Gautam Tejas Ganeshan at the Freight & Salvage April 7, 2013

Dubbed a "local treasure" by SF Classical Voice, and "a magnet for local Indian classical musicians" by the SF Chronicle, Gautam Tejas Ganeshan sings classical Carnatic music with distinction, innovation, and an inimitable personal style. He has galvanized the local scene, his compelling musicality and unique approach enabling him to inflect a tradition through himself so that listeners feel it speaks directly to them, and that its subtle beauty has grown new roots. Gautam's music expresses authenticity more than ethnicity, immediacy more than nostalgia - it is "new music from an old tradition" (SFJAZZ), representing the "ecstatic edge of contemporary Indian classical music" (SF International Arts Festival).

Gautam has performed at the Palace of Fine Arts, SFJAZZ, the ODC Theater, CounterPULSE, and the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason, as well as for Classical Revolution and the Mission Cultural Center, among others. His group New Directions in Indian Classical Music was commissioned in 2009 by the San Francisco Foundation, and he was one of the first artists-in-residence at the Red Poppy Art House.

Across the bay, his appearances include at the new Freight & Salvage, Yoshi's, the Hillside Club, Jazzschool, Julia Morgan Theater, Subterranean Arthouse, Ashkenaz, and at UC Berkeley's Hertz Hall and Zellerbach Playhouse.

Gautam has guest taught Carnatic music for the Music of India courses at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and has led workshops on singing and the aesthetics of Indian classical music at the SF Conservatory of Music, the Asian Art Museum (SF), and at the Stanford Jazz Workshop.

Gautam is also the founder and director of the Sangati Center, which has hosted more than 350 chamber concerts of Indian classical music in the past six years.

Official Website: http://sangaticenter.org/