Unbridled Jayanth
 Master J A Jayanth's two-hour flute recital, at the ongoing 49th Gokulashtami
Sangeetha Utsavam of the prestigious
Krishna Gana Sabha, earlier this month, was marked by challenging confidence, brisk pace and increasing maturity.
He played a wide variety of ragas from Atana, Bilahari to Mohanakalyani and Poorvikalyani with remarkable ease and poise. The alapanas and swara essays were from a budding master. Kalaimamani T S Sankaran, a professional flautist, was there on the stage to provide moral support - not that Jayanth needed any!
Jayanth is an impatient 12. He has been playing with this tricky wind instrument from the ‘mature’ age of four and performing on stage from the senior age of eight! Since then, he has been imbibing and perfecting the various intricate techniques related to flute-based-Carnatic music, with continuing
fervour.
He essayed, delectably, within the allotted time-frame, nine compositions - Sri Mahaganapathim (Goula), Thelisi Rama (Poorna Chandrika), Chinna Nade Na (Kalanidhi), Ninnu Vinaa (Navarasa Kannada), Pooraya Mamakamam (Bilahari), Anupama Gunambudhi (Atana), Parama Pavana (Poorvikalyani), Bharo Krishnayya (Ragamalika) and a Mohanakalyani
Thillana.
He is inclined to play the compositions at a fast pace, sometimes furiously. Future years will temper him gainfully. However, there is no doubt that the quality of his flute music is of a remarkably high order. Senior vidwans, present on the occasion, subscribed to the view that he will flower into a high-calibre artiste very soon.
He has already released several CDs, accompanied by veterans
Vellore Ramabhadran
(mridangam) and Sikkil Bhaskaran on the violin. He is slated to release soon a DVD, with violinist Padma Shankar and mridanga vidwan
Rambhadran.
It is Jayanth’s fervent focus that is remarkable. He is brimming with confidence all the time and is visibly straining at the leash to move on to win more laurels.
Masters Parur M S Anantharaman (grandson of violin maestro Parur MSA) on the violin and Sharan Sivakumar on the percussion were perfect foil to the flautist. These two are also rising stars, doubtless.
R. Srinivasan
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