APRIL 2026 LIVE concertS

We have three concerts this month. Please attend, encourage the artists and enjoy the concert.

DATE: Saturday, April 18th, 2026

TIME: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

VENUE: SANATHANA DHARMA KENDRA, 3102 Landess Ave, San Jose, CA 95132

Anish Anand (Vocal)

Anish Anand has been a student of Vid Guru Sri Hari Devanath for the past 9 years. He enjoys listening to and performing concerts. Anish is also a student of mridangam and learns from Vid Guru Sri Chennai Thiagarajan. Anish is a freshman at Evergreen Valley High School.

Aditi Anand (Violin)

Aditi Anand has been a student of Carnatic violin for the past 8 years. She is presently learning from Guru Sri Vittal Ramamurthy. Prior to this, Aditi was a student of Sri Saravanapriyan Sriraman. Aditi also learns vocal music and Bharatanatyam, and performed both arangetrams in 2023 and 2024. She is a regular performer in the Bay Area and at the December music season in India.

Kedar (Mridangam)

Kedar is a 11th grader at Leigh High School in San Jose. He learns mridangam from KalaimAmaNi Sri.Delhi Sairam. He is also a Carnatic vocal student of Sri Paduka Academy, learning from Sri.Hari Devanath. He has accompanied at concerts in the Bay Area for organizations such as SRFA, LOTUS, CCC and most recently during the margazhi season at Chennai. He has won prizes at Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana, Saptami, and Papanasam Sivan music competitions. Kedar enjoys biking, solving puzzles and listening to music.

Manasa Praveen (Vocal)

TBD (Violin)

TBD (Mridangam)

Aditya Anandan: 

Aditya Anandan, a young vocalist with a natural flair for Carnatic music, began learning from Vidushi Bhargavi Balasubramanian from 2016. Endowed with an attractive voice timbre along with a keen passion to perform, Aditya has blossomed into a budding vocalist with a keen sense for musical nuances. He received early  training under Smt Anuradha Sridhar in both vocal and violin. Aditya has also had the wonderful opportunity  & blessing to learn directly from Sangeet Samraat Shri Chitravina N Ravikiran during his summer music camps. Aditya is also a keen student of konakkol (vocal percussion) under Vidwan Akshay Anantapadmabhan and has had the opportunity to perform at the New Jersey Rhythms Festival along with Shri Akshay.  Aditya is a graduate from University of Wisconsin - Madison and works at ServiceNow as a Software Engineer.

Srinath Hariharan (Violin)

Srinath Hariharan began learning under Vidushi Bhargavi Balasubramanian in 2014 and with Sangeet Samraat Chitravina N Ravikiran in 2015. Srinath has had the opportunity of performing as a soloist and as an accompanist in events such as the Minnesota Tyagaraja Aradhana, Melharmony Festivals of Minneapolis and Madison, Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival, and Chennai December Music Season. Srinath received training in Western Classical violin at the MacPhail Center for Music. Srinath is a junior at Stanford University.

Shreyas Ramaswami (Mridangam)

Shreyas Ramaswami is a disciple of Sri. Ravindra Bharathy Sridharan, founder of Nadhopasana Academy of Fine Arts for the past several years. He completed his mridangam arangetram in 2014, accompanying Sri Neyveli Santhanagopalan. Shreyas is a recipient of the prestigious Alliance for California Traditional Arts Apprenticeship with his Guru.

Shreyas is a frequent concert performer and accompanies vocalists, music and dance schools in the Bay Area and across other cities in the US. He has also performed at the Chennai Music Season for several years.

Shreyas is a graduate of Santa Clara University and works in Finance at Meta.