November 29, 2011

Lec-dems - Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha

The morning lec-dem sessions hosted by Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha figure in the diaries of many rasikas interested in the academics of Carnatic music.
They are hosted at 8.30 a.m. every day at Vidya Bharathi Kalyana Mandapam, Bheemasena Garden Street, Mylapore.

The schedule:

Dec. 16, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Raga Alapana & Abinaya By Dr. A. Sumathi Sundar, Principal, Tamil Isai Kalluri, ( Tamil Isai Sangam), Chennai.

Dec. 17, 2011
8.30 a.m. -Tradition & Development of Kavadi Chindu By Dr. M.A. Bhageerathi, Prof. Dept. of Music, Q.M.C. Chennai
Dec. 18, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Pallavi in 'Shanmukhapriya Tisra Triputa, Chaturasra Nadai by Trichy J. Venkatraman, Musician, Trichy Pradeepkumar - Vocal support, Pakkala Ramdas - Violin, Arunprakash - Mrudangam
This will be followed by a felicitation function to honour Trichy Sri. J. Venkatraman.
Dec. 19, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Music Rituals in Temples By Dr. B.M. Sundaram, Musicigolist

Dec. 20, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Rhythmic aspects of Carnatic Music made easy By Chitraveena N. Narasimhan and disciples

Dec. 21, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Allied ragas : Sriraga, Madyamavathi, Brindavani & Manirangu By Dr. R.S. Jayalakshmi, Lecturer, The Music Academy, Chennai

Dec.22, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Contributions of Veena Kuppiyer By Dr. Rajshri Ramakrishna, Asst. Prof., Dept., of Indian Music, University of Madras.
10.00 a.m. Musical and Lyrical Elegance found in 72 Melaragamalika By Dr.S.R. Janakiraman

Dec. 23, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Lecture demonstration By Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan
10.00 a.m. Aesthetics in the Compositions of Sri Thiyagaraja and Sri. Uthukadu Venkatakavi : Vocal Concert by Chitravina N. Ravikiran, M.A. Sundareswaran - Violin, B.S. Purusothaman - Kanjira

Dec. 24, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Aesthetic Beauties of Ragas through Padams & Javalis By Dr. B. Balasubramanian, Adjunct Asst. Prof., Wesleyan University, USA

Dec. 26, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Kalki Krishnamurthy & Carnatic Music By Dr. Gowri Ramnarayan, Musician and Art critic

Dec. 27, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Abhanaga Vaibhavam by Dr. Premeela Gurumurthy, Prof. & Head, Dept., of Indian Music, University of Madras

Dec. 28, 2011
8.30 a.m. - The Greatness of the Sangita and Sahitya in the Compositions of the Trinity by R.K. Sriramkumar, Violin vidwan

Dec. 29, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Vocal Expression in Indian Classical Music - Concepts & Techniques by Sriram Parasuram, Musician & Musicologist

Dec. 30, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Janya ragas of Mayamalavagaula of Muthuswami Dikshitar Kritis By Dr. Abiramasundari, Prof., Dept. of Music, Q.M.C., Chennai

Dec. 31, 2011
8.30 a.m. - Art of singing Niraval by S. Sowmya, Musician

Carnatica's Global Music Fest

Carnatica hosts a music festival this year at a different venue and titles as Global music fest.
The venue is Hare Krishna Movement, No. 63, First Sea Ward road, Valmiki Nagar, Near Marundeeswarar Temple, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai - 600041.

Contact:94440 18269 / 044 4553 5576 /044 4302 4024

Dec. 11, 2011
4.30 p.m. - Inauguration followed by Bhajans - His Holiness. Chitrangini Chaitanya Dasa Swamiji, Hare Krishna Movement, Chennai.
5.45 p.m. - 'Bhaktha Prahaladha' - Thematic Dance presentation by Guru Mahalakshmi Ashwin and disciples
7.00 p.m. - Hyderabad Brothers D. Seshachari and D. Raghavachari - Vocal

Dec.12, 2011
5.00 p.m. - Neyveli Santhanagopalan - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Pantula Rama - Vocal

Dec. 13, 2011
5.00 p.m. - N Ramani - Flute
7.00 p.m. - Srirram Parasuram & Anooradha Sriram - Vocal

Dec. 14, 2011
5.00 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers K.N. Sashikiran and P. Ganesh
7.00 p.m. - Gayathri Venkatraghavan - Vocal

Dec. 15, 2011
5.00 p.m. - Vijayalakshmi Subramanian - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - T. V. Sankaranarayanan - Vocal

Dec. 16, 2011
5.00 p.m. - S Sowmya - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Abhishek Raghuram - Vocal

Dec. 17, 2011
3.15 p.m. - Kishan Jeyandran - Mandolin
5.00 p.m. - V K Manimaran - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - Udayalur Kalyanaraman (Namasankeerthanam)

Dec. 18, 2011
3.15 p.m. - B. Suchithra & Saindhavi (Katha Kutcheri)
5.00 p.m. - Trichur Brothers Srikrishna Mohan and Ramkumar Mohan - Vocal
7.00 p.m. - R Suryaprakash - Vocal

Jaya TV Margazhi Maha Utsavam

Jaya TV & Maximum Media's Margazhi Maha Utsavam is a popular event during the 'season' in Chennai.
The series of concerts are thematic and the artistes interact with the audience through a brief Q & A session.
The series is held at the Kumara Raja Muthiah Hall in Chettinad Vidyashram school campus, R.A. Puram, Chennai - 28.
The concerts are open to all but seats are on first come first serve basis.

The schedule:

Dec. 1, 2011 - Thursday
5.00 p.m. - Mangala Isai by Vaduvur S.N.R. Krishnamurthy (Nadaswaram)
6.30 p.m. - Vadakkil Therku - T.M. Krishna (Vocal), R.K. Shriramkumar (Violin), K. Arun Prakash (Mridangam), V. Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

Dec. 2, 2011 - Friday
5.00 p.m. - Carnatic Music Idol Winner Concert - R. Raghavendra (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Naadhanum Naamamum - Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan (Vocal), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), B. Ganapathiraman (Mridangam), Srirangam Kannan (Morsing)

Dec. 3, 2011 - Saturday
5.00 p.m. - V. Shankaranarayanan (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Jaya Maruthi - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal), M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin), I. Sivakumar (Mridangam), H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam), Malaikottai R.M. Deenadayalu (Morsing)

Dec. 4, 2011 - Sunday
5.00 p.m. - Kunnakudy M. Balamuralikrishna (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Aadum Dheivam - Aruna Sairam (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), J. Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)

Dec. 5, 2011 - Monday
5.00 p.m. - Annamayyarum Aanandhamum - Lakshmi Rangarajan & Subiksha Rangarajan (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Super Seven - S. Sowmya (Vocal), Embar S. Kannan (Violin), Neyveli R. Narayanan (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

Dec. 6, 2011 - Tuesday
5.00 p.m. - K. Bharath Sundar (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Tridevi Ranjani & Gayatri (Vocal), Charumathi Raghuraman (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), S. Karthick (Ghatam)

Dec. 7, 2011 - Wednesday
5.00 p.m. - Kiranavali Vidyashankar (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Namakke Urimaiyaam - N. Vijay Siva (Vocal), Amritha Murali (Violin), J. Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)

Dec. 8, 2011 - Thursday
5.00 p.m. - Thiruppugazh - T.V. Sundaravalli & Bavya (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Kandhanum Kannanum - P. Unnikrishnan (Vocal), Embar S. Kannan (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)

Dec. 9, 2011 - Friday
5.00 p.m. - V.K. Manimaran (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Ganga Kauvery - O.S. Arun (Vocal), Suresh Babu (Violin), Tanjore Murugabhoopathy (Mridangam), R. Raman (Morsing)

Dec. 10, 2011 - Saturday
5.00 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Shyamalanum Shaambanum - Sudha Ragunathan (Vocal), Pakkala Ramadas (Violin), Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam), R. Raman (Morsing)

Dec. 11, 2011 - Sunday
5.00 p.m. - Nisha P. Rajagopal (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Harikesanalloor Muthiah Bagavathar - Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Vocal), S. Varadarajan (Violin), Neyveli B. Venkatesh (Mridangam)

Dec. 12, 2011 - Monday
5.00 p.m. - Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena)
6.30 p.m. - Anuragam - Priya Sisters (Vocal), M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)

Dec. 13, 2011 - Tuesday
5.00 p.m. - Amrutha Venkatesh (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Vaageya Vilaasam Medha Vilaasam - Abhishek Raghuram (Vocal), Avaneeswaram S.R. Vinu (Violin), Anantha R. Krishnan (Mridangam)

Dec. 14, 2011 - Wednesday
5.00 p.m. - K. Gayatri (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Iga Vazhi Irai - Sikkil C. Gurucharan (Vocal), B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), Giridhar Uduppa (Ghatam)

Dec. 15, 2011 - Thursday
5.00 p.m. - R. Suryaprakash (Vocal)
6.30 p.m. - Sabari Moksham - Visakha Hari (Harikatha)

Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru

A mega event at a big auditorium, Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaru attracts both the serious Carnatic music rasikas as well as occasional listeners to pupolar musicians.
The concerts are held at Kamaraj Memorial Hall, Anna Salai.
The concerts are ticketed and requires advance booking.
Go to http://www.lakshmansruthi.com/chennaiyil-thiruvaiyaru/index.asp for online ticket booking

The schedule:

Dec. 18, 2011 - Sunday
2.45 p.m. - Seshampatti Sivalingam (Nadaswaram)
4.45 p.m. - Pancharatna Kritis led by P.S. Narayanaswamy
7.30 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal)

Dec. 19, 2011 - Monday
7.00 a.m. - Sindhuja Ekambaram (Harikatha)
9.00 a.m. - Ramjhi's Isai Mazhalai Group (Vocal)
10.30 a.m. - Vipanchee Natyalaya (Dance)
1.00 p.m. - Saindavi and Vinaya (Vocal)
2.45 p.m. - Haricharan Seshadri (Vocal)
4.45 p.m. - Shobana (Dance)
7.30 p.m. - Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone)

Dec. 20, 2011 - Tuesday
7.00 a.m. - Cuddalore Gopi Bhagavatar (Namasankeerthanam)
9.00 a.m. - Hyderabad N. Subalakshmi (Vocal)
10.30 a.m. - Geetham Madhuram - A Tribute to M.S. Subbulakshmi
1.00 p.m. - Anantha Padmanabha Rao (Vocal)
2.45 p.m. - S. Mahathi (Vocal)
4.45 p.m. - Abhishek Raghuram (Vocal)
7.30 p.m. - Fusion - Tarun Bhattacharya (Santoor) and M. Nandhini (Violin) with Abhijith Bannerjee (Tabla)

Dec. 21, 2011 - Wednesday
7.00 a.m. - O.S. Sundar (Namasankeerthanam)
9.00 a.m. - Fusion - Airtel Super Singers
10.30 a.m. - Ghatam Karthick's 'Heartbeat' Ensemble
1.00 p.m. - M. Raginisri (Vocal)
2.45 p.m. - Srikala Bharath (Dance)
4.45 p.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan (Vocal)
7.30 p.m. - Ganesh Kumaresh (Violin)

Dec. 22, 2011 - Thursday
7.00 a.m. - Udayalur Kalyanarama Bhagavathar (Namasankeerthanam)
9.00 a.m. - Dr. Radha Bhaskar (Vocal)
10.30 a.m. - Gaurav Mazumdar (Sitar) and Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena)
1.00 p.m. - Dr. R. Ganesh (Vocal)
2.45 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers (Vocal)
4.45 p.m. - O.S. Arun (Vocal)
7.30 p.m. - Hindustani music - Hariprasad Chaurasia (Flute)

Dec. 23, 2011 - Friday
7.00 a.m. - Desa Mangayarkarasi (Discourse)
9.00 a.m. - R. Kashyap Mahesh (Vocal)
10.30 a.m. - Jugalbandi - Sriram Parasuram and Anuradha Sriram (Vocal)
1.00 p.m. - Subathra Marimuthu (Dance)
2.45 p.m. - Harini Krishnan (Vocal)
4.45 p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan (Vocal)
7.30 p.m. - Shubha Mudgal (Vocal)

Dec. 24, 2011 - Saturday
7.00 a.m. - B. Suchitra (Harikatha)
9.00 a.m. - Abhimithra (Dance)
10.30 a.m. - R. Prasanna (Guitar)
1.00 p.m. - Vinisha Kathiravan (Dance)
2.45 p.m. - Vibrations - Ensemble by Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan
4.45 p.m. - Priya Sisters (Vocal)
7.30 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan (Vocal)

Dec. 25, 2011 - Sunday
7.00 a.m. - Damal Ramakrishnan (Discourse)
9.00 a.m. - Manjula Ramasamy (Dance)
10.30 a.m. - Sikkil C. Gurucharan (Vocal)
1.00 p.m. - Meenakshi Raghavan (Dance)
2.45 p.m. - Shoba Chandrasekar (Vocal)
4.45 p.m. - Aruna Sairam (Vocal)
7.30 p.m. - Hindustani music - Amjad Ali Khan (Sarod)

November 28, 2011

T.M. Krishna webcasts his concerts

Popular vocalist T.M. Krishna has chosen to live-stream three of his concerts during the 'season'. The streaming, however is for the rasikas who are not in Chennai.

The concerts that will be live on the Net are:
Dec. 23, 2011 at 6.00 p.m. - at Mylapore Fine Arts with the accompaniments of Embar Kannan on the violin, B. Ganapathiraman on the mridangam and Vaikom Gopalakrishnan on the ghatam.

Dec. 27, 2011 at 4.30 p.m. - at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha with Mysore Srikanth on the violin, Guru Kaaraikudi Mani on the mridangam and V. Suresh on the ghatam

Jan. 8, 2012 at 5.00 p.m. - at Kalarasana. with R.K. Shriramkumar on the violin, Trichy Sankaran on the mridangam, B.S. Purushotham on the kanjira and N. Guruprasad on the ghatam. This is a four hour oncert.

You need to pay a fee, like buying a ticket for the concert, to listen to these concerts online. These concerts will also be available on-demand for 24 hours from p.m. IST on the following day to accommodate viewers around the world in different time zones.
For more details and advance booking, go to http://tmkrishna.com/

November 27, 2011

Nandi Fine Arts

Nandi Fine Arts will conduct its 26th annual music festival from Dec. 2 to 8, 2011.
The venue will be the Gokale Sastri Hall, Karpagambal Nagar, Mylapore. Chennai - 4 at 5.30 p.m. daily.
Contact Nandi Fine Arts at S-4, ` A’ Block, Vasanth Apts, 140 VM St, Royapettah, Chennai -14. Ph – (044) 28133034, Email – kaprigem@yahoo.com

The Schedule:

Dec. 2, 2011 - Mambalam Sisters Vijyalakshmi and Chitra – Vocal

Dec. 3, 2011 - Pallavi Prasanna –(Bangalore) - Vocal

Dec. 4, 2011 - Rajyashree Josyer Shrikanth - (Mysore) – Vocal

Dec. 5, 2011 - Srividya Ramnath – (Bangalore) - Vocal

Dec. 6, 2011 - Nandini Muthuswamy (UK) - Violin

Dec. 7, 2011 - Kundrakudi Balamuralikrishna - Vocal & Party

Dec. 8, 2011 - K. Baskaran - Flute

The Mylapore Fine Arts Society

The MFAC celebrates its diamond jubilee year in 2011. The arts festival will be held from Dec. 11, 2011 to Jan. 17, 2012 with an exclusive dance festival beginning from Jan. 2, 2012

The MFAC auditorium is on 45, Musiri Subramaniam Salai, Mylapore, Chennai - 4.
Phone no. 24997755
Membership Reservation starts on Dec. 4, 2011 (Sunday) at 4.00 p.m.

The schedule:

Dec. 11, 2011 - Sunday
6.00 p.m. - Inauguration
7.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Mashantha Viswanathan (Dis. of Rajeswari Sainath)

Dec. 12, 2011 - Monday
9.30 a.m. - Sriram Parthasarathy - Vocal, Vittal ramamurthy - Violin, R. Ramesh - Mridangam, B. Sreesundar Kumar - Kanjira
12.00 noon - Rahul Narayanan - Vocal, Vittal Rangan - Violin, Guru Raghavendra - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - S.R. Maitreyi - Vocal, Roopa Rajagopal - Violin, Srivanchiam Sriram - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Kunnakudi M. Balamuralikrishna - Vocal, V. Sanjeev - Violin, Sherthalai Ananthakrishnan - Mridangam, K.V. Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Raji Gopalakrishnan - Vocal, R. Hemalatha - Violin, Melakaveri Balaji - Mridangam, Adambakkam Shankar - Ghatam

Dec. 13, 2011 - Tuesday
9.30 a.m. - Manasi Prasad - Vocal, B. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, C. Cheluvaraju - Mridangam
12.00 noon - Arundhathi Krishnan - Vocal, Siva Ramamurthy - Violin, V.S. Raghavan - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Vidya Kalyanaraman - Vocal, Bombay Anand - Violin, Kumbakonam Swaminathan
4.00 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers K.N. Shashikiran & P. Ganesh - Vocal, Mysore V. Srikanth - Violin, Srimushnam V. Raja Rao - Mridangam
6.30 p.m. - S. Sowmya - Vocal, M. Narmada - Violin, Poongulam Subramaniam - Mridangam, N. Guruprasad - Ghatam

Dec. 14, 2011 - Wednesday
9.30 a.m. - Suguna Varadhachari - Vocal, Akkarai Subbulakshmi - Violin, Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar - Mridangam, Nerkunam Shankar - Kanjira
12.00 noon - Vikram Krishna - Vocal, M. Vijay - Violin, N.C. Bharadwaj - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Chaitra Sairam - Vocal, Sudha R.S. Iyer, Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - S.P. Ramh - Vocal, Pakala Ramadas - Violin, Madipakkam Suresh - Mridangam, A.S. Krishnan - Ghatam
7.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Alarmel Valli

Dec. 15, 2011 - Thursday
9.30 a.m. - Dr. S. Sundar - Vocal, R.K. Sriramkumar - Violin, Trichur C. Narendran - Mridangam, Ernakulam Ramakrishnan - Ghatam
12 noon - Shruthi S. Bhat - Vocal, V. Supraja - Violin, Delhi S. Raghunandan - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Subhiksha Rangarajan - Vocal, K.P. Nandini - Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Bhushani Kalyanaraman - Vocal, Kalyani Shankar - Violin, A.S. Ranganathan - Mridangam, G. Harihara Sharma - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan - Vocal, Embar S. Kannan - Violin, Serthalai Ananthakrishnan - Mridangam, S.V. Ramani - Ghatam

Dec. 16, 2011 - Friday
9.30 a.m. - Gayathri Sankaran - Vocal, Pakala ramasad - Violin, P.V. Kamaraju - Mridangam
12.00 Noon - Vignesh Ishwar - Vocal, Lavanya Kothandaraman - Violin, N.C. Bharadwaj - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - N. Bhairavi & N. Malavi - Vocal, Kovai Chandran - Violin,
- Kumbakonam Swaminathan - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam - Vocal, M. Narmada - Violin, T.R. Sundaresan - Mridangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira
6.30 p.m. - Priya Sisters - Haripriya & Shanmughapriya - Vocal, M.A. Krishnaswamy - Violin, Patri Satishkumar - Mridangam, B. Sreesundarkumar - Kanjira

Dec. 17, 2011 - Saturday
9.30 a.m. - Allepey Venkatesan - Vocal, B.U. Ganeshprasad - Violin, Manoj Siva - Mridangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira
12.00 Noon - K. Sriram - Vocal, K. Ganesan - Violin, T.R.S Manikandan - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - V. Deepika - Vocal, Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, A.V. Manikandan - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - S. Saketharaman - Vocal, Akkarai S. Subhalakshmi - Violin, Neyveli R. Narayanan - Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira
6.30 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan - Vocal, M.A. Krishnaswamy - Violin, Patri Satishkumar - Mridangam, R. Raman - Morsing

Dec. 18, 2011 - Sunday
9.30 a.m. - T.N.S. Krishna - Vocal, Delhi Sundararajan - Violin, R. Ramesh - Mridangam, B.S. Purushothaman - Kanjira
12.00 Noon - Gayathri Shreyas - Vocal, Parur M.S.Ananthashree - Violin, Karthik Narayanan - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Niranjana Srinivasan - Violin, K.J. Dilip - Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Sangeetha Sivakumar - Vocal, R.K. Sriram Kumar - Violin, Melakaveri K. Balaji - Mridangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira
6.30 p.m. - Aruna Sairam - Vocal, B. Raghavendra Rao - Violin, B. Ganapathiraman - Mridangam, S.V. Ramani - Ghatam

Dec. 19, 2011 - Monday
9.30 a.m. - M. Nandini (Violin Solo), Mannarkoil J. Balaji - Mridangam, H. Sivaramakrishnan - Ghatam
12.00 Noon - Kashyap Mahesh - Vocal, V. Suresh Babu - Violin, Paiyur C. Gopalakrishnan - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Brinda Manickavasagam - Vocal, Akkarai Swarnalatha - Violin, R. Ramkumar - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Jayanthi Kumaresh -Veena, Patri Satishkumar - Mridangam, G. Guruprasanna - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal, M. Narmada - Violin, Neyveli Skandasubramaniam - Mridangam, S. Karthick - Ghatam

Dec. 20, 2011 - Tuesday
9.30 a.m. - Sugantha Kalamegam - Vocal, R. Hemalatha - Violin, Mannarkoil J. Balaji - Mridangam
12.00 Noon - V. Venkatanagarajan - Vocal, T.S. Dineshkumar - Violin, K.J. Vineeth - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - K. Dharini - Vocal, M.S. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, K.J. Vineeth - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - O.S. Arun - Vocal, M.R. Gopinath - Violin, K.V. Prasad - Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira
6.30 p.m. - Sikkil C. Gurucharan - Vocal, B. Raghavendra Rao - Violin, Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan - Mridangam, Papanasam S. Sethuraman - Kanjira

Dec. 21, 2011 - Wednesday
9.30 a.m.- Iyer Brothers - Ramnath Iyer & Gopinath Iyer - Veena Duet, Thanjavur Kumar - Mridangam, Pudukottai N. Ramachandran - Ghatam
12.00 Noon - N.C.S. Ravali - Vocal, Anand - Violin, V.S. Raghavan - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Bharat Sundar - Vocal, Trivandrum Sampath - Violin, Guru Raghavendra - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Dr. R. Ganesh - Vocal, Madurai S. Balasubramanian - Violin, Chidambaram S. Balashankar - Mridangam, Trichy K. Murali - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Hyderabad Brothers - D. Seshachari & D. Raghavachari - Vocal, Nagai Sriram - Violin, Mannargudi A. Eswaran - Mridangam, H. Sivaramakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 22, 2011 - Thursday
9.30 a.m. - Sriram Gangadharan - Vocal, Usha Rajagopalan - Violin, B. Sivaraman - Mridangam
12.00 Noon - M. Raginisri - Vocal, V. Supraja - Violin, Arjun Raghavan - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Nadhamuni Gayathri - Vocal, Kovai Chandran - Violin, Manikudi Chandrasekaran - Mridangam
3.00 p.m. - Salem S.R. Sriram - Vocal, Nishant Chandran - Violin, Madipakkam Suresh - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Mysore M. Nagaraj & M. Manjunath (Violin Duet), Thiruvarur P. Bhakthavatsalam - Mridangam, Madipakkam Murali - Ghatam, K.V. Gopalakrishanan - Ghatam

Dec. 23, 2011 - Friday
9.30 a.m. - U.P. Raju & P. Nagamani - Mandolin Duet, Serthalai Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Trichy K.Murali - Mridangam
12.00 Noon - Ramya Kannan - Vocal, Giridhari - Violin, Srivanchium Sriram - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Jayashree Vaidyanathan - Vocal, Kovai chandran - Violin, Manikudi Chandrasekaran - Mridangam, Narasimhan - Ghatam
3.00 p.m. - Mandolin Sisters - Sreeusha & Sireesha - Mandolin, Nellai A. Balaji - Mridangam, B. Subba Rao - Ghatam
6.00 p.m. - T.M. Krishna - Vocal, Embar S. Kannan - Violin, B. Ganapathiraman - Mridangam, Vaikam Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 24, 2011 - Saturday
9.30 a.m. - R. Suryaprakash - Vocal, M.A. Sundareswaran - Violin, Mannargudi A. Easwaran - Mridangam, Alathur T. Rajaganesh - Ghatam
12.00 Noon - K. Subhiksha - Vocal, Vittal Rangan - Violin, K.J. Vineeth - Mridangam
1.30 p.m.- Vidya G. Subramaniam - Vocal, H.V. Raghuram - Violin, Mayavaram Muralidharan - Mridangam
3.00 p.m. - S. Girish - Vocal, R. Ambikaprasad - Violin, A.S. Ranganathan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Bombay Jayashree - Vocal, H.N. Bhaskar - Violin, Patri Satishkumar - Mridanga, Udupi Sridhar - Ghatam

Dec. 25, 2011 - Sunday
9.30 a.m.- N. Ramani - Flute, M.A. Sundareswaran - Violin, K.V. Prasad - Mridangam, A.S. Shankar - Ghatam
12.00 Noon - V. Dheekshitha - Vocal, T.S. Dineshkumar - Violin, Akshayram - Mridangam
1.30 p.m.- Maharajapuram Ganesh Viswanathan - Vocal, Rajiv - Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam
3.00 p.m. - Subhasree Ramachandran - Vocal, M. Narmada - Violin, Kallidaikuruchi S. Sivakumar - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - U. Shrinivas - Mandolin, S.D. Sridharan - Violin, Srimushnam V. Raja Rao - Mridangam, S.V. Ramani - Ghatam, Srirangam Kannan - Morsing

Dec. 26, 2011 - Monday
9.30 a.m. - Dr. Subhashini Parthasarathy - Vocal, A.G.A. Gnanasundaram - Violin, M. Ravichandra - Mridangam
12.00 Noon - K. Mahathi - Keyboard, Shradha Ravindran - Violin, Sathyanarayanan - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - M. Ramakrishnan Murthy - Vocal, M.S. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, B. Srivatsan - Mridangam
3.00 p.m. - Amrutha Venkatesh - Vocal, Anand Viswanathan - Violin, Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan - Vocal, Embar S. Kannan - Violin, - Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan

Dec. 27, 2011 - Tuesday
9.30 a.m.- Geetha Raja - Vocal, Usha Rajagopalan - Violin, B. Ganapathiraman - Mridangam, N. Sundar - Kanjira
12.00 Noon - Shraddha Mohan - Vocal, T.S. Dineshkumar - Violin, N.C. Bharadwaj - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Aparna Thiagarajan - Vocal, Apoorva Krishna - Violin, Tirucherai Kaushik - Mridangam
3.00 p.m. - Amrutha Murali - Vocal, Ranjani Ramakrishnan - Violin, R. Sankaranarayanan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Trichur V. Ramachandran - Vocal, M.R. Gopinath - Violin, Guruvayur Dorai - Mridangam, E.M. Subramaniam - Ghatam

Dec. 28, 2011 - Wednesday
9.30 a.m. - Prema Rangarajan - Vocal, Padma Shankar - Violin, Melakaveri K. Balaji - Mridangam
12.00 Noon - Anirudh Venkatesh - Vocal, Siva Ramamurthy - Violin, K.S. Ramana - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan - Vocal, R. Rahul - Violin, A.M. Harinarayanan - Mridangam
3.00 p.m. - Nisha Rajagopal - Vocal, Dr. Jyotsna - Violin, Sai Giridhar - Mridangam, G. Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam
6.00 p.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan - Vocal, V.V. Ravi - Violin, Trichy B. Harikumar - Mridangam

Dec. 29, 2011 - Thursday
9.30 a.m. - Sreevalsan J Menon - Vocal, V.V. Ravi - Violin, Tanjore Ramadas - Mridangam, Papanasam S. Sethuraman - Kanjira
12.00 Noon - Pallavi Prasanna Madhyastha - Vocal, Anuthama Murali - Violin, K. Parthasarathy - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Rithvik Raja - Vocal, M. Vijay - Violin, Palakad A.M. Harinarayanan
3.00 p.m. - Prasanna Venkataraman - Vocal, Trivandrum Sampath - Violin, R. Sankaranarayanan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Nandanar Charithram - Sangeetha Upanyasam by
Vishaka Hari, B. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam, Sukanya Ramgopal - Ghatam

Dec. 30, 2011 - Friday
9.30 a.m. - T.V. Ramprasadh - Vocal, T.K.V. Ramanujacharyulu - Violin, - H.S. Sudhindra - Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira
12.00 Noon - Arvind Sridhar - Vocal, Sa. Raghavasimhan - Violin, G. Krithivasan - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - J.B. Sruthi Sagar - Flute, R. Rahul - Violin, B. Srivatsan - Mridangam
3.00 p.m. - Sankar Ramani - Vocal, A.G. Venkatasubramaniam - Violin, - R. Sankaranarayanan - Mridangam, G. Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam
6.00 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayathri - Vocal, H.N. Bhaskar - Violin, H.S. Sudhindra - Mridangam, N. Guruprasad - Ghatam

Dec. 31, 2011 - Saturday
9.30 a.m. - Mambalam Sisters - Vijayalakshmi & Chitra - Vocal, R. Hemalatha - Violin, Nellai A. Balaji - Mridangam, K.S. Rangachari - Kanjira
12.00 Noon - Sidharth Sriram - Vocal, Sriram Sridharan - Violin, Sanjay Subramaniam Mridangam - Mridangam
1.30 p.m. - Iyer Sisters Srividya & Sudha - Vocal, K.J. Dilip - Violin, Tanjore Praveenkumar - Mridangam
3.00 p.m. - Sandeep Narayanan - Vocal, M. Vijay - Violin, Nirmal Narayanan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan - Vocal, M. Chandrasekaran - Violin, T.K. Murthy - Mridangam, B. Sreesundarkumar - Kanjira

Jan. 1, 2012 - Sunday
9.30 a.m. - Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan & Vijayalakshmi - Violin Duet, T.V. Gopalakrishnan - Mridangam, V. Suresh - Ghatam
2.00 p.m. - Swarna Rethas - Vocal, B. Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Nirmal Narayanan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - K.J. Yesudas - Vocal, Nagai R. Muralidharan - Violin, Tiruvarur P. Bhakthavatsalam - Mridangam, Tirupanithura Radhakrishnan - Ghatam

Jan. 2, 2012 - Monday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Abirami Aru. Balasingam (Dis.of Narthaki Natraj)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Pallavi Sriram (Dis. of Chitra Visweswaran)

Jan. 3, 2012 - Tuesday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Vani Nagarajan (Dis.of K.J. Sarasa)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Aishwarya Jayaraman (Dis.of Meenakshi Chitharanjan)

Jan. 4, 2012 - Wednesday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Malavika (Dis.of Sarayu Sai)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanrithyam by Smt. Varsha Suresh (Dis. of K.J. Sarasa)

Jan. 5, 2012 - Thursday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Aarabhi Perinbanathan (Dis. of Narthaki Nataraj)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Swetha Varadarajan (Dis. of Archana Mahesh)

Jan. 6, 2012 - Friday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Aishwarya Ramanan (Dis.of Divya Sena)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Radica Giri (Dis.of A. Lakshmanan)

Jan. 7, 2012 - Saturday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Ganesh Vasudeva (USA) (Dis.of Sreelatha Suresh)
7.15 p.m. - Sri Devi Nrithyalaya Students present Dance Ballet
Ravaneswaran. Choreography & Direction by Sheela Unnikrishnan

Jan. 8, 2012 - Sunday
5.45 p.m. - Kuchipudi Dance by Dr. Vasanthi Ravi (Dis.of Vempatti Ravishankar)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Deepti Ravichandran (Dis.of Sudharani Raghupathy)

Jan. 9, 2012 - Sunday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Sagarika Mani (Dis.of Sarayu Sai)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Purnima Balasubramaniam (Dis.of Lakshmi Ramaswamy)

Jan. 10, 2012 - Monday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by S. Divya (Dis.of Sarayu Sai)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Deepa Mahadevan (Dis. of Madurai Muralidharan)

Jan. 11, 2012 - Tuesday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Vaishnavi Ravishanker (Dis.of Savithri Jagannatha Rao)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Chitra Ramaswami (Dis. of Jayanthi Subramaniam)

Jan. 12, 2012 - Wednesday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Shobana Thiagarajan (Dis. of Archana Mahesh)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Sridevi Suresh (Dis. of Jayanthi Subramaniam)

Jan. 13, 2012 - Thursday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by T.A. Vvirraja &T.A. Vasudha (Dis.of Ranganayaki Jayaraman)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Divya Devagupthapu (Dis. of Shantha & V.P. Dhananjayan)

Jan. 14, 2012 - Friday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by V.N. Supriya (Dis. of A. Lakshmanan)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Aparna Chithranjan (Dis. of Meenakshi Chitharanjan)

Jan. 15, 2012 - Saturday
5.45 p.m. - Mithila Dance Group Presents a thematic presentation
Tree - Direction Smt. Mythili
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Chinnamanur A. Chitra (Chidambaram)

Jan. 16, 2012 - Sunday
5.45 p.m. - Mohini Attam by Sunanda Nair(USA) (Dis. of Kanaka Rele, Bombay)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Preethi, Shivapriya, Namrata Naidu, K. Padamsee (Dis.of Ranganayaki Jayaraman)

Jan. 17, 2012 - Monday
5.45 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Sangita Vasudevan (Dis. of Radha)
7.15 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Pooja Allepalle (Dis. of Adyar Lakshmanan)

November 25, 2011

Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha

One of the oldest sabhas in Chennai, Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha is ideally located for people in T.Nagar, West Mambalam as well as north Chennai.
The concerts are held at Vani Mahal, 103, G.N. Road, T.Nagar, Chennai

Here is the official website of Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha
- http://vanimahal.com/

Dec. 10, 2011 - Saturday
10.00 a.m. - S.Srinivasan - Veena, Thanjavur Ramadas - Mridangam, N. Rajaraman - Ghatam
1.00 p.m. - N.S. Aruna - Vocal, Ganesh - Violin, Karthick Narayanan - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - A.Narayanan - Vocal, Vidya - Violin, Delhi Rajasubramaniam - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Jayashree Vaidyanathan - Vocal, Karikal S.Venkatasubramaniam - Violin, Thiruvidaimarudhur S.Sankaran- Mridangam, Sunil Kumar - Kanjira
6.30 p.m. - T.M. Krishna - Vocal, H.N.Bhaskar - Violin, K.V.Prasad - Mridangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira

Dec. 11, 2011 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - N.C.Soundravalli - Vocal, V.L.Kumar - Violin, Thanjavur Subramaniam - Mrudangam
1.00 p.m. - Ragini Sri - Vocal, B.Sudha - Violin, Mannargudi Shreyas - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Vidya Kalyanaraman - Vocal, Parur M.S.Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Jayamangala Krishnamani - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Chinmaya Sisters Uma & Radhika - Vocal, Melakavery Thiyagarajan - Violin, Nellai A Balaji - Mrudangam, Nanganallur S Swaminathan - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan - Vocal, M.A.Krishnaswamy - Violin, I.Siva kumar - Mrudangam, Sukanya Ramgopal - Ghatam

Dec. 12, 2011 - Monday
1.00 p.m. - Sai Vignesh - Vocal, Sriram - Violin, Thirucherai Kaushik - Mrudangam, Shri Sainath - Ghatam
2.15 p.m. - Subhiksha Rangarajan - Vocal, K.P.Nandhini - Violin, Guru Raghavendra - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - S.M.Vilasini - Vocal, Ambika Prasad - Violin, P.V.Kamaraj - Mrudangam, Pudukkottai N.Ramachandran - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - P.Unnikrishnan - Vocal, S.Varadarajan - Violin, B.Harikumar - Mrudangam, Tripoonithura Radhakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 13, 2011 - Tuesday
1.00 p.m. - Hariharan Ravi - Vocal, Shradha Ravindran - Violin, Akshay Ram - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Sunanda - Vocal, K.J.Dileep - Violin, N.C.Bhardwaj - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Raji Gopalakrishnan - Vocal, R.Satish Kumar - Violin, Sherthalai R.Ananthakrishnan - Mrudangam, H.Sivaramakrishnan - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Sikil C.Gurucharan - Vocal, Delhi P.Sundarrajan - Violin, Neyveli R.Narayanan - Mrudangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira

Dec. 14, 2011 - Wednesday
1.00 p.m. - Swetharanyam Sisters Vidya & Nithya - Vocal, Shraddha Ravindran - Violin, H.Vijayaram - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan - Vocal, Raghul - Violin, Tanjore Praveen Kumar - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Serugudi Sisters Rema & Geetha - Vocal, Kovai Chandran - Violin, Kumbakonam K Ramakrishnan - Mrudangam, N.Narasimhan - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Malladi Brothers Sriram Prasad& Ravi Kumar - Vocal, Vittal Ramamurthy - Violin, K.R.Ganesh - Mrudangam, Trichy K.Murali - Ghatam

Dec. 15, 2011 - Thursday
1.00 p.m. - Iyer Sisters Srividya & Sudha - Vocal, Shreya Devnath - Violin, Nellai Srikrishnan - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - J.Sriram - Vocal, A.Kalpana - Violin, Ramkumar - Mrudangam
4.00p.m. - B.Vijyagopal - Flute, Bombay V Anand - Violin, Manakkal R Sriram - Mrudangam, Papanasam S Sethuraman - Kanjira
6.30 p.m. - O.S.Arun - Vocal, Kumabkonam M.R.Gopinath - Violin, J.Vaidhyanathan - Mrudangam, Dr.S.Karthick - Ghatam

Dec. 16, 2011 - Friday
1.00 p.m. - Poornima Krishnan - Vocal, Thiruvaiyaru Saradha - Violin, Sainivethan - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - V.Deekshita Venkatraman - Vocal, Srividhya R.S.Iyer - Violin, Thillaisthanam R Suryanarayanan - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - U.P.Raju & Nagamani - Vocal, Chidambara S Balashankar - Violin, B.S.Purushotham - Kanjira
6.30 p.m. - N. Vijay Siva - Vocal, Embar Kannan - Violin, K.R.Ganesh - Mrudangam, B.Purushothaman - Kanjira

Dec. 17, 2011 - Saturday
10.00 a.m. - Lecture Demonstration
1.00 p.m. - Suguna Varadachari - Vocal, V.V.Ravi - Violin, Thanjavur Murugabhoopathy - Mrudangam, Papanasam S.Sethuraman - Kanjira
1.00 p.m. - S.R.Mytreyi - Vocal, Jayanthi Kesav - Violin, Madurai Kumaresh - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Maharajapuram Ganesh Viswanathan - Vocal, Arunachala Karthick - Violin, Swamimalai Girish - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Ragam Sisters Sivaranjani & Nalinakanthi - Vocal, Srilakshmi Venkataramani - Violin, Hanumanthapuram J.Bhuvarahan - Mrudangam, G.Ravichandran - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan - Vocal, Pakala Ramadas - Violin, Palladam Ravi - Mrudangam, R.Raman - Morsing

Dec. 18, 2011 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - Lecture Demonstration
1.00 p.m. - Vani Ramamurthy - Vocal, Shiva Ramamurthy - Violin, Aravind Shankar - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - V.Deepika - Vocal, M.Rajeev - Violin, Srivanchiam Sriram - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Sushma Somasekaran - Vocal, M. Rajeev - Violin, Uzhavoor P.K.Babu - Mrudangam
6.30 p.m. - U.Shrinivas - Mandolin, S.D.Sridhar - Violin, Haridwaramangalam A.K.Palanivel - Tavil, Guru Prasnna - Kanjira, N.Guruprasad - Ghatam

Dec. 19, 2011 - Monday
1.00 p.m. - Janani Hamsini - Vocal, Shyam - Violin, Aswini - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Nadhamuni Gayathri - Vocal, C.K.Vijayaraghavan - Violin, Manikudi Chandrasekaran - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Dr. Ganesh - Vocal, Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan - Violin, A.S.Ranganathan - Mrudangam, Papanasam S.Sethuraman - Kanjira
6.30 p.m. - Hyderabad Brothers D.Raghavachari & D.Seshachari - Vocal, Nagai R.Sriram - Violin, Trivandrum V.Balaji - Mrudangam, K.V.Gopalkrishnan - Kanjira

Dec. 20, 2011 - Tuesday
1.00 p.m. - Aravind Sridhar - Vocal, Sruthi Sarathi - Violin, Kirann Vangipuram - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Bharathi Ramasubban - Vocal, Nagaraj Mandiya - Violin, Neyveli Ramkumar - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Sthree Thal Tharang presents Laya Raga Sangamam - Ensemble. Sukanya Ramgopal - Ghata Tharang, Ghatam & Konnakol, J. Yoha Vandana - Veena, Sowmya Ramachandran - Violin, Ranjani Venkatesh - Mrudangam, Bhagyalakshmi M.Krishna - Morsing
6.30 p.m. - Priya Sisters Shanmuga Priya & Hari Priya - Vocal, M.A.Krishnaswamy - Violin, Patri Satish Kumar - Mrudangam

Dec. 21, 2011 - Wednesday
1.00 p.m. - Vignesh Easwar - Vocal, Smitha Krishnan - Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Visalakshi Shankar - Vocal, Neela Jayakumar - Violin, V.R.Jayakumar - Mrudangam, N.Narasimhan - Ghatam
4.00 p.m. - K.R.Saranathan - Vocal, Anyampatti Venkatasubrmaniam - Violin, Tanjore Ramdas - Mridangam
6.30 p.m. - Kadri Goplanath - Saxophone, A.Kanyakumari - Violin, Patri Satish Kumar - Mrudangam, Rajendra Nakot - Tabla, Bangalore Rajasekar - Morsing

Dec. 22, 2011 - Thursday
1.00 p.m. - Shilpa (Mumbai) - Vocal, Y.Sivagamasundari - Violin, R.Vaibhav - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Rithvik Raja - Vocal, Jayanthi Kesav - Violin, Madurai Sundar - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Neyveli Radhakrishna - Double Violin, Thanjavur R.Govindarajan - Spl.Thavil, T.R.Sundaresan - Mrudangam
6.30 p.m. - Srekala Bharat Troupe Presents Madhura Lahari - Group Dance

Dec. 23, 2011 - Friday
1.00 p.m. - B.K.Arunkumar - Vocal, T.V.Sukanya - Violin, Sai Shankar - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Cuddalore S.J.Janani - Vocal, Villivakkam Raghuraman - Violin, Calcutta T.K. Karthick - Mrudangam, S.Krishna - Ghatam
4.00 p.m. - B.Kannan - Veena, Chidambaram Balashankar - Mrudangam, Chandrasekara Sarma - Ghatam, N.Sundar - Tabla & Morsing
6.30 p.m. - K.J.Yesudas - Vocal, Nagai Muralidharan - Violin, Thiruvarur Bhathavatsalam - Mrudangam, Tripoonithura Radhakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 24, 2011 - Saturday
10.00 a.m. - Krishnapriya Anantharaj - Vocal, Dorai Balasubramaniam - Violin, Palladam Ravi - Mrudangam, Trichy K.Murali - Ghatam
1.00 p.m. - K.S.Sathya Priya & K.S.VidyaLakshmi - Vocal, Kamlakiran Vinjamuri - Violin, Jayadev Bhaskaran - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Jayasshree Jayaramakrishnan - Vocal, R.Kailasam - Violin, Trivandrum Hariharan - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Mambala Sisters Vijyalakshmi & Chitra - Vocal, Dr.R.Hemalatha - Violin, Kallidaikurchi S.Sivakumar - Mrudangam, K.S.Rangachary - Kanjira
6.30 p.m. - Sanjay Subrahmanyam - Vocal, Nagai Muralidharan - Violin, Neyveli Venkatesh - Mrudangam, S.Venkataramanan - Kanjira

Dec. 25, 2011 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - T.V.Ramparasadh - Vocal, T.V.K.Ramanujacharyalu - Violin, Calcutta Aravind - Mrudangam, B.Shree Sundarakumar - Kanjira
1.00 p.m. - Meena Vikram - Vocal, A.Kalpana - Violin, Sai Sarangan - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Amritha Ranjanai - Vocal, H.V.Raghuram - Violin, M.S.Venkatasubramaniam - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Amrutha Venkatesh - Vocal, Anand Viswanthan - Violin, Arjun Ganesh - Mrudangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira
4.30 p.m. - Geetha Krishnamoorthy - Veena, Kalakkad Srinivasan - Mrudangam, H.Sivaramakrishnan - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Carnatica Brothers K.N.Sashikiran & Ganesh - Nagai R.Sriram - Violin, Anantha R krishnan - Mrudangam, Udipi Balakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 26, 2011 - Monday
1.00 p.m. - Lakshmi Vijayaraghavan - Vocal, Dinesh Kumar - Violin, L.Subramaniam - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Bhairavi &Malavi - Vocal, K.P.Nandini - Violin, Akshay Anandapadmanabhan - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Subhasri Ramachandran - Vocal, R.Satish Kumar - Violin, Kumbakonam Swaminathan - Mrudangam, H.Prasanna - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - T.V.Sankaranarayanan - Vocal, V.V.Ravi - Violin, K.V.Prasad - Mrudangam, V.Suresh - Ghatam

Dec. 27, 2011 - Tuesday
1.00 p.m. - Shipa Sadagopan - Vocal, R.Shyam - Violin, Sanjay Subramananiam - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Niranjana Srinivasan - Vocal, Sudha R.S.Iyer - Violin, Prasanna Karthikeyan - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - G.Ramanathan - Saxophone, V.Suresh Babu - Violin, M.S.Venkatasubramaniam - Mrudangam, N.Narasimhan - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam - Vocal, Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi - Violin, Poongulam Subrmaniam - Mrudangam, N.Guruprasad - Ghatam

Dec. 28, 2011 - Wednesday
1.00 p.m. - N.Jayakrishnan - Vocal, Sriram Sridhar - Violin, Thiruvellur Shreyas - Mrudangam,
2.15 p.m. - Ramakrishnan Murthy - Vocal, Shankar Rajan - Violin, Thanjavur Praveen Kumar - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - S.Mahathi - Vocal, B.Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Delhi Sairam - Mrudangam, S.Hariharsubramaniam - Ghatam

Dec. 29, 2011 - Thursday
2.15 p.m. - A.Kanyakumari & Embar Kannan - Violin Duet, K.V.Prasad - Mrudangam, B.S.Purushotham - Kanjira
1.00 p.m. - K.Mahathi - Key Board, Shraddha Ravindran - Violin, Akshay Ram - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Gayathri Satya - Vocal, Smitha Krishnan - Violin, Arjun Narayanan - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Shankar Ramani - Vocal, R.Kailasam - Violin, Australia Ravichandra - Mrudangam, G.Ravichandran - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan - Vocal, M.Chandrasekaran - Violin, Tricur C Narendran - Mrudangam, Vaikom Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 30, 2011 - Friday
1.00 p.m. - Hariharan - Vocal, Shraddha Ravindran - Violin, Gopal - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Krithika Natarajan - Vocal, Roopa Rajagopal - Violin, Ammangudi Ramanarayanan - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Sathur Sisters Lalitha Santhanam & Bhuvana Rajagopal - Vocal, Meera Sivaramakrishnan - Violin, Manikudi Chandrasekar - Mrudangam, N.Narasimhan - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Anitha Guha Dance Programme Bharathanjali Trust & Cleeveland Thyagaraja Trust Presents 'Parishvannaga Pattabishekam (Kiskinda Kandam & Sundarakandam)

Dec. 31, 2011 - Saturday
9.00 a.m. - Namasankeertnam by A.V.Rajasimhan & Party,
10.00 a.m. - Charulatha Mani - Vocal, B.ananthakrishnan - Violin, Arjun Ganesh S.J. - Mrudangam, N. Sundar - Morsing
1.00 p.m. - Anirudh Venkatesh - Vocal, Shiva Ramamurthy - Violin, J.Aravind - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Shreya Devnath - Solo Violin, N.C.Bharadwaj - Mrudangam, S.Krishna - Ghatam
4.00 p.m. - Dr. M.Narmada - Violin, Sherthlai Ananthakrishnan - Mrudangam, Pudukottai N.Ramachandran - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayathri - Vocal, Kumbakonam M.R.Gopinath - Violin, Manoj Siva - Mrudangam, Ravi Balasubramaniam - Ghatam

Jan. 01, 2012 - Sunday
10.00 a.m. - Ghatam Karthick Heartbeat Ensemble S. Karthick - Ghatam, Konakol &Vocal, Embar S.Kannan - Violin, Bhavani Prasad - Digital Veena, Poongulam Subramnaiam - Mrudangam, K.V. Gopala Krishnan - Kanjira, R. Raman - Morsing
1.00 p.m. - Kousshikram - Vocal, Thirumarungal Dineshkumar - Violin, Vikram Vasudevan - Mrudangam
2.15 p.m. - Ajay Nmbudri - Vocal, Shertalai Sivakumar - Violin, Chennai Thyagarajan - Mrudangam
4.00 p.m. - Geetha Rajasekar - Vocal, M.A.Krishanaswami - Violin, Mannargudi Subramaniam - Mrudangam, H. Siva Ramakrishnan - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Sri Devi Nrithyalaya Chennai Present Ravaneswaran Dance ballet by Smt Sheela Unnikrishnan

Jan. 2, 2012 - Monday
7.00 p.m. - Crazy Creations presents CHOCLET KRISHNA - Drama

Jan. 3, 2012 - Tuesday
6.30 p.m. - Natakapriya presents S.V.Shekher in AAYIRAM UDHAI VAANGIYA APOORVA SIKAMANI - Drama

Jan. 4, 2012 - Wednesday
6.30 p.m. - Stage Creations presents Kathadi Ramamurthy in NEENGALE SOLLUNGA - Drama

Jan. 5, 2012 - Thursday
6.30 p.m. - UAA presents Y Gee Mahendra in NAADAGAM - Drama

Jan. 6, 2012 - Friday
6.30 p.m. - Thamizharasan Theatre's present RAGHU & KEDHU by D.Balasundaram - Drama

Jan. 7, 2012 - Saturday
6.30 p.m. - Dummies presents SHYAMALAM - Drama

Jan. 8, 2012 - Sunday
6.30 p.m. - United Visuals presents TV Varadarajan in Drama AASAIKKUM AASTHIKKUM

Jan. 9, 2012 - Monday
6.30 p.m. - Kadukambadi Brothers K.B. Balakrishnan, K.B. Srinivasan - Nadhaswaram, Thiru Rameswaram T.B. Radhakrishnan - Spl Thavil

Jan. 10, 2012 - Tuesday
6.30 p.m. - Mannargudi Brothers M.S.K. Sankara Narayanan, M.S.K. Venkatesan - Nadhaswaram, Idumbavanam K.S. Kannan - Spl Thavil

Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha Awards - 2011

The award Sangeetha Kala Sarathy will be conferred upon vocalist S. Sowmya this year.

Palghat Mani Iyer Centenary award will be presented to violin Maestro T.N. Krishnan. This award is given from the endowment created by vocalist Nithyashree Mahadevan. ) and Dr. M.L.V. award will be presented to vocalist Prasanna Venkatraman, This award comes from the endowment created by vocalist Sudha Raghunathan.

November 24, 2011

Chennai Fine Arts

The 9th year music festival of Chennai Fine Arts will be held at K.N. Shanmugasundaram Hall, Karpagambal Nagar, Mylapore, Chennai - 4

The schedule:

Dec. 21, 2011 - Wednesday
5.00 p.m. - Inauguration. Gottuvadyam Narayana Iyengar Excellency Award to R.K. Srikantan
6.35 p.m. - R.K. Srikantan (Vocal), R.S. Ramakanth - Vocal support, N. Ravikiran - Chitravina, Srimushnam Raja Rao - Mridangam, Trichy Murali - Ghatam

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam

Dec. 22, 2011 - Thursday
5.00 p.m. - Varalakshmi Anandakumar - Vocal, Melakkaveri Thyagarajan - Violin, B. Ganapathyraman - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Compositions of Margadarsi Sesha Iyengar - lecture by Dr. SAK Durga
6.45 p.m. - Prema Rangarajan - Vocal, Usha Rajagopalan - Violin, Melakaveri Balaji - Mridangam

Dec. 23, 2011 - Friday
5.00 p.m. - Nirmala Rajasekar - Veena, B. Sivaraman - Mridangam, Nanganallur Swaminathan - Ghatam
6.15 p.m. - Compositions of Irayimman Thampi - lecture by Prameela Gurumurthy
6.45 p.m. - Madhavan Namboothri - Vocal, M.R. Gopinath - Violin, T.K. Murthy - Mridangam, Udupi Sridhar - Ghatam

Dec. 24, 2011 - Saturday
5.00 p.m. - B. Bhargavi - Vocal, K.P. Nandini - Violin, H.S. Sudhindra - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Compositions of N. Ravikiran. Felicitations by Suguna Purushothaman
6.35 p.m. - Kunnakudi M. Balamuralikrishna - Vocal, V.L. Kumar - Violin, Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar - Mridangam

Visesha Vadyanubhava
Dec. 25, 2011 - Sunday
5.00 p.m. - Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar - Flute - lecdem
6.30 p.m. - M.S. Gopalakrishnan, M. Narmada & G. Sureshkumar - Violin trio. Neyveli Narayanan - Mridangam, Adambakkam Shankar - Ghatam

Dec. 26, 2011 - Monday
5.00 p.m. - Mudikondan Ramesh - Veena, A.S. Ranganathan - Mrridangam, Udupi Balakrishnan - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Injikudi E.M. Subramaniam & party - Nadaswaram

Dec. 27, 2011 - Tuesday
5.00 p.m. - B. Kannan - Veena
6.30 p.m. - N. Ramani - Flute, Nagai Muralidharan - Violin, Mannargudi Easwaran - Mridangam

Yuvakala Vaibhavam
Dec. 28, 2011 - Wednesday
5.00 p.m. - Nithyasree Srinivasan - Veena, Thillai Sooryanarayanan - Mridangam, Tiruvarur Venkatesh - Ghatam
6.00 p.m. - Manasi Prasad - Vocal, R. Kailasam - Violin, Ashwin Sridharam - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - U.P. Raju & Nagamani - Mandolin duet, Australia Ravichandra - Mridangam, Trichy Murali - Ghatam, Sai Nivedhan - Kanjira

Dec. 29, 2011 - Thursday
5.00 p.m. - Akkarai Subhasree - Vocal, Villivakkam Raghuraman - Violin, Udupi Balakrishnan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Kishan Jayendran - Mandolin. Srividhya R.S. Iyer - Violin, M.S. Venkatasubramaniam - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Vidya Kalyanaraman - Vocal, Sudha R.S. Iyer - Violin, Tanjore K. Praveenkumar - Mridangam

Dec. 30, 2011 - Friday
5.00 p.m. - Anahita & Apoorva - Vocal duet, Jayanthi Keshav - Violin,
6.00 p.m. - Aishwarya Shankar - Vocal, Kalpana Prasad (USA) - Violin, Nellai V. Srikrishnan - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Suchitra B - Vocal, C.K. Vijayaraghavan - Violin, N.C. Bharadwaj - Mridangam

Dec. 31, 2011 - Saturday
Dedicated to the birth centenary of Harikatha exponent Smt. Banni Bai
5.00 p.m. - Vallivalan Venkataraman - Vocal, Villivakkam Raghuraman - Violin, Thillai Sooryanarayanan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - R. Raghavendra - Vocal, R, Rahul - Violin, R. Parthasarathy - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Pushpa Anand & Party - Abhang Bhajan

Jan. 01, 2012 - Sunday
5.00 p.m. - Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna merit scholarship to Kum. Vijayasree and Master Arvind
6.30 p.m. - Carnatica Bros. K.N. sasikiran and P. Ganesh - Vocal duet, M.A. Sundaresan - Violin, Kamalakar Rao - Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira

November 22, 2011

Ushering the 2011 Music Season

by ........ Sivapriya Krishnan


The Madras Music Academy, to repeat ad nauseam, is the "Mecca" of music in the cultural map of South Indian classical music. The Music season actually starts only when the Academy starts, however much other institutions may have started. The Academy being what it is, has a stiff twin objective to meet in providing for the entertainment value without shortchanging the content.

Artists are in queue to get a slot to sing and more so in queue to get onto the next senior slot, which actually tells the public about their elevated status. The Academy was one of the earliest,probably one of the first to announce the schedule of concerts for this December season of 2011.

The schedule of concerts did reveal the meaning of one old adage : " the old order changeth, yielding place to new" !

The seniors have given place to the juniors, the veterans have given place to the seniors, fathers have given place to sons/ daughters, senior disciples have given place to junior disciples while some have remained untouched .

Keeping with the tradition of an inaugural concert by a Sangita Kalanidhi,this time the series begins with Smt.R.Vedavalli. The morning slots, traditionally a veterans' bastion sees the inclusion for the first time of the maestro-veteran Sri.T.N.Seshagopalan. TNS Krishna sings in the evening for the first time this year. Young ladies doing Harikatha have always attracted huge crowds and this year the morning has been handed over to young Suchitra, grand-daughter of the veteran Harikatha artist Kamala Murthy. Neyveli Santhanagopalan sings in the morning and his daughter Sriranjani in the afternoon.

Artists like Shertalai Ranganatha Sharma and Manda Sudharani have proved over the years and plodded their way into the evening senior bastion. The shining stars among the young seniors like Gayatri Venkatraghavan, Sikkil Gurucharan, Abhishek Raghuram, Savita Narasimhan have got their due. The senior seniors like Sanjay Subramaniam, Vijay Siva, Unnikrishnan, TM Krishna have their places intact. The "senior ladies quartette", comprising Bombay Jayasree, Nityasree, Sudha Raghunathan andd Aruna Sairam, who continue to attract large crowds and good gate collections have their places intact and remain untouched. Some new juniors have been given a warm welcome to prove thier mettle.

Just as it is important for any musician to be slotted in the Academy, it is also a dauntingly important task for the programming committee at the Academy to balance the schedule , keeping in mind the need for

(a) attracting new talent,
(b) preserving veteran art,
(c) encouraging and promoting juniors to seniors and shaping them for posterity
(d) balancing entertainment and economic viability through gate collections

all with utmost impartial judgement and clear substantiation.

In this the Academy officials as organisers have proved that with ample thought and clear thinking, a well balanced schedule can be drawn which meets up with most requirement parameters on hand. Lets usher in the season of 2011!

Sri Krishna Gana Sabha

The 56th year of art & dance festival of Sri Krishna Gana Sabha will be inaugurated on Dec. 9, 2011
This year's festival is dedicated to Madurai Mani Iyer whose birth centenary is celebrated this year.

Donor Pass: Rs.10,000/-,7,500/-,5,500/- ,3,000/-
Programme Donor Pass: Rs.1000/-,500/-,300/-,200/- & 100/-
Advance Booking: 9.00 a.m to 8.00 p.m
At Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Dr. Nalli Gana Vihar, No 20, Maharajapuram Santhanam Salai, T. Nagar, Chennai - 600 017. Phone - 2814 0806. E-mail: krishnaganasabha@gmail.com


The schedule:

Dec. 9, 2011 - Friday
4.00 p.m. - Mangala Isai
6.00 p.m. - Inauguration
7.30 p.m. - Sudharma Vaidyanathan (Dis. of A. Lakshman) - Bharathanatyam

Dec.10, 2011 - Saturday
Main hall
7.00 a.m. - Thodayamangalam, Guru Keerthanaigai, Ashtapathi by Udayalur Kalyanarama Bhagavathar
10.00 a.m. - Bharathanatyam by Suryanarayanamurthy

Kamakoti Hall
9.45 a.m. - Mala Chandrasekar – Flute, H.N.Bhaskar – Violin, Thiruvarur Vaidhyanathan – Midangam, Trichy K.Murali - Ghatam
12.00 Noon - Shraddha Mohan – Vocal, Karaikkal S.Venkatasubramanian – Violin, Sumesh S.Narayanan – Mridangam, S.Sunil Kumar - Ghatam
2.00 p.m. - Chaitrra Sairam – Vocal, M.Rajeev – Violin, Kumbakonam K.Swaminathan – Mridangam, D.V.Venkatasubramaniyam - Ghatam

Dec. 11, 2011 - Sunday
Main Hall
7.00 a.m. - Narayana Theerthar & Badrachala Ramadasar Kritis by Udayalur Kalyanarama Bhagavathar
10.00 a.m. - Bharathanatyam by Shobana Balachander
4.30 p.m. - Abishek Raghuram – Vocal, Akkarai Subhalakshmi – Violin, Anantha R.Krishnan – Mridangam, G.Guruprasanna - Ghatam
7.30 P.M Bharathanatyam by the Dhananjayans

Kamakoti hall
9.45 a.m. - Akkarai Sisters Subhalakshmi & Sornalatha (Violin duet) – Neyveli R.Narayanan – Mridangam, Dr. S.Karthick (Ghatam)
12.00 Noon - Vikram Raghavan – Vocal, Lavanya Raman – Violin, Tanjore K.Praveen Kumar – Mridangam, S.Krishna - Ghatam
7.00 p.m. - K.Hariprasad – Vocal, V.Sanjeev – Violin, K.R.Ganesh – Mridangam, Madipakkam A.Murali - Ghatam

Dec. 12, 2011 - Monday
Main Hall
7.00 a.m. - Purandaradasar & Gopalakrishna Bharathi Kritis by Udayalur Kalyanarama Bhagavathar
10.00 a.m. - Bharathanatyam by Radhica Giri
2.00 p.m. - S. Aishwarya - Vocal, R.K.Shriram Kumar - Violin, T.K.Murthy - Mridangam, B.Sivaraman - Mridangam
4.30 p.m. - Trichur V.Ramachandran – Vocal, V.L.Kumar – Violin, Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam – Mridangam, A.S.Sankar - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Kalakshethra reportire

Kamakoti Hall
2.00 p.m. - Lavanya Sundararaman – Vocal, M.A.Krishnaswami – Violin, I.Sivakumar – Mridangam, H.Sivaramakrishnan - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - Nisha P.Rajagopal – Vocal, Padma Shanker – Violin, B.Sivaraman – Mridangam, N.Rajaraman - Ghatam

Dec. 13, 2011 - Tuesday
Main Hall
7.00 a.m. - Harikatha on Baktha Meera by E. Sindhujha
10.00 a.m. - Bharathanatyam by Lavanya Ananth
4.30 p.m. - O.S.Thyagarajan – Vocal, Embar S.Kannan – Violin, B.Harikumar – Mridangam, Pudukottai N.Ramachandran - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Priyadarshini Govind

Kamakoti Hall
2.00 p.m. - R.Raghavendra – Vocal, S.P.Ananthapadmanabha - Violin, Kallidaikurichi R.Sivakumar – Mridangam, G.Harihara Sharma - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - Dr.Radha Bhaskar – Vocal, Melakaveri R.Thyagarajan – Violin, Ramaiya Vittal – Mridangam, Nanganallur S.Swaminathan - Kanjira

Dec. 14, 2011 - Wednesday
Main hall
7.00 a.m. - Harikatha on Sri Dharmasastha Vijayam by E. Sindhujha
10.00 a.m. - Kuchipudi by Kishore Mosali Kanti
4.30 p.m. - U.Shrinivas – Mandolin, S.D.Sridhar – Violin, Guruvayur Dorai – Mridangam, N.Guruprasad – Ghatam, B.Shree Sundar Kumar - Kanjira
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam – Ramayanam – ‘Bala Kaandam’ by Savithri Jagannatha Rao’s Troupe

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - Erode S. Anantharaman – Vocal, H.V.Raghuram – Violin, R.Akshay Ram – Mridangam, S.Krishna - Ghatam
7.00 p.m. - V.Sankaranarayanan – Vocal, Kandadevi S. Vijayaraghavan – Violin, Delhi Sairam – Mridangam, A.S.Krishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 15, 2011 - Thursday
7.00 a.m. - Harikatha on Thiruneelakanda Nayanar by B.Suchithra - C.N. Srinivasamurthy - B.Ganapathiraman
10.00 a.m. - Bharathanatyam by Dr.Jyotsna Jagannathan
4.30 p.m. - Madurai T.N.S.Krishna – Vocal, M.Chandrasekaran – Violin, Srimushnam V.Raja Rao – Mridangam, Alathur T.Rajaganesh - Kanjira
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam-Ramayanam – ‘Ayodhya Kaandam’ – by Narthaki Nataraj

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - Sandeep Narayan – Vocal, S.P.Ananthapadmanabha - Violin, R.Sankaranarayanan – Mridangam, B.S.Purushothaman - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters Vijayalakshmi & Chitra – Vocal, Dr.R.Hemalatha – Violin, Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar – Mridangam, K.S.Rangachari - Kanjira

Dec. 16, 2011 - Friday
7.00 a.m. - Harikatha on “Vatsala Kalyanam” by B.Suchithra -
C.N. Srinivasamurthy - B.Ganapathiraman
10.00 a.m. - Bharathanatyam by Manjari
4.30 p.m. - Maharajapuram S.Ramachandran – Vocal, Nagai Muralidharan – Violin, Mannargudi A.Easwaran – Mridangam, Srirangam Kannan - Morsing
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam - Ramayanam – ‘Aaranya Kaandam’ – by Jayanthi Subramanian

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - Sharanya Krishnan – Vocal, C.N.Srinivasamurthy – Violin, Manakkal Sriram – Mridangam, S.Sunil Kumar - Ghatam
7.00 P.M Geetha Raja – Vocal, K.P.Nandini – Violin, B.Ganapathiraman – Mridangam, Papanasam S.Sethuraman - Ghatam

Dec. 17, 2011 - Saturday
Main Hall
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
9.30 a.m. - Visaka Hari presents Musical Discourse on “Sri Krishna Leela” accompanied by B.Ananthakrishnan – S.J.Arjun Ganesh – Trichy K.Murali - J.B.Sruthi Sagar
4.30 p.m. - Priya Sisters Shanmugapriya & Haripriya – Vocal, B.Raghavendra Rao – Violin, Neyveli Skandasubramaniyam – Mridangam, B.Shree Sundar Kumar - Kanjira
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam - Ramayanam – ‘Kishkindha Kaandam’ – by Anitha Guha

Kamakoti hall
9.45 a.m. - Sangeetha Swaminathan - Vocal, Bombay V.Anand - Violin, Poongulam Subramanyam - Mridangam, N.Narasimhan - Ghatam
12.00 Noon - Vignesh Ishwar – Vocal, Trivandrum N.Sampath – Violin, N.C.Bharadwaj – Mridangam, G.Harihara Sharma - Ghatam
2.00 p.m. - Savitha Sreeram – Vocal, K.J.Dileep – Violin, Kalakkad R.Srinivasan – Mridangam, Nerkunam S.Sankar - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - R.Surya Prakash – Vocal, M.R.Gopinath – Violin, Trichur C.Narendran – Mridangam, A.S.Sankar - Ghatam

Dec. 18, 2011 - Sunday
Main Hall
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
9.30 a.m. - Visaka Hari presents Musical Discourse on “Sri Krishna Leela” accompanied by B.Ananthakrishnan – S.J.Arjun Ganesh – Trichy K.Murali - J.B.Sruthi Sagar
4.30 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayathri – Vocal, B.U.Ganesh Prasad – Violin, Manoj Siva – Mridangam, Dr.S.Karthick - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam - Ramayanam – ‘Sundara Kaandam’ – by Anitha Guha

Kamakoti hall
9.45 a.m. - Kanakadurga Venkatesh -Vocal, Kalyani Shankar - Violin, Chidambaram Balashankar - Mridangam, S.Venkataramanan - Ghatam
12.00 Noon - Suchethan Rangaswamy – Vocal, H.V.Raghuram – Violin, Vikram Vasudevan – Mridangam, G.Harihara Sharma - Ghatam
2.00 p.m. - Vechoor C.Sankar – Vocal, Sherthalai R.Sivakumar – Violin, Thanjavur Kumar – Mridangam, H.Sivaramakrishnan - Ghatam
7.00 p.m. - B.Kannan – Veena, Mannargudi A.Easwaran – Mridangam, E.M.Subramanyam - Ghatam

Dec. 19, 2011 - Monday
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
10.00 a.m. - Bharathanatyam by Sheejith Krishna
4.30 p.m. - N.Vijay Siva – Vocal, V.Sanjeev – Violin, Neyveli R.Narayanan – Mridangam, Adambakkam K.Shankar - Ghatam
7.30 P.M Bharathanatyam – Ramayanam ‘Yuddha Kaandam’ – by Radha

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - Prasanna Venkataraman – Vocal, B.Ananthakrishnan – Violin, Thanjavur Ramadas – Mridangam, K.V.Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam
4.30 p.m. - In association with Sruthi Laya Kendra Presents M.L.A Concert : Geetha Bennet (USA) – Veena, Karra Srinivasa Rao – Mridangam, Trichy K.Murali - Ghatam
6.30 P.M In association with Sruthi Laya Kendra Presents M.L.A Concert Dr.R.Ganesh – Vocal, A.Gnanasundaram (UK) – Violin, S.Arvind - Mridangam

Dec. 20, 2011 - Tuesday
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
10.00 a.m. - Odissi by Sandeepa Oishanee Palit
4.30 p.m. - Hyderabad Brothers D.Raghavachari & D.Seshachari – Vocal, Nagai R.Sriram – Violin, J.Vaidhyanathan – Mridangam, U.N.Giridhar Udupa - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Rajeswari Sainath

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - Cuddalore S.J.Jananiy – Vocal, V.Suresh Babu – Violin, K.Parthasarathy – Mridangam, N.Narasimhan - Ghatam
4.30 p.m. - In association with Sruthi Laya Kendra Presents M.L.A Concert Allepey Lakshmi Vinayak - Singapore (Vocal) – R.Rahul – Violin, Abhinav Seetharaman - USA - Mridangam
6.30 p.m. - In association with Sruthi Laya Kendra Presents M.L.A Concert Rithvik Raja (Vocal) – M.Rajeev – Violin, M.Ravichandira - Australia - Mridangam

Dec. 21, 2011 - Wednesday
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
10.00 a.m. - Bharathanatyam by Revathi Ramachandran
4.30 p.m. - Bombay Jayashri Ramnath – Vocal, H.N.Bhaskar – Violin, Manoj Siva – Mridangam, V.Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Chitra Visweswaran

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - Ramakrishnan Murthy – Vocal, Mullaivasal G.Chandramouli – Violin, Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar – Mridangam, Trichy S.Krishnaswamy - Ghatam
7.00 p.m. - K.Gayathri – Vocal, Nishanth Chandran – Violin, Mannarkoil J.Balaji – Mridangam, Adambakkam K.Shankar - Ghatam

Dec. 22, 2011 - Thursday
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
10.00 a.m. - Bharathanatyam by Briga Bessel
4.30 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan – Vocal, Padma Shanker – Violin, K.Arun Prakash – Mridangam, N.Guruprasad - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Shobana

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - Shankar Ramani – Vocal, Ravi Srinivasan – Violin, Delhi Sairam – Mridangam, G.Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam
7.00 p.m. - Trichur Brothers Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan – Vocal, M.A.Sundareswaran – Violin, Trichur R.Mohan – Mridangam, D.V.Venkatasubramaniyam - Ghatam

Dec. 23, 2011 - Friday
Main Hall
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
10.00 a.m. - Manipuri Pung, Thang, Jagoigi Shathek (Sponsored by Kalskehthra Foundation) featuring Karuna Devi, Kannan Devi, SAndharani Devi, Durgeshwari Devi (Dancers), Ratan Singh, Sanjoy Singh (Drummer), Imoc-ha Singh, Robert Meitei, Shitaljit Singh, Susil Singh, Bomcha Singh (Martial Arts), Suraj Kumar (Vocal), Chinmoy Karmakar (Flute)
4.30 p.m. - Lalgudi G.J.R.Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Violin duet) – Dr.Trichy Sankaran – Mridangam, K.V.Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanrithyam – ‘Jaya Jaya Sankara’ - by Dr.Padma Subrahmanyam

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - Thrissur V.R.Dileep Kumar – Vocal, Usha Rajagopalan – Violin, Trivandrum R.Vaidhyanathan – Mridangam, Madipakkam A.Murali - Ghatam
7.00 p.m. - Palakkad R.Ramprasad – Vocal, V.V.Ravi – Violin, Bangalore V.Praveen – Mridangam, N.Govindarajan - Ghatam

Dec. 24, 2011 - Saturday
Main Hall
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
10.00 a.m. - Manipuri Pung, Thang, Jagoigi Shathek (Sponsored by Kalskehthra Foundation) featuring Karuna Devi, Kannan Devi, SAndharani Devi, Durgeshwari Devi (Dancers), Ratan Singh, Sanjoy Singh (Drummer), Imoc-ha Singh, Robert Meitei, Shitaljit Singh, Susil Singh, Bomcha Singh (Martial Arts), Suraj Kumar (Vocal), Chinmoy Karmakar (Flute)
4.30 p.m. - T.V.Sankaranarayanan – Vocal, M.A.Sundareswaran – Violin, K.V.Prasad – Mridangam, Madipakkam A.Murali - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Vani Ganapathi

Kamakoti hall
9.45 a.m. - Dr.M.Narmada & G.Suresh Kumar (Viiolin duet) — Thillaisthanam R.Suriyanarayanan - Mridangam. G.Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam
12.00 Noon - J.B.Keerthana (Vocal) & J.B.Sruthi Sagar (Flute) – B.Ananthakrishnan – Violin, Thippirajapuram Hari – Mridangam, V.Sai Subramaniam - Ghatam
2.00 p.m. - Jayashri Vaidhyanathan – Vocal, Poorna Vaidhyanathan – Violin, Uzhavoor P.K.Babu (Mridangam)
4.25 p.m. - Haritha Sanil - Vocal, Anayampatti G.Venkatasubramanian - Violin, Guru Raghavendra - Mridangam, S.Hariharasubramanian - Ghatam
7.00 p.m. - Kolkatta Vijayaraghavan – Vocal, Usha Rajagopalan – Violin, R.Ramesh – Mridangam, U.N.Giridhar Udupa - Ghatam

Dec. 25, 2011 - Sunday
Main Hall
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
9.30 a.m. - Sudha Raghunathan – Vocal, R.K.Shriram Kumar – Violin, Thiruvarur Vaidhyanathan – Mridangam, R.Raman - Morsing
4.30 p.m. - Sanjay Subrahmanyan – Vocal, M.R.Gopinath – Violin, Patri Satishkumar – Mridangam, Bangalore B.Rajasekar - Morsing
7.30 p.m. - Odissi by Surupa Sen & Bejoini Satpathi

Kamakoti hall
12.00 Noon - Uma Money – Vocal, Neela Jayakumar – Violin, V.R.Jayakumar – Mridangam, Madipakkam A.Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam
2.00 p.m. - Padma Shanker & Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin duet) – K.Arun Prakash – Mridangam, N.Guruprasad - Ghatam
4.25 p.m. - Literary Discourse on “Velum Villum” by Venkatachalam
7.00 p.m. - Sangeetha Sivakumar – Vocal, Dr.R.Hemalatha – Violin, Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar – Mridangam, K.V.Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 26, 2011 - Monday
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
9.00 a.m. - Inauguration of 31st Natya Kala Conference : Theme:”Abhyaasa Sampradaaya”- Dedicated to the memories of Bi-Centenarian Aacharya Thanjavur Vadivelu & Centenarian Natyacharya Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai. Inauguration by Vidwan B.M.Sundaram & talk onAacharya Thanjavur Vadivelu followed by Navasandhi Kauthuvam by Nritya Choodamani Nartaki Nataraj: Vazhuvur legacy Co-ordinated & presented by Smt.Sujatha Vijayaraghavan . Participants: Smt.Kamala Lakshminarayanan – Smt.Radha – Dr.Padma Subrahmanyam – Smt.Chitra Visweswaran ,Sri Vazhuvoor Manicka vinayakam –Smt.Kanaka Srinivasan and several other direct disciples of the legendary Natyacharya
4.30 p.m. - Mysore Brothers M.Manjunath & M.Nagaraj (Violin duet) – Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam – Mridangam, Vaikom Gopalakrishnan - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Yakshagaana: Programme by Idagunji Mahaganapati Yakshagana Mandali led by Director Keremane Guru Sri Shivananda Hegde (Karnataka Sangha)

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - G.Aditya Prakash – Vocal, M.Vijayaganesh – Violin, R.Sankaranarayanan – Mridangam, G.Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam
4.25 p.m. - Dancer Zakir Hussain’s Upanyasam on ‘Naachiyar Thirumozhi’ - Kannan Enum Karundeivam
7.00 p.m. - Saashwathi Prabhu – Vocal, Akkarai Sornalatha – Violin, Delhi Sairam – Mridangam, N.Sundar - Ghatam

Dec. 27, 2011 - Tuesday
Main Hall
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
10.00 a.m. - Natya Kala Conference: Yakshagana Lecdem – Idagunji Mhaganapati Yakshagana Mandali/Keremane Shivananda Hegde
4.30 p.m. - T.M.Krishna – Vocal, Mysore V.Srikanth – Violin, Karaikkudi R.Mani – Mridangam, V.Suresh - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Manipuri Nartanam Programme by SNA Centre (Delhi)

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - Shreya Devnath ( Solo Violin) – B.Sivaraman – Mridangam, N.Guruprasad - Ghatam
4.25 p.m. - Dancer Zakir Hussain’s Upanyasam on ‘Naachiyar Thirumozhi’ - Megam Vidu Thoothu
7.00 p.m. - Jayashri Jayaramakrishnan – Vocal, Karaikkal Venkatasubramaniam – Violin, Guru Raghavendra – Mridangam, S.Swaminathan - Ghatam

Dec. 28, 2011 - Wednesday
Main Hall
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
10.00 a.m. - Natya Kala Conference: Lecdem – Manipuri group (SNA)
4.30 p.m. - Sikkil C.Gurucharan – Vocal, Mysore M.Nagaraj – Violin, Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman – Mridangam, B.Shree Sundar Kumar - Kanjira
7.30 p.m. - Kerala Kalamandalam Mohiniattam

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - G.Ravikiran – Vocal, Parur Ananthakrishnan – Violin, Melakaveri K.Balaji – Mridangam, V.Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira
4.25 p.m. - Dancer Zakir Hussain’s Upanyasam on ‘Naachiyar Thirumozhi’ - Vrinda Vanathey Kandomae
7.00 p.m. - Kunnakudi M.Balamuralikrishna – Vocal, Anayampatti G.Venkatasubramanian – Violin, Madirimangalam Swaminathan – Mridangam, Sukanya Ramgopal - Ghatam

Dec. 29, 2011 - Thursday
Main hall
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
10.00 a.m. - Natya Kala Conference: Lec dem: Mohiniattam by Sri Kaladharan , Kerala Kalamandalam
university guided by Guru Leelamma.
4.30 p.m. - S.P.Ramh – Vocal, Vittal Ramamurthy – Violin, B.Sivaraman – Mridangam, S.V.Ramani - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Kutiattam Programme under the aegis of the Kutiyattam Kendra 9 Centre for Kutiyattam Thiruvananthapuram, of the Central Sangeeth Natak Akademy, Delhi)

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - Swarna Rethas – Vocal, Melakaveri Thyagarajan – Violin, B.Ganapathiraman – Mridangam, Nerkunam S.Sankar - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - Hindusthani Music by Mala Ramadorai - Abhay Datar (Tabla) - Sriram Hasabnis (Harmonium)

Dec. 30, 2011 - Friday
Main hall
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
10.00 a.m. - Natya Kala Conference : Lecdem – Kudiattam led by Sri K.K.Gopalakrishnan ,Director,
(Centre for Kutiyattam , of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi, Delhi)
4.30 p.m. - Malladi Brothers Sriram Prasad & Ravikumar – Vocal, Mysore M.Manjunath – Violin, Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman – Mridangam, Dr.S.Karthick - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Satria Nartanam of Assam by SNA Center & Chhau Nartana
8.30 p.m. - Chhau Natanam : Programme by Guru Shashadhar Aacharya

Kamakoti hall
2.00 p.m. - Salem Sisters Priyadarshini & Sriranjani – Vocal, M.Vijayaganesh – Violin, S.J.Arjun Ganesh – Mridangam, Trichy S.Krishnaswamy - Ghatam
7.00 p.m. - Dr.Sadanam K.Harikumar – Vocal, V.V.S.Murari – Violin, Trichur C.Narendran – Mridangam, H.Sivaramakrishnan - Ghatam

Dec. 31, 2011 - Saturday
Main hall
7.00 a.m. - Harinamasankeerthanam by Sengalipuram Brahmasri Vittaldas Jayakrishna Dikshithar Maharaj
9.45 a.m. - Lecdem - Satria Nartanam of Assam by SNA center & Chhau nartana followed by :Concluding day - Valedictory Function
4.30 p.m. - L.Subramaniam & Ambi Subramaniam (Violin duet) –V.V.Ramanamurthy – Mridangam, Thripunithura Radhakrishnan – Ghatam, Sathya Sai - Kanjira
7.30 p.m. - Kuchipudi Art Academy

Kamakoti hall
9.45 a.m. - A.G.Gnanasundaram & M.Vijayaganesh (Violin duet) – R.Ramesh – Mridangam, B.S.Purushothaman - Kanjira
12.00 Noon - Sushma Somasekar – Vocal, K.P.Nandini – Violin, N.C.Bharadwaj – Mridangam, V.Sai Subramaniam - Ghatam
2.00 p.m. - Vishal Sapooram (Chitravina), Arunachala Karthick – Violin, M.S.Varadan – Mridangam, Nerkunam S.Sankar - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - S.Saketharaman – Vocal, Vittal Ramamurthy – Violin, K.V.Prasad – Mridangam, Alathur T.Rajaganesh - Ghatam

Jan. 01, 2012 - Sunday
Main hall
9.45 a.m. - N.Ramani (Flute) - M.Chandrasekaran - Violin, Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam - Mridangam, N. Amrit - Kanjira This concert will follow the felicitation function to Dr. N.Ramani
4.30 p.m. - Geetha Krishnamurthy (Veena) - Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar - Mridangam, Adambakkam K.Sankar - Ghatam
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Roja Kannan

Kamakoti hall
12.00 Noon - Anirudh Venkatesh - Vocal, Apoorva Krishna - Violin, Erode Nagaraj - Mridangam
2.00 p.m. - Maharajapuram S.Ganesh Viswanathan – Vocal, M.A.Sundareswaran – Violin, J.Vaidhyanathan – Mridangam, B.S.Purushothaman - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - B.Vijayagopal (Flute) – Meera Sivaramakrishnan – Violin, Umayalpuram Mali – Mridangam, Pudukottai N.Ramachandran - Ghatam

Dance Festival:

Jan. 02, 2012 - Monday
Main Hall
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Tanvi Bhaskar
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatayam by Aparna Pillai

Jan. 03, 2012 - Tuesday
Main hall
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Srisha Sashank
7.30 p.m. - Kuchipudi by Lakshmi Mani

Jan. 04, 2012 - Wednesday
Main Hall
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Chandrika Srinivas
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatayam by Gayathri Sriram

Jan. 05, 2012 - Thursday
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Harinie Jeevitha
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Bala Chandrasekar

Jan. 06, 2012 - Friday
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Kiran Rajagopal
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Lakshmi Ramaswamy

Jan. 07, 2012 - Saturday
10.00 a.m. - Bharathanatyam by Bhavajan Kumar
4.25 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Aishwarya Sridhar
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Bavya Balasubramaniam
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Swarnamalya Ganesh

Kamakoti hall
4.25 p.m. - Niranjana Srinivasan - Vocal, M.Rajeev - Violin, Guru Raghavendra - Mridangam, Nerkunam S.Sankar - Kanjira
6.15 p.m. - Amritha Murali (Vocal) - Dr.R.Hemalatha - Violin, J.Vaidyanathan - Mridangam, G.Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam

Jan, 08, 2012 - Sunday
4.25 p.m. - Kuchipudi by Lasya Mavillapalli
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Janaki Rangarajan
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Kavitha Ramu

Kamakoti hall
4.25 p.m. - Malladi Vasavi - Vocal, V.L.V.Sudharsan - Violin, Madurai B.Sundar - Mridangam
6.15 p.m. - Duddu Radhika - Vocal, Padma Shanker - Violin, Ramaiah Vittal - Mridangam

Jan. 09, 2012 - Monday
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Madhavi Chandran
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam on ‘Vanamalai’ – The garland of love by Zakir Hussain

Jan. 10, 2012 - Tuesday
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Krithika Shurajit
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Pavithra Srinivasan

Jan. 11, 2012 - Wednesday
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Sathvika Shankar
7.30 p.m. - Mohiniattam by Pallavi Krishnan

Jan. 12, 2012 - Thursday
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Lakshmi Venkatesh
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Priya Murle

Jan. 13, 2012 - Friday
6.00 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Christopher Guruswamy
7.30 p.m. - Bharathanatyam by Smitha Madhav

Pongal Nagaswara Isai Vizha (14.01.2012 - 17.01.2012)
Jan. 14, 2012 - Saturday
4.25 p.m. - Mangala Isai by G.Ramesh & V.Suresh - Agoor Murugan - Vadapalani .S.Vadivelu.(Spl. Thavil)
6.00 p.m. - Inauguration of 24th Pongal Nagaswara Isai Vizha
Sri Aridwaramangalam A.K.Palanivel (Thavil Maestro) will be presented with “Sangeetha Choodamani“ award
7.00 p.m. - Mannargudi M.S.K.Sankaranarayanan & M.S.K.Venkatesan - Aridwaramangalam A.K.Palanivel (Spl. Thavil) - Thirunageswaram T.R.Subramaniam (Spl. Thavil)

Dec. 15, 2012 - Sunday
4.00 p.m. - Thirumailai P.Varamoorthy - Thiruvallikeni K.Sekar (Spl. Thavil) - H.Dakshinamurthy (Spl. Thavil)
6.30 p.m. - Seshampatti Sivalingam - Mannargudi M.R.Vasudevan (Spl. Thavil) - Kovilur K.G.Kalyanasundaram (Spl. Thavil)

Kamakoti hall
3.00 p.m. - Pandanainallur PGD Manivannan & S.Vinothkumar & Party

Jan. 16, 2012 - Monday
4.00 p.m. - Mambalam M.K.S.Natarajan & M.K.S.Manikandan - Vellore P.R.M.Vengatesan (Spl. Thavil) - S.P.Arulanadam (Spl. Thavil)
6.30 p.m. - Thiruppambaram Brothers T.K.S.Meenakshisundaram & T.S.H.Swaminathan - Thanjavur T.R.Govindarajan (Spl. Thavil) - Thirukarugavur T.D.Sivagurunathan (Spl. Thavil)

Kamakoti hall
3.00 p.m. - Thirurameswaram T.R.K.Karthikeyan & Party

Jan. 17, 2012 - Tuesday
4.00 p.m. - Kalahasthi N.K.Subramaniyan & N.Venkatesan – Thirukadaiyur T.G.Babu(Spl. Thavil) & Malaikottai M.S.Senthilkumar
6.30 p.m. - Injikkudi E.M.Subramaniam - Thalachengadu T.M.Ramanathan (Spl. Thavil) - Sembanarkoil Babu (Spl. Thavil)

Kamakoti hall
3.00 p.m. - Mambalam Sivakumar & Party

The Music academy - academic sessions

Morning academic sessions are held from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Discussions are also open to audience after comments from the Experts Committe members.
The Sangita Kalanidhi designate of the year will preside over these sessions.
The schedule of academic sessions:

Dec. 16, 2011
8.00 a.m. - Devotional music by Students of ASCM, The Music Academy
8.45 a.m. - Mattannur Sankarankutty Marar & troupe - Cenda, Tayambaka (Talavadyam Chenda)

Dec.17, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Deepak Raja - Raga transformations and compound raga-s in Hindustani music
9.00 a.m. - Prof. T.N. Krishnan - My experiences with Music over the last 75 years

Dec. 18, 2011
8.05 a.m. - V.R. Devika & troupe - Mood and Music in Tamil Koothu
9.00 a.m. - Ghatam Suresh with Ms. Carola Grey (Jazz Drummer from Munich, Germany) and Mr. Vasilis Sarikis (Frame drum, Darbucka and Riqq player from UK) - Influence of Indian rhythmic system and Solkattu in Jazz and Mediterranean music

Dec. 19, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Sita Rajan - Syama Sastri, Subbaraya Sastri and Annasami Sastri
9.00 a.m. - Kudavayil Balasubramanian - Musical Instruments in ancient times as seen from Literature and Archeological source

Dec. 20, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Dr. N. Ramanathan - Talas in treatises
9.00 a.m. - R. Vedavalli - Talas in practice

Dec. 21, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Thanjavur Govindarajan with Dr. B.M. Sundaram - Tavil and its role in Carnatic music
9.00 a.m. - S.R.D. Vaidyanathan - Role of Nadaswaram in shaping vocal music

Dec. 22, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Sandhya Kathavate - Thumri and its allied forms
9.00 a.m. - R.K. Srikanthan, Aruna Sairam, Pantula Rama, Chitravina Ravikiran, R.K. Shriram Kumar - Panel discussion on Kutcheri paddhati - Moderator Prof. Trichy Sankaran

Dec. 23, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Suvarnalata Rao - Music in Motion – computer transcription of Music
9.00 a.m. - G.Swaminathan, Charukesi, Ramanarayan, VSV, Lalitha Krishnan, Sita Ravi - Panel discussion on Kaccheri paddhati - Moderator: Dr. SAK Durga

Dec. 24, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Amrit - Sri Harishankar Style of Kañjirā playing
9.00 a.m. - Prof. Trichy Sankaran - Palani’s Style - Tribute to Guru Sri Palani Subramania Pillai

Dec. 25, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Ananth Vaidyanathan - Voice culture for musicians with particular reference to carnatic musicians
9.00 a.m. - Dr. Nagendra Sastry, Dr. Sachi Devi & Sri. Ananta Krishnan - Panel discussion on allied raga-s: bhairavi, mukhari, manji and huseni

Dec. 26, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Dr. Abhiramasundari - Mahabharata Chudamani
9.00 a.m. - Prof. Najma Ahmad - Persian and Urdu sources for Music

Dec. 27, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Sumitra Vasudev - Role of Gamaka-s
9.00 a.m. - Ramesh Vinayagam - Notational system for Carnatic music, “Gamaka Box”.

Dec. 28, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Lakshmi Ramaswamy - Uniqueness of 'Suvai' in Koottanool
9.00 a.m. - Kamala Narayanan - Commemoration of guru Ramaiyya Pillai’s centenary

Dec. 29, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Prof. Indrani Chaterji - Gamaka-s in Hindustani Music - with special reference to Sitara
9.00 a.m. - Prof. Suneera Kasliwal - The musical instruments of Rajasthan

Dec. 30, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Dr. Arimalam Padmanabhan - Chandam-s in Sankaradas Svamigal's compositions
9.00 a.m. - Alepey Venkateshan - Importance of Kalapramana in raga alapana & krti rendering

Dec. 31, 2011
8.05 a.m. - Arun Prakash, J. Vaidyanathan, Patri Satishkumar and Adyar Balu - Mrdangam as leader and follower
9.00 a.m. - Dr. Pabitrapran Goswami - Bargita, the classical music of Assam

Jan. 01, 2012
8.00 a.m. - devotional music by winners in the Music Academy's devotional music competition
8.35 a.m - 9.30 a.m. - open house

Brahma Gana Sabha

The December Arts Festival of Brahma Gana Sabha will be held from Dec. 3, 2011 to Jan. 31, 2012

Dance Festival will be held from Jan.1, 2012 to Jan. 21, 2012 followed by Nadaswaram festival from Jan. 22 to 31, 2012.

Venue: Smt. Sivagami Pethachi Auditorium. Luz Church Road, Chennai - 4

The schedule:

Dec. 3, 2011 - Saturday
4.30 p.m. - Mangala Isai by Thiruvanmiyur M.Balasubramani - Nadaswaram, Thiruvallikeni T.S.Prabhu - Thavil, Adyar D.Senthil Kumar - Thavil
6.00 p.m. - Inauguration followed by Veena concert by Geetha Krishnamurthy

Dec. 4, 2011 - Sunday
1.00 p.m. - Karthik Narayanan - Vocal, Raghuram - Violin, Nellai Sri Krishnan - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Rithvik Raja - Vocal, Parur Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Palakad Harinarayanan - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters Vijayalakshmi & Chitra - Vocal, Dr.R.Hemalatha - Violin, Nellai A.Balaji - Mridangam, K.S.Rangachary - Kanjira
6.00 p.m. - Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan - Vocal, V.V.Ravi - Violin, K.Ramesh - Mridangam, A.S.Murali - Ghatam

Dec. 5, 2011 - Monday
2.15 p.m. - Jayamangala Krishnamani - Vocal, Sandhya Srinath - Violin, Srinath Bala - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - G.Srikanth - Vocal, S.P. Anantha Padhmanabha - Violin, Nellai Balaji - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Papanasam Ashok Ramani - Vocal, Nagai Muralidharan - Violin, Thiruvarur Bakthavatchalam - Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira

Dec. 6, 2011 - Tuesday
2.15 p.m. - K.Subhiksha - Vocal, Sudha R.S.Iyer - Violin, N.C.Bharadwaj - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - R. Surya Prakash - Vocal, M.R.Gopinath - Violin, Melakaveri Balaji - Mridangam, Nerkunam Shankar - Kanjira
6.00 p.m. - Maharajapuram Ramachandran - Vocal, B.Ragavendra Rao - Violin, K.R.Ganesh - Mridangam

Dec. 7, 2011 - Wednesday
2.15 p.m. - Sowmya Kumar Arjun - Vocal, Neela Jayakumar - Violin, Jayakumar - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - Prema Rangarajan - Vocal, M.R.Gopinath - Violin, Ganapathyraman - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - T.Sankaran & Jayanth - Flute, Nagai Muralidharan - Violin, Umayalpuram Shivaraman - Mridangam, Sree Sundarakumar - Kanjira

Dec. 8, 2011 - Thursday
2.15 p.m. - Vidya Subramanian - Vocal, H.B.Raguram - Violin, P.S.Sridhar - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - Amrutha Venkatesh - Vocal, B.Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Delhi Sairam - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - T.M.Krishna - Vocal, H.N.Bhaskar - Violin, Praveen Kumar - Mridangam, M.Guru Prasad - Ghatam

Dec. 9, 2011 - Friday
2.15 p.m. - Ashwath Narayanan - Vocal, B.Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Kumbakonam Ramakrishnan - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - Serthalai K.N.Ranganatha Sharma - Vocal, Mullaivasal Chandramouli - Violin, Serthalai Ananthakrishnan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Abhishek Raguram - Vocal, Avaneswaram Vinu - Violin, Anantha R.Krishnan - Mridangam

Dec. 10, 2011 - Saturday
1.00 p.m. - Ragini Sri - Vocal, Thirumarugal Dineshkumar - Violin, N.C.Bharadwaj - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Radha Parthasarathy - Vocal, R.Rahul - Violin, Guru Ragavendra - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - Prasanna Venkatraman - Vocal, Charumathi Raghuraman - Violin, Trivandrum Balaji - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan - Vocal, B. Ragavendra Rao - Violin, Patri Sathish Kumar - Mridangam, Sukanya Ramgopal - Ghatam

Dec. 11, 2011 - Sunday
1.00 p.m. - Raghava Krishna - Vocal, G.Suresh Kumar - Violin, V.S.Ragavan - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - K. Dharini - Vocal, K.P.Nandhini - Violin, Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - Sriram Parthasarathy - Vocal, Anayampatti Venkatasubramaniam - Violin, J.Vaidhyanathan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayathri - Vocal, M.R.Gopinath - Violin, Delhi Sairam - Mridangam, K.V.Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira

Dec. 12, 2011 - Monday
2.15 p.m. - Nadamuni Gayathri - Vocal, Sudharshan - Violin, V.S.Raghavan - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - Sankari Krishnan - Vocal, V.V.Ravi - Violin, Erode Nagaraj - Mridangam, Alathur Rajaganesh - Kanjira
6.00 p.m. - S. Sowmya - Vocal, R.K.Srikumar Kumar - Violin, Manoj Shiva - Mridangam, Trichy Murali - Ghatam, K.V.Gopalakrishnan -Kanjira

Dec. 13, 2011 - Tuesday
2.15 p.m. - Uma B. Money - Vocal, Anand Viswanath - Violin, Sudharshan - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - Lakshmi Rangarajan - Vocal, Dr.R.Hemalatha - Violin, Ganapathraman - Mridangam, K.V. Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira
6.00 p.m. - Neela Ramgopal - Vocal, Charulatha Ramanujam - Violin, Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam

Dec. 14, 2011 - Wednesday
2.15 p.m. - Booma Kasthuri - Vocal, Ganesh - Violin, Guru Ragavendra - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - B. Muthu Kumar - Flute, S.P.Ananthapadmanabhan - Violin, Kumbakonam Swaminathan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - Sanjay Subramaniam - Vocal, Sanjeev - Violin, Patri Sathish Kumar - Mridangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira

Dec. 15, 2011 - Thursday
2.15 p.m. - Niranjana Srinivasan - Vocal, M.Rajeev - Violin, B.Gururagavendra - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - M. Narmada - Violin, B.Ganapathy Raman - Mridangam, S.Venkataramanan - Kanjira
6.00 p.m. - K. J. Yesudas - Vocal, S.R.Mahadeva Sarma - Violin, Trichy Harikumar - Mridangam, Thrupoonithura Radhakrishnan -Ghatam

Dec. 16, 2011 - Friday
2.15 p.m. - Duddu Radhika - Vocal, R.Dinakar - Violin, Vurra Sriram -Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - Nirmala Rajasekar - Veena, Anayampatti G.Venkatasubramaniam - Violin, Melakaveri K. Balaji - Mridangam, Pudukottai S.Ramachandran - Ghatam
6.00 p.m. Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal, B.U.Ganesh Prasad - Violin, Neyveli Narayanan - Mridangam, K.V.Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira

Dec. 17, 2011 - Saturday
1.00 p.m. - Malladi Vasavi - Vocal, Aarthi Shankar - Violin, Arjun Raghavan - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Amritha Murali - Vocal, Ranjani Ramakrishnan - Violin, Arjun Ganesh - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. Trichy Pradeep Kumar - Vocal, B.Ananthakrishnan - Violin, K.V.Gopalakrishnan - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. Malladi Brothers - Vocal, Embar S.Kannan - Violin, Trichy Sankaran - Mridangam, S. Karthik - Ghatam

Dec. 18, 2011 - Sunday
1.00 p.m. - Prachotan - Vocal, Shyam - Violin, Akshay Ram - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Nikhil Narayan - Flute, Karaikkal Venkatasubramaniam -Violin, Kumbakonam Swaminathan - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. Bharat Sundar - Vocal, Dr. Narmada - Violin, Trivandrum Balaji - Mridangam, Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam
6.00 p.m. - Sikkil Gurucharan - Vocal, T.K.V.Ramanujachariyalu - Violin, Srimushnam V. Raja Rao - Mridangam, Kovai Mohanram - Ghatam

Dec. 19, 2011 - Monday
1.00 p.m. - Lakshmi Vijayaraghavan - Vocal, Nagarkoil Anand - Violin, K.H.Vineeth - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Shradda Mohan - Vocal, Vittal Rangan - Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - V.K. Manimaran - Vocal, Pakkala Ramadoss - Violin, Thiruvarur Vaidhyanathan - Mridangam, Trichy S.Krishna - Ghatam
6.00 p.m. - Jeyaraj Krishnan and Jaysri Jeyaraaj - Veena, Anand Ananthakrishnan - Mridangam, Trichy S.Krishna - Ghatam

Dec. 20, 2011 - Tuesday
1.00 p.m. - Vivek Sadasivam - Vocal, Sriram - Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. Shreya Devnath - Violin, Vikram Vasudevan - Mridangam, S.Krishna - Ghatam
3.45 p.m. - Krishnapriya Anandarajan - Vocal, M.A.Krishnaswamy - Violin, Neyveli Skandasubramanian - Mridangam, Alathur T.Rajaganesh - Ghatam
6.00 p.m. - Thirukovilur Babu & Kumar - Nadaswaram, Haridhwaramangalam A.K.Palanivel - Spl. Thavil, Thirunageswaram T.R.Subramanian - Spl. Thavil

Dec. 21, 2011 - Wednesday
1.00 p.m. - Pallavi Sriram - Vocal, M.S.Anantha Krishnan - Violin, K.H.Vineeth - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Rohini Mahesh - Vocal, Aarthi Shankar - Violin, M.S.Venkatasubramaniam - Mridangam
3.45 p.m. - Padmini Ravi - Vocal, Srinivasa Murthy - Violin, Raghunath Rajaram - Mridangam
6.00 p.m. - O.S. Arun - Vocal, Kandadevi Vijayaragavan - Violin, AUS Ravichandra & Sai Nivaethan - Mridangam

Dec. 22, 2011 - Thursday
1.00 p.m. - Vani Ramamurthi - Vocal, Shiva Rammurthy - Violin, Arjun Narayanan - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Iyer Brothers - Veena, T.K.Ramakrishnan - Mridangam, S.Krishna - Ghatam
4.00 p.m. - V.Sankaranarayanan - Vocal, V.Rajeev - Violin, R.Shankaranarayanan - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Meenakshi Chitharanjan - Bharathanatyam

Dec. 23, 2011 - Friday
1.00 p.m. - Rahul Krishna - Vocal, M.Vijay - Violin, Ragavan Sai - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Roopa Mahadevan - Vocal, Akkarai Swarnalatha - Violin,
Kumbakonam Swaminathan - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Sreyas Narayanan - Vocal, V.V.Ravi - Violin, Trichur Narendran - Mridangam, Pudukottai Ramachandran - Ghatam
7.00 p.m. - Urmila Sathyanarayanan - Bharathanatyam

Dec. 24, 2011 - Saturday
9.00 a.m. - Damal Ramkumar - Discourse
10.15 a.m. - Gurukulam presents Kadavul Vandhirunthar by Sujatha - Drama
1.00 p.m. - Bharathi Ramasubban - Vocal, Sudha R.S.Iyer - Violin, Tanjore Praveenkumar - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Akshay Padmanabhan - Vocal, Akkarai Swarnalatha - Violin, Hari Narayanan - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - S. Saketharaman - Vocal, Mysore Manjunath - Violin, Mannargudi Easwaran - Mridangam, Guru Prasanna - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - Prof. Sudharani Raghupathi presents Mammudha - Dance Ballet

Dec. 25, 2011 - Sunday
9.00 a.m. - Kausalya Sivakumar - Discourse
10.15 a.m. - Sudha Seshayyan - Discourse
1.00 p.m. - Rahul Narayan - Vocal, Vittal Rangan - Violin, Ramsubod Ramkumar - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan - Vocal, Trivandrum N.Sampath - Violin, Palakat Hari Narayanan - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - T.V. Ramprasadh - Vocal, T.V.Ramanujachariyalu - Violin, Calcutta Aravind - Mridangam, Takaakaikuno (Japan) - Ghatam
7.00 p.m. - Bharathanjali presents Parishvanga Pattabhishekam - Kishkintha Kaandam & Sundarakaandam - dance ballet by Anitha Guha

Dec. 26, 2011 - Monday
10.15 a.m. - Arjuna Pasupathastram - Discourse by Suchithra
1.00 p.m. - Priyanka C. Prakash - Vocal, Anand Viswanathan - Violin, Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Sudha Raghuraman - Vocal, Apoorva Krishna - Violin, Tirucherai Kaushik - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Gayathri Girish - Vocal, V.Sanjeev - Violin, B.Sivaraman - Mridangam, Sree Sundar Kumar - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - Vani Ganapathy - Bharathanatyam

Dec. 27, 2011 - Tuesday
9.00 a.m. - Kalpana Venkat - Bhakti Maargam - Bhajan
10.15 a.m. - Narayaneeyam - Jayarama Sharma - Discourse
1.00 p.m. - Vishnudev Namboothri - Vocal, Trivandrum Sampath - Violin, B.Srivatsan - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Sushruti S - Vocal, Ragul - Violin, Arjun Prakash -Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Sandeep Narayan - Vocal, S.Varadarajan - Violin, Neyveli Venkatesh - Mridangam, Sree Sundara Kumar - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - Jayanthi subramanian presents Aranya Kaandam Dance Ballet

Dec. 28, 2011 - Wednesday
9.00 a.m. - Bhajans by Kunnakudy School of Music
1.00 p.m. - Anahitha - Vocal, Ragahavasimhan - Violin, Guru Bharadwaj - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Kishan Jeyendran - Mandolin, Bairav - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Sugandha Kalamegam - Vocal, Padma Shankar - Violin,
Arun Prakash - Mridangam
7.00 p.m. - Sonal Mansingh and troupe - Odissi Ballet

Dec. 29, 2011 - Thursday
9.00 a.m. - Aravind Sridhar - Vocal
10.15 a.m. - Kalyanapuram Aaravamudachariar - Sangeetha Upanyasam
1.00 p.m. - Vikram Raghavan - Vocal, Adithi Krishnaprakash - Violin, K.H.Vineeth - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Ajay Namboodhri - Vocal, Ambika Prasad - Violin, Chennai Tyagarajan - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. - Vijayalakshmi Subramanian - Vocal, Dr.Hemalatha - Violin, Madirimangalam Swaminathan - Mridangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - Priyadarshini Govind - Dance

Dec. 30, 2011 - Friday
9.00 a.m. - Melattur Bhagavatha Mela
1.00 p.m. - D.K.J. Sukanya - Vocal, Sudharshan - Violin, Bairav -Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - N.R.Prashanth - Vocal, Parur Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Venkatasubramaniam - Mridangam
4.00 p.m. Trichur Brothers Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan - Vocal, Mullaivasal Chandramouli - Violin, Trichur R.Mohan - Mridangam, Nerkunam Sankar - Kanjira
7.00 p.m. - Jayant Kastuar - Kathak

Dec. 31, 2011 - Saturday
9.00 a.m. - Garuda Panchashat by Nihamantha Mahadesikan in music form by Suba Sruti led by Dr. Mathangi Ramakrishnan
10.15 a.m. - Nama sankeerthanam by Dr. Ganesh & party
1.00 p.m. - Sudarshan Padmanabhan - Vocal, Shyam - Violin, Chidambaram Sai Shankar - Mridangam
2.15 p.m. - Pibare Namarasam by Devi Neithiyar & party
3.45 p.m. - Nisha Rajagopalan - Vocal, Padma Shankar - Violin, Shivaraman - Mridangam, Chandrasekara Sharma - Ghatam
6.30 p.m. - Vishwa Mohan Bhatt - Mohan Veena, K. Sathyanarayana - Keyboard, Arjun Kumar - Mridangam