The ARTery is dedicating its just inaugurated Svatantra 2021 festival to the late violinist Sangita Kalanidhi Prof. T.N. Krishnan. Professionally recorded, hour-long concerts by several recognised artistes will be individually released every fortnight for about 15 Sundays, culminating around Krishnan’s first death anniversary in November. Ramanathan Iyer, the brains behind…
For Dr. N. Rajam, who just added the Maharashtra government’s Pt. Bhimsen Joshi Lifetime Achievement Award to her already full kitty of honours (including the Padma Bhushan, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, and the Padma Sri), the many challenges she faced in the music world are no different from how…
Intuition coupled with rigorous practice has made the violinist a front line performer. Her silky smooth bowing, unhesitating fluency, thorough competence and immaculate accompanying skills make Charumathi Raghuraman a sought-after violinist for leading artistes in the Carnatic firmament such as Ranjani Gayatri, Sudha Ragunathan, Vijay Siva, Gayathri Venkataraghavan, Ramakrishnan Murthy…
It is his pleasant countenance that first draws attention but once you settle down, his playing of the mridangam keeps you absorbed. Vijay grew up in Mumbai, the son of Geetha, a vainika, and N. Balasubramanian, a Chartered Accountant and bhajan singer. Vijay’s father, an ardent admirer of T.V. Gopalakrishnan…