NOVEMBER 2023 concertS

We have two concerts this Month. Please attend in large numbers, encourage the artists and enjoy the concerts.

DATE: Saturday, Nov 18th, 2023

TIME: 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM

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

Shriya Ganesh (Vocal)

Shriya is a student at Shri Paduka Academy, under the tutelage of Shri. Hari Devanath. She is a freshman at Cupertino High School, and her hobbies include speech and debate, writing, and reading.

Roopa Rajagopalan (Violin)

Roopa is a violin and vocal disciple of Smt. Lavanya Kothandaraman She also learns vocal music from Sri. Kaushik Lakshminarayanan. She  is a sophomore at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale. Besides music, Roopa likes books, artwork, playing with her siblings, and watching some TV shows.

Sachin ( Mridangam)           

Sachin is a senior at Leland high school, San Jose. Sachin learns Mridangam from Sri.K.V.Gopalakrishnan. Sachin learns Vocal from Sri.Niranjan Krishna. Sachin loves to read listen to Carnatic/western music and hangouts with friends

Varushini Ramesh (Vocal)

Varushini Ramesh is a disciple of Vidushis Smt. Ranjani and Smt. Gayatri and has been under their tutelage for the past 2.5 years. She has been a student of music for the past 18 years and has performed in various prestigious sabhas across Chennai such as Naradha Gana Sabha, Vani Mahal, Bharat Kalachar, and more. She has also performed at various temples across Tamil Nadu, India and in the US.

Varushini has received awards and scholarships for her music performances from various prestigious sabhas and organizations. She also shares her love for music in the form of teaching budding musicians.

Aparna Thyagarajan (Violin)

Aparna Thyagarajan is a disciple of Vidwan Delhi Sri P. SunderRajan, and has been under the tutelage of her guru for 14 years. She has regularly accompanied in the Chennai December Music Festival since 2016 in leading sabhas such as the Madras Music Academy, Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha, Parthasarathy Swami Sabha, Maarga, and more. 

 Aparna has also performed widely throughout the USA, in various states including California, Nebraska, Ohio, and Texas for chamber concerts and festivals, notably the prestigious Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana festival held annually in Cleveland, Ohio, where she won first prize in competition for violin accompaniment and second prize for violin aalapana. She has performed numerous solos and duets with her brother Vignesh Thyagarajan throughout the US and has provided violin accompaniment to many visiting artists from India. 

 Aparna has had the privilege of accompanying her guru, Vidwan Delhi Sri P. SunderRajan, in multiple concerts as violin support along with other senior artists such as Vidwan Neyveli Sri R. Narayanan and Vidwan Adambakkam Sri K. Sankar. 

 Aparna had her solo violin arangetram in the year of 2019 accompanied by Vidwan Neyveli Sri R. Narayanan on the mridangam and Vidwan Adambakkam Sri K. Sankar on the ghatam.

Akshay Prabhakaran (Mridangam)

Akshay Prabhakaran is a senior student of Kalaimamani Shertalai Ananthakrishnan and Shri Gopi Lakshminarayanan. He completed his mridangam arangetram in September 2016 accompanying Vidwan Shri Sikkil Gurucharan. He has won awards at Papanasam sivan and Cleveland Aradhana and has been a representative at world music festivals. He has been regularly accompanying at Chennai Margazhi concerts and bay area organizations such as SRFA, LOTUS and SANGAM arts, and is one of the founders of RAGA^N, a non profit organization dedicated to performing service through arts. He received his B.S in Computer Science at Santa Clara University and is currently a software engineer at Dolby Laboratories.