march 2019 concerts

SATURDAY, MARCH 16TH, 2019

TIME: 1.30 PM TO 4.45 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.

Abirami Subramanian is a disciple of Smt. Visalakshi Nithyanand. Smt Nithyanand is the daughter of the late Shri R.S. Mani who was a disciple of Shri Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer. Abirami started her training in Carnatic vocals under the tutelage of Shri Hari Devanath and Vivek Sundararaman of Sri Paduka Academy 7 years ago. Abirami is a custom schooled 7th grader who currently resides in Bainbridge Island, WA in the Seattle area.

Tejas Bharadwaj began his musical journey under the tutelage of Smt. Anuradha Sridhar. For the past 3.5 years, he has been undergoing training under Vidwan Shri B.V. Raghavendra Rao, senior disciple of Sangeetha Kalanidhi T. N. Krishnan. Tejas accompanies in the Bay Area and was invited to perform recently at the Margazhi festival at Detroit. Tejas, a Freshman at Monta Vista High School, Cupertino enjoys Math and sports.

Varchas Bharadwaj started learning mridangam under Sri Shriram Brahmanandam. For the past 3.5 years, he has been under the tutelage of Vidwan Trivandrum Sri Balaji, disciple of the legendary percussionist Vidwan Palghat Sri R. Raghu. Varchas performs in the Bay Area regularly and was invited to perform at the “Parampara” festival in Dallas ,Youth Festival in San Diego and Margazhi festival at Detroit. Varchas, a Freshman at Monta Vista High School, enjoys playing for his school's basketball team.

Anagha Balaji - Vocal

Anagha Balaji has been learning Carnatic music under the tutelage of beloved Guru.Smt Jayashree Varadarajan ,Founder/Director of Sri Rama Lalitha Kala Mandir, Sunnyvale CA. for the past nine years. Anagha is a hard working student and she is passionate about singing. Anagha has been fortunate to regularly participate in many of her music school's productions and presentations at Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana and various bay area venues. Anagha has represented her music school and won awards at Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana, annamacharya Day celebrations. .

She also learns Veena from Guru Sri.Srikanth Chary.

Anagha is a sophomore at the American High School. Her other activities include being a president of the AI club, Activities coordinator of musical therapy club and all-girls FRC (robotics) team called the Space cookies.

Shreyas Srinivasan: Violin

Shreyas is a disciple of Sri H.K.Narasimhamurthy, coming from the lineage of Violin Maestros Sri. Parur Sundaram Iyer and PadmaBhushan and Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri. M.S.Gopalakrishnan. He initiated his violin training at the age of 4. He also learns Carnatic Vocal from Padma Bhushan Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri. Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan. Shreyas is a Junior at Dublin High School.

Amit Ranganathan: Mridangam

Amit Ranganathan has been a disciple of Sri. Ravindra Bharathy Sridharan for the past 12 years.Amit regularly accompanies senior and junior musicians and students of various Bay Area and Sacramento music schools. Amit has also performed across the USA and in the Chennai December Music Season. Additionally, Amit has played for Bharatanatyam and vocal arangetrams in and out of the Bay Area. Amit is an active participant in the Cleveland Thyagaraja festival. He has won numerous awards in the junior and senior mridangam and accompaniment categories, including the first-place award in the senior mridangam competition. In addition to learning mridangam, Amit has learnt Carnatic vocal music from Smt. Jayashree Varadarajan.

Amit is a senior at San Jose State University majoring in Computer Science.

Sumedh Vaidyanathan is a high school senior at Dublin High school. He has been learning carnatic vocal from Sri. Hari Devanath and Sri. Vivek Sundararaman of Sri Paduka Academy from 2012. He also learns Veena from sri. Srikanth Chari. His other interests include basketball, soccer and reading.

Tejas Bharadwaj began his musical journey under the tutelage of Smt. Anuradha Sridhar. For the past 3.5 years, he has been undergoing training under Vidwan Shri B.V. Raghavendra Rao, senior disciple of Sangeetha Kalanidhi T. N. Krishnan. Tejas accompanies in the Bay Area and was invited to perform recently at the Margazhi festival at Detroit. Tejas, a Freshman at Monta Vista High School, Cupertino enjoys Math and sports.

Varchas Bharadwaj started learning mridangam under Sri Shriram Brahmanandam. For the past 3.5 years, he has been under the tutelage of Vidwan Trivandrum Sri Balaji, disciple of the legendary percussionist Vidwan Palghat Sri R. Raghu. Varchas performs in the Bay Area regularly and was invited to perform at the “Parampara” festival in Dallas ,Youth Festival in San Diego and Margazhi festival at Detroit. Varchas, a Freshman at Monta Vista High School, enjoys playing for his school's basketball team.