Konarak Reddy

Konarak Reddy is a great music director of Kannada Film Industry. He was born on 15 September 1955. His father is Pattabhirama Reddy Tikkavarapu Widely known for spearheading the art film movemen >> Read More... , and his mother is Snehalata Reddy A theater actress, a Kannada film actress, and a s >> Read More... . He integrated Hindustani and Carnatic style improvisation into his guitar technique skillfully. He has Western Theory on Guitar and later became trained in Sarod by Gurus Debi Prasad Ghosh and Rajeev Taranath Rajeev Taranath, an Indian professional musician w >> Read More... . He studied Jazz music at Berklee College of Music and graduated from the Musician’s Institute, Hollywood, in the United States of America. Joe Diorio, Scott Henderson, and Peter Sprague. were his guitar teachers.

Konarak has performed with world-class musicians like Claus Boesser-Ferrari, Jacques Stotzem, Peter Finger, Dr. L. Subramaniam, Ahmed El-Salamouny, Antonio Forcione, George Laval, Maynard Fergusson, Orexis, and Embryo. He started World Guitar Nights by hosting  Peter Finger (Germany), Dylan Fowler (Wales), Claus Boesser-Ferrari (Germany), Bob Bonastre (France), Don Ross (Canada), Sandor Szabo (Hungary), Masa Sumida (Japan) perform in India every year from 2004 to 2009 and created awareness about Guitar.

Later, he came up with a Kannad album Marathahalli Rani, produced by him and his wife Kirtana Kumar. This album has eight songs written by Konarak and translated by singer M D Pallavi in Kannada. The music in this album is a combination of Indian ragas, American folk, Western Classical, and ’70s rock. He also started the Guitar Gita competition in 2014 and made it global by organizing it at an international music festival at Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bengaluru.