Thursday, August 4, 2011

My profile

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Born in a family of musicians at Berhampore(Ganjam) a town in Orissa which has a rich cultural and literary back ground..Murali mohan cultivated a good taste for music and literature since his childhood...In pursuit of music he came to Vizianagram where he studied music at Maharaja Music college under the tutelage of Sri.Tirupati Gopala Krishna and Sri.P.V.Seshiah sastry..

Skills summary:

Varied but accomplished talent and back ground in singing,Music composing and also in Cultural journalism.

  • Having a melodious voice ,Murali gave many light , semi classical and film music concerts.

  • Having close association with many scholars and literary personalities like
SriSri,Arudra,Chaso,Ravisastry,Ajanta, Uppala Lakshmana rao,Avasarala Ramakrishna rao etc and cultural and literary organizations like Virasam,Vikasam(Berhampore),Visakha sahiti etc. cultivated a good taste for literature and culture.

  • Murali Mohan has created a history in cultural journalism by contributing a full cultural page for Andhra Bhoomi(daily )and Andhra Jyoathi(daily) for more than one and half decades.His cultural colums and music colums in other dailies like Hindu,Deccan chronicle,Indian express,Andhra prabha Andhra Bhoomi(weekly),Rachana were well received by the readers.

  • readership survey His special features ~~``Raaga ranjani’’ and ``Raaga maalika’’( a music column presented in a popular style analyzing Indian film music in relation to Indian and Western music scales ),Endaro Mahanubhavul ( history of Indian music),Tyagaraaja vaibhavam( analyzing Saint Tyagaraja`s compositions) and Cultural quiz published in Andhra bhoomi and Andhrajyothi dailies were well received by the laymen and laity as well and thesse colums had a verygood readership according to the surveys conducted by the respective dailies.

  • Mural Mohan having close association with  themusical legend Saluru rajeswara rao of yester years, studied the intricacies of music composing .and also studying the styles of various film music directors like Shankar- Jaikishan,Naushad,O.P.Nayyar,Madan mohan Ravindra jain,S.D Burman R.D Burman,Kalyanji-Anadji,Lakshmkant-Pyarelaal ,Ghantasaala,Master Venu and etc and developed a style of his own,that is very diverse in composition,arrangements and music style and named it as 
    `Indian Melodic Rock'

    He also set music for the compositions of Jayadeva,,Narayana Teertha, Sadasiva Brahmendra.Ranmadas,Surdas,Tulasi das,Meera bai .His live music shows Tyagaraja atma darsanam,Krishnam vande jagadgurum presented at Madras Music Academy were instant hits..

Educational:
  • Masters degree in commerce
  • Diploma in karnatak music and Hindusthani music.
  • Made an extensive research oriented study of Indian and western music scales and also Indian film music and contributed more than five hundred articles to various news papers which were published.

Experience
  • He composed music for`` Sivapadam’’ of Samavedam Shanmukha Sarma.He composed 111 verses of Sivapadam in 111 ragas without repetition. He composed in both karnatak and Hindusthani raga-s some of which are rere raragas likeLavangi,Deepak,Sankara,Gara,saavitri etc.Sivapadam was presented as a music show at Madras Music Academy which received an over whelming response from the laity as well as layman.Many of these compostions were recorded in the voice of S.P Balasubrahmanyam,S.P.Sailaja and vijay yesudasand others
He also set music fort he compositions of Jayadeva,,Narayana Teertha, Sadasiva Brahmendra.Ranmadas,Surdas,Tulasi das,Meera bai .

His live music shows Sivapadam,Tyagaraja atma darsanam,Krishnam vande jagadgurum presented at Madras Music Academy,Kala bharati ,Visakhapatnam,Ravibndra Bharati,Hyderabad were instant hits..

At present he is working on a project i.e bringing in to light the compositions  of The 12th-13th century saint composer Sri.kanta Krishnamacharyulu popularly known as krishnamaacharyuu.He has started aproject namely Krishnamayya project



Film Experience:

Murali mohan worked with the famous film director K.Viswanath as Music Director for his film `Swarabhishekam’,which bagged National award for Music.

Mission:

Murali mohan `s mission is to propagate Hindu vedic culture  and the life,works and the spiritual message of the Ist saint composer and the father of south Indian music Sri.Kanta Krishnamacharyulu  and saint Tyagaraja through out the world .

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