Eighteen-year-old Bangalorean, violinist Apoorva Krishna has bagged the Naad Bhed Yuva Puraskar (Carnatic music-Instrumental) at the Naad Bhed National Music Competitions conducted by Spic-Macay and Doordarshan. Currently being aired on DD-National every weekend, Apoorva is excited that she made it despite the tough rounds at the district, regional, zonal levels to reach the nationals, while the four-month long competition had 36 finalists only in the Carnatic stream.
“Looking back I feel it is a dream,” says Ms. Krishna, a student of business administration.
Recently she also got the Kalavanta Award in the National Youth Festival held at Bangalore,, and for Naad-Bhed’s Sheik Chinna Moulana Yuva Puraskar Award, her deft hands were at their creative best.
“The reward was more in the accolades I received from judges as music stalwarts Hariprasad Chourasia, Parveen Sultana, Shivkumar Sharma, T.N. Krishnan, R. Vedavalli, Prabha Atre and R.K. Srikantan were the evaluators,” she says.
Trained in the renowned Lalgudi school by violinists Anuradha Sridhar (in the U.S.) and Srimati Brahmanandam, Ms. Krishna sounding precocious, yet well-groomed, says the Lalgudi schooling is “complete” as one is wedded to the song and the lyrics, helping one aesthetically express the inherent emotion in the kriti. “With every sangati framed so well to ascertain its growth, my lessons are sung and perfected initially and then transferred onto the violin to “sing” perfectly on the strings.”
