5. Jagadodarana by Mrs. Ramalakshmi CMANA’s 2 Day Students 40th Anniversary Celebration Aamani Somanchi Nandita Nagarajan Akhil Paulraj Neharika Murthy Ananya Ravi Praveen Parthasarathy Anjani Ravi Srinidhi Ayalasomayajula Janani Subramanian Vaishnavi Peyyety DAY 1 Jyothsna Suresh 6. Mere Giridhara Gopal – Meera Bhajan by Mrs. Nirmala Rajesh Students Sanjana Venkatesh Nividitha Kannan 24th September 2016, 10:30 AM Sowmya Venkatesh Madhumita Kannan Devi Narayan Madhumita Rao Tribute to Laxmi Bala Divya Bharathwaj Vyjayanthi Nirmala Rajesh Bharat Ratna, Sangeetasaagara M S Subbulakshmi 7. Enathu Ullamae - Papanasam Sivan - Various teachers students Maya Narasimhan Nikhil Sankar Ajay Parameswaran Avanthika Srinivasan 1. Mudhakaratha Modhakam – Adi Sankara – Bhakthi Manjari Students (Mrs. Bhuvana Iyer) 8. Entha Mathramo & Mythrim Bhajathe – Manjula Ramachandran Students Janani Ramachandran Shrinidhi Rengarajan Preeti Bharadwaj 2. Mathe Varnam - Muthiah Bhagavathar - Tarunya Mayil Vahanan Anjali mahesh Preeti Srikanth Dr. Bhavani Rao Students Shrinidhi Ramachandran Nirvriti Balaji Apurva Navin Ananth Rao Lasya Cheruvu Ananya Ananth Neranjana Iyer Mallika iyengar Skanda Rao Dr. Bhavani Rao Sharvani Vadlamani Anjana Nair Dhwani Venkatrangan Harshini Ganesh Pavitra vijayaraj Samekha Srinivasan Ilakya Udayakumar Sabarinath 3. Bhavayami Raghuramam – Swati Thirunal - Pranay Karthikeyan Shruti Venkat Ramachandran Mrs. Kalyani Ramani Students Jahnavi Srikanth Shravan Venkat (Mridangam) Nikita Brahmma Sahana Viswanathan Shrinarayanee Rengarajan Hemant Gosukonda Samyutha Srinivasan Sahana Harikrishnan Vasudha Srinivasan Thejasvi Venkatachalam th Sashidhar Ayyalasomayajula Jaanavi Venkatachalam 24 September 2016, 02:00 PM Vinay Devulapall Abhinaya Mukundan Ramakrishnan Murthy (Vocal) Rajeev Mukundan (Violin)/Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam) 4. Rangapuravihara - Mutthuswami He started his vocal Carnatic Music lessons at the age of 8 from Smt. Dikshitar - Sri. Prasanna Venkatesh Students Padma Kutty of Irvine, CA, and also received training from vidwans Shivani Sowmyan Delhi Sri. P. Sunderrajan and Chingleput Sri. R. Ranganathan. He was Vishal Sowmyan also fortunate to learn for two years under Vairamangalam Late Sri. Shyam Thygarajan Lakshminarayanan and is currently undergoing advanced training Ramakrishnan from Sri RK Shriramkumar. A regular performer in the Chennai Music Murthy circuit, Ramakrishnan was the recipient of the Best Male Vocalist Award in 2009 and was featured on the inaugural day of The Madras Music Academy concert season. He also won the First Prize www.cmana.org in the All India Radio National competition in the Classical Vocal – 02 Carnatic category in 2009. Ramakrishnan has th performed in quite a few centers across North America 24 September 2016, 06:00 PM including CMANA in 2015, and at all major sabhas in Ranjani and Gayathri (Vocal) India. He is currently based in Chennai, and has had the rare privilege of being accompanied in concerts by many Charumathi Raghuraman (Violin) stalwarts of the present day such as Delhi P Sunderrajan, RK Delhi Sairam (Mridangam) Shriramkumar, Nagai Muralidharan, the Mysore brothers - Ranjani and Gayatri started their violin training at the Nagaraj and Manjunath, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, Trichy early age of nine and six respectively from Sangita Sankaran, and Guruvayur Dorai. He has a Computer Science Bhooshanam Prof. T.S. Krishnaswami at the Shanmukhan- degree from UC Irvine and is an A-grade artist of the All India Radio anda Sangeeta Vidyalaya, Mumbai. The sisters achieved and Doordarshan, Chennai. success as violin duet performers, and subsequently they Ranjani and also proved successful as violin accompanists. Both Gayatri Rajeev Mukundan is a sishya of Sangeethasaagara A. Ranjani and Gayatri have accompanied various artists Kanyakumari. He initially learnt from Sri Govindarajan, on the violin, including D.K. Pattammal, M Balamuralikrishna, T Vishwanathan and received a scholarship from the Government of India and other popular artistes of the current generation. The sisters have given from 2001 to 2009 to pursue music. He has received vocal concerts since 1997, after they became students of Padma Bhushan numerous awards, including the best violinist award from Sangeeta Kala Acharya P. S. Narayanaswamy. Their music, imbued with a Rajeev Parthasarathy Swami Sabha in December 2013, the Best Mukundan deep and abiding classicism, has been described as an exhilarating blend of Violinist Award from the Music Academy in 2011, and the vitality, melody and emotion. Perfection of sruti (pitching), powerful voice Spirit of Youth Award from the Music Academy in 2008. control, rich imagination and impeccable aesthetics reflect the timeless values He has accompanied most major leading artists including of their classicism. Most of the abhangs they sing at the end of their concerts TVS, TM Krishna, Ranjani-Gayatri, Sanjay, Bombay have been set to music by the sisters. They have received numerous awards – Jayashree and Vijay Siva. including the prestigious title of Vani Kala Sudhakara from Thyaga Brahma Sangeetha Kalanidhi Trichy Sankaran had his early Gana Sabha and the Lifetime Achievement award from Bharatiya Vidya musical training under his cousin Sri P.A. Venkatara- Bhavan in 2013. man. Sankaran then came under the direct tutelage Charumathi Raghuraman started learning first from her of the legendary mrdangam maestro the late Sri mother Smt. Rama Raghuraman, then continued formalized Palani Subramania Pillai. Sankaran made his formal training with the respected Guru Smt. T. R. Balamani. She then Trichy Sankaran arangetram (musical debut) at the age of 13, in became the disciple of Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri TN Krishnan, the year 1955, performing in tandem with Sri Palani Subramania and she played her debut concert alongside Prof. T. N. Pillai in the concert of Sri Alathoor Brothers, and Sri Lalgudi G. Charumathi Krishnan in 1998. Since then has been performing regularly Raghuraman Jayaraman. Shankaran has had the privilege of performing with both as a soloist and accompanist. She was awarded the many past maestros, including Ariyakkudi Ramanuja Iyengar, CCR &T, Government of India scholarship in violin from 1998. She is the recipient Chembai Vaidhyanatha Bhagavatar, Semmangudi Srinivasa of numerous awards, including Outstanding Young Violinist from the Music Iyer, Madurai Mani Iyer, G.N. Balasubramaniam, Alathoor Academy in 2007, Best Violinist Award from Krishna Gana Sabha and Indian Fine Brothers, Mudikondan Venkatarama Iyer, Flute T.N. Arts Society. She has travelled widely across India and around the world and has Swaminatha Pillai. He is a founder of the annual collaborated with the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra. Tyagaraja Festival in Toronto, and has received numerous awards – including Sangeetha Kalanidhi He is a disciple of Kalaimamani Mridangam Maestro Thiruvarur Shri. in 2012 from the Music Academy, Vishwa Kala Bhaktavatsalam. He has several accolades to his credit and has Bharathi from Bharat Kalachar, Tala Kalai Arasu accompanied eminent and popular musicians. Special mention from the Bharathi Kala Manram of Toronto and should be made of the Ambujam Krishna award that he received Tala Vadya Prakasha by CMANA. His collab from the Madras Music Academy in the Spirit of Youth festival held orative works have enabled the successful Delhi Sairam in 2003. integration of Indian and mainstream www.cmana.org Canadian culture. CMANA’s 2 Day His gurus are some of the great Mridangam 40th Anniversary Celebration players from Andhra, Sri Ramachandramurthy, V.A. Swami and V. Narasimhan. Satish was inspired into the world of Percussion right from childhood by his mother Padmavathy, a Patri Satish renowned violinist. He played his first concert at DAY 2 Kumar the young age of 7. Satish is the Asthana Vidwan of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham and for over 30 years he has accom- 25th September 2016, 10:15 AM panied all the top ranking artists in concerts all over the world. He is one of the youngest A rated mridangam artist of the AIR. An exponent of Sandeep Narayan (Vocal) Classical, Fusion and Jazz percussion, he is a very innovative artist and H N Baskar (Violin) has played in many international festivals. He is a ranked "A" artist of the Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam) AIR and is well known for his spontaneity, fine artistry and deft fingering techniques. Sandeep Narayan was born into a family of musicians and music lovers in Cerritos, California. After undergo- th ing his initial training in Los Angeles from his mother 25 September 2016, 12:30 PM Smt. Shubha Narayan, Sandeep received advanced Tribute to Great Composers lessons from the revered musicologist Calcutta Sri K.S. Sandeep I. Violin Vittal Ramamurthy students Narayan Krishnamurthy in Chennai. After Sri Krishnamurthy’s demise in 1999, Sandeep began training under the well-known Violinists Mridangam Accompaniment vocalist, Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyan. Upon completing his Bachelor’s Sruti Madhusudhan Shrinath Viswanathan degree in Law & Society from the University of California, Santa Adhiti Rajesh Barbara in 2006, Sandeep made the permanent move to Chennai. Sandeep has completed concert tours of North America, the United Sharada Krishnan Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Singapore, and Sri Lanka, and is Pavani Anupindi regularly accompanied by leading artists in the field. He has Srinaath Perangur received numerous awards, including the Best Concert Award, The Krithika Natarajan Music Academy Madras for multiple years. II. Mutthaiah Bhagavathar krithis