JANUARY 2024 concertS

We have three concerts this Month. Please attend in large numbers, encourage the artists and enjoy the concerts.

DATE: Saturday, Jan 20th, 2024

TIME: 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM

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

Surya Ganesan (Vocal)

Surya Ganesan is the disciple of Paramaguru Shri Chitravina Narasimhan and Sangeet Samrat Shri Chitravina N Ravikiran and has been learning carnatic vocal since the age of 4.  He has won several prizes in regional and national Carnatic vocal competitions in the USA including the title of Carnatic Star (MN) and many prizes at the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana.  Post his arangetram in 2018, Surya has been a regular performer at the prestigious Chennai margazhi season including 10+ concerts this most recent season, the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana. He was also awarded the Best Carnatic Vocalist award at the Global Music Competitions held by Spring Netar Foundation. 

Apart from Carnatic Vocal, Surya is blessed to be under the tutelage of Kalaimamani Shri. Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan for Mridangam and regularly accompanies several artists in the prestigious Chennai margazhi season and the Cleveland Aradhana.  Surya is a Junior at UC Davis and is the Vice President and Road Captain of the UC Davis Cycling team. 

Aparna GB (Violin)

Aparna has been learning violin for the past fourteen years and has been under the tutelage of Vid. Sandhya Srinath for the last seven years. She has performed as an accompanist across the Bay Area, and completed her Arangetram last year with her brother. She is a sophomore at UC Davis. She enjoys reading and classical artwork.

Pranav Tirumalai (Mridangam)

Pranav Tirumalai began his musical journey at the age of 6 under the able guidance of Sri. Ravindra Bharathy Sridharan. For the past 7 years, Pranav has had the fortune of learning the art of mridangam from Sri. Trichur C. Narendran, a Vidwan who has accompanied stalwarts of Carnatic music for more than 5 decades. Pranav is blessed to belong to the illustrious musical lineage of Padma Shri Palghat Raghu and Sangita Kalanidhi Palghat Mani Iyer. He has had the opportunity to accompany several Bay Area musicians ranging from youngsters like himself to established artists. Pranav has also had the privilege of learning Carnatic vocal under Sri. C. R. Vaidyanathan, a disciple of Padma Bhushan Sri. P.S. Narayanaswamy. Pranav is currently pursuing a degree in Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis.

Pramithi Kalluri (Vocal)

Pramithi Kalluri is a senior at Leland High School, and has been learning Carnatic music on vocal for the past 13 years, and has also been learning the Veena for the past 5 years. She learns vocal from Vid. R. K. Shriramkumar and Vidushi Amritha Murali, and learns Veena from Vid D. Srinivas. Pramithi has participated in many competitions, such as at Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana, OSAAT, Papanasam Sivan, Carnatic Quest HCL global competition, SaaMa arts, and Siliconandhra, and has also won many prizes.

Pradyoth Kalluri (Violin)

Pradyoth Kalluri is currently in his 2nd year at UC Santa Barbara, studying Chemical Engineering. He has been learning violin for the past 7 years, and is currently learning from Sri B. V. Raghavendra Rao. He also has been learning Carnatic vocal for the last 13 years, and is currently learning from Vidushi. Amritha Murali.

Bhargav Nemani (Mridangam)

Bhargav is a sophomore at Leland High School. He is a student of Patri Satish Kumar. He has been learning mridangam for the past 9 years. He also learns vocal from Smt Vasudha Ravi.

Mohana Chavali (Vocal)

Mohana Chavali is very passionate about music and dance and started learning at a young age and pursuing Carnatic vocal under the able guidance of Guru Sri. Hari Devanath, Sri Paduka Academy for over 6 years. She has also been learning Kuchipudi natyam from Guru Sri. Bobby Chavali, Natyatarang Kuchipudi Kalakshetram, over the last 10 years and has completed her certificate course in Dance.

Mohana is a freshman at Quarry Lane School and enjoys baking and drawing in her free time.

Kartik Sista (Veena)

Karthik Sista is privileged to have been learning Veena from Guru Sri Srikanth Chary for the past 8 years .Karthik is currently a sophomore at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont.

Prabhav Nadella (Mridangam)

Prabhav Nadella is a freshman in Dougherty Valley High School. Prabhav is very passionate about music and has been learning mridangam from Guru Sri. Natarajan Srinivasan from 8+ years. He also learned carnatic vocal from Guru Smt. Sudha Dusi for about 6 yrs and holds a jr.certificate in SAMPADA.  Prabhav has participated and won prizes in a lot of competitions across Bay Area.

⁠Prabhav completed his Arangetram in June 2023 and was fortunate to share the stage with stalwarts like  Smt. Vasudha Ravi (Vocal), Sri.Raghavendra Rao (Violin) and Sri. S.V.Ramani (Ghatam).

⁠Prabhav is very passionate about cooking and loves to experiment in his free time.