Trivandrum V. Surendran
Born
V. Surendran

1941/1942
Travancore
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndia
Occupationinstrumentalist
SpouseK. Sushila
Children2
AwardsSangeet Natak Akademi Award
Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Fellowship
Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award
Musical career
GenresCarnatic music
Instrument(s)Mridangam

Trivandrum V. Surendran is a mridangam exponent from Kerala, India. He received several awards including Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Fellowship, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award and Madras Music Academy Award.

Biography

V. Surendran, a native of Edappazhanji of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), learned the instrumental lessons from his uncle P. Gangadharan Nair.[1] Surendran graduated from Swathi Thirunal College of Music, Thiruvananthapuram in the first batch of 1959.[2] He completed Ganabhushanam course from there in 1962.[3] After studying mridangam for four years under the famous mridangam player Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair, he became a disciple of Palghat Mani Iyer under the Gurukula system of education with a scholarship from the Government of India, Ministry of Culture.[2] It was his guru Mani Iyer who gave him the name Trivandrum V. Surendran.[4]

In 1970, he became a teacher at the Swathi Thirunal Music College, where he studied.[1] In 1974, at the age of 28, he joined Kozhikode Akashvani as a staff artist in the music department and worked in Akashvani for thirty years.[5] Later he worked in Thrissur and in 1982 he moved to Thiruvananthapuram Akashvani.[1]

Personal life

Surendran lives with his wife K. Sushila in Edappazhanji Vivekananda Nagar Dhwani.[1] Of the two sons, Sandeep is an expert in mridangam and Shankar in violin.[1]

Musical career

He is one of the exponents of Thanjavur Bani style in mridangam.[5]

In 1981, Surendran was appointed to the Thiruvananthapuram Akashvani, where he had the opportunity to play Mritangam with many prominent musicians at the Navratri Mandapam Music Festival.[3] He has performed with many noted instrumentalists such as Chembai, K. V. Narayanaswamy, S. Balachander, K. S. Narayanaswamy.[6]

Awards and honours

Surendran received many awards including Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award, Madras Music Academy Award, Navarasa Sangeetha Sabha Award, Sangeetha Bharata Puraskaram, Mridanga Vadyaratnam Award and Madurai Sangeetha Sabha's Layavadyavisharad honour.[5] He received Sree Guruvayurappan Chembai Puraskaram in November 2022.[7] In 2019 he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Carnatic instrumental-mridangam [8] and Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Fellowship.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "മൃദംഗത്തിൽ തലസ്ഥാനത്തിന്റെ താളപ്പെരുക്കം". Mathrubhumi. 5 November 2022. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b "തിരുവനന്തപുരം വി.സുരേന്ദ്രന് ചെമ്പൈ പുരസ്‌കാരം". Samakalika Malayalam (in Malayalam). Samakalika Malayalam Vaarika. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Trivandrum V. Surendran's mridangam magic - Bharat Times". bharat times. 16 December 2022. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  4. ^ "ഗുരുപാതയിലെ മൃദംഗമാധുരി". Samakalika Malayalam (in Malayalam). Samakalika Malayalam Vaarika. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  5. ^ a b c "പാലക്കാട് മണി അയ്യരുടെ പ്രിയശിഷ്യന്‍ തിരുവനന്തപുരം വി. സുരേന്ദ്രന്റെ കലാജീവിതത്തെക്കുറിച്ച്". archived from mathrubhumi.com. Mathrubhumi. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Drumming to the rhythms of perfection". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  7. ^ Paul, G. S. (16 December 2022). "Trivandrum V. Surendran's mridangam magic". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  8. ^ "Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for the year 2019" (PDF). Sangeet Natak Akademi. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  9. ^ "ബിയാട്രിസിനും സദനം വാസുദേവനും വി. സുരേന്ദ്രനും : സംഗീത നാടക അക്കാദമി ഫെലോഷിപ്പ്". Mathrubhumi. Archived from the original on 17 September 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
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