Ravi Srinivasan
Tabla, Vocal, Percussion
Ravi started his musicial training as a child. He studied Indian classical percussion on the tabla under the tutelage of the master-drummer Pandit Kamalesh Maitra whom he has accompanied on tours worldwide. As a classical violinist he also played in the Radio-TV Symphony Orchestra in Malaysia and the Northern Symphony Orchestra in England.
Ravi Srinivasan performs as a percussionist in the fields of Indian classical music and dance, jazz, flamenco and avantgarde in Europe and Asia and composes for dance theatre. He has toured Europe as well as India, Malaysia and the GUS States. Ravi performed at various prestigious international festivals, to name a few: Binda Din Kathak Festival in New Delhi, Potsdam Jazz Festival 2001, Folk and Jazz Festival Rudolstadt, InnToene 2002 in Austria and the Berliner Jazz Awards 2001, Festival d´Imaginaire 2004 in Paris, Musica Vitale 2004 in Berlin, Creole World Music 2006.
As an accompanist he has performed with renowned artists like Pandit Jasraj, Abdourahmane Diop, Zam Johnson and Pandit Vijai Shankar. He has also provided music accompaniment at the Berliner Literature Festival for authors Kiran Nagarkar, Shauna Singh Baldwin and Namita Gokhale. This year Ravi played 44 concerts in Iceland and Greenland with the Hypno Theatre, a collaboration of six artists from different countries. In 2006 his Trio indigo won first price at the Creole World Music 2006 in Hannover.