165-N.P.Ramaswamy - Vocal Concert

Sri.N.P.Ramaswamy, the veteran carnatic musician, a post graduate in Applied Chemistry is the great great grand son of Sri.Palakkad Parameswara Bhagavathar who was the Asthana Vidwan of  four successive Travancore Rulers such as Swati Tirunal,Uttram Tirunal, Ayiliam Tirunal and Visakham Tirunal. Sri.N.P.Ramaswamy who has performed across the country, started giving concerts from the age of 16 and his career in music has spanned more than 65 years now. His repertoire includes over 1,500 compositions.

A top ranking artiste of All India Radio (AIR), Sri.N.P.Ramaswamy has written many books on Carnatic Music and is a vaggeyakara having composed 20 varnams and 35 krithis and 2 Tillanas. Most of his krithis are in Sanskrit.  He is a dedicated Guru and now at 82 he is still going strong with his performance, classes and composing. 

Sri.N.P.Ramaswamy, is the recipient of the gold medal for Carnatic music from Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam. He has received more than 100 awards. More than 25 titles have been bestowed upon him such as the Sangeetha Ratna, Sangeetha Poornasree, Sangeetha Sreshta, Gana Nipuna,Sangeetha Kala Praveena-Chennai, Sangeetha Thilakam, Raja Rishi conferred by Late. Sri.V.R.Krishna Iyer, the Kerala state award etc to name a few.

Here  are a few soulful krithis sung by the great master..


1 Nagasayananam Sri Padmanabhan -Panthuvarali-Adi- Swathi Thirunal    
2 Palaya Palaya  -  Kapi-Adi KC. Keshava Pillai
3 Karunasagaran Allayo - Abhogi-Adi-Pudukode Krishnamoorthy 
4 Sarasijanabhanin  - Sowrashtram -Misra Chappu-Swathi Thirunal 
5 Pankajakshnam Ramesan-  Thodi - Rupakam-Swathi Thirunal
6 Sri Pathe Narayana - Mukhari -Misra Chappu-Keerikadu Gopalan Nair
7 Enthina Thuna Sakhi- Kamas- Adi-Pudukode Krishnamoorthy

