Arun Ramamurthy and his trio have a busy slate of Bay Area concerts that feature the violinist’s exploration of Indian music and jazz.
Carnatic violinist Arun Ramamurthy is making the world safe for raga.
He’s been on a mission ever since to connect the music of the hearth with the sounds he encountered outside his home. Involved in an array of ensembles created to bring together artists steeped in classical Indian music with other styles and idioms, Ramamurthy introduces his new raga jazz trio to the Bay Area over the next week with a series of performances.
The trio’s West Coast debut is supported by a grant from South Arts, but Ramamurthy has performed several times in the Bay Area previously in collaborations spearheaded by Brooklyn Raga Massive. He and Fremont-raised drummer Sameer Gupta co-founded the BRM collective, which opened up vast new frontiers for musicians trained in North and South Indian classical music to join forces with artists from other traditions.
For the Bay Area run Ramamurthy’s trio is focusing on music from his upcoming album “New Moon Suite,” a work commissioned by Chamber Music America. The project represents both his evolution as a composer and bandleader and his debt to his ancestors, particularly his grandmother, a Carnatic violinist “who taught me to be true to yourself, Regardless of expectations,” he said.
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