JULY 2026 LIVE concertS

We have three concerts this month including a 75-min concert. Please attend, encourage the artists and enjoy the concerts.

DATE: Saturday, July 18th, 2026

TIME: 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM

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

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-hCvfKiDq8

Kedar (Vocal)

Kedar is a rising senior at Leigh High School in San Jose. He is a Carnatic vocal student of Sri Paduka Academy, learning from Guru. Sri Hari Devanath. He has participated and won prizes at Saptami and Papanasam Sivan music competitions. He also learns mrudangam from Kalaimani Sri.Delhi Sriram. He enjoys listening to music and solving puzzles.

Avanija Vangala (Violin)

Avanija is a rising senior at Stratford Preparatory School. She has been learning Carnatic Violin from her Guru Kalaimamani Padma Shankar (Student of Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman). She has won prizes in multiple competitions including BAKU Concert Slot, and Cleaveland Aradhana and regularly performs solos and accompaniment concerts around the Bay Area.

Bhargav (Mridangam)

Bhargav is an incoming freshman at UC Berkeley. He is currently learning mridangam from Sri Patri Satish Kumar. He started his mridangam journey in 2014, at the age of 6, with guru Sri Ramesh Srinivasan. He performed his mridangam arangetram in 2019.

He also learns vocal from Smt Vasudha Ravi.

Adithya Narayanan (Vocal)

Adithya Narayanan has been learning Carnatic vocal music from IAIM under the meticulous guidance of his gurus, Dr. Shivakumar Bhat and Smt. Kasthuri Shivakumar, for the past 12 years. With their blessings and dedicated training, he successfully completed his 3.5 hour-long vocal arangetram in July 2023. Since then, he has been giving performances at various venues around the Bay Area. Currently, he is a rising sophomore at DVC studying Applied Math and Biology, specifically Neurobiology.

Tejas Bharadwaj (Violin)

Tejas Bharadwaj is a violinist from Cupertino, California. He started learning under Srimathi Anuradha Sridhar before training under Sri BV Raghavendra Rao. He additionally receives training from Srimathi Charumathi Raghuraman. Tejas has performed Carnatic concerts across the USA and  India. He completed his bachelors degree at UCLA in electrical engineering and will join Yale university as a PhD student in the fall.

Prayag Barath (Mridangam)

Prayag Barath is a rising senior at Saint Francis High School, Mountain View. He has been learning Mridangam for the past 8 years from Vidwan Sri Chennai Thyagarajan. Prayag did his Mridangam Arangetram in August 2025 accompanying Vidwan Sri Hari Devanath. He also has been learning carnatic vocal music from Sri Paduka Academy for the past 9 years.

Sanjhbati Ray (Vocal)

Sanjhbati Ray has been learning music for the past seven years under the esteemed guidance of the legendary Vidushi Kala Ramnath ji. Deeply inspired by the profound artistry of maestros such as Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and Ustad Rashid Khan, Sanjhbati aspires to perform her favorite ragas before a full auditorium one day. Sanjhbati also likes to express her creativity through writing poetry and composing her own distinctive bandishes. 

Vishan Menon (Tabla)

Vishan Menon has been a student of tabla since 2009. He began his musical journey as a student of Shri. Satish Tare, and is blessed to continue his study of tabla as a disciple of Pandit Anindo Chatterjee, renowned maestro of the Farrukabad Gharana. Vishan has also received training in accompaniment by the renowned Maihar gharana sitarist, Pt. Partha Chatterjee. Vishan works as a software engineer in the cybersecurity 

Mihika Bahekar (Harmonium)

Mihika is a third-year student at UC Davis, studying Biomedical Engineering. She has been learning harmonium from Shri Vivek Datar since she was seven years old and also studied vocal music from Smt. Ashwini Khaparde for 10 years.