Balaram Ramagiri began playing khol from the age of eight, which later inspired him to develop his knowledge of percussion by learning mridangam. Starting at the age of twelve, Balaram received his mridangam training from Arthavan Selvanathan, taking him from … Read more...
Tag Archives: Carnatic
Sri Aswin Narayanan (violin)
Aswin Narayanan has been playing Carnatic Music on the violin for over 15 years. He grew up in Singapore where he started learning the violin under Sir CN Thyagaraju. He later oved to New Zealand where he continued learning under … Read more...
Ku Madhu Murali (Carnatic vocal)
Madhuvanthi Muralidharan began her musical journey at the age of 5 from Smt. Raji Krishnamoorthy between 1999-2004 (Adelaide, SA), and then trained under Smt Rasika Vishwanath (Singapore) between 2004-2008 and Smt. Suma Rudrapatna (Adelaide, SA) between 2004-2014. She has since … Read more...
Smt Usha Chivukula (vocal)
Usha Chivukula is a passionate promoter of the Indian traditional performing arts, and an experienced performer in dance, drama and music herself. She received training in Carnatic and Hindustani vocal music, and also in the veena, for many years in … Read more...
Sri Thanjavur Murugaboopathi (mridangam – Chennai)
Murugaboopathi aka Boopathi is one of the world most celebrated mridangam players of today. His techniques and creative ability in accompaniment, solo renditions, and jugalbandhi programs with his North Indian brethren have earned him a critical acclaim around the world.… Read more...
Sri Ganesh Prasad (violin – Chennai)
B.U. Ganesh Prasad hails from a family of connoisseurs of classical music & his blazing talent was recognized at a very young age by his father late B.S. Umakanth. He had his initial violin training under Basavanagudi Nataraj & vocal … Read more...
Smt Nirmala Rajasekar (veena – Chennai/USA)
Nirmala Rajasekar is a master veena artiste and vocalist. A dynamic and vibrant performer, she is one of the most recognized names in the world of Indian Classical music today. She began training in this art from the age of … Read more...
Ku Vellantina Ravirajah (Bharatanatyam Dance)
Vellantina Ravirajah has been learning Bharatanatyam Dance from her guru Smt. Chitra Yogi Srikhanta since the age of five. Over the past 11 years she has had the opportunity to perform at various events and programs. In 2014 at the … Read more...
Sri Hariharan Vaheesan (Miruthangam)
Hariharan Vaheesan has been learning miruthangam under his guru Sri Arthavan Selvanathan since 2007. He progressed through the basic lessons and simple thaalams quite rapidly. Subsequently he has been focusing on more complex rhythmic aspects, such as Korvais, larger Theermanams … Read more...
Ku Mathuja Bavanendrakumar (Carnatic violin)
Mathuja Bavanendrakumar began learning violin in 2006 under the tutelage of Smt. Manthahini Bogahawatte (Brisbane, Aus). Since 2009 she has been learning under the tutelage of Sri B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Chennai, India)m with lessons taken over Skype regularly, and directly … Read more...