Upcoming Programs

Date:

Saturday, May 17th 2008

Time:

2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Location:

Sanathana Dharma Kendra

Address:

897 Kifer Road, Suite 1, (inside RTS Building Complex)
Sunnyvale, CA 94086

Phone:

(408) 481-9242

Map :

Map of 897 Kifer Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-5205

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Junior Concert:	2.00 PM - 2.45 PM	Sridevi Iyengar (Vocal) Nagaraj Mandya (Violin) Arjun Haran (Mridangam)
Senior Concert:	3.00 PM - 5.00 PM	Smt. Jayanthi Umesh (Vocal) Nagaraj Mandya (Violin) A. Mahadevan (Mridangam)

Sridevi Iyengar (Vocal)

Sridevi's first guru was her mother Smt. Nagamani Iyengar, a Veena artiste in Bangalore and her aunt Smt. Srimathi Jayaram. After a long gap in her music studies, she came under the tutelage of renowned bay area veena/vocal teacher Smt. Lalitha venkatraman in 1999. Smt.Lalitha has been instrumental in elevating her musical abilities to a higher level. Sridevi also learnt from Chitravina Ravikiran for a brief period of time. This is Sridevi's first Lotus concert and she will be presenting krithis of Purandara dasa, Mysore Vasudevacharya, Shyama shastri, Muthiah Bhagavathar, Muthuswami Dikshitar and a renowned kannada poet P.T Narasimhachar, all on the Divine mother.

Nagaraj Mandya (Violin)

Nagaraj Mandya started his music education more than 10 years ago at the Vijaya College of Music, Bangalore, India. He continued his advanced music education under Sangeetha Kalarathna Prof.H.V.Krishnamurthy, Principal of the Vijaya College of Music and his son, Ganakalashree Sri.H.K.Venkatram. Nagaraj is currently furthering his musical interests with Smt. Asha Ramesh. Nagaraj has accompanied many accomplished artistes both in India and in the USA and has played at many prestigious sabhas.

Along with his guru, Sri.H.K.Venkatram, Nagaraj has developed multi-media presentations on the "Life and Times of Sri Muthuswami Dikshithar", "Panchabhutha krithis of Sri Muthuswami Dikshithar" and "Navagraha krithis of Sri Muthuswami Dikshithar". He has also co-authored a multi-media CD on Saint Thyagaraja's Pancharathna krithis.

Arjun Haran (Mridangam)

Arjun Haran is 16 and is a junior at Irvington High School in Fremont. He has been learning to play the Mrudangam for the past eight years from Ravi Shridharan at Shruti Swara Laya. Arjun is currently learning from Vidwan Shrimushnam Raja Rao and from Sri Mannargudi Easwaran. Arjun has participated at fundraisers accompanying various teachers, as well as youth talents, both violin, vocal and veena in the Bay area. Arjun won the best youth performer award from Bharati Kalalaya in 2003. He has performed at the Tamil Manram, the Concord temple, and the Livermore temple, Badrikashram and with Nandalala. He has also performed live on the Palo Alto Radio station: Mostly Tamil. Arjun won second place in the senior category of percussion at the Cleveland festival in 2005 and was recently honored at the Cleveland 2006 festival for his dedication to the art of percussion. In addition, Arjun has won the Fremont Youth Symphony's best composer award for a piano composition. Arjun also plays the Clarinet, First Chair, for the Irvington High School Band and has recently been selected to play in the Honor Band of the Bay Area.

Smt. Jayanthi Umesh (Vocal)

Shrimathi Jayanthi Umesh started her music training with the late Vidushi M. Janaki and later continued with Vidushi Sugandha Raman, the well known exponent of classical Indian Music. Shrimathi Jayanthi passed the Vidwath Examination of Karnataka State with honors. She received the Best Musician Award from Bangalore Gayana Samaja in 1984. She has performed as an invited artist at the Annamacharya Music Festival at Tirupathi and has been on the panel of musicians of All India Radio, Bangalore since 1983.

She has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993 teaching music and has performed in several music concerts at Bangalore Gayana Samaja, Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhane, Hindu Temples at Sunnyvale, Livermore and Malibu in California and sponsored events of South India Fine Arts. She also works with Bay Area's well known musician, Shrimathi Asha Ramesh in furthering her musical interests.

Nagaraj Mandya (Violin)

A.Mahadevan (Mridangam)

A.Mahadevan has been involved in promoting Indian music and arts fo the past several years. He has provided percussion accompaniment on mridanga and mohrsing for several concerts, musical events and dance productions. In 2004 Mahadevan was awarded the tile of "Kala Seva Mani" by the Bhairavi Fine Arts Society during the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana music festival.

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