Mridangam Maestro Prof. Mavelikara K Velukkutty Nair

suneeth.krishnan · Post by **suneeth.krishnan** » 17 Sep 2009, 18:41

Senior desciple of legend Sri. Palakkad T S Mani Iyer. His peers at "Guru Sannidhi" includes Palakkad Raghu, Umayalpuram K Sivaraman, and V Kamalakar Rao. Prof. Velukkutty Nair is presently the senior-most Mridangam Vidwan in Kerala, and one of the senior-most in India.

Retired as Professor & Head, Department of Mridangam, Sri. Swathi Thirunal College of Music, Trivandrum.

He is equally good in vocal too. There are occassions where Umayalpuram played mridangam for Velukkutty Nair's concert.

Titles received includes "Sangeetha Kalaacharya" by Madras Music Academy, "Gayakarathna" by Sri. Swathi Thirunal Sangeetha Sabha, "Mridanga Vadya Shiromani", "Thansen Sangeetha Kalanidhi", "Gana Laya Visharath", "Mridanga Chakravarthy", etc etc etc.

An "A Top" artist in AIR.

Accompanied concerts of 4 generations. His accompaniments include GNB, Chembai, Shemmamgudi, Alathoor Brothers, Madhurai Mani Iyer, KVN, Balamuraleekrishna, Dr. K J Yesudas, T V Sankaranarayanan, T V Seshagopalan, and so on.

A great teacher - he owns a very big network of desciples - Changanasseri B. Harikumar, T V Vasan, Parassala B Ravi, Alleppey G Chandrasekharan Nair, Trivandrum V Surendran, Kadakkavoor G S Rajeshnath, Erickavu N Sunil, R. Vaidyanathan, Kadanad V K Gopi, Vaikom P S Venugopal, the list is endless.

raghavt · Post by **raghavt** » 18 Sep 2009, 00:12

As rightly said, Velukkutty sir is the top most Mridangam Vidwan from Kerala. He is equally ease at singing. Of late (since 7-8 years) he also started giving vocal concerts. His disciples are a legion. Kudos to suneeth.krishnan for starting a thread in the name of this great Vidwan.

~ Raghav.

ambika.sundaram · Post by **ambika.sundaram** » 18 Sep 2009, 12:04

Velukkutty Sir is really a legend in Mridangam .... the real maestro from kerala ...... and a great man too ....

chalanata · Post by **chalanata** » 18 Sep 2009, 19:33

is he not mavelikkara krishnan kutty nair? or krishnan kutty nair is different? I have heard an excellent thani in a chembai's concert.

suneeth.krishnan · Post by **suneeth.krishnan** » 18 Sep 2009, 22:43

chalanata - Krishnan Kutty Nair is different. He is no more now.

chalanata · Post by **chalanata** » 21 Sep 2009, 08:42

thanks suneeth for clarifying

suneeth.krishnan · Post by **suneeth.krishnan** » 25 Oct 2009, 05:59

Velukkutty Sir and team's Percussion Ensemble in Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan Concert was broadcased by All India Radio on 25-10-2009 at 10:30 PM through all AIR stations.

Prof. Mavelikara Velukkutty Nair (Mridangam)
N. Amrit (Kanchira)
Uduppi Sridhar (Ghatom)
Srirangam S Kannan (Morsing)

TAla - Adi

suneeth.krishnan · Post by **suneeth.krishnan** » 01 Nov 2009, 07:42

Here are the clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OexcnT19kXc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoOh0QvLCOo

tharunthilak · Post by **tharunthilak** » 03 Nov 2009, 09:27

Great ensemble. Perfect combination.