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DAY 1

CMANA’s 2 Day40th Anniversary Celebration

Tribute to24th September 2016, 10:30 AM

M S SubbulakshmiBharat Ratna, Sangeetasaagara

Mudhakaratha Modhakam – Adi Sankara – Bhakthi ManjariStudents (Mrs. Bhuvana Iyer)

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Mathe Varnam - Muthiah Bhagavathar -Dr. Bhavani Rao Students

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Ananth RaoSkanda RaoDhwani Venkatrangan

Lasya CheruvuDr. Bhavani Rao

Sahana Viswanathan Sahana Harikrishnan Thejasvi Venkatachalam Jaanavi VenkatachalamAbhinaya Mukundan

Nikita Brahmma Samyutha Srinivasan Vasudha Srinivasan Sashidhar Ayyalasomayajula Vinay Devulapall

Bhavayami Raghuramam – Swati Thirunal - Mrs. Kalyani Ramani Students

3.

Shivani Sowmyan Vishal Sowmyan Shyam Thygarajan

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Rangapuravihara - MutthuswamiDikshitar - Sri. Prasanna Venkatesh Students

4.

Sanjana VenkateshSowmya VenkateshDevi NarayanLaxmi BalaVyjayanthi

Nividitha KannanMadhumita KannanMadhumita RaoDivya BharathwajNirmala Rajesh

Mere Giridhara Gopal – Meera Bhajan by Mrs. NirmalaRajesh Students

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Aamani SomanchiAkhil PaulrajAnanya RaviAnjani RaviJanani SubramanianJyothsna Suresh

Nandita NagarajanNeharika MurthyPraveen ParthasarathySrinidhi AyalasomayajulaVaishnavi Peyyety

Jagadodarana by Mrs. RamalakshmiStudents

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Maya NarasimhanAjay Parameswaran

Nikhil SankarAvanthika Srinivasan

Janani RamachandranTarunya Mayil VahananShrinidhi RamachandranAnanya AnanthSharvani VadlamaniHarshini GaneshSamekha SrinivasanPranay KarthikeyanJahnavi SrikanthShrinarayanee Rengarajan

Shrinidhi RengarajanAnjali maheshNirvriti BalajiNeranjana IyerAnjana NairPavitra vijayarajIlakya UdayakumarShruti VenkatShravan VenkatHemant Gosukonda

Preeti BharadwajPreeti SrikanthApurva NavinMallika iyengar

SabarinathRamachandran(Mridangam)

Enathu Ullamae - Papanasam Sivan - Various teachers students7.

Entha Mathramo & Mythrim Bhajathe – Manjula Ramachandran Students8.

24th September 2016, 02:00 PMRamakrishnan Murthy (Vocal)Rajeev Mukundan (Violin)/Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam)

RamakrishnanMurthy

He started his vocal Carnatic Music lessons at the age of 8 from Smt. Padma Kutty of Irvine, CA, and also received training from vidwans Delhi Sri. P. Sunderrajan and Chingleput Sri. R. Ranganathan. He was also fortunate to learn for two years under Vairamangalam Late Sri. Lakshminarayanan and is currently undergoing advanced training from Sri RK Shriramkumar. A regular performer in the Chennai Music 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 in the All India Radio National competition in the Classical Vocal –

24th September 2016, 06:00 PMRanjani and Gayathri (Vocal)Charumathi Raghuraman (Violin) Delhi Sairam (Mridangam)

Carnatic category in 2009. Ramakrishnan has performed in quite a few centers across North America including CMANA in 2015, and at all major sabhas in India. He is currently based in Chennai, and has had the rare privilege of being accompanied in concerts by many stalwarts of the present day such as Delhi P Sunderrajan, RK Shriramkumar, Nagai Muralidharan, the Mysore brothers - Nagaraj and Manjunath, Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, Trichy Sankaran, and Guruvayur Dorai. He has a Computer Science degree from UC Irvine and is an A-grade artist of the All India Radio and Doordarshan, Chennai.

Ranjani andGayatri

Ranjani and Gayatri started their violin training at the early age of nine and six respectively from Sangita Bhooshanam Prof. T.S. Krishnaswami at the Shanmukhan-anda Sangeeta Vidyalaya, Mumbai. The sisters achieved success as violin duet performers, and subsequently they also proved successful as violin accompanists. Both Ranjani and Gayatri have accompanied various artists

CharumathiRaghuraman

Charumathi Raghuraman started learning first from her mother Smt. Rama Raghuraman, then continued formalized training with the respected Guru Smt. T. R. Balamani. She then became the disciple of Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri TN Krishnan, and she played her debut concert alongside Prof. T. N. Krishnan in 1998. Since then has been performing regularly both as a soloist and accompanist. She was awarded the

CCR &T, Government of India scholarship in violin from 1998. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including Outstanding Young Violinist from the Music Academy in 2007, Best Violinist Award from Krishna Gana Sabha and Indian Fine Arts Society. She has travelled widely across India and around the world and has collaborated with the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra.

Delhi Sairam

He is a disciple of Kalaimamani Mridangam Maestro Thiruvarur Shri. Bhaktavatsalam. He has several accolades to his credit and has accompanied eminent and popular musicians. Special mention should be made of the Ambujam Krishna award that he received from the Madras Music Academy in the Spirit of Youth festival held in 2003.

on the violin, including D.K. Pattammal, M Balamuralikrishna, T Vishwanathan and other popular artistes of the current generation. The sisters have given vocal concerts since 1997, after they became students of Padma Bhushan Sangeeta Kala Acharya P. S. Narayanaswamy. Their music, imbued with a deep and abiding classicism, has been described as an exhilarating blend of vitality, melody and emotion. Perfection of sruti (pitching), powerful voice control, rich imagination and impeccable aesthetics reflect the timeless values of their classicism. Most of the abhangs they sing at the end of their concerts have been set to music by the sisters. They have received numerous awards – including the prestigious title of Vani Kala Sudhakara from Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha and the Lifetime Achievement award from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in 2013.

RajeevMukundan

Rajeev Mukundan is a sishya of Sangeethasaagara A. Kanyakumari. He initially learnt from Sri Govindarajan, and received a scholarship from the Government of India from 2001 to 2009 to pursue music. He has received numerous awards, including the best violinist award from Parthasarathy Swami Sabha in December 2013, the Best Violinist Award from the Music Academy in 2011, and the Spirit of Youth Award from the Music Academy in 2008. He has accompanied most major leading artists including TVS, TM Krishna, Ranjani-Gayatri, Sanjay, Bombay Jayashree and Vijay Siva.

Trichy Sankaran

Sangeetha Kalanidhi Trichy Sankaran had his early musical training under his cousin Sri P.A. Venkatara-man. Sankaran then came under the direct tutelage of the legendary mrdangam maestro the late Sri Palani Subramania Pillai. Sankaran made his formal arangetram (musical debut) at the age of 13, in

the year 1955, performing in tandem with Sri Palani Subramania Pillai in the concert of Sri Alathoor Brothers, and Sri Lalgudi G. Jayaraman. Shankaran has had the privilege of performing with many past maestros, including Ariyakkudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Chembai Vaidhyanatha Bhagavatar, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Madurai Mani Iyer, G.N. Balasubramaniam, Alathoor Brothers, Mudikondan Venkatarama Iyer, Flute T.N. Swaminatha Pillai. He is a founder of the annual Tyagaraja Festival in Toronto, and has received numerous awards – including Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2012 from the Music Academy, Vishwa Kala Bharathi from Bharat Kalachar, Tala Kalai Arasu from the Bharathi Kala Manram of Toronto and Tala Vadya Prakasha by CMANA. His collab orative works have enabled the successful integration of Indian and mainstream Canadian culture.www.cmana.org

25th September 2016, 10:15 AMSandeep Narayan (Vocal)H N Baskar (Violin) Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam)

SandeepNarayan

Sandeep Narayan was born into a family of musicians and music lovers in Cerritos, California. After undergo-ing his initial training in Los Angeles from his mother Smt. Shubha Narayan, Sandeep received advanced lessons from the revered musicologist Calcutta Sri K.S. Krishnamurthy in Chennai. After Sri Krishnamurthy’s

demise in 1999, Sandeep began training under the well-known vocalist, Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyan. Upon completing his Bachelor’s degree in Law & Society from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2006, Sandeep made the permanent move to Chennai. Sandeep has completed concert tours of North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Singapore, and Sri Lanka, and is regularly accompanied by leading artists in the field. He has received numerous awards, including the Best Concert Award, The Music Academy Madras for multiple years.

H N Baskar

He was first under the guidance of his parents Vidwan Shri. H.K. Narasimha Murthy and Smt. H.N. Rajalakshmi. His father was a renowned violinist and staff artist of the All India Radio, Mysore. Shri. Bhaskar later moved to Chennai to study music at the University of Madras and came under the wings of violin maestro Padmashri Sangeetha Kalanidhi Shri. M.S. Gopalakrishnan. His gave his debut when he was eight years old and has given solo performances since. His melodious style has helped him accompany leading vocalists in the field. He has traveled widely and has received several awards. In the late nineties he was part of a popular music band called "Antaragn”.

Patri SatishKumar

His gurus are some of the great Mridangam 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 renowned violinist. He played his first concert at the young age of 7. Satish is the Asthana Vidwan

of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham and for over 30 years he has accom-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 Classical, Fusion and Jazz percussion, he is a very innovative artist and has played in many international festivals. He is a ranked "A" artist of the AIR and is well known for his spontaneity, fine artistry and deft fingering techniques.

25th September 2016, 12:30 PMTribute to Great Composers

Violin Vittal Ramamurthy studentsI.

II. Mutthaiah Bhagavathar krithis - Late Ms. Padma Srinivasan(Geethashrunkala) students

III.

CMANA thanks the students of Late Ms. Padma Srinivasan for Institutingan award in CMANA’s Great Composers Day competitions

Mrs. Radhika Devarajan students on violin.

ViolinistsSruti MadhusudhanAdhiti RajeshSharada KrishnanPavani AnupindiSrinaath PerangurKrithika Natarajan

Aparna SurampudiAsha JanardhanBama Ananth

Aditi DevrajanNidhi DevrajanRamita SajankilaAkila SaravananNivriti ManthaSatvika Kaushik

Abhinaya RaghunathanRadhika IyerRohan SridharAdhiramakrishnan ThiyagarajanGuha HariharanKeshav Muralidharan

Swetha YogeshwaranVarshini Krishnan

Shridhar Parthasarathy(Mridangam)

Bhuvana IyerChithra KumarJanaki Iyer

Meera RajeshSudha ShivakumarUma Shankar

Mridangam AccompanimentShrinath Viswanathan

DAY 2

CMANA’s 2 Day40th Anniversary Celebration

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25th September 2016, 02:00 PMHonory Patron awards to Shri V Swaminathanand Smt Gowri Ramakrishnan andFelicitation to local sponsors

25th September 2016, 03:30 PMSangeethasaagara concert by

Upendra Chivukula(NJ Commisinor for public utilities and former assemblyman)

Robert Browning(Former director World Music Institute New York)

Mr. Hari Eppanapally(Co-ordinator lead India 2020 foundation)

GUESTS OF HONOR

25th September 2016, 02:30 PMSangeethasaagara award function to

Padmashri A Kanyakumari

25th September 2016, 06:00 PMGreat composers day prize distribution

What’s brewing ...A Kanyakumari (Vocal)Rajeev Mukundan (Violin)/ Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam)

A Kanyakumari

A leading violinist in the Carnatic music scene for the past 50 years, she had her early training under Sri Vijayaswara Rao and later under violin maestro Sri M. Chandrasekar. Her strict adherence to traditional Carnatic music makes her much sought after, both as a soloist and as an accompanist. Kanyakumari has accompanied many stalwarts of the Carnatic stage including as the violinist of choice of the inimitable Dr. M L Vasanthakumari and more recently saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath. She has been included in the Limca book of records for her numerous achievements. She is a successful

Patri Satish Kumar

Rajeev Mukundan

teacher, innovator, and organizer, and includes eminent guitar artist Prasanna and violinist Embar Kannan among her many students. Kanyakumari is the recipient of several presti-gious awards including the Sangeet Natak Academy National award and has performed at venues all over the world. She is the sangeetha kalanidhi designate for 2016.

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