Raga Alapana; some facets and insights
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.
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.
Aditya Prakash, Shiva Ramamurthi and Rohan Krishnamurthy will present an energetic concert in an informal setting.
Aishwarya Srinivas will share her insights into the quintessential aspects of D.K Pattammal’s music, her way of rendition, and her unique bani.
We often think of ragas as being a structure of notes in a structured sequence. As with our understanding of colors, we realize that just as colors are both more and less that their chromatic numeric codes. so it is with ragas.
‘Rise’, by A Carnatic Quartet, is a lockdown production that has been created as a reflection of the human spirit, in these last months.
Kavita will share several excerpts from Ramanatakam to demonstrate the use of abhinaya and storytelling as integral aspects of Bharatanatyam.
An introduction to ghatam, the instrument, and its music will be presented by Vidvan Sri N. Guruprasad.
The trumpet virtuoso Byron Stripling will join us to share music and stories about the relevance of music to the civil rights movement and much more.
Dhvani is proud to invite its members to this important performing arts festival showcasing some of the traditional folk art forms of our culture. These artists also need our support during this time of change and upheaval. The proceeds of this festival are all going to help artists in these and other fields.
For Carnatic music aficionados thirsting for chaste rendering of the great compositions of its maestros and a musical imagination rooted in good aesthetics and orthodox vocalisation uncluttered by gimmickry, 28-year-old Amritha Murali is a godsend.
Maestro Shashank Subramanyam, a Grammy nominated exponent of the Flute, , began performing for the general public at the age of six in 1984. He was the youngest musician to have been invited by The Music Academy, Chennai to perform the senior most slot of The Music Academy,...
This quartet has been conceptualized as an effort to explore the coming together of two distinct instrumental artforms within the Carnatic tradition. The melodic instruments in this collaboration, violin, and nadaswaram, come from very different cultures. So is the case with the mridangam and tavil.
Five of our dance teachers and many of their students will be presenting together a program which is the result of several workshops conducted for students and teachers.
Antaranga is an 8-part series of lecture-demonstrations for general music enthusiasts as well as for students looking to gain a deeper appreciation of the aesthetic thought process of Carnatic music.
Born in Hyderabad, India, Yamini Kalluri has been celebrated by the New York Times and BBC as being a Kuchipudi sensation.
Born in Hyderabad, India, Yamini Kalluri has been celebrated by the New York Times and BBC as being a Kuchipudi sensation.
In Samhita, dance and music come together to form a holistic expression. The performance draws from the various improvisational elements of Carnatic Music – including aalapana, taanam, neraval, kalpana swaram and viruttam
Sangeetha Sivakumar is among the most respected musicians in the field of Carnatic music, performing for over thirty years. While residing in Kochi, she started learning music at the age of 9, from Sri K.P. Vasu of Calicut. In 1987, she moved from Kochi to Chennai and became the disciple of the senior musician, Smt Charumathi Ramachandran.