June 2022 Live concerts

We have two live concerts this month and please attend and encourage our budding artists. We will also be livestreaming the event on our Youtube Channel.

DATE: Saturday, June 18th, 2022

TIME: 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM

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

YOUTUBE Streaming Link: https://youtu.be/8XTWk2DzKW0

2.00 to 2.45 PM

Aditi Natarajan (Vocal)

Deeksha (Violin)

Lalit Narayan Kovvuri (Mridangam)

3.00 to 3.45 PM

Rathika Balaji (Vocal)

Urmika Balaji (Violin)

Lalit Narayan Kovvuri (Mridangam)

Aditi Natarajan (Vocal)

Aditi Natarajan is an incoming junior at Dublin high school. She has been learning Carnatic music since the age of 4 from her guru Vid. Smt. Sudha Dusi. Aditi also learns Carnatic Violin from Vid. Shri. H. N. Bhaskar. Aditi is a frequent performer at local bay area events and has performed many in-person and online concerts.

Deeksha (Violin)

Deeksha is an incoming junior in Milpitas high school. She has been learning violin for the past 6 years from Vidushi Smt. H.M. Smitha. Deeksha is a regular accompanist for bay area schools.

Lalit Narayan Kovvuri (Mridangam)

Lalit Narayan Kovvuri is a middle schooler from Chaboya Middle School. He is currently under the tutelage of Vidwan Sri. S.V.Ramani (Chennai). Over the past few years he has participated in various programs in and around the bay area for many organizations including Fremont Margazhi, and many online programs. He has also won several awards in various mridangam competitions. Apart from Mridangam, Lalit is also pursuing Carnatic Vocal and violin under the tutelage of Vidushi Smt. Anuradha Sridhar.

Rathika Balaji (Vocal)

Rathika Balaji is a rising 8th grader at Sunnyvale Middle School. Rathika learns carnatic vocal music from Shri K Chandrashekar ( AIR Bangalore Artist). Rathika learns violin from Padmashri A Kanyakumari. Besides music, Rathika is interested in drama musicals and has been participating in school and after school drama since the age of 8.

Urmika Balaji (Violin)

Urmika Balaji is a rising senior at Homestead High School. She began her training under her father, Sri Mahesh Balaji, at the age of seven. In 2015, she was fortunate to come under the tutelage of Sangeetha Kalanidhi Padmashri A. Kanyakumari. Urmika also learns vocal music from her uncle, Sri K. Chandrashekharan, and previously trained under Sri Paduka Academy. Urmika has provided regular violin accompaniment for several artists in the Bay Area, and was fortunate to perform in Chennai for the December Music Season in 2019. Outside of music, Urmika is an avid reader and loves to paint.

Lalit Narayan Kovvuri (Mridangam)

Lalit Narayan Kovvuri is a middle schooler from Chaboya Middle school. He is currently under the tutelage of Vidwan Sri. S. V. Ramani (Chennai).

Over the past few years, he has participated in various programs in and around the Bay Area for many organizations including Fremont Marghazhi, and many other online programs. He has also won several awards in various mridangam competitions.

Apart from mridangam, Lalit is also pursuing Carnatic vocal and violin under the tutelage of Vidushi Smt. Anuradha Sridhar.