R. Prasanna
R. "Guitar" Prasanna (born October 2, 1970 in Coimbatore , Tamil Nadu ) is an Indian fusion musician ( guitar , composition ) who explores Carnatic music in the direction of jazz .
Live and act
Prasanna learned singing from Tiruvarur Balasubramaniam for six years and received violin lessons from A. Kanyakumari for more than 20 years. He studied at the Indian Institute of Technology until 1992 and worked as a software engineer after graduating . Then he decided to pursue a career as a musician and studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston , where he completed his master's degree with magna cum laude in 1999 . He founded the collaborative bands Raga Metal Conversations with Alex Skolnick and Anton Fig and Ragabop Trio , initially with Steve Smith and George Brooks (album of the same name in 2010 on King Records ), which later became a quintet (with Varijashree Venugopal , Mohini Dey , Ghatam Karthick and Shyam Rao). With Vijay Iyer and Nitin Mitta he formed the trio Tirtha , which toured internationally and released an album of the same name in 2010 on Act .
He also worked with AR Rahman , Aka Moon , Airto Moreira , Jordan Rudess , Esperanza Spalding , Joe Lovano , Ilaiyaraaja , Umayalpuram Sivaraman , Victor Wooten , Dweezil Zappa , Alex Acuña , Dave Douglas , Omar Hakim , Larry Coryell , TK Murthy , Anthony Jackson , Howard Levy and Trilok Gurtu .
As a composer he also worked for film; he composed the music for the documentary Smile Pinki , which won an Oscar , and the music for the thriller Vazhakku Enn 18/9 .
Discographic notes
- under his own name
- All Terrain Guitar (Susila Music, 2016, with Shalini Lakshmi, Natalie John, Dave Douglas, Rudresh Mahanthappa , David Binney , Vijay Iyer, Mike Pope, Bill Urmson , Rodney Holmes, Mauricio Zottarelli)
- Electric Ganesha Land (Susila Music, 2006)
- as a fellow musician
- AR Rahman Million Dollar Arm: Score and Sound Track (Walt Disney Records, 2014)
- Aka Moon Guitars (De Werf, 2002, with Fabrizio Cassol , David Gilmore , Pierre Van Dormael , Michel Hatzigeorgiou , Stéphane Galland )
Web links
- Web presence
- Prasanna at Discogs (English)
- R. Prasanna at Discogs (English)
- Meet Prasanna, the guitarist AR Rahman calls 'a living hope for quality music'
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry (Suneesh Sundar )
- ↑ R. Prasanna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prasanna, R. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prasanna, Ramaswamy; Prasanna, guitar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian fusion musician (guitar, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd October 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coimbatore , Tamil Nadu |