Trichy Sankaran

Trichy Sankaran (born 27 July 1942) is an Indian percussionist, composer, scholar, and educator.He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2011.He is acknowledged as one of the foremost virtuosos of the mridangam and also plays the kanjira on occasion.Since the early 1970s, he has performed and recorded in a number of cross-cultural projects. Sankaran has lived in Toronto since 1971.He is the founder of the Tyagaraja Aradhana in Toronto and is a professor of music at York University.He has regularly performed at all leading organisations in Chennai every December Music Season and continues to accompany a wide array of top ranked musicians.