Adult Ticket for Trichy Sankaran
Friday, Oct 3 7:00pm (general admission)
Lions Hall

Legendary South Indian percussion virtuoso Trichy Sankaran, in concert with Curtis Andrews and Carnatic violinist V.V.S. Murari.

Known internationally as one of the greatest living mridangam performers, Sankaran has performed far and wide at major festivals in India, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and North America.

He has won numerous awards including the All India Radio gold medal, the President of India award, the Tlakkalai Arasu (king of rhythm) conferred by Bharati Kala Manram (Toronto), multi-year winner of the Annamalai Chettiar Award conferred by the Music Academy (Madras), Tala vadya prakasa conferred by the Karnatak Music Academy of North America (New York), Palghat Mani Iyer Award from the Percussive Arts Centre (Bangladore), the Madras Music Academy‘s Sangeetha Kalanidhi, and the Tiruchirapalli Carnatic Musicians Lifetime Achievement Award.

Since moving to Canada in the 1970’s, he has been a member of the faculty at York University, Toronto. Now at 82 years of age, he is still touring and dazzling audiences as he has for decades.