February 27, 2022 8:30 AM EST
Shreya Devnath – Violin | Mylai Karthikeyan – Nagaswaram | Praveen Sparsh – Mridangam | Gummudipoondi R. Jeevanantham – Thavil
V K Arun Kumar accompanied by Vittal Rangan & Neyveli Narayanan Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
January 17, 2021
Saturday, May 8 – Monday, May 10 7 pm EDT | 4 pm PDT
Bharatanatyam by Kavita Thirumalai interprets five emotions
Artist Reception on Zoom immediately following.
FREE for Annual Members
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
Saturday, December 5 8:00 pm EST
G Chandrasekara Sharma – vocal / ghatam/ konnakol | Ambur Padmanaban – mridangam | Sunil Kumar – kanjira | R Raman – moharsing
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)
Free for 2022 Annual Members
Shilpa Sathyanathan accompanied by Vittal Rangan & K V Prasad Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
Saturday, October 30, 7:30 PM EDT
This concert will celebrate the music of the four brothers, Chinnayya, Ponnayya, Sivanandam and Vadivelu whose contributions transformed many aspects of what we now call Bharatanatyam.
Bharathi Ramasubban – vocal | Vittal Rangan – violin | NC Bharadwaj – mridangam | Anirudh Athreya – kanjira
Akkarai Subhalakshmi Violin Solo accompanied by emerging accompanists Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
January 16, 2021
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.
Mylai M Karthikeyan – Nagaswaram Gummidipoondi R Gnanavel – Nagaswaram Mangalam M K Aasan – Tavil R Thandavamoorthi – Talam Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
January 14, 2021
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
Special feature on Dikshitar by Anahita & Apoorva Ravindran, and Archana Upadhyaya & Samanvi Udupi Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
January 15, 2021
Dr Pappu Venugopal Rao on Dikshitar, and Prof Robert Morris on Beethoven Dikshitar – Beethoven Melharmony Festival
Saturday, February 12, 6:30 PM EST | 3:30 PM PST | 5:30 CST
A Symphony of Emotions is a riveting Bharatanatyam program presented by Ramya Harishankar to solo voice rendered by her student and talented singer Visalini Sundaram.
FREE for 2022 Annual Members
July 3, 2022, 9:30 AM EDT
Ashwini Bhide Deshpande – Vocals | Bharat Kamat – Tabla | Suyog Kundalkar – Harmonium
Saturday, November 21 8:00 pm EST
Amritha Murali – vocal | R K Shriramkumar – violin | Manoj Siva – mridangam | Chandrasekara Sharma – ghatam
February 12, 2022 8:30 AM EST
Abhishek Borkar (sarod) | Yashwant Vaishnav (tabla) | Ramana Balachandran (veena) | Sumesh Narayanan (mridangam)
Sunday, September 13 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
A Dhvani Exclusive: A short solo veena recital by the talented young musician followed by a virtual reception with the artist. Ramana plays solo and sings along.
Friday, March 11 2022, 7:00 PM EST
Venue: Peggy R. McConnell Arts Center of Worthington
Kamalakiran Vinjamuri – violin |Vinod Seetharaman – mridangam | Karthik Venkataraman – kanjira
Sunday, April 25 1:00 pm EDT
The art of the storyteller
Ami Majmudar is the consummate storyteller. She will share one of her favorite stories from the Puranas.
FREE for Annual Subscribers
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, 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
Saturday, April 10 7:00 pm EDT
a solo concert by Nisha Rajagopalan
August 27, 2022, 6:30 PM EDT
Nrithya Kavyam – Poetry in motion
December 18, 2021 6:00 PM EST
Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath & Brindha Manikavasakan – Vocals | Vittal Rangan – Violin | Praveen Sparsh – Mridangam | Chandrasekara Sharma – Ghatam
Saturday, April 24 6:30 pm EDT
Kutcheri by Archana & Aarathi
Dr. Hemalatha – violin | B. Ganapathyraman – mridangam | Trichy Murali – ghatam
Sunday, September 18, 2022 4:00 PM EDT
Phil Scarff – saxophone | Pranav Ghatraju – tabla
June 5, 2022, 9:30 AM EST
ABHISHEK RAGHURAM – Vocal | HN BHASKAR – Violin | PATRI SATISH KUMAR – Mridangam
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.