Ambi first performed in public at the age of seven and has appeared on stage with his father at concerts throughout India and in Malaysia, Switzerland, and the United States. He performed with jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty in 2003. The next year, at age 13, he helped represent Indian music at a musical event for hundreds of young American and Indian musicians, held concurrently at Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Sai Center in New Delhi and linked by a real-time interactive video broadcast. Ambi also has performed before the president of India, at the Menuhin Festival in Switzerland, and at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival in New York.
Ambi first performed in public at the age of seven and has appeared on stage with his father at concerts throughout India and in Malaysia, Switzerland, and the United States. He performed with jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty in 2003. The next year, at age 13, he helped represent Indian music at a musical event for hundreds of young American and Indian musicians, held concurrently at Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Sai Center in New Delhi and linked by a real-time interactive video broadcast. Ambi also has performed before the president of India, at the Menuhin Festival in Switzerland, and at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival in New York.
The complexities of India's melodic modes (ragas) are paralleled by a sophisticated array of rhythmic modes (talas). At left, Mahesh Krishnamurthy plays mridangam, the double-headed drum always heard in concerts of south Indian classical music. At right, Satish Pathakota plays kanjira, a frame drum covered by a membrane of snakeskin.
