Artist Profile -:- Vidhwan Sri. Annada Prasanna Pattanaik (Butto) -:- Flute Maestro !!!

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Vidhwan Sri. Annada Prasanna Pattanaik (Butto)

Platinum City, C/12/6, HMT Road,

Yeswanthpur, Bangalore - 560 022, INDIA

Phone: +91-9341258383 / +91-80- 41697845

Email: appb...@flutebutto.com / appb...@gmail.com

Website: http://www.flutebutto.com

THE INITIAL YEARS

Annada Prasanna Pattanaik (Popularly known as Butto) was born into a musical family in Kiriburu.
Kiriburu is a hill station, where one can breathe music in its air, is a small hill station situated in the State of Orissa, India.
As a toddler, he was presented with a Bamboo Flute as a toy by his mother, at the age of four. Since then, this small piece of Bamboo has continued to play an integral role in his Life.
As a child, he staged his first solo stage performance when he was just seven.
Since there weren't any professional flute tutors to guide him till the age of seventeen, Butto started to experiment the different aspects of flute playing, such as going to higher octave, playing various Indian Classical ragas.

FURTHER ADVANCEMENT

As he neared College Graduation (Bachelor's in Commerce), Butto decided to learn the fundamentals of the Indian Raga.
Under the expert guidance of Prof. M.M. Patnaik - a renowned Professor of flute in Sangeet Maha Vidyalaya, Bhubaneshwar (Capital of Orissa), Butto learnt the finer aspects of Raga through the years from 1986 - 89.
During the years, from 1990 - 92, he went on to learn the refined areas of the Indian Raga - its improvisations and creativity under the watchful direction of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia who is a legend in contemporary flute playing in India.
With enough knowlegde to back him, Butto went on to pursue the Sangeet Visharada Purna - equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree in Music and then passed in frist class distinction from Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh, India.

PROFESSIONAL LIFE

Since then, Butto's professional life has taken him places.
He has been touring the world, representing India in many cultural meets, playing solo concerts, and preceeding over workshops on Indian Music in countries such as U.S.A, Denmark, Italy, Holland, Germany, Belgium just to name a few.
He has been a visiting Professor to the University Of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
He has also been selected as a permanent member of International School of Theatre Anthropology (I.S.T.A.) Denmark.
He has played for many music albums, some of which have been released internationally.
He has also played for many Indian movies - for more than a thousand to be precise, some of which have won National Awards from the Indian Government.
Butto says, "I allow music to come through me. While listening to my music, if somewhere it touches your heart I am fulfilled… more than me, the music is fulfilled."

SELECT SOLO PERFORMANCE IN INDIA

Played in the 10th annual day celebration of Gunjan Dance Academy in Cuttack Orissa 2005.
Gave a solo perfomace in Gayana Samaj, Bangalore on the occasion of Anantha Hubba, (festival dedicated to Mysore Ananta Swami) in 1994.
Performed in Bangalore to commemorate Gyan Yogi Panchakshri Gawahi in 2003.
Performed in Pune Festival in 1992.
Gave a perfomance at Gwalior Festival in 1992.
Konark Festival in 1992.
Brindavan Festival. In 1992.

SELECTED CONCERTO PERFORMANCES IN INDIA

Performed with Ranjit Barrot, a world renowned Drummer, Amit Hari a jazz Guitarist, and Keeth Peter at the Ravindra Kala Kshetra, for Bangalore Hubba festival in 2004.
Performed with Jazz guitarist Amit Harry at several places in Bangalore, Chennai, Coimabatore in 2003-2004.
Performed with Hari Haran, a renowned Ghazal and playback singer of Indian cinema at Beach Festival at Mangalore in 2004.
Played Jugalbandhi with Pushpa, a renowned Veena artist in Bangalore in 2002.
Played Jugalbandhi with Pushpa at Bangalore, in 2001.
Played for famous fusion group called Pulse alongside renowned drummer Shivamani, base Guitarist Keeth Peter, and Sandeep Chowta in 1995.

SELECT INTERNATION PERFORMANCES

Performed in Festival Warszawski Skrzyzowanie Kultur Poland 9 - 17 September 2006 along with many great musicians of the world which includes ROSS DALLY from Greece, The great Jazz Pianist from Poland Slawek Kulpowicz.
This trip was also included workshops and lecture demonstrations on Indian Music in Poland.
Performed in the great Ravenna festival in Italy and also in Denmark summer festival during June--August 2006, organized by Odin Theatre Denmark and Ravenna Festival, Italy.
Participated in the world cultural meet as part of 14th session of International School of Theater Anthropology (I.S.T.A.) session in Poland during April 2005.
Performed in the University of Colorado (Boulder), USA, and also in the Indian festival at Colorado.
Also performed in and around Seattle (Washington state) as the part of same concert tour during Feb. and March 2005.
Performed in Holland with singer Dhroe Nankoe, Rafiuddin Sabri (Tabla), and Santosh Mishra(sarangi) organized by RASA (Center for World Cultures at Utrecht, Holland,, which aims to promote non-western music in Europe).
Participated in world cultural meet organize by I.S.T.A. in Spain during Oct.2004 and then in Bali (Indonesia) in Dec. 2004.
Performed in Holland at a fusion music concert titled Goa Trance, which was organized by RASA (Center for World Cultures at Utrecht, Holland, which aims to promote non-western music in Europe), in collaboration with the Arts Council of the city of Utrecht, October 2003.
Performed in Dubai for the first Karnataka Rajyotsava Celebration on 2nd October 2002.
Participated and performed in I.S.T.A sessions in Italy, Germany and Denmark in August 2000.
Performed in all major cities in Holland and Belgium at concerts organized by RASA, in November 1999.
Represented India and performed solo at concerts in the World Cultural Meet organized by I.S.T.A at Portugal and Denmark (1998), Italy and Denmark (1996), Italy, Germany and UK (1992).

SELECT PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATIONS WITH ORGANISATIONS

International School of Theatre Anthropology (I.S.T.A), Denmark.
RASA Network Non-Western Music, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Theaterlabor Bielefeld, Germany.
Gruppo Teatrale Immagini, Portugal.
Commune di Lecce, Teatro Politeama, Italy.

SELECT RECORDINGS

"DEEP SKY", a solo album created spontaneously in a wisp of inspiration. Six insightful compositions on flute in a light western background create an atmosphere of deep reflection and meditation. The cassette and the CD has been released throughout the world by Magnasound Company in 1998.
"INNER VISION" was an album which was made where the Flute (Bansuri) is the lead instrument. This album consists os seven unique compositions by Butto, based on different ragas, presented in a modernized way which has an appeal to all variety of people.
"IGNEOUS" a fusion album with flute as the main instrument comprises of four compositions, Inspiration, Igneous, Intuition, and Illusion. The cassette and the CD was released in 2001, which has a wide circulation throughout the globe.
"INDIA SONGS" Fusion Music album with Jan Kuiper - a renowned European guitarist, Ustad raffiudin sabri on Tabla and Ustad Mohammed sajeed Khan on vocal released in Europe in 2004.
"EXPANDING HORIZONS" The first album of the group "ATMICVISION" recorded in USA which consists of Flute (ANNADA), Tabla (Muthukumar) and double baas (Paul Erhard).
Played background music and song recordings for more than 800 Indian films in several Indian languages.

RELATED EXPERIENCES

One of my compositions was selected to be performed on the 8th International Literacy day at Nehru Stadium in front of the President of India.

SINGING EXPERIENCES

Sang for several Indian movies in four different Indian languages Kannada, Hindi and Telugu and Oriya.
Few notable movies include Wrong number (Kannada), Ardhangi (Kannada), Olave (Kannada), Tume Mo Rati (Oriya), Dum (Telugu)…

MUSIC DIRECTION

Given music direction for more than 200 private albums in different languages, such as Oriya, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Students from several parts of India, and international students from USA, Holland, Poland etc. come to learn flute and Indian Music.
His way is to create a vibrant atmosphere of ragas and create space for the students to develop and evolve their own musical talents, and to discover their own creativity within.
I also teach my students how to relax, and to develop the ability to hear the subtle sounds in nature and more importantly the sound within oneself.
I teach them the fundamentals of Indian yoga, Pranayama (breathing exercises) meditation techniques, and show how music itself becomes a part of ones Yoga, of ones inner existence.