Gautam Tejas Ganeshan is on an ongoing, in-depth musical journey - one which continues until now, and whose nature is well described by a name, from nearly twenty years ago, of an installation he once sang for: *Enter the Center* ( ... which somebody watched from a bathtub, and while unloading the instruments for which he also had to change a flat tire.)

Since then, Gautam Tejas Ganeshan has brought 'new music from an old tradition' (SFJAZZ) multiple times each to the SF Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Asian Art Museum (SF), the UC Berkeley Art Museum (BAM/PFA), the Headlands Center for the Arts, and more. He has given guest-lectures at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Stanford Jazz Workshop, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and elsewhere.

His voice has been described as 'a conduit for an otherworldly, transcendental energy' (SF Weekly) and as 'eminently lyrical and supple' (SF Classical Voice) - and his approach as a whole as 'affecting and bold...' (East Bay Express); 'a dream... passionate, knowledgeable, mindblowing' (Asian Art Museum, SF); and as 'invoking the infinite' (SFMOMA).

Gautam founded the Sangati Center, a non-profit chamber music concert series that hosted more than 400 public chamber concerts over ten years, earning support from the NEA, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, etc.

Gautam holds an interdisciplinary degree (in philosophy and more) from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the student convocation speaker in 2004.

He received an honorary Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. DOE, and was awarded the Solomon Scholarship for Excellence in the Creative Arts and Philosophy.

Gautam has received a number of commissions for his work, including: These have supported the creation of an unprecedented body of work in Carnatic music - from an ensemble dedicated to exploring free improvisation, to the creation of a repertoire of more than one hundred new songs modeled on traditional forms.

Gautam printed a limited edition songbook by letterpress, bound at the BAM/PFA for "The Possible" Exhibition, 2014. A copy is held by special collections at The Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley).

Gautam has been interviewed on six radio stations (8x on KPFA betw. 2007-2015) and multiple podcasts, and has appeared on at least four television programs. He was one of the inaugural artists-in-residence at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco. His music was featured in the film "Infinite Vision," selected as "Best International Documentary" at the NYC Indie Film Fest (2004). An article of his entitled "On the Gathering vs. the Recording" appeared in 2012 as an op-ed in The Hindu newspaper of Chennai, India.

Additionally, Gautam has sung to follow a speech by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, to enliven a college course taught by Michael Pollan at UC Berkeley, to support a members' meeting at Berkeley's Ecology Center, to celebrate an archive of botanical illustrations made public by FOIA request to the USDA by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to accompany the dedication of a tree in Tilden Regional Park to Nobel Peace Prize recipients, to raise funds after an earthquake with a "Hootenanny for Haiti", to entertain folks after an indigo harvest, to wake folks up at dawn for a barnraising (a few times), as well as at chapels, clubs, halls, theatres, art galleries, and to open many nights of plays, films, fairs, festivals, galas, and block parties.