Sangeetha Swaminathan

Sangeetha Swaminathan is a Carnatic vocalist who has been performing since the age of nine. Hailing from Chennai, India, she learned music first from her father, Sri Karur Krishnamoorthy, and since 1993 from Smt. Sudha Raghunathan. She is an 'A' grade artiste of All India Radio, Madras, and a regular performer at the annual December Carnatic music festival in Chennai. Her awards and titles include recognition from the Music Academy, Madras, and the Carnatic Music Association of North America. She has recorded over a dozen albums with Charsur Digital Workstation. Since moving to the United States in 2002 she has performed in cities across the country and internationally in London, Singapore, the UAE, Seoul, Israel, Syria, Cyprus, Italy and Romania under the sponsorship of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Government of India. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she also teaches; her students include Prithvi Guruprasad, her apprentice in the Alliance for California Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program in 2009.