Mridangam maestro Vankayala Narasimham is to receive Palghat Mani Iyer Memorial Award and title “Mridanga Kala Siromani’ at Thalavadyotsav-2014 (the 33rd annual percussive arts festival and music conference) at Bangalore Gayana Samaja on K.R. Road in Bangalore on July 13. Percussive Arts Centre is organising the programme.
Kala Ratna Narasimham, who was at his residence on the Ring Road here told The Hindu on Thursday that he was born on November 14, 1931 in Bheemunipatnam in Visakhapatnam district to Venkatalakshmi and Lakshmana Swamy and had studied B.A. B.Sc. B. Ed and worked as a science teacher in B.P.M. High School here for 22 years. Later, he worked as a Mridangam staff artist in All India Radio, Visakhapatnam from 1975 to 1991, and as a Principal of Vignana Vihar, Gudilova from 1991-2013.
He would be leaving for Bangalore on Friday to deliver a lecture on four M’s – melody, mathematics, method and manipulation --- on July 12.
