Mytreyi Shastry Aravind
Musician in North Carolina
Smt. Mytreyi Aravind (more known as S.R.Mytreyi), is a disciple of "Padma Bhushan" "Sangeetha Kala Acharya" "Kalaimamani" Sri P.S. Narayanaswami and "Kalaimamani" Dr Rukmini Ramani.
Mytreyi was sown the seeds of Carnatic Music at a very tender age. She hails from a family of Attorneys and great connoisseurs of music. Her father Sri S R Ramkrushna Sastry was a disciple of "Sangeetha Kalanidhi" Late Sri D. K. Jayaraman. Mytreyi's quest for music is limitless and she desires to innovate while keeping traditions alive and intact.
I'm Mytreyi Shastry Aravind, a Carnatic Vocal musician. I'm a disciple of"Padma Bhushan" Sri P S Narayanaswami.I've been trained in my art for more than 23 years and I've been performing this art for about 15 years. I'm an"A" graded artiste of the All India Radio.
I've performed in several prestigious platforms around the world like The Music Academy(Chennai), Sri Shanmukananda Sangeetha Sabha(Mumbai), Kamani Auditorium(New Delhi), Chhandayan(New York), Shrutilaya (New York), Sri Ramana Ashram (New York), Karnatik and Hindustani Music Council (Massachusetts), North Jersey Music Lovers(NJML),Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society (Singapore) and places in Norway and Denmark. I have won prizes in music from several organizations of International repute like The Music Academy (Chennai), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Madras), National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR, Hyderabad) to name a few.
I do mainstream Carnatic vocal music concerts. I was invited by the Montclair State University (NJ) in Fall 2012 to deliver a lecture demonstration on the 72 Melakartha ragas (scales) in Carnatic music. I performed for theTamil graduation festival conducted by the Government of Norway in the year 2010. Besides these, I have performed around 100 concerts in several parts of India including the Chennai December Music Festival.
Mytreyi has several accolades under her belt which include media interviews and reviews.