Varnam; A workshop for music students
Dr. Padma Sugavanam will conduct a five day workshop for music students of all levels - ages 10+.
Dr. Padma Sugavanam will conduct a five day workshop for music students of all levels - ages 10+.
My story starts in the beautiful, quaint city of Ottawa in Canada – where I was born. My parents noticed that I loved singing as a child, and had to be pulled away from mikes! Although they had no background in music, they returned to India when I was hardly 4, with a vision that I should sing. Whatever I am today, is on account of their foresight and encouragement towards my music!
Dancers Viraja and Shyamjith will be conduction a dance workshop. A limited number of places are still available for participants who may be interested. Please contact Dhvani at 614 537 7574, or Sukanya Chand or Ami Majmudar for details on availability and other questions about this workshop.
“Mitra” is a Bharatanatyam Margam that explores intersections in the themes of Indian poetry. The concept of prema, or eternal love, is age-old and performed by many performers from the temple to the proscenium stage.
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.
Vidushi S. Sowmya is one of the world’s leading exponents of the Carnatic (South Indian classical) tradition of vocal music. She is reputed for her deeply classical style and for her large repertoire spanning a wide spectrum of composers, including some of the rarest works of the Carnatic Trinity.
Heartbeat Ensemble is a professional musical ensemble performing Indian Classical Music, with a lot of percussion accent with many dynamic performers, enchanting instruments and reverberating rhythms.
Sankari Krishnan M.A. M.Phil (Music), a gold medalist from the University of Madras, was initiated into music at Thiruvanaikoil, Trichy by Shri K.S.Subramanian. His encouragement had fired a passion in Sankari to pursue music as a career.
Radhe Jaggi, a graduate of Kalakshetra Foundation, is a disciple of Leela Samson. She has a post diploma in Arts Management from Dakshina Chitra, Chennai.Radhe spent the first two years of her career performing in over sixty temples across Tamil Nadu.
N. Vijay Siva in concert; a DK Pattammal centenary tribute
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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,...
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.