Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
One of Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji’s earliest performances at a major American concert hall, in the home of the New York Philharmonic. The hall has since been renamed David Geffen Hall.
Chapter 01 · Music for Meditation
The Rāga Archive
Five decades of nādopāsanā — raga-based music as meditation, offered across America.
Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji's concerts are not performances in the ordinary sense. A rāga is offered — a prayer given shape in sound. Over fifty years, these offerings have filled concert halls, temples, and intimate satsangs from Manhattan to the Mississippi Delta.
When the last note fades and no one moves — that silence is the real concert.
The Stages of the Journey
Prestigious Concert Halls
From Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center to Symphony Center Chicago — Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji has offered Music for Meditation on some of America's most storied concert stages.
Kennedy Center Concert Hall
The principal venue of America’s national performing arts centre. The July 2019 sold-out programme balanced extended raga improvisation with rhythmic exchange between mridangam and tabla.
Carnegie Hall
December 2023 brought Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji to the most storied classical music venue in the United States. The hour-long opening movement, anchored by Dr. L. Subramaniam on violin, drew a standing ovation.
Symphony Center, Orchestra Hall
Designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1904, the home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji performed there on 7 July 2000 and returned to the same stage on 20 July 2002.
Copernicus Center
Housed in a 1930 cinema and crowned by a tower modelled on the Royal Castle in Warsaw — the principal Polish-American cultural venue in the United States. Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji performed here on 7 September 2019.
Bass Performance Hall
Opened in 1998, recognisable for the two 48-foot trumpeting-angel sculptures carved into its limestone facade. Home of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Sri Swamiji performed here on 4 July 2009.
Voices
In Their Words
Through the medium of Nada, Pujya Swamiji is engaged in the task of taking ordinary people towards Brahma. To understand the spirituality behind music, and to connect with Brahma through it, is indeed a commendable task which Swamiji has been ceaselessly undertaking. He has used the entire world as His stage to perpetuate the great tradition of Nada Upasana.
One of the greatest things that has happened to me was meeting Sri Swamiji in Switzerland in 1987. There was a time in my life when I thought I would never play the violin again — Sri Swamiji is very much responsible for me playing violin again. His music has a profound healing and relaxing effect on the listener.
All USA concerts
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CUTX Event Center
Robert M. DeCicco Performing Arts Center
Damascus High School
NOW Arena
Dashavatara Yoga Center
Unity Hall Jesus Datta Retreat Center
Jaya Lakshmi Hall
Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple Frisco
The Caverns
The Caverns
Boat Concert in Lake Michigan
Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple Frisco
Carnegie Hall
CUTX Event Center
Jones Hall for the Performing Arts
McCaw Hall
Infinite Energy Theater
Copernicus Center
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Datta Temple
Jesus Datta Retreat Center
Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple Frisco
Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple Frisco
Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple Frisco
Orpheum Theatre
Jesus Datta Retreat Center
Downers Grove North High School
Student Union Theater of LSU
Performing Arts Center
Montgomery Theater
Theater of Raritan Valley Community College
Elgin Community College Arts Center
Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple Frisco
McAlister Auditorium
Meymandi Concert Hall
Visual and Performing Arts Center
Holland Performing Arts Center
Jesus Datta Retreat Center
MU Waetjen Auditorium, Cleveland State University
Stambaugh Auditorium
Orange County Performing Arts Center
Bass Performance Hall
Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall
Paliku Theatre
Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center
Blumenthal Booth Playhouse
Kilcawley Center, Youngstown State University
Louisiana State University Theatre
Texas Hall, Arlington University
Hindu Temple
Long Beach Convention Center
War Memorial Hall
Fox Theater
Ted Mann Hall, University of Minnesota
Muruga Temple
Webster University Auditorium
Prasanna Venkateswara Temple
Symphony Orchestra Hall
University Auditorium Lafayette
Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University
Edward Nash Auditorium
Symphony Orchestra Hall
Monte Vista High School Auditorium
Dutch Fork Auditorium
Louisiana State University Theatre
Lakeside High School Auditorium, Martinez
Hindu Temple (Balaji Mandir)
Julia Richman High School Auditorium
Hindu Temple Society
Coconut Grove Auditorium
First Congregational Church
Church
Center for Puppetry Arts Auditorium
Ed White Middle School Auditorium
Sri Venkateshwara Temple, Monroeville
St. John's Presbyterian Church
Jackson Prep Auditorium
Taft High School Auditorium
The Coliseum
Mother Olson's Inn Concert Hall
Tulane-McAllister Auditorium
Mahatma Gandhi Center
Louisiana State University Theatre
Chinmaya Prabha Hall
Holy Cross Church
Swope Auditorium Hall, Slippery Rock University
Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh
Listen
The Rāga Sāgara archive.
Yoga Sangeeta has presented Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji's healing music worldwide since 2007 — synthesizer compositions woven with classical Indian instruments. Concert details, recordings, and the ongoing raga-ragini studies live in the archives below.