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Raman Kalyan

Flautist

Raman Kalyan
   Biography
'Raman’s recordings and live performances are testimony to a profound musical sensibility as a composer and musician of the highest order." 
Glen Velez. World Frame Drummer & Grammy Winner, New York, USA
 

“MUSIC INDISPENSABLE IN KRISHNA BHAKTI”
Raman Kalyan on traditional bamboo flute distilled the lament & passion of the character’s dual lives.  -- The Oregonian
 
Raman Kalyan is one of the leading Flautists in the Carnatic style of Music. Raman recently won the “Best Flautist Award” from Madras Music Academy for his concert during December Music Festival 2009. Raman is a featured artist in the "Miles from India" tour & performs with legends Dave Liebman, Lenny White, Mandolin Shrinivas, Selvaganesh (Remember Shakti), Darryl Jones (Rolling Stones), John Beasley (Finding Nemo, A.R Rahman’s Journey Home Tour) and has performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival & Miles from India fest at Paris. Raman has also been touring as a special guest with the legendary Singer & Guinness record holder K.J Yesudas. Raman’s latest CD, "Music for Deep Meditation", produced by Inner Splendour Media, reached the #1 Spot on the Apple iTunes in the world music category & has been on the top 50 for more than 6 months.
 
Raman Kalyan, also known as Flute Raman, is one of the word's leading flautists in the Carnatic style of music. Raman has captivated audiences in a number of India's major music festivals and toured widely in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, and Japan. On several occasions, he has had the privilege of performing duets along with his Guru, the great flute maestro Dr. N. Ramani. Raman has also been very successful as a music composer, scoring music for over 50 albums. His most recent release "Music for Deep Relaxation" reached the #1 spot on the Apple iTunes World Music
Charts, remaining in the top 50 albums for nearly six months. In addition to Carnatic music concerts, Raman also performs Jugalbandhi with North Indian classical musicians and East-West Fusion Concerts.
 
He has worked with great carnatic music stalwarts like Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna, Mandolin Shrinivas, Nedunoori Krishnamurthy, K.J. Yesudas, R.K. Srikantan, T.N.Seshagopalan, Dr.N.Ramani, Veena Doreswamy Iyengar, Kadri Gopalnath, Guruvayur Dorai and Srimushnum Raja Rao. He has performed Jugalbandhis with many popular Hindustani musicians like Pt Debi Prasad Chatterjee (Diciple of Smt Annapurna Devi), Nanda Kishore Muley (Disciple of Pandit Shivkumar sharma), Gaurav Mazumdar (Disciple of pandit Ravi Shankar), Deepakram (Disciple of Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia), great tabla maestro Anindo Chatterjee and has performed
along with many Western Orchestras. He has collaborated with fusion and Jazz musicians including Dave Liebman, Dr.L.Subramaniam, Louis Banks, John Beasley, Darryl Jones, Nicholas Payton, John Beasley, Adam Holzman, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Ndugu Chancler & V. Selvaganesh Charlie Mariano, Rama Mani, Ranjit Barrot, Karl Peters and world renowned percussionists like Jamie Haddod , Glen Velez (Grammy award winner), and Lenny White. Raman has also composed music for many dance ballets and theatre productions and has worked in all genres of Bharathanatyam, Kuchipudi, Oddissi, & Khathak and has worked with Indian Dance like legends like the Dhananjayans, C.V Chandrashekar, Adayar K Lakshman, Manju Bharghavi. Raman has also rendered his accompaniment for Martha Graham's Documentary film "The flute of Krishna". He has accompanied for all the popular playback singers of Indian Cinema like Dr P.B. Sreenivos, S.P. Balasubramaniam, K.J. Jesudas, Chitra, S. Janaki, Dr. Rajkumar and has worked with all the famous music directors of Kannada Film Industry.
 
Raman has made valuable contributions to the kannada film industry. He has worked with the successful music directors like Hamsalekha, Rajan-Nagendra, Upendrakumar, Manohar, Rajesh Ramanthan, and Sadhu. Raman was specially featured in the re-recording of the box office hit movie "Janumada Jodi", which broke all previous Kannada box office records. Other successful films include Ramesh Aravind’s Thutta muttha, Gadibidi ganda, Tuvvi Tuvvi Tuvvi, Kaurava, Tavarina Tottilu. Raman has taken roles as an accompanist, composer and conductor for more than 400 commercial soundtracks.
 
  
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   Career
Raman Kalyan, also known as Flute Raman, is one of the word's leading flautists in the Carnatic style of music. Raman has captivated audiences in a number of
India's major music festivals and toured widely in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, and Japan. On several occasions, he has had the privilege of performing duets along with his Guru, the great flute maestro Dr. N. Ramani. Raman has also been very successful as a music composer, scoring music for over 50 albums. His most recent release "Music for Deep Relaxation" reached the #1 spot on the Apple iTunes World Music  Charts, remaining in the top 50 albums for nearly six months. In addition to Carnatic music concerts, Raman also performs Jugalbandhi with North Indian
classical musicians and East-West Fusion Concerts.
 
He has worked with great carnatic music stalwarts like Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna, Mandolin Shrinivas, Nedunoori Krishnamurthy, K. J. Yesudas, R.K. Srikantan,
T. N. Seshagopalan, Dr.N.Ramani, Veena Doreswamy Iyengar, Kadri Gopalnath, Guruvayur Dorai and Srimushnum Raja Rao. He has performed Jugalbandhis with many  popular Hindustani musicians like Pt Debi Prasad Chatterjee (Diciple of Smt Annapurna Devi), Nanda Kishore Muley (Disciple of Pandit Shivkumar sharma),
Gaurav Mazumdar (Disciple of pandit Ravi Shankar), Deepakram (Disciple of Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia), great tabla maestro Anindo Chatterjee and has performed
along with many Western Orchestras. He has collaborated with fusion and Jazz musicians including Dave Liebman, Dr.L.Subramaniam, Louis Banks, John Beasley, Darryl Jones, Nicholas Payton, John Beasley, Adam Holzman, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Ndugu Chancler & V. Selvaganesh Charlie Mariano, Rama Mani, Ranjit Barrot, Karl Peters and world renowned percussionists like Jamie Haddod , Glen Velez (Grammy award winner), and Lenny White. Raman has also composed music for many dance ballets and theatre productions and has worked in all genres of Bharathanatyam, Kuchipudi, Oddissi, & Khathak and has worked with Indian Dance like legends like the Dhananjayans, C.V Chandrashekar, Adayar K Lakshman, Manju Bharghavi. Raman has also rendered his accompaniment for Martha Graham's Documentary film "The flute of Krishna". He has accompanied for all the popular playback singers of Indian Cinema like Dr P.B. Sreenivos, S.P. Balasubramaniam, K.J. Jesudas, Chitra, S. Janaki, Dr. Rajkumar and has worked with all the famous music directors of Kannada Film Industry.
 
 
Raman has made valuable contributions to the kannada film industry. He has worked with the successful music directors like Hamsalekha, Rajan-Nagendra,
Upendrakumar, Manohar, Rajesh Ramanthan, and Sadhu. Raman was specially featured in the re-recording of the box office hit movie "Janumada Jodi", which broke  all previous Kannada box office records. Other successful films include Ramesh Aravind’s Thutta muttha, Gadibidi ganda, Tuvvi Tuvvi Tuvvi, Kaurava, Tavarina  Tottilu. Raman has taken roles as an accompanist, composer and conductor for more than 400 commercial soundtracks.
 
Raman has served at All India Radio, Bhadravathi & Bangalore, and Karnataka as a Staff Flautist (1988-2001). He has served as a member of Film Recording Musicians Federation, Bangalore, India (1993-2000)
 
Raman trained a number of performing students at India and USA. He conducted Workshops on South Indian Music at Trinity College of Music, London, The   Lincoln Center, The LiedCenter, University of Birmingham-UK, Wabash College- Indiana, Western Carolina University- Cullowhee North Carolina, Stetson University- Florida, Goucher College- MD and Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Workshops at the Trinity College of Music, London, The University of Birmingham, Stetson University, etc.

Raman Kalyan currently run the Sri Krishna Academy of Music at Virginia. Raman is in both the faculty and Board of Directors for the Learn Quest Academy of Music, Waltham, MA.
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Raman Kalyan Presents Flute Recital

Raman Kalyan, also known as Flute Raman, is one of the word's leading flautists in the Carnatic style of music. Raman has captivated audiences in a number of India's major music festivals and toured widely in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, and Japan. On several occasions, he has had the privilege of performing duets along with his Guru, the great flute maestro Dr. N. Ramani. Raman has also been very successful as a music composer, scoring music for over 50 albums. His most recent release "Music for Deep Relaxation" reached the #1 spot on the Apple iTunes World Music Charts, remaining in the top 50 albums for nearly six months. In addition to Carnatic music concerts, Raman also performs Jugalbandhi with North Indian He has worked with great carnatic music stalwarts like Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna, Mandolin Shrinivas, Nedunoori Krishnamurthy, K. J. Yesudas, R.K. Srikantan,T. N. Seshagopalan, Dr.N.Ramani, Veena Doreswamy Iyengar, Kadri Gopalnath, Guruvayur Dorai and Srimushnum Raja Rao. He has performed Jugalbandhis with many popular Hindustani musicians like Pt Debi Prasad Chatterjee (Diciple of Smt Annapurna Devi), Nanda Kishore Muley (Disciple of Pandit Shivkumar sharma), Gaurav Mazumdar (Disciple of pandit Ravi Shankar), Deepakram (Disciple of Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia), great tabla maestro Anindo Chatterjee and has performed along with many Western Orchestras. He has collaborated with fusion and Jazz musicians including Dave Liebman, Dr.L.Subramaniam, Louis Banks, John Beasley, Darryl Jones, Nicholas Payton, John Beasley, Adam Holzman, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Ndugu Chancler & V. Selvaganesh Charlie Mariano, Rama Mani, Ranjit Barrot, Karl Peters and world renowned percussionists like Jamie Haddod, Glen Velez (Grammy award winner), and Lenny White. Raman has also composed music for many dance ballets and theatre productions and has worked in all genres of harathanatyam, Kuchipudi, Oddissi, & Khathak and has worked with Indian Dance like legends like the Dhananjayans, C.V andrashekar, Adayar K Lakshman, Manju Bharghavi. Raman has also endered his accompaniment for Martha Graham's Documentary film "The flute of Krishna". He has accompanied for all the popular playback singers of Indian Cinema like Dr P.B. Sreenivos, S.P. Balasubramaniam, K.J. Jesudas, Chitra, S. Janaki, Dr. Rajkumar and has worked with all the famous music directors of Kannada Film Industry.
   Awards & Achievements
Achivements of Raman Kalyan
 •Honors in the Senior Grade Music Examination - First Rank.
 •Senior Fellowship from the Department of Culture, Government of India.
 •“A” Grade Flautist of All India Radio & National Television - Doordarshan.
 •Grade 'A' Composer of All India Radio & Doordarshan
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