Preetha Narayanan
performer- composer
Indian Classical violin playing
Debut of my Hindustani (North Indian Classical) violin playing at Jamboree venue London at an event that I curated in July 2024 in order to fulfill two goals: to showcase my Indian classical playing playing and to bring Indian classical music to an alternative, intimate venue where it would be new to its regular crowd and I would diversify audiences. Joined by Giuliano Modarelli, guitar & Harkiret Singh, tabla.
INdian classical MENTOR- Prattyush Banerjee
I had the opportunity to work with Prattyush last year, after being introduced to him by his student and my collaborator Soumik Datta- a leading British-Asian sarod player and composer. He is one of the most articulate teachers I have encountered and has helped me start to grasp and understand the building blocks of the Hindustani style in a way that I hadn’t before.
It is also a unique experience to train with a teacher of a different instrument, offering techniques that the violinist would normally not play and what I can present. Working with him and being immersed will help me take my playing and my understanding of the style to the next level.
Contemporary Composition
One of two EPs below that I released in 2022 ‘Bleeding Heart’, which I recently arranged to perform live with my latest trio project with Zac Gvi and Saied Silbak. In addition to performing piano/violin pieces of mine with dancer choreographers Nandita Shankardass and Mithun Gill, I also composed new music for the trio to perform at the Free Range series Canterbury in May 2024: https://freerangecanterbury.org/fr270/. We will continue to explore my compositions in the Autumn.
A new composition featuring Zac Gvi, bass clarinet & Saied Silbak, oud
Dancers Mithun Gill & Nandita Shankardass created choreography to my piano + violin composition, Dhī Nīla. Film by Thom Seaman
A TASTE OF OTHER WOrk: SOLO & Collaborative
Balladeste string duo, a collaborative project between myself & Tara Franks, cello. We compose all of our music together, and for our second album Beyond Breath, I brought Indian influences and devotional music as the starting point.
