Professor Anil Srinivasan is an accomplished classical pianist, the first to be awarded the coveted Sangeet Natak Akademi youth award in 2010 for creative and experimental music, India’s national honour for musicians under 35. In 2019, he was awarded the Kalaimamani, Tamil Nadu’s highest honors for the Arts, becaming the first piano player to receive this award.
Anil’s various collaborative works with several of India’s top artistes have received critical acclaim. Some of his collaborators include U Srinivas, Ravikiran, Aruna Sairam, Unnikrishnan, Rakesh Chaurasia, Lalgudi Krishnan, Gaurav Mazumdar and Jayanthi Kumaresh. Anil is best known for his association with Sikkil Gurucharan, with whom he has produced ten highly popular albums. Anil has composed extensively for dance and theatre, working internationally in Korea, Australia and the United States. He has been a TED speaker, chaired conferences on music in venues as diverse as Liverpool Hope University and the University of Mumbai, and has represented India across multiple forums involving arts education.
With an MPhil from the Columbia Business School and an MBA from the University of Southern California, Anil is also a popular speaker and a columnist for a wide variety of publications, including The Hindu and The Indian Express. Previously, he has served as an Adjunct Faculty at Mumbai’s SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.
Anil is also the Founder of the Rhapsody education initiative. Rhapsody pioneers the idea of STEM learning using music and arts-based interventions, and works with over 400,000 children in South India. Recently, it has been ranked number one worldwide for innovation in K12 education by the Quacquerelli Symonds and Wharton Learning Lab’s Reimagine Global Rankings. In 2022, Anil founded KRUU – bringing project-based learning from Universities to school students, a pioneering initiative that has already reached more than 207,000 students in South Asia.
As a philanthropist, he has been internationally recognized with the Ken Hobbs Citation for Social Responsibility (Rotary International) and is an Aspen Global Leader for Social Impact.
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