • Dates:  4pm to 6pm on Sundays: July 14th, 21st, 28th; August 4th, 11th, 18th
  • Cost: $10/-
  • Location: India Cultural Center of Utah Dance Studio.
  • For Whom: Anyone interested in music.
  • Goal: Make music and music appreciation accessible to anyone.
  • Description:
    • Stand-alone sessions with each session geared toward a specific skill or exercise so that participants can come away with an understanding of some aspect of music without having to attend every session.
    • A demo of the exercises learned at the workshops will be held during the last session.

Beginner Workshops

  • Duration: 4 Sessions, 2 hours each
  • Dates:  4pm to 6pm, Saturdays July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th
  • Cost: $200/-
  • Location: TBD.
  • For Whom: Students with early training to no training in any form of music.
  • Goals:
    • Establish an understanding of rhythm, using the Carnatic music system of tālam and nadai.
    • Reproduce poetry with appropriate emphasis.
    • Add melody while maintaining rhythm and emphasis.
    • Option to participate in the Children’s Ensemble performance during the Nitya Nritya Festival Sept 7th and 8th weekend at a reduced rate. (see details below)
  • Description:
    • An introduction to Carnatic music through poetry, to recognizing rhythmic patterns in poetry and to melodic structures.

Advanced Workshops

  • Duration: 4 sessions, 3 hours each
  • Dates:  Saturdays, 9:30am to 12:30pm, August 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th
  • Cost: $250/-
  • Location: TBD.
  • For Whom: Advanced students or practitioners of music or dance.
  • Goals:
    • To understand poetry through its rhythmic structures.
    • To understand music through its rhythmic, tonal, and melodic structures.
    • To develop and hone essential performance skills such as a sense of internal rhythm that is immune to distraction.
    • To understand the process of music and improvisation with a a bottom-up approach to its ingredients.
  • Description:
    • Dr. KSS visited SLC in Dec. 2018 when he conducted an intensive workshop, entitled, “The Rhythmic Basis of Improvisation”.
    • We plan to offer a sequel to reinforce and advance what was learnt to existing and new participants.
    • Contact hours will be spaced over a month to enable participants to work on suggested exercises between sessions.
    • Please send a brief summary of your music or dance experience, as well as a clip. Dr Subramanian would also like to meet with you in person to understand your level and discuss expectations

Children’s Ensemble

  • Duration: 30 Sessions , 2 hours each in July-August-September 2019.**
  • Dates: Beginning July 10th: Wednesdays and Fridays 5:30pm – 7:30pm, additionally Sundays 10am to Noon beginning Sunday July 21st.
  • Cost: $300/- . If also attending the Beginner’s workshop, the combined cost is $400/-.
  • Location: TBD.
  • For Whom: Students with a little to no training in any form of music.
  • Goal:
    • To demonstrate learning as a result of the Residency and to provide a platform for children.
  • Description:
    • This will be offered twice a week to train children for a half-hour performance at Nitya Nritya Festival in September 2019

 

 

Interested? Follow the steps below:

  1. Register your interest.
    1. Click Here to register for Beginner Workshops
    2. Click Here to register for Advanced Workshops
    3. Click Here to register for Kids’ Ensemble
    4. Walk in for standalone Workshops. No registration needed.
  2. When you get an email from us, Pay at the link we provide.
  3. Mark your calendars and attend your registered workshops.

About Dr. Karaikudi S. Subramanian:

Dr. Subramanian is a 9th generation Vina player who trained under his grand uncle and adoptive father, the legendary Karaikudi Vinai Sambasiva Iyer.

Dr. Subramanian has had an illustrious career as a Vina player, composer, educator and researcher. An alumnus of Wesleyan University, where he received his doctorate in Ethnomusicology, he returned to India to assume Professorship of Music at the prestigious Department of Music, University of Madras. He retired in 2002 to focus on his own institution, Brhaddhvani Reasearch and Training Center for Musics of the World.

Dr. Subramanian’s contributions in music are multi-dimensional. Through Brhaddhvani, he has developed programs that benefit learners ranging from novice to expert. His unique pedagogical system, COMET (Correlative Objective Music Education and Training) has made Carnatic music education accessible to schools and villages inSoutheast India, and it is gaining momentum in the area of music therapy.

We have invited Dr. Subramanian so that local students and practitioners of dance and music are able to benefit from this integrated approach to learning, to further the pursuit of their chosen art form. Some of the musicians he has worked with spring from the varied backgrounds such as Irish, Western Classical, Brazilian, Jazz, and Japanese. Though Dr. Subramanian is a Carnatic musician, he has, through Brhaddhvani, collaborated with several artistic disciplines and across genres.

We believe his broad understanding of world musics will broaden the horizons of local students and artists in invaluable ways.