Sri Allam Durgaprasad

Reviews:

"Teaming the Strings" - The Hindu had a special friday review on Sri Durgaprasad's concert.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/teaming-the-strings/article5841025.ece

• Shri Durgaprasad gave a scintillating performance. The ragas were rendered with pure classical touch. The songs were replete with bhava and full of life.
THE HINDU

• Shri Durgaprasad is one among those noted musicians who have made note worthy contributions to the world of Indian classical music. He is a Gottuvadyam artist who has come out with an innovative instrument called “ATHI CHITRA VEENA”- a miniature form of the Gottu vadyam.The item in Ragam Chakravakam involved complex sangathis and kalpanaswaras, which brought out his expertise in handling the instrument and his perennial knowledge in classical music.The audience were gifted to hear the concert of such a young talent with mastery over the classical music and a command over his instrument.
V.N.LAKSHMI METRO ADS

• Shri Durgaprasad demonstrated impressively that the elegance of classical carnatic music in its graceful form can be projected in this instrument with remarkable skill by an artist trained classically.
R.V. THE HINDU

• The marvelous presentation of the Raga Vagadeeswari reminded the audience of the flute Maestro Mali who had handled this raga most splendidly and Durgaprasad was the next one to accomplish this.
DINAMALAR MADURAI

• Shri. Durgaprasad scored very high in the rarely heard Alapana of Ramapriya. He is an outstanding Gottuvadyam artist of our times.
HINDUSTAN TIMES-NEW DELHI

• Shri. Durgaprasad’s rendering is flawless, neat and full of gamakam (Nuances), depth and rhythm.
THYAGU DINAMANI-CHENNAI

• The performance of Shri. Durgaprasad on Gottuvadyam, a very intricate musical instrument was really out standing and Andhra Pradesh can very well feel proud of him.
R.C HINDUSTAN TIMES-DELHI

• The enthralling performance of Shri. Durgaprasad especially rendering the raga Charukesi was flawless, full of purity and clarity.
DINAMANI-CHENNAI

• Young Allam Durgaprasad’s recital was impressive with noticeable ingredients of instrumental artistry developed on a grace-oriented style.
THE HINDU

• Shri. Durgaprasad’s delineation of Ananda Bhairavi and Poorvikalyani with considerable taste for classical aesthetics earned praise.
R.V. THE HINDU

• Shri. Durgaprasad’s performance under the auspices of Kalapradarshini was “A –1”. He has perfect control and mastery over the instrument. His renderings were full of crispness and good grip. Even Prathimadyamam was clearly audible. His tanam was par excellence.
SUBBUDU, VIKADAN PAPER

• Shri. Durgaprasad gave a brilliant performance. The listeners enjoyed his concert with rapt attention. Especially his kalyani raga rendering was most delightful.
DECCAN HERALD-BANGALORE

• Shri. Durgaprasad gave an enthralling performance on his Gottuvadyam.This drew loud applause and admiration of all the music lovers especially his handling of the ragas with precision, clarity and melody was marvelous. He has a very very bright future.
UDAYAVANI MANIPAL

• Shri. Durgaprasad proved his versatility in playing the most intricate Athi Chitra Veena, his new innovation. He handled the instrument with great ease the ragas with all the purity of carnatic music and his swara prayogas were really wonderful.
EENADU-KAKINADA

• During his performance Shri. Durgaprasad was able to capture the minds of the packed audience delineating of ragas with clarity crispness and precision is his speciality. The performance is a memorable one.
VAARTHA-VISHAKHAPATNAM

• Scintillating performance of Shri. Durgaprasad kept the audience spell bound. He won the admiration of Shri S.Balachander the famous Veena Maestro.
THE INDIAN EXPRESS