Confluence of musical traditions

Hailing from a musical family, Nagaraju Talluri began to learn flute at a young age from Indraganti Kali Prasad. His fusion concerts across the globe are ample testimony of his success.

Another flautist Rupak Kulkarni has learned from flute legend Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia to become an outstanding exponent of Hindustani classical music.

Another flautist, Uberto Orlando, who hails from Italy studied composition with Gaetano Gian Luporini in Florence.

He has recorded, broadcasted and performed all over the world, including Europe, Russia, USA, Central America, Africa, India and Japan.

The three musicians performed together creating a magical experience. The programme organised by Telangana Tourism along with Chaitanya Art Theatre started with the performance of Uberto Orlando.

He rendered for various tunes in ‘The Four Seasons’ composed by Antonio Lucio Vivaldi. Rupak Kulkarni played ‘Yaman Rag’, which is usually rendered in the evenings.

It gives a distinctive quality of peace, and tranquility. After individual performances, the three-flautists collaborated and played famous pieces in classical and western music.

The trio started with ‘Shanmukha Raag’ of Carnatic music. The two-hour musical journey spell-bound the audience.

The three artistes were accompanied by Rajesh Srinivasan: Mridangam, Javed: Tabla, Rakesh Chary: Key Board, Ilayaraaja: Drums and Mohini Dey: Base Guitar.

“Two months ago we decided to perform together in Hyderabad. We wanted to give a special experience for people and we came up with ‘Triveni Sangamam’.

In this programme, we are trying to combine all forms of music into one. Initially, we faced many problems due to the language barrier with Uberto Orlando and we overcome this problem by translating notes in English.

From past two months we are working hard for this event. This entire programme is based on folk music,” Nagaraju Talluri said.