V SELVAGANESH represents the new breed of percussionist emerging from India. Young, cosmopolitan and adventurous. The son of T H "Vikku" Vinayakram, Selvaganesh emerges also from a disciplic tradition. Gaining instruction at his grandfather's institution, the Sri Jaya Ganesh Thala Vadya Vidyala, Selvaganesh gave his first performance at the age of ten.
Now in his twenties, he has already gained renown among leading musicians of the Carnatic tradition. Among those he has accompanied are Smt M S Subbalakshmi, Smt M Vasanthakumari, Smt Gayathri, Lalgudi Sri Jayaraman, Mandolin Sri Srinivas, Sri Ganesh and Sri Kumeresh, Sri D K Jayaraman, Sri T N Seshagopalan, Kadri Sri Gopalnath and Trichur Sri Ramachandran. He has performed in major concerts since 1986 accompanying singers and musicians from Delhi and Madras and even as diverse as the Andaman and Nicobar islands. In 1993, he traveled across Europe together with tabla maestro's Ustad Zakir Hussain and Ustad Alla Rakha and Sri T H Vinayakram.
His spirit of adventure has also led to forays into the world of jazz where he has played in the jazz group conducted by Sri Ganesh and Sri Kumeresh as well as Sri Maha Perijava Groups "Swara Laya Mela". He has gained most recognition in the west for his work with guitar maestro John McLaughlin in the group Shakti.External links to a rare PICTURE of the Vinayakram brothers playing with their father "Vikku" [photo Avinash Pasricha] and the SRUTI MAGAZINE WEBPAGE that contains it |
