Shiama's Arangetram

O.S. Thiagarajan

Vocal

Vidwan Sri O. S. Thiagarajan belongs to a musical family and the sishya parampara of Thyagaraja Swamy. He learnt music under his father, Sangeetha Bhooshanam, Sri O. V. Subramanyam and later received advance level training under Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman, and Sri T. M Thiagarajan. He has travelled widely all over the world on concert tours and has received many awards and titles including the President of India award from Sangeet Natak Academy in the year 2012. A Top ranking artiste of AIR and Doordarshan, he is well known for his deep classicsm and extensive raga alapanas.

B. Raghavendra Rao

Violin

Sri B. Raghavendra Rao hails from a distinguished family of musicians. He was initiated into the niceties of music at an early age of five by his father B. Sudarsana Rao and received advanced training from Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri.T.N. Krishnan and Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna. He is an accomplished violinist who has received several awards from Sabhas in Chennai and has performed internationally.

H. Sivaramakrishnan

Ghatam

Sri. H. Sivaramakrishnan is a disciple of Sri. Madurai A. Krishna Iyengar and Ghatam Maestro T.H. Vinayakaram. He has accompanied several leading artists both in India and abroad. He is a graded artist of All India Radio. He has received several titles such as Nadakkanal and the Best Ghatam Artist in the year 2003 from Indian Fine Arts Society of Chennai.

Shankara Srikantan

Vocal Support

Sri. Shankara Srikantan, Shiama's older brother, is a disciple of Vidwan Sri. O.S. Thiagarajan. He has been under Sri. OST's tutelage since he was 10 years old. Passionate about music, he trained for several years in Classical Carnatic and Western violin, and later taught himself to play the electric guitar. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley in economics and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Music Production at the Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain.