Saturday, October 30, 9:30 PM EDT | 6:30 PM PDT | 7 AM IST (on 31st)
Tanjavur Quartet Compositions and their current-day relevance, a panel discussion with Bharathi Ramasubban, Charu Chandrasekar, Christopher Gurusamy, Ganesh Vasudeva and Preethi Ramaprasad.
FREE for Annual Members
Thursday, October 13, 2022, 6:30 PM EDT
TM Krishna – vocal | Akkarai Subhalakshmi – violin | Praveen Sparsh – mridangam
Venue: Peggy R. McConnell Arts Center of Worthington
Free for 2022 Annual Members
Shilpa Sathyanathan accompanied by Vittal Rangan & K V Prasad Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
January 17, 2021
Saturday, March 27 6:30 pm EDT
JA Jayanth – bamboo flute | B Anantha Krishnan – violin | Akshay Ananthapadmanabhan – mridangam
Artist Reception on Zoom immediately following.
March 20, 2022 9:30 AM EST
Mohi Bahauddin Dagar | Pratap Awad – Pakhawaj
December 17, 2021 6:00 PM EST
Uday Bhawalkar – Vocals | Pratap Awad – Pakhawaj | Meghana Sardar & Meghana Bhawalkar – Tampuras & Supporting Vocals
Sunday, October 11 10:00 am EDT
vivēkĀvivēka; appreciating the timeless message of Gopalakrishna Bharathi
Friday, March 11 2022, 7:00 PM EST
Kamalakiran Vinjamuri – violin |Vinod Seetharaman – mridangam | Karthik Venkataraman – kanjira
Saturday, May 8 – Monday, May 10 7 pm EDT | 4 pm PDT
Bharatanatyam by Kavita Thirumalai interprets five emotions
Saturday, March 19 7 pm EST
A tale of lost souls from the Mahabharata
presented by JustUs Repertory & Dhvani India Performing Arts Society
Dr Pappu Venugopal Rao on Dikshitar, and Prof Robert Morris on Beethoven Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
January 15, 2021
Friday, November 4, 2022 7:00 PM EDT
Sikkil Gurucharan – vocal | V Sanjeev – violin | Delhi Sairam – mridangam
Dhvani presents in Collaboration with Kala Prashala
“The Art of Composing” an interactive session with Chitravina N Ravikiran & Neyveli R Santhanagopalan, on Zoom. Moderated by Dr. CM Venkatachalam and Revathi Subramanian.
Friday, February 12 – 7:30 pm CST | 8:30 pm EST |5:30 pm PST
June 5, 2022, 9:30 AM EST
ABHISHEK RAGHURAM – Vocal | HN BHASKAR – Violin | PATRI SATISH KUMAR – Mridangam
Sunday, June 20 1 pm EDT
Dhvani Presents The Song of the Tambura a lecture demonstration on the exceptional qualities of this ancient and sonorous instrument by Ranjani Sivakumar.
Sunday, October 11 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Sharing music to build bridges between communities. A conversation with the musicians of Maithree and members of the American Composers Forum.
Zoom Event
Prithi Narasimhan accompanied by Vittal Rangan & Neyveli Narayanan Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
Saturday, May 29 7:30 pm EDT
This is a story that weaves together the compositions popularised by the legendary Veena Dhanammal and her lineage of exemplary musicians.
Aishwarya Raghunath – vocal | RK Shriramkumar – violin | K Arun Prakash – mridangam
Sunday, March 14 1:00 pm EDT
Sahana Bettada – vocal | Sreenath Kunapuli – mridangam | Srinidhi Puchha – veena and vocal | Anish Sairam – vocal and violin | Sujan Sriram – mridangam
January 30, 2022 6:00 PM EST
Venkatesh Kumar (vocals) | Raghunath Nakod (tabla) | Guruprasad Hegde (harmonium) | Aishwarya Desai and Arjun Vathar (tanpura and backup vocals)
Saturday, Oct 2, 10 PM EDT Sunday, Oct 3, 7 PM EDT
Milan 21
Join us for Milan 21, a musical presentation featuring 12 emerging, highly talented young artists from the Indian Diaspora of Southern California.
Q&A on Zoom immediately following.
FREE
February 12, 2022 8:30 AM EST
Abhishek Borkar (sarod) | Yashwant Vaishnav (tabla) | Ramana Balachandran (veena) | Sumesh Narayanan (mridangam)
Friday, February 19 – 6:30 pm PST | 9:30 pm EST (Saturday, February 20, 8:00 am IST) Discussion and Workshop with Melvin Varghese and Gautam Marathe
Friday, March 19 – 7:00 pm PST | 10:00 pm EDT (Saturday, March 20, 7:30 am IST) Performance and Discussion with Sudharani Raghupathy
Friday, April 16 – 7:00 pm PST | 10:00 pm EDT (Saturday, April 17, 7:30 am IST) Performance and Discussion with Yashoda Thakore
Friday, October 30 8:00 pm EDT
Brinda Manickavasakam – vocal
Ulhas Kashalkar (vocals) | Yogesh Samsi (tabla) | Tanmay Deochake (harmonium) | Sameehan Kashalkar and Saurabh Naik (tanpura and backup vocals)
Saturday, September 26 8:00 pm EDT
Sushma Somasekharan – vocal
July 31, 2022, 9:30 AM EDTAugust, 2022 9:30 AM EDT
From the Misty hills of the Darjeeling region comes this fitting finale concert with
Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee on surbahar and sitar Soumen Nandy – tabla
This epic concert will be presented in two parts. Part two will be released on August 14th, 2022.
Sowmya Acharya accompanied by Vittal Rangan and Neyveli Narayanan Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
Friday, August 14 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT
‘Rise’, by A Carnatic Quartet, is a lockdown production that has been created as a reflection of the human spirit, in these last months.
Sunday, May 2 1:00 pm EDT
A lecture-demonstration about the chitravina and its precursor, the Gottuvadyam. Bhargavi will demonstrate how these instruments are played and the nuances of the tones they can produce.
FREE for Annual Members.
Kavita Ramanan accompanied by Vittal Rangan and Neyveli Narayanan Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
Sunday, November 1 11:30 am EST
A discussion and demonstration on the art, science and techniques of singing swarakalpana in concerts.
Melody, Harmony, Melharmony – Grammy & other Award winning Indian & Western stars celebrate Beethoven & Dikshitar Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
Saturday, November 19, 2022 8:00 PM EST
Written and directed by Gowri Ramnarayan
Co-sponsored by: Ektaa Center – Irvine, CA | Indian Fine Arts Academy San Diego, CA | Kalavandanam – St Paul MN | SciArt Services – Madison, WI
Samarth Anantuni accompanied by Vittal Rangan & Neyveli Narayanan Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
Sunday, August 9 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Kavita will share several excerpts from Ramanatakam to demonstrate the use of abhinaya and storytelling as integral aspects of Bharatanatyam.
Charumathi Chandrashekar
Duration: 1 hr 6 min | Year: 2023 | Video
Free for 2023 Annual Members
Sunday, August 30 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Amritha Murali will share some insights into approaches to Raga Alapana. She will show us how different types of ragas can be handled In accordance with their intrinsic flavor.
Saturday, July 24 11:00 am EDT | 10:00 am CDT | 9:00 am MDT | 8:00 am PDT
Abhinaya Deconstructed; Bharatanatyam Master Class for teachers. practitioners, and advanced students
Ramya Harishankar of Arpana Dance Company Student of the late Kalanidhi Narayanan
December 17, 2021 – June 30, 2022
21 Carnatic and Hindustani music concerts, original dance and music collaborations and a North-South Instrumental jugalbandi
Friday, April 30 6:30 pm EDT
Dhvani Presents
Trinity – a Carnatic musical play in English
A Madras Players production
with Vidwan Vijay Siva, Vidushi Gayathri Venkataraghavan and Vidwan Dr. Sunder in the title roles.
Available from Friday, April 30 – till Sunday, May 2nd
Saturday, November 21 8:00 pm EST
Amritha Murali – vocal | R K Shriramkumar – violin | Manoj Siva – mridangam | Chandrasekara Sharma – ghatam
Saturday, November 13, 7:00 PM EDT
Bhargavi Balasubramanian – chitravina | R S Sudha – violin | B. Ganapathyraman – mridangam | S. Sunil Kumar – kanjira
Sunday, September 6 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
How does institutional injustice impact Indian classical art practice and performance in America? Preethi Ramaprasad and Ananya Ashok explore this intersection…
Saturday, April 17, 7:00 pm EDT
Arohanam ; Bharatanatyam by Bhavajan Kumar
Vocal: Sri. Vignesh Ishwar, Sri. OS Arun, Sri. G Srikanth Nattuvangam: Ms. Leela Samson, Smt. Shobana Swamy, Sri. Bhavajan Kumar Mridangam: Sri. Karthikeyan Ramanathan, Sri. G Vijayaraghavan Veena: Sri. Bhavani Prasad, Sri Mudikondan Ramesh Violin: Sri B Ananthakrishnan Flute: Sri Sruthi Sagar
Videography: Sri Sarveshan