Grand Vocal Concert by Vijay Siva
Saturday, 13th April 2024|7:00 pm EDT
| Free – $30.00Vidwan Vijay Siva – vocal
Vidwan Vik Vikneswaran – vocal support
Vidwan Trivandrum Sampath – violin
Vidwan Palakkad Harinayaranan – mridangam
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Vijay Siva is one of the foremost vocalists today in Classical Carnatic Music. A child prodigy, at the age of four he exhibited a rare intuitive capacity to identify ragas.
Vijay Siva had his initial tutelage in Carnatic music from his mother, Akhila Siva, a vocal musician from Chennai. Vijay Siva later became the disciple of the legendary vocalist, Sangita Kalanidhi late Shri D. K. Jayaraman. He later received guidance from the legendary Sangita kalanidhi late Smt. D. K. Pattammal. Vijay Siva is also an accomplished percussionist (mridangam), and received his training from Kumbakonam Shri Rajappa Iyer.
Vijay Siva has performed in numerous and famed locations all over India and abroad including USA, Canada and Singapore.
A recipient of numerous awards and titles, Vijay Siva has received recognition for both vocal and percussion (mridangam), including awards for devotional music in 1974 and the coveted Rajaji Tamboora in 1981 from Tamil Isai Sangam, Chennai. He was also awarded first place in Classical and Light Classical Music Competitions (1984) conducted by AIR. He is the recipient of prestigious titles: Isai Peroli (1995) from Karthik Fine Arts, the Youth Award for Exellence by Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer Trust in 1995, and the first recipient of Kalki Krishnamurthy Award (1996) by Kalki Krishnamurthy Memorial Trust, Chennai.
Vik Vikneswaran started learning carnatic music under the able guidance of Smt. Akila Siva – Vijay Siva’s mother. Since then he has been under Shri Vijay Siva’s tutelage for over 18 years. He has won numerous awards for music at High school and College levels as well as over a hundred prizes from premier Sabhas in South India.
Trivandrum Sampath, the violinist, is the son and disciple of (Retd) Violinist & Professor K Chandrika Devi.
A Top Grade artist of AIR Thrissur playing concerts for the last 28 years performing in many major festivals in India and abroad including Chennai December season.
Awards:
Ustad Bismillah khan Yuva PuraskAr from prestigious Sangeetha Nataka akademi in 2018
Yuvakalabharati from bharat Kalachar in 2014
Vidwan Sampath is now serving as a Lecturer on Violin Music at Chembai Memorial Government Music College,,Palakkad, Kerala
Palghat AM Hari Narayanan (Hari)’s first lessons in the mridangam started at the age of 5, under the watchful eyes of mridanga vidwan Palakkad S. A. Ramakrishnan. Later, he continued his formal training with Sri K.P.Parameswaran, who is a disciple of Sangeetha Kalanidhi Dr. T.K.Murthy.
For the past over twenty years, he is continuing advanced training from none other than Dr. T.K.Murthy himself. Shri Harinarayanan has performed in many famous stages in India and in international stages at South Africa, Dubai, Mauritius,China Singapore and has recieved many accolades. Among all those, in the year 2012 Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham felicitated him by giving the status of Asthana Vidwan of the sacred Matam and the award was given by the principal Seer His Holiness Sri Jayendra Saraswati Swami, which Vidwan Hari believes to be the most blessed ever in his music career. Vidwan Hari is a recipient of best junior mridangist prize from KrishnaGana Sabha year 2016.
He is also an ICCR empanelled artiste since 2017. He has received Junior Fellowship from CCRT (Ministry of Cultural affarirs Government of India) in 2023