Saturday April 4, 2026 at 5:00 pm
Auditorium: Unity Church of the Hills, 9905 Anderson Mill Road, Austin 78750
Please arrive at least 20 minutes early. Seating is on a first-come-first-serve basis within each Zone.
All Sales are final. No Refunds will be issued unless the event date or start time is changed by ICMCA.
Contact us:
- 512-895-9524, Email: icmca.committee@gmail.com
ICMCA is thrilled to host the musical genius and acclaimed Carnatic vocalist Shri. T. M. Krishna in a live in-person concert. Mr. Krishna will be accompanied by:
> Sri Bhakthavathsalam – Mridangam
As a vocalist in the Karnatik tradition, Thodur Madabusi Krishna’s musicality eludes standard analyses. Uncommon in his rendition of music and original in his interpretation of it, Krishna is at once strong and subtle, manifestly traditional and stunningly innovative.
As a public intellectual, Krishna speaks and writes about issues affecting the human condition and about matters cultural. He is a prolific writer: co-author of Voices Within: Carnatic Music – Passing on an Inheritance, A Southern Music – The Karnatik Story (2013), Reshaping Art (2018) and Sebastian and Sons (2018). He has been part of inspiring collaborations, such as the Chennai Poromboke Paadal with environmentalist Nityanand Jayaraman, performances with the Jogappas (transgender musicians) and co-conceptualizing and performing Karnatic Kattaikuttu, an unusual aesthetic conversation between art forms and communities that belong to two ends of the social spectrum.
In 2016, Krishna received the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award in recognition of ‘his forceful commitment as artist and advocate to art’s power to heal India’s deep social divisions’. In 2017 he received the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration Award for his services in promoting and preserving national integration in the country. In 2024, Krishna was honored with the Sangita Kalanidhi award for 2024. Read more about this prestigious recognition here.
