Pia Srinivasan

Dr Pia Srinivasan has introduced Carnatic music to a discerning concert public in Germany and other European countries over a period of two decades.

In collaboration with major music centres, museums and universities, several renowned Carnatic musicians were first presented in live-concerts, radio, TV, publications and educational projects. Several archival audio and video recordings and scholarly studies have been facilitated in this manner, most notably the award winning album Sambho Mahadeva: Musik für Vina, Südindien / Music for Vina, South India by Rajeswari Padmanabhan and Dr. K.S. Subramanian.

With her husband, Prof. Dr. S.A. Srinivasan (University of Hamburg) she has published a major monograph The Goddess Mariyamman in Music and in Sociology of Religion with music excerpts sung by Sirgali Govindarajan and Madurai Somasundaram.

She is the author of a recent book in Italian: IL RAGA CHE PORTA LA PIOGGIAwith a Foreword by David B. Reck (Amherst College, Amherst).

Listen to several excerpts read by the author (in Italian).

She learnt vina from Rajeswari Padmanabhan and has founded the Sangitam Institute(Reinbek) where Carnatic music can be studied and learnt under her guidance.

Listen to her music sung and played on the vina and read some of the articles and reviews by and on Pia Srinivasan in Italian and English.

Address: ”Sangitam”, Hermann Lönsstrasse 6, 21465 Reinbek, Germany
Tel. (040) 722 34 17

e-mail: sangitam@t-online.de