Sridhar Bhagavathula

I’m a flutist living in Bloomington, Indiana. I began my career on the modern flute, but my love of 18th-century music and culture led me to focus on playing the traverso. A highlight of this season was performing Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Thirteen Choir & Orchestra in Washington, D.C. In 2021 I released The Quarantine Tapes, an album of solo works by Bach, Telemann, and Laybourn.

I write essays on art and society over at Cultural Insomnia. For a few years, I co-hosted Impolite to Listen, a podcast of casual conversations on music. In my spare time, I construct crossword puzzles—here’s one in the New York Times.

My main watering hole is Twitter. You can also write to me at sridhar dot bhagavathula at gmail dot com. Beware: I may be slow to respond, as I’m  ∎