Brief History of Sangeetha:
Since its inception in 1984, Sangeetha has sponsored over 182 concerts by very eminent and internationally acclaimed stalwarts and young, promising artistes of Indian classical music in both Carnatic and Hindustani styles.
Sangeetha’s sustained efforts to promote Indian classical music has lead to a significant growth in its activities over the past years and is now eminently recognized by local community as a premier Indian cultural organization, patronized by a committed group of lovers of Indian classical music as well as by an appreciative, growing audience comprising of professionals, students, businessmen and women, from different ethnic backgrounds, all sharing a common love for Indian classical music.
Sangeetha has established an on-going, sustained relationship with several local institutions, encouraging them to participate in our activities. Sangeetha has fostered an excellent, on-going relationship with the music departments of Washington University in St. Louis and University of Missouri, St. Louis. Our efforts to promote Indian classical music are now being recognized by several of the local art funding organizations such as the Regional Arts Commission, Missouri Arts Council, and The Arts & Education Council with their funding support and Sangeetha has emerged as a premier cultural organization under their sponsorship.
Sangeetha’s music season spread over Fall and Spring seasons of each year are marked by active involvement by the local community and the continued support of local community has enabled us to host six concerts of high-caliber artistes independently and co-host three concerts with like-minded organizations during our previous year, 2001-2002.
Sangeetha’s activities have steadily grown over the years with number of concerts increasing and the roster of artistes hosted by Sangeetha reads like a veritable Who’s Who of Indian Classical Music and includes some of the greatest living talent of Indian classical music.
Some of the celebrated artists who have performed under Sangeetha’s banner:
- Pandit Jasraj
- Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna
- Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma
- Pt. Rajan & Sajan Mishra
- Ustad Imrat Khan
- Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
- Zakir Hussain
- Kadri Gopalnath
- Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia
- Dr. L. Shankar
- Sudha Raghunath
- Ronu Muzumdar
- Ustad Irshad Khan
- Smt. Padma Talwalkar
- Lalgudi Jayaraman
- Hyderabad Brothers
- ChitraVina Ravikiran
and the list goes on…
