Sanjay Subrahmanyan

• Sanjay has been acclaimed as one of the most serious exponents of carnatic music in his generation. With the rare combination of conviction and idealism, he has given an innovative and interpretative quality to his sensual kind of singing.

• He began learning music at the age of seven. Initial training was under Shri V.Lakshminarayana on the violin as well as in vocal music. He later switched to vocal music and was trained by Smt.Rukmini Rajagopalan for a period of almost eight years. Skills were further sharpened under the renowned Guru, Calcutta Shri K.S Krishnamurthi and the training under him led to innovations and blending of tradition and modernity.

• He is a musician, whose music is a happy and healthy synthesis of the traits in the styles of many maestros of the past, but not even for a moment appearing to be imitative of anybody. He is an achiever in all branches of classical music like, fine awareness of sruti values, grip on the idiom of ragas and rhythm, a rich repertoire of classical compositions, expertise in gamakas, particularly jaaru(meend),a mind open to new ideas and an unfailing sense of aesthetics.

• Sanjay has performed with excellence and has enthralled the music loving audiences in Chennai as well as in Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, Delhi and other places all over India. He has toured Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, USA, Canada, UK and Oman.

 Date of Birth :  January 21, 1968.

Academic Qualifications :  Graduate in Commerce and a qualified Chartered and Cost                                               Accountant.

Awards and Title :   The first prize in the AIR competition held in 1985.
                               `Yuva Kala Bharathi’ title from Bharat Kalachar in 1991.
                               Sanskriti Award from the Sanskriti Prathishthan for performing art in 1997.