Rose Muralikrishnan

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Rose Muralikrishnan is a Carnatic Music singer. Rose was born and brought up in Chennai, India. she received advanced voice training from the vocalist and performer late Dr. M. L. Vasanthakumari. Rose received her Master's degree from the University of Madras and Bachelor's degree from Queen Mary's College, Chennai in South Indian Music performance and theory.

1 Famous performances
2 Teaching music
3 Productions
4 External links

[edit] Famous performances

Rose has performed numerous concerts around the world. She has performed in the major Music festivals such as the Music Academy of the West, the Center for Jazz and World Music Festival, CSU San Marcos International Music Festival, UCSB's Day of Music. She has also performed in many prestigious theaters such as UCLA's Schonberg Hall, SDSU's Montezuma and Smith recital Hall, UCSD's Mandeville Theater USC's Annenberg Auditorium, UCLB's Carpenter's Performing Arts Theater, UCSB, Salk Institute of San Diego to add a few. She served the community through music performances and lectures demonstrations to promote Indian music and culture in the United States. Her community services also include educating South Asian as well as non-music major students and other members of the community through lectures and performances in few other venues such as Palomar College, CAL Poly Pomona colleges, UCLA, USC and several high schools, community colleges and temples and in the USA.

[edit] Teaching music

Rose was an adjunct professor of South Indian Music at the San Diego State University, USA in 1991. She worked as the Principal of the music school at the Santhome Communication Center, Madras, India and her performances are often broadcast on Indian Television and All India Radio. Before she joined the center she was a music instructor at the Jiddu Krishnamurthi Foundation, Rishi Valley School, Andra Pradesh, India.

[edit] Productions

Rose Muralikrishnan's production entitled Gayaka Vadhya Brundham for the first time live in the United States at the Carpenter's Performing Arts Center in June 1996, reviving the 2000 year old traditional art called Vadhya Brundham (Orchestral music) of India. While she was a principal of the Music school at Santhome Communication Center she composed, directed, conducted and sung for many music, dance drama and audio visual productions with several leading performers such as Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, Sudha Raghunathan and many others. She composed music for several dance drama productions and worked with famous Nattuvanars such as Udupi Lakshminarayana, Adayar Lakshmanan, Dhananjayans and several others.

Rose Muralikrishnan is working along with N. Muralikrishnan, and Amrithavarshini towards developing Spring Nectar Academy, for teaching South Asian Fine Arts, Language Arts and Theater Arts.