Music Club IIT Madras
presents
Youthfest 2012
January 5th (Thursday)
Sri Vishaal Sapuram– Chitravina
Kumari Akkarai Sornalatha– Violin
Sri K Sai Giridhar– Mrudangam
Vishaal Sapuram is a proficient vocalist, ‘chitravina’ player, and music teacher. A child prodigy, he showed his innate aptitude towards music even as an infant, and was initiated into Carnatic music under Karpagam Narayanan of Houston, U.S.A. when he was three years old. At age six, he came under the tutelage of the internationally renowned musician ‘Chitravina’ N Ravikiran, under whose expert guidance Vishaal has rapidly emerged as a capable performing artist. He is now pursuing dual undergraduate degrees in Sanskrit and economics at the University of Texas at Austin.
January 6th (Friday)
Sri Ramakrishnan Murthy – Vocal
Sri Parur M S Ananthakrishnan – Violin
Sri K V Gopalakrishnan– Mrudangam
Sri G Chandrasekara Sharma- Ghatam
Ramakrishnan Murthy started his early vocal Carnatic Music lessons in 1997 - at the age of 8 - with Smt. Padma Kutty of Irvine, CA, and now undergoes advance training from Vidwan Delhi Sri. P. Sunderrajan. He was also fortunate to learn, at different times, from senior vidvans Late Vairamangalam Sri. Lakshminarayanan, Late Chengalpet Sri. Ranganathan, and Palai C.K. Ramachandran. He has performed widely in India and the USA. He is a Computer Science graduate of the University of California, Irvine.
January 9th (Monday)
Kumari K Dharini- Vocal
Kumari Lavanya Raman- Violin
Sri B Srivatsan- Mrudangam
K.Dharini is a disciple of Sangita Kalanidhi Smt R Vedavalli. She had her earlier training under late Smt. Sulochana Pattabiraman. Dharini has been performing vocal concerts since June 2001. A graded artiste of AIR Chennai, she is a recipient of the Youth Artistes Scholarship by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. Apart from performing at various leading music organizations in India, she has toured the US & Canada for concerts. She has served as the secretary of the Youth Association for Classical Music for the period 2009-2011.
January 10th (Tuesday)
Sri Vignesh Ishwar – Vocal
Kumari Smitha Krishnan – Violin
Tanjore Sri K Praveen Kumar– Mrudangam
Sri Anirudh Athreya- Kanjira
Vignesh Ishwar was introduced to Carnatic Music by his grandmother Smt. Sharada Krishnan. He has been learning from Palakkad Shri T S
Anantharama Bhagawathar in Mumbai and also learns from Shri T M Krishna. He was the winner of the Spirit of Youth competition held by the Music Academy, Chennai in the year 2009. He has performed in many musical organizations in India. He has completed his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Mumbai University. He is now pursuing his MS by research in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Venue: CLT, The HSB.
Time: 6:45 pm
All are welcome.