June 2019 concerts

june Concerts Details:

SATURDAY, JUNE 15TH, 2019

TIME: 1.30 PM TO 5.00 PM

VENUE: SANATHANA DHARMA KENDRA

3102 Landess Ave, San Jose, CA 95132

Phone: 408 481 9242

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All are welcome to attend these free concerts. Please feel free to spread this message to your friends and relatives.

Vidhika Sharma Siddha (Hindustani Violin)

Vidhika is a 10th grader at ALTO school and has been learning music since she was 8. She began learning the Hindustani Violin at age 10 with Kala Ramnath. She loves playing the violin and is looking forward to continuing to do so for a long time. She also plays western violin and likes playing with local orchestras.

Vishal Menon (Tabla)

Vishan Menon has been a student of tabla since 2009. He began his musical journey as a student of Shri. Satish Tare, and is blessed to continue his study of tabla as a disciple of Pandit Anindo Chatterjee, renowned maestro of the Farrukabad Gharana. Vishan also receives guidance in accompaniment from Pt. Partha Chatterjee, accomplished sitarist of the Maihar gharana. Vishan is currently attending San Jose State University, where he is pursuing a degree in Computer Science.

Sahana Gopalan (Vocal)

Sahana is a 7th grader at Lawson Middle School, Cupertino. She has been learning Carnatic under the guidance for Shri. Shivkumar Bhat of IAIM for past 3 years. Sahana plays the western violin as part of school advanced orchestra and also learns the carnatic violin from Chi. Vignesh Thyagarajan. She is is an avid Lego robotics enthusiast and enjoys crafting, baking and traveling in her spare time.

Urmika Balaji (Violin)

Urmika was initiated into carnatic violin at the age of 7 by her father Shri Mahesh Balaji. She was fortunate to become a student of Sangita Kalanidhi Padmasri A Kanyakumari from the summer of 2015 onwards. She has had vocal training from Shri Hari Devanath of Sri Paduka Academy. She is currently under the guidance of her uncle Shri.K.Chandrasekaran. Urmika is an 8th grader at Sunnyvale middle school. Besides music, Urmika loves to do acrylic painting and read books.

Sriram Srivatsan (Mridangam)

Sriram is a disciple of mridangam vidwan Sri. Umayalpuram Mali. Sriram is a 9th grader at the Westmont High School, Campbell, CA.

Meera Bharat (Vocal)

Meera began her musical journey with Smt. Purnima Krishnamoorthy. She continued her training at Sri Paduka Academy and is currently under the guidance of Sri Vivek Sundararaman.

She has represented her music school in various Bay Area Festivals and Competitions both as a soloist and group performer and has won several awards in both categories.

She is an advanced student of the Piano, an avid soccer player, and enjoys photography, sketching, and reading.

Keshavan Narayanan Srivatsan (Violin)

Keshavan Narayanan Srivatsan is a Carnatic vocalist and violinist, belonging to the Legendary Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar & Palghat K.V. Narayanaswamy Lineage. He has been training in vocal music under his parents Smt. Subhapriya K. Srivatsan and Hemmige Sri V. Srivatsan since a very young age and continues to train on the violin with his father. Keshavan has also had the rare privilege of learning with illustrious musicians such as Vidushi Smt. Padma Narayanaswamy (his Parama-guru-pathni) and Vidushi Smt. Jayalakshmi Santhanam. Keshavan is a senior at Branham High School.

Pranav Tirumalai (Mridangam)

Pranav is a disciple of Kalaa Sevanirata Sri Trichur C. Narendran, one of the prime and early disciples of legendry Mridangam Maestro Padmashri Palghat R. Raghu. Pranav was initiated into Mrdangam under the able guidance of Sri. Ravindrabharathi Sridharan, founder of Nadhopasana Academy of fine arts, Bay Area.

He also learns Carnatic vocal from Sri. C.R. Vaidyanathan, disciple of Sri. P.S.Narayanaswamy.

He has been blessed to accompany vidwans & students of various music schools of Bay Area. He enjoys listening to music and observing techniques of great artists.

Pranav is a junior at Mission San Jose High School, Fremont. Basketball and Tennis are his favorite sports.