Upcoming Programs

Date:

Saturday, September 20th 2008

Time:

2:00 PM to 5:30 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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Intermediate Vocal Concert:	2.00 PM - 3.15 PM	Sarada Sivaramakrishnan (Vocal) Divya Ramachandran (Violin) Ram Sivaramakrishnan (Mridangam)
Senior Veena Concert:	3.30 PM - 5.30 PM	Jyothi Chetan (vocal) Ramesh Srinivasan (Mridangam)

Sarada Sivaramakrishnan (Vocal)

Sarada Sivaramakrishnan was initiated into carnatic music by her parents, Sri.R.Sivaramakrishnan and Smt. Vasantha Sivaramakrishnan at an early age.She got her initial training from her mother. Her parents then brought Sarada under the able tutelage of Smt. Raji Srinivasan, an accomplished disciple of Sri. Voleti Venkateswarulu in Bombay for about 10 years. She continued her training under Smt. Shanthi Balasubramaniam, a disciple of Smt. Savithri Sathyamoorthy. She has received several prizes in various competitions held in Mulund, Thane, Chembur Fine Arts and Shanmugananda Hall, and intercollegiate competitions. Since moving to the US in 1999, Sarada has had opportunities to learn from various visiting artistes – Lalgudi Sri.GJR.Krishnan, Chitraveena Sri. Ravikiran and Sri. T.M. Krishna. She had her arengetram in 1989 and has been performing since. She has performed at various places in Bombay including Shanmugananda Hall, and "Geetha Nivedhana" in Madras. In the US, she has had recitals at Phoenix, Dallas, and LOTUS. Sarada is a software engineer working with Fujitsu Network Communications in Richardson. She has been teaching carnatic music since 4 years.

Divya Ramachandran (Violin)

Divya Ramachandran began learning violin with Sri S.N. Narasimhan when she was 9 years old in Salt Lake City, where she grew up. Since 1999, she has been receiving advanced training from Sri Mullaivasal G.Chandramouli, a renowned violinist in Chennai. She has performed as an accompanist in a number of U.S. cities, including the Clevelend Thyagaraja Aradhana as well as in Chennai and Kerala. She has also performed duets with her sister Deepa. Divya is currently a Ph.D.student in computer science at U.C. Berkeley.

Ram Sivaramakrishnan (Mridangam)

Ram Sivaramakrishnan started his initial mridangam training at the age of nine under Sri Madurai Shanmugam in Bombay from whom he learnt the art for 3 years. After a long gap, he started relearning the art in 2003 from leading Bay Area mridangist, Shriram Brahmanandam. Ram has provided mridangam accompaniment in several Lotus, Swaralahiri, and Nandalala recitals.

Jyothi Chetan (veena)

Jyothi Chetan was initiated to music (vocal and veena) under the tutelage of Vidwan Sri Naranappa and Vidwan Sri C.N.Dhananjaya in Chitradurga of Karnataka. With advanced training from Vidwan B.R. Sridhar and Vidushi Veenai Jayanthi Kumaresh she has developed purity and melody in Raga rendition. She passed Junior exam with 3rd rank ,Senior with 2nd rank and Vidwat with distinction .She has won many prizes in several veena competitions: to name a few -- First prize in the first National Yuva Utsav, first prize in the 29th national level competition conducted by Navya Nataka Samiti, Hyderabad, first prize in the State level competition conducted by Bangalore Gayana Samaja, etc., .She is a B-High graded artiste in All India Radio. Jyothi has also learnt flute from Vidwan T.R.Srinath . But her passion is towards Veena. She has performed in many parts of Karnataka and Mumbai and also in Bay Area.Though she was born into a family without any music background and was brought up in a place without music environment she has proved herself a profficient veena player through her sensitivity , creativity and dedicated efforts in music. In academics she did B.E. in Computer Science . She lives in Fremont with her family .

Ramesh Srinivasan (Mridangam)

Ramesh started learning Mridangam at a very young age & had his maiden concert at age 9. He is the leading disciple of Mridangam Maestro Sangita Kalanidhi Shri Vellore G. Ramabhadran. Ramesh achieved the 1st rank in the preliminary AIR Music Competition in the entire Southern Region of India in 1984.

Ramesh is the recipient of the prestigious 'Laya Kala Rathna' award for the year 2007, by Sriragam Fine arts, during the Music season in Chennai. He has performed at Music Academy and other Sabhas in Chennai on several occasions as well as numerous organizations abroad. Ramesh has also had the unique honor & privilege of performing in the in the inaugural show of Festival of India in US in New York State at Syracuse.

In Cleveland Tyagaraja Aradhana Music Festival, Ramesh has performed several times including providing double Mridangam support along with his Guru Shri Vellore Ramabhadran for multiple concerts.

Prominent artists Ramesh has accompanied include Sangita Kalanidhi R.K.Srikantan, Sangita Kalanidhi T.K. Govinda Rao, Senior Violin Vidwan Parur M.S.Anantharaman, Chitravina Ravikiran, Neyveli Santhanagopalan, Smt. S.Sowmya and Carnatica Brothers among others. Ramesh has also performed in Taala Vadhya Ensembles with the renowned Mridangam Vidwan Yella Venkateshwara Rao. He has also performed in JugalBandhi Concerts along with Sri Chitravina Ravikiran, renowned Sitar Performer Ustad Habib Khan & Tabla Maestro Pandit Swapan Chaudhri.

He was part of the 'Panchakriya' SuperJugalbandhi Ensemble providing Mridangam support which featured Chitravina Ravikiran, Santoor Maestro Tarun Bhattacharya, Akkarai Subbhalakshmi(Violin) & Abhiman Kaushal (Tabla).

Ramesh's accompanying style is noted for its sensitivity to music and highly proactive support, which lends itself to making it a very rewarding experience for the main artist as well as the audience.

He is the founder and director of "The Sarvalaghu Percussion Art Center" in San Jose, a percussion school where selective students at different levels learn the intricacies of Mridangam.

Ramesh is indebted to his parents, Dr.Rajalakshmi and Shri K.S. Srinivasan for their immense encouragement and introduction to this art form at a very early age. He is also grateful to his maternal uncle Late Shri S. Viswanathan and wife Srividya for their support &encouragement in his musical endeavors. Ramesh currently resides in the Bay Area with his family.

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