Cheenu Srinivassan, Visiting Scholar at the College of Music
Flutist, Dr. Surmani Srinivasan, joins the College of Music as a Fulbright Scholar in Residence, 2009-10. His residency is sponsored by Professor Mary-Karen Clardy. Prior to coming to UNT, he was a guest professor at Banaras Hindu University. Hailing from a family of musicians, Srinivasan is expert in both the North (Hindustani) and South (Carnatic) styles of Indian music. He studied vocal music in the Carnatic style with his father, Vidwan Srirangam.R.Kannan, and the bamboo flute wtih the late Vidwan M.Nataraja Iyer. He studied Hindustani traditions with Pandit C.L. Srivastava and Pandit Jotin Bhattacharya. Dr. Srinivasan has been awarded a Senior Fellowship from the government of India for the comparative research into the performing techniques of the Carnatic and Hindustani flutes. He is the Programme Executive at Television Centre, Varanasi.
See Professor Clardy for additional information.