August 2022 Live concerts

We have two live concerts this month and please attend and encourage our budding artists.

DATE: Saturday, August 20th, 2022

TIME: .00 PM to 4.00 PM

VENUE: SANATHANA DHARMA KENDRA, 3102 Landess Ave, San Jose, CA 95132

Pallavi Arun Anand (Vocal)

Pallavi Arun Anand is a junior at Wilcox High School. She has been learning Carnatic music for the past 12 years and has been learning from Sri Paduka Academy for the past 5+ years under the tutelage of Guru Sri.Hari Devanath and Kumari Rupa Ramanathan. She has participated in various competitions and events such as Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana, CCC, SRFA, Lotus, Papanasam Sivan and more.

Besides music, Pallavi enjoys reading and solving puzzles.

Pavithra Arun Anand (Vocal)

Pavithra Arun Anand is a senior at Wilcox High School. She has been learning Carnatic music for the past 12 years and has been learning from Sri Paduka Academy for the past 5+ years under the tutelage of Guru Sri.Hari Devanath and Kumari Rupa Ramanathan. She has participated in various competitions and events such as Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana, CCC, SRFA, Lotus, Papanasam Sivan and more.

Besides music, Pavithra is an avid reader and also loves to collect books, enjoys stitching and craft work. She loves to play badminton and represents the high school team.

Deeksha (Violin)

Deeksha is a senior in Milpitas high school. She has been learning violin for the past 6 years from Vidhushi smt. H.M. Smitha. Deeksha is a regular accompanist for Bay Area schools.

Rishi Kodungallur (Mridangam)

Rishi Kodungallur is a disciple of Vid. Ravindrabharathy Sridharan of Nadhopasana Academy of Fine Arts, Cupertino, California. Rishi has been learning mridangam for the last 8 years. Rishi is a freshman at Dublin High School.

Pooja Ganesh (Vocal)

Pooja has been training in Carnatic classical music and light music over the last 15 years under Gurus. Smt. Padma Srinivasan, Guru. Narahari Dixit and Para. Manjunath from Bangalore, India. She has won awards and recognitions at multiple places, noteworthy ones being the Bangalore Gayana Samaja, Indian Institute of World Culture, Srujana, Iskcon, Rama Seva Mandali, Srujana, Manmadva Sangha, Aradhana Sangeeta Shale. She has had the opportunity to render full-fledged concerts at prestigious venues such as the Rama Seva Mandali, Fort High school, Tyagaraja Aradhane at Jayarama Seva Mandali, Ramanavami Festival, Varasiddhi Vinayaka Temple, Aiyappa Temple, Sruti Sindoora Academy, FM 90.5 back in India. She was also a semi-finalist at Chant India, a reality show conducted by Shankara TV. On moving to the US, she has rendered concerts for SR Fine Arts, Ithihasa , Virtual Arts for Humanity, AKKA Sammelana, Pallam Arts, Brundavana Kannada Sangha, SoCal Kannada Sangha. She has had the opportunity to conduct workshops/classes for adults and kids back in India as well as from Navatman and New Jersey Kannada Koota, USA.

Roopa Rajagopalan (Violin)

Roopa Rajagopalan is a violin and vocal disciple of Smt. Lavanya Kothandaraman. She also learns vocal music from Sri. Kaushik Lakshminarayanan. She is an incoming freshman at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale, CA. Besides music, Roopa loves to read books, work on craft projects and entertain her little brother.

Sachin Rao (Mridangam)

Sachin Rao has been learning mridangam for the past 11 years under Guru Sri Ravindra Bharathy Sridharan, Founder/ Director of Nadhopasana Academy of Fine Arts. He has accompanied various schools around the Bay Area and Los Angeles and has won prizes at the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana Festival. Sachin has also been part of various thematic productions by his Guru.

In the summer of 2019, he was blessed to accompany Sri. Sikkil Gurucharan for his mridangam arangetram.

In addition to learning mridangam, Sachin learned Carnatic vocal from Smt. Jayashree Varadarajan. Sachin is a rising sophomore at Case Western Reserve University.