Sri T. Viswanathan

Sri T. Viswanathan comes from one of the most illustrious music and dance families in India. He studied Ethnomusicology at the University of California at Los Angeles on a Fulbright scholarship and holds a doctorate from Wesleyan University. He has taught Indian classical flute and vocal music for a number of years at UCLA, California Institute of the Arts and at Wesleyan University where he has been a faculty member in the department of music for the past threedecades.

Sri Viswanathan is one of the most accomplished flutists of his generation. The Government of Tamil Nadu State in India in 1978 chose him Instrumental Musician of the Year (Kalaimamani). He has also been given the President's Award by the Sangeet Natak Akademi (1987) and in 1988, was named Sangita Kalanidhi by the Music Academy, Madras, India.