South in general is the stronghold where ancient Indian arts, crafts & traditions were collected & preserved in face of disturbances in the north western Indian subcontinent during the 16th & 17th Century. Over the years these efforts have evolved into one of the world’s largest cultural event held annually in . This event organised by The Music Academy, Chennai aims to continue to preserve the science of .

Carnatic Music, traditionally believed to be of divine origin, dates back to Vedic period and as per ancient texts describes the origin of notes, to the sounds of animals and birds and man's effort to simulate these sounds through a keen sense of observation and perception in a natural rhythmic manner. Owing to Persian and Islamic influences in North India from the 12th century onwards the classical traditions in North India diverged with clear demarcation and today in North India classical music is termed “Hindustani” while the one in south India is termed as “Carnatic” music. From a royal pastime of the Kingdoms of Mysore and Travancore it has transformed into an art of the masses with ticketed performances organized by private institutions called Sabhas with Chennai as the centre.

In Carnatic music the main emphasis is on vocal music and most compositions are written to be sung, even when only instruments are used for a performance, it is in a singing style. These performances are done by a small ensemble of musicians, consisting of a principal performer (usually a vocalist), a melodic accompaniment (usually a violin), a rhythm accompaniment (usually an mridangam), and a tambura which acts as a drone throughout the performance. Other typical instruments used in performances may include the ghatam, kanjira, morsing, veena & flute. We invite you to explore carnatic music during one of the world’s largest cultural event spread over three weeks from 16th December 2009 till 1st January 2010.

83rd ANNUAL MADRAS MUSIC FESTIVAL CONCERT SCHEDULE 16th December 2009 to 1st January 2010 at the T.T. Krishnamachari Auditorium Date 9.15 a.m.- 11.45 a.m 12 Noon - 1.30 p.m. 1.45 p.m. - 3.45 p.m. 4.15 p.m. - 6.45 p.m. 7.00 p.m.- 9.30 p.m. Morning / Senior Junior Sub Senior Evening I Senior Evening II Senior Dec. Seshampatti T. Ramakrishnan Murthy Carnatica Brothers Revathy Krishna N. Vijay Siva (Vocal) 16, Sivalingam (Vocal) K.N. Sashikiran & P. (Veena) R.K. Shriramkumar (Violin) Wed (Nadaswaram) M. Rajeev (Violin) Ganesh (Vocal) Prapancham Ravindran Prof. Trichy Sankaran Mannargudi R. Nirmal Narayan Idappally Ajith Kumar (Mridangam) (Mridangam) Vasudevan (Tavil) (Mridangam) (Violin) Trichy K. Murali V. Suresh (Ghatam) Kovilur K.G. Trivandrum R. (Ghatam) Kalyanasundaram Vaidyanathan (Tavil) (Mridangam) Dec. Suguna Varadachari A. Vasuda Kesav (Vocal)V.K. Raman (Flute) Dr. Pantula Rama N. Ravikiran (Chitraveena) 17, (Vocal) Kaushik Avaneeswaram S.R. (Vocal) Akkarai S. Subhalakshmi Thu V.L. Kumar (Violin) Sivaramakrishnan Vinu (Violin) M.S.N. Murthy (Violin) (Violin) Mannarkoil J. Balaji (Violin) Madurai B. Sundar Melakaveri K. Balaji T.V. Gopalakrishnan (Mridangam) Ammangudi S. (Mridangam) (Mridangam) (Mridangam) G. Ravichandran Ramanarayanan Malaikottai R.M. Tripunithura N. (Ghatam) (Mridangam) Deenadayalu Radhakrishnan (Ghatam) (Moharsing) Dec. Sangita Kalanidhi Ranjani Hebbar (Vocal) K. Hariprasad (Vocal) Prema Rangarajan Visakha Hari – Sangita 18, Fri Dr. N. Ramani, Ranjani Ramakrishnan Kandadevi S. (Vocal) Upanyasam “Vibheeshana R. Thyagarajan & (Violin) Vijayaraghavan (Violin) Padma Shankar (Violin)Saranagathi” R. Athulkumar (Flute Peravali Jaya Bhaskar Mysore N. Sudharshan B. Ganapathyraman Charulatha Ramanujam Trio) (Mridangam) (Mridangam) (Mridangam) (Violin) S.D. Sridharan Bhagyalakshmi M. H.S. Sudhindra (Mridangam) (Violin) Krishna (Moharsing) Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam) Guruvayur Dorai (Mridangam) S.V. Ramani (Ghatam) Dec. Rudrapatnam Hemmige S. Prashanth Amritha Murali (Vocal) Malladi Brothers Priya Sisters 19, Brothers R.N. (Vocal) Nishant Chandran Sreerama Prasad & Shanmukhapriya & Haripriya Sat Thiyagarajan & R.N. B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin) Ravikumar (Vocal) (Vocal) Tharanathan (Vocal) (Violin) Nellai A. Balaji S. Varadarajan (Violin) V V Srinivasa Rao (Violin) Lalgudi S. Arvind (Mridangam) (Mridangam) Neyveli R. Narayanan Neyveli S. Skanda Vijayalakshmi (Mridangam) Subramanian (Mridangam) (Violin) S.V. Ramani (Ghatam) Madipakkam A. Murali V. Kamalakar Rao (Ghatam) (Mridangam) N. Govindarajan (Ghatam) Dec. Parassala B. Girish Surendra (Vocal) K. Gayatri (Vocal) Ranjani & Gayatri Mysore M. Nagaraj & 20, Ponnammal (Vocal) Roopa Rajagopal S.P. Anantha (Vocal) Dr. M. Manjunath (Violin Sun S.R. Mahadeva (Violin) Padmanabha (Violin) B.U. Ganeshprasad Duet) Sarma (Violin) K.S. Ramana B. Sivaraman (Violin) Dr. Yella Venkateswara Rao C. Chaluvaraju (Mridangam) (Mridangam) N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam) (Mridangam) (Mridangam) Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam) Ernakulam S. N. Guruprasad Ramakrishnan (Ghatam) (Ghatam) 9.15 a.m. – 11.45 Date 12 Noon – 1.30 p.m. 1.45 p.m. – 3.45 p.m. 4.15 p.m. – 6.45 p.m. 7.00 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. a.m. Dec. Kalyani Ganesan Kottakkal Ranjith Varier Mambalam Sisters Sikkil Mala Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan 21, (Veena) (Vocal) R. Vijayalakshmi & R. Chandrasekhar (Flute) (Vocal) Mon Umayalpuram Mali H.M. Smitha (Violin) Chitra (Vocal) M.R. Gopinath (Violin) Delhi P. Sunderrajan (Violin) (Mridangam) Umayalpuram V. Jyotsna Srikanth (Violin)Kallidaikurichi S. Neyveli B. Venkatesh A.S. Shankar Kalyanaraman Shertalai R. Sivakumar (Mridangam) (Ghatam) (Mridangam) Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam) Udupi S. Sreedhar (Ghatam) (Mridangam) V. Umashankar (Ghatam) Trivandrum D. Rajagopal (Kanjira) Dec. Sangita Kalanidhi Mysore A. Chandan V. Sumithra (Vocal) S. Sowmya (Vocal) Sikkil C. Gurucharan (Vocal) 22, Nedunuri Kumar (Flute) S. Arunachala Karthik R.K. Shriramkumar Nagai R. Sriram (Violin) Tue Krishnamurthy Arun Ramamurthi (Violin) (Violin) Sangita Kalanidhi (Vocal) (Violin) R. Sankaranarayanan Poongulam Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman Sriram Parsuram A.V. Manikandan (Mridangam) Subramanian (Mridangam) (Violin) (Mridangam) (Mridangam) E.M. Subramaniam (Ghatam) Prof. Trichy Payyanur Sankaran Govindaprasad (Mridangam) (Moharsing) B.S. Purushothaman (Kanjira) Dec. Sangita Kala Acharya Nanditha Ravi (Vocal) Chinmaya Sisters O.S. Thyagarajan U. Shrinivas & U. Rajesh 23, Parur S. Karthick (Violin) Uma & Radhika (Vocal) (Vocal) (Mandolin) Wed M.S. Anantharaman, Karra Srinivas Trivandrum S.R. T.H. Subramanyam Peri Sriramamurthy (Violin) M.A. (Mridangam) Rajasree (Violin) (Violin) V. Praveen Sundrareswaran, Delhi S. Sairam B. Harikumar (Mridangam) M.A. Krishnaswamy (Mridangam) (Mridangam) V. Selvaganesh (Kanjira) & Coimbatore V. Mohan Srirangam R. Kannan M.S. Ram (Ghatam) (Moharsing) Ananthakrishnan (Violin Quartet) Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mridangam) E.M. Subramaniam (Ghatam) Dec. Sangita Kalanidhi K. Bharatsundar (Vocal) Varalakshmi P. Unnikrishnan Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam 24, R.K. Srikantan K.P. Nandini (Violin) Anandkumar (Vocal) (Vocal) (Vocal) Thu (Vocal) Palghat A.M. Hari Melakaveri K. Vittal Ramamurthy V.V.S. Murari (Violin) Rudrapatnam S. Narayanan (Mridangam) Thiagarajan (Violin) (Violin) Madirimangalam S. Ramakant V.R. Jayakumar K.V. Prasad Swaminathan (Mridangam) (Vocal Support) (Mridangam) (Mridangam) A.S. Krishnan (Moharsing) Sangita Kalanidhi Adambakkam K. M. Chandrasekharan Shankar (Ghatam) (Violin) Sangita Kalanidhi Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam) B. Sree Sundarkumar (Kanjira) Dec. Sangita Kalanidhi D.B. Ashvin (Vocal) Nisha P. Rajagopal Sangita Kalanidhi 25, Fri T.N. Krishnan & R. Raghul (Violin) (Vocal) (Vocal) T.V. Sankaranarayanan Viji Natarajan (Violin Aswin Sridharan R. Satish Kumar (Violin)Dr. R. Hemalatha (Vocal) Duet) (Mridangam) P.K. Babu (Mridangam) (Violin) Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin) Thiruvarur Patri Satishkumar Srimushnam V. Raja Rao Bhaktavatsalam (Mridangam) (Mridangam) (Mridangam) H. Sivaramakrishnan K.V. Gopalakrishnan Vaikom (Ghatam) (Kanjira) Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam) Dec. Bombay Sisters Prasanna Venkatraman T.N.S. Krishna (Vocal) (Vocal) Sreevalsan J. Menon (Vocal) 26, C. Saroja & C. (Vocal) Anayampatti G. H.N. Bhaskar (Violin) C.N. Chandrashekaran Sat Lalitha (Vocal) Karaikal S. Venkatasubramanian J. Vaidhyanathan (Violin) Usha Rajagopalan Venkatasubramanian (Violin) (Mridangam) Trichur C. Narendran (Violin) (Violin) M.S. Varadan Dr. S. Karthick (Mridangam) Palladam R. Ravi Tanjore K. Praveen (Mridangam) (Ghatam) Pudukottai N. Ramachandran (Mridangam) Kumar (Mridangam) (Ghatam) Nanganallur S. Swaminathan (Ghatam) 9.15 a.m. – 11.45 Date 12 Noon – 1.30 p.m. 1.45 p.m. – 3.45 p.m. 4.15 p.m. – 6.45 p.m. 7.00 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. a.m. Dec. Sangita Kalanidhi T.S. Pattabhirama Pandit S. Saketharaman (Vocal) Gayathri T.M. Krishna (Vocal) 27, R. Vedavalli (Vocal) (Vocal) Charumathi Raghuraman Venkataraghavan Mysore M. Nagaraj (Violin) Sun Pakala Ramadas Aditi Krishnaprakash (Violin) (Vocal) Guru Kaaraikkudi R. Mani (Violin) (Violin) Trivandrum V. Balaji Anuradha Sridhar (Mridangam) K. Arun Prakash K. Sadguru Charan (Mridangam) (Violin) Bangalore N. Amrit (Kanjira) (Mridangam) (Mridangam) H.S. Sudhindra V. Anirudh Athreya (Mridangam) (Kanjira) Sukkanya Ramgopal (Ghatam) Dec. Tirupathi V. Amrutha Venkatesh Nirmala Rajasekar Sudha Raghunathan O.S. Arun (Vocal) 28, Haribabu & Party (Vocal) (Veena) (Vocal) Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli Mon (Nadaswaram) Akkarai S. Sornalatha Chidambaram S. Embar S. Kannan (Violin) Valayapatti A.R. (Violin) Balashankar (Violin) A.S. Ranganathan Subramaniam & N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam) Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam) Party (Tavil) (Mridangam) Balaji Chandran (Mridangam) Tirukannapuram J. (Ghatam) R. Raman (Moharsing) Sowrirajan (Moharsing) Dec. Dr. K. Omanakutty Punya Srinivas (Veena) Savita Narasimhan Bombay Jayashri Kunnakudy M. 29, (Vocal) S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Vocal) (Vocal) Balamuralikrishna (Vocal) Tue Nalina Mohan (Mridangam) Amirtha Murali (Violin) Embar S. Kannan V. Sanjeev (Violin) (Violin) Erode Nagarajan (Violin) R. Ramesh (Mridangam) Tanjore Ramadas (Mridangam) Patri Satishkumar V. Suresh (Ghatam) (Mridangam) (Mridangam) Papanasam S. Dr. S. Karthick Sethuraman (Kanjira) (Ghatam) Dec. Geetha Rajashekar Vidya Kalyanaraman Shertalai Sattur Sisters Sanjay Subramaniam (Vocal) 30, (Vocal) (Vocal) K.N. Renganatha Lalitha Santhanam & Nagai Muralidharan (Violin) Wed M.A. Krishnaswamy Parur M.S. Sharma (Vocal) Bhuvana Rajagopal Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Violin) Ananthakrishnan V.L. Sudarshan (Violin) (Vocal) (Mridangam) Tanjore S. (Violin) Madipakkam P. Suresh Charulatha Ramanujam K.V. Gopalakrishnan Subramanian Akshay (Mridangam) (Violin) (Kanjira) (Mridangam) Ananthapadmanabhan Tanjore Kumar Bangalore B. (Mridangam) (Mridangam) Rajasekhar K.S. Rangachary (Moharsing) (Kanjira) Dec. Manda Sudharani S.M. Vilasini (Vocal) Salem Sriram (Vocal) Papanasam Ashok Hindustani Music 31, (Vocal) Chittoor K. R. Ambika Prasad Ramani (Vocal) Kalaapini Komkali & Party Thu Dr. M. Narmada Vijayaraghavan (Violin) (Violin) T.K.V. Ramanujacharlu (Daughter & Disciple of Sri (Violin) Rajna Swaminathan Kottayam G. Santosh (Violin) Kumar Gandharva) V.V. Ramanamurthy (Mridangam) Kumar (Mridangam) M.L.N. Raju Sanjay Deshpande (Tabla) (Mridangam) (Mridangam) Milind Kulkarni N. Somayajulu C.P. Vyasa Vittala (Harmonium) (Ghatam) (Kanjira) Jan. 1, S. Shashank (Flute) Special PROGRAMME Fri B.U. Ganesh Prasad “LAYA RAAGA 2010 (Violin) SANGAMAM” by Sthree Arjun Kumar Thaal Tharang (Mridangam) Mangala Isai Sukkanya Ramgopal Tripunithura N. Nadaswaram (Ghatam, Ghata Tharang & Radhakrishnan 3.45 p.m. – 4.45 p.m. Sadas Konnakkol) (Ghatam) V Subramaniam & 5.00 p.m. J. Yoga Vandana (Veena) Smt. K. Ravi prabha and Soumya Ramachandran party (Violin) Ranjani Venkatesh (Mridangam) Bhagyalakshmi M. Krishna (Moharsing) Conference Sessions : Dec 16, 2009 to Jan 1, 2010 – DAILY FROM 8.00 A.M. to 10.00 A.M. AT The Kasturi Srinivasan Hall