![]() She has done extensive field research on folk music of Karnataka and has performed classical music in India, the United States and in Europe. She served as lecturer in Karnatic music at the University of Hawaii and the University of Washington. She has given lecture cum demonstrations related to Karnatic music at the Music Academy of Madras, at annual meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology and other professional conferences in China, Korea and Cambodia. Her publications include Ïmprovisation in Alapana Peformance: a comparative view of raga Shankarabhana in the Yearbook for Traditional Music 19:14-64 New York: Columbia University Press; “Regional Music Traditions of Karnataka” and “Ragas in Southern Areas of India” in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music as well as reviews in the scholarly journal Ethnomusicology. In 2014 she set to tunes a collection of chants titled Sung Chants of Tiruvannamalai. (album available on Youtube). Awards include Scholarship from Government of Mysore and Central Government, National Endowment for the Humanities (USA) and the American Institute of Indian Studies. She has now returned to India and lives in Bangalore. She has resumed performances (both vocal and gottuvadyam). |