Siddhartha Jagannath

Siddhartha Jagannath began formal training at six, under Vidushi Trivandrum G. Seethalakshmi Ammal, herself a disciple of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, and continues today under Vidwan Abhishek Raghuram. Between 2012 and 2017 he studied violin under Vidushi Charumati Raghuraman, and spent two years absorbing rare compositions directly from Padmashree Prof. S. R. Janakiraman, one of the last custodians of that repertoire.

By his teens he was already carrying that training onto the season's stages: prizes at The Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha, Mylapore Fine Arts and the Indian Fine Arts Academy, and a full concert debut across six sabhas in December 2019. Prince Rama Varma, V. Ramnarayanan of Sruti Magazine, and Music Academy committee member Dr. Chitra Madhavan each singled him out in writing during those years.

He then completed his degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science at Stanford, and is Employee #6 and a founding engineer at EigenLayer. He returned to the Chennai stage in 2024, arranging his own season, and has added new sabhas each year since. What follows is the same discipline, now backed by a proper season strategy.

Presents the full kutcheri paddhati, varnam through tukkada, including Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi. His competition record is concentrated in the manodharma categories, neraval and kalpana swaram, at The Music Academy and Mylapore Fine Arts, the categories rasikas and vidwans watch most closely for a musician's real depth.

His repertoire also carries rare compositions studied directly under Padmashree Prof. S. R. Janakiraman, and his research on chandas (prosody) at IIT Mumbai informs his handling of complex talas.

Alongside performance, Siddhartha has studied the discipline's underlying structure: as a research intern at IIT Mumbai under Prof. K. Ramasubramaniam, he examined Pingala's Chandah-sastra and Sarngadeva's Sangitaratnakara, writing on the mathematics of Sanskrit prosody. In June 2017 he presented "Sangama: The Meeting of Sanskrit, Math and Music" at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered in Sanskrit, composing a pallavi to demonstrate the mathematics within it.

He has written for Sruti Magazine since 2013 and for Swarajya Magazine, and contributed to Sanskrit Wikipedia on classical music.