Girijashankar Sundaresan | |
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| Born | 30th July 1988, 36 years |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Singer (Carnatic Music) |
| Years active | 2002-present |
| Spouse | Rajya Rajan (Married 2016-present) |
| Website | www.girijashankar.com |
Girijashankar Sundaresan [1] [2] is an Indian Carnatic music vocalist from Chennai. [3] He is a disciple of Chitravina Narasimhan and N. Ravikiran. [4]
Girijashankar's first stage performance was in early 2008. He later started performing regularly at The Music Academy [5] [6] [7] and Mylapore Fine Arts Club (Chennai), Vani Mahal (Chennai) [8] Shanmukhananda Sabha and The Fine Arts Society (Mumbai), Rama Seva Mandali and Kalavanta Festival [9] (Bangalore), Tamil Sangam (New Delhi), Kalasagaram (Hyderabad) and Edappally Sangeetha Sadas and Kalpathy Rathotsavam (Kerala) and Cleveland Tyagaraja Aradhana [10] & Shruti Laya [11] (United States).
Girijashankar is also a music educator, giving talks and demonstrations on Carnatic music at various venues and festivals such as Learn Quest Academy of Music, Boston. [21] He is currently training [22] students in India and North America.
He has been married to Rajya Rajan since 2016. [27]
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