S2 Ep 12 - Aditya Prakash - Carnatic Vocalist and Founder of Aditya Prakash Ensemble

Aditya Prakash @adityaprakashmusic is an award-winning vocalist known for his powerful and emotive voice - a young virtuoso of Carnatic music, and one of the youngest musicians to tour and perform with Ravi Shankar at the age of 16. In addition, Aditya has worked with leading innovators of the arts such as Anoushka Shankar, Karsh Kale, Tigran Hamasyan and most recently Akram Khan. In 2010, Aditya founded the Aditya Prakash Ensemble, a group that frames Aditya’s highly ornamented, stylized and emotive Carnatic vocal style around jazz instrumentation.Take a listen to an excerpt from the episode where Aditya is reflecting on his expanding perspective and approach to his art and activism, as he took time over the past year to reflect.