Layyasaaram brought the following artists during our Fall 2014 tour
Gayatri Venkataraghavan (Vocal)
Accompanied by:
Mysore Srikanth (Violin)
Tanjore K Murugaboopathi (Mridangam)
Smt. Gayathri
Venkataraghavan,began her training in carnatic music at a young age under the
tutelage of Smt.Rajalakshmi and then under Smt. Padma Veeraraghavan, a disciple
of Palaghat Sri.K.V.Narayanaswamy. She was also trained in various Kritis by
Smt.Rukmini Ramani, Sri.V.Subramaniam and Smt.Lakshmi Natarajan.
Her advanced
training was under Acharya Choodamani Late Sri.A.Sundaresan . He was an
outstanding musician and a dedicated Guru, and a disciple of
Sri.C.V.Krishnamurthy Iyer, Sri.Ramnad Krishnan and Alathur Sri.Sivasubramanya
Iyer.
Gayathri is
presently under the guidance of Padma Bhushan Sri. P.S.Narayanaswamy.
At a young age as
Gayathri Ramani, she has won a number of prizes in inter-school and
Inter-college competitions and also in competitions held by Music Academy,
Indian Fine Arts Society, Mylapore Fine Arts, Saraswathi Vageeyakara Trust Etc.
Gayathri
Venkataraghavan is an ‘A’ grade accredited artiste of All India Radio. She won
the All India Radio National level competition in 1993. Her regular
performances for the A I R include a prestigious National Broadcast in 2006.She
has sung various themes for Archival purposes for the AIR.
She has performed
for Doordarshan national and regional telecasts, and for various other
television channels. She has had the honour of anchoring a documentary feature
“Engum Nirai Nada Bhrahmam” a tribute to the immortal icon of Carnatic music
Bharath Ratna Smt.M.S.Subbulakshmi for Doordarshan. The concert prizes that she
has won by the Grace of Almighty at the Music Academy conference, include The D.K.Pattammal award for Lady vocalist
in 2001, T.T.Rangaswamy award in
2002, H.Natarajan Prize 2003 and 2004
, The Pappu Kamakshi Award in 2006 and
the Award for Swara singing during 2007.
She has been
performing regularly at various centres in India. Her performances abroad
include ones at the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival 2005 and 2008 at Ohio State,
USA and Toronto in Canada. She also performed at the SIFA annual festival at
Singapore in Feb 2007. She has also toured the United States and Canada
extensively for a concert tour in September and October 2007.
In 2003 she was
awarded the Kalki Krishnamoorthy award and in the same year she was given the
Nada Oli title by Nada Inbam, Madras. She was awarded the SIMANA award
instituted by The Carnatic Music Association of North America, Inc.NJ (USA) Dr.MLV Endowment by Narada Gana Sabha 2006.
She has been awarded
the Shanmuka Sangita Shironmani title by Sri Shanmukhananda Fine Arts and
Sangeetha Sabha, Mumbai and the Isai
Peroli title by The Karthik Fine Arts Chennai.
A number of her
Commercial albums have been released by Charsur Digital Work Station and other
companies
Srikanth is a senior
disciple of Vidwan Sri. H.K. Narasimhamurthy of Mysore. He started
learning Violin at a very young age and
has undergone rigorous training for more than twenty years.
Srikanth
Venkataraman has been giving performances from his fifteenth year. He has
gained rich experience by accompanying Top Artists like R.K.Srikantan,
Dr.M.Balamuralikrishna, T.N.Seshagopalan, T.V.Sankaranarayanan,
O.S.Thiagarajan, TrichurRamachandran, Hyderabad Brothers, Yesudas, Flute
K.S.Gopalakrishnan, Rudrapatnam Brothers, Bombay Sisters & others and
received their blessings and appreciation. He has performed with great
Mridangam stalwarts like Palghat Sri Raghu, T.K.Murthy, Guru Karaikkudi Mani,
Guruvayur Dorai, Vellore Ramabhadran, Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Tiruvarur
Bhaktavatsalam, Srimushnam Rajarao and many others. He is also performing with
talented young artists like Abhishek Raghuram, T.V.Ramprasadh, Gayathri Girish,
Gayathri Venkatraghavan & others.
Srikanth has been
featured in all prestigious Music Sabhas & Organizations throughout the
country.
Srikanth, graded
artist of AIR & Doordarshan, performs regularly for All India Radio,
Doordarshan and other T.V. Channels. He has also performed for National Program
of Music of Doordarshan & All India Radio.
He has recorded many
commercial CDs & cassettes with many great artists.
He has won a number
of prizes, accolades and appreciation from rasikas and critics. He is a
recipient of Cultural Talent Search Scholarship of Government of India and has
achieved Distinction in the Senior Grade Music Examination.
He was adjudged as the Best Violinist by:
1. Krishna Gana Sabha - 1995
2. The Indian Fine Arts Society
(Sub- senior category)-- Dec 2000 Music Season
3. Karnataka Gana Kala Parishath –
Young Musicians’ Conference – 2001
4. The Music Academy (Madras) - Dec
2002 Music Season
5. The Indian Fine Arts Society –Dec
2007 –Best Senior Violinist
6. The Indian Fine Arts Society –Dec
2008 –Best Senior Violinist
Srikanth has been conferred with the title
“Kala Praveena”in Feb 2002 at Bangalore. He has been honored with the
prestigious Award for talented young Musicians----“Ananya Yuva Puraskara” for
2004 by the organization “Ananya” of Bangalore.
Srikanth is now
regularly performing with many great artists & undergoing intensive
training in the intricacies of Violin playing and looking forward for Great
achievement in the field of Music.
Srikanth has
traveled abroad widely to U. S. A., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Dubai,
Singapore, Qatar, Abu Dhabi ,U.K. France, SriLanka, Malaysia & Zambia with Rudrapatnam Brothers, T.N.Seshagopalan,
Ranjani-Gayatri, Malladi Brothers, V.K.Raman, T.V.Ramprasadh, Bombay Jayashri, Abhishek
Raghuram ,Aruna Sairam, Nisha Rajagopal,T.V.Sankaranarayanan, Gayathri
Venkatraghavan, Sandeep Narayan &
others.
Tanjore Sri K Murugaboopathi belongs to a family of
artists and musicians.
He had his initial training under Sri T.R.Srinivasan,
a Mridangam Vidwan and Lecturer in the Tamilnadu Government Music College. After receiving the 'Vadhya Visharada' with
distinction from the Music College, he came under the guidance of Late Sri
Tanjore Upendran. He learnt from the
late maestro in the age old tradition of Gurukulavasam.
Sri Murugaboopathi has won numerous awards including
the Vadya Kalaimani from the Music College, Chennai, the Laya Kala Ratna from
the Tiruppur Murugan Mandram, the Best Artiste Award from the South Indian
Music Club, Andhra Pradesh, the Music Academy and the Sivan Mandram, Sydney,
Australia.
Murugaboopathi can adopt his playing to any style of singing
or instrumental music and has won the appreciation of the artists as well as
the rasikas. With his uncompromising
orthodox style of playing he gracefully blends the best of the Pazhani
Subramania Pillai and the Palghat Mani Iyer schools making him one of the most
sought after mridangam players today.
Boopathi as he is fondly known with his
contemporaries, regularly accompanies leading artists such as Sangeetha
Kalnidhis Shri Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan, Dr. N. Ramani, Shri T V
Sankaranarayan, the Hyderabad Brothers, Mandolin Srinivas, Sudha Ragunathan, and
other contemporary artists such as Sanjay Subramaniam, T M Krishna, Bombay
Jayashri and Aruna Sayeeram to name a few.
Within India, he has performed in various venues in
most metros including New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru,
Thiruvananthapuram and across Tamil Nadu. Internationally, he is widely
travelled on tour with the above reputed artists in North America including USA
and Canada, in Europe including Great Britain, Scotland, Germany, Spain, Belgium,
Turkey, South Africa, the Middle East at Dubai, Muscat, and Doha, South East
Asia in Singapore and Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.
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