May 2022 Live concerts
We have two live concerts this month and please attend and encourage our budding artists performance live in person.
TIME: 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM
VENUE: SANATHANA DHARMA KENDRA
3102 Landess Ave, San Jose, CA 95132
2.00 to 2.45 PM
Vishnu Parthasarathy (Vocal)
Pramati Barath (Violin)
Sachin Venkat (Mridangam)
3.00 to 3.45 PM
Arya Ramchander (Vocal)
Apurvaa Anand (Violin)
Sachin Rao (Mridangam)
Vishnu Parthasarathy (Vocal)
Vishnu Parthasarathy has been learning Carnatic vocal music from Sri Hari Devanath and Sri Vivek Sundararaman of Sri Paduka Academy for the past 9 years. He is an eighth grader at Valley Christian Junior High in San Jose, CA. He enjoys exploring new musical instruments - he currently plays the bass guitar for his school jazz ensemble and is also a student of the Carnatic violin. Vishnu loves to read, play chess, badminton, volleyball, and board games.
Pramati Barath (Violin)
Pramati Barath is a junior at Saint Francis High School Mountain View. She has been learning violin for 8 years and is a disciple of Delhi Sri P Sunder Rajan. She also learns vocal from Sri Hari Devanath and Sri Vivek Sundararaman of Sri Paduka Academy. Pramati is also a competitive tennis player and represents her school’s varsity team.
Sachin Venkat (Mridangam)
Sachin Venkat is a sophomore at Leland high school, San Jose. He learns mridangam from Sri.K.V.Gopalakrishnan and vocal from Sri.Niranjan Krishna.
Arya Ramchander (Vocal)
Arya Ramchander is a senior at Lynbrook high school. She has been learning Carnatic music from Smt. Divya Ramesh, Director of Saphalya Music Academy for 10 years now. She was fortunate to have been given the opportunity to get special training and learn the art of concert presentation from the Parama Guru Karnataka Kalashree Sri Tirumale Srinivas and Parama Guru Nada Vallabha Sri Delhi. P. Sunderrajan. She actively performs with her friends in thematic presentations, Thyagaraja Aradhana, Dasa Smriti, Purandara Vaibhava, Periva Aradhana as well as many fundraising events. She reached the final round in the Carnatic Spelling Bee conducted by Vid. Chitravina Ravikiran and was part of many music competitions like OSAAT, Kalaaradhana and has won laurels to her music school. She was also one of the core singers to sing along with her Guru Divya Ramesh for a live Dance Production of Mahabharatha. She has been actively participating in choir since middle school and has auditioned and performed solo songs as part of Advanced Choir at her high school.
Her other interests are painting, Coding, and swimming. She teaches Java programming at an elementary school and she is also an active member in her school volunteering honor society (CSF).
Apurvaa Anand (Violin)
Apurvaa Anand is a vocal and violin student of Smt. Anuradha Sridhar, Founder and Director of Trinity Center for Music. She is also the great granddaughter of Sangitha Kalanidhi T.K. Jayarama Iyer. Apurvaa is a student at the University of Pittsburgh pursing Neuroscience.
Sachin Rao (Mridangam)
Sachin Rao has been learning mridangam for the past 9 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.