Trivandrum R Venkataraman

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 26 Jan 2009, 07:46

A photo of him, playing in the veena-violin-venu trio.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kCAUZLEqrcY/S ... VINT13.jpg

mgkumars · Post by **mgkumars** » 01 Feb 2009, 00:34

A veteran - intense and creative. I have posted a video of him on my youtube series on the Veena:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NSKUN32Y54

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmF3gNfvjOg

I believe he express spontaneously - in comparison to the current trend of presenting well-rehearsed-well-packaged concerts. To take the audience on a personal inner journey journey the music must be highly spontaneous and deeply sincere. For that the artist should forget the self (and the audience as well) and delve into unexplored corners leaving the well-rehearsed cliches behind and express the grandeur of the moment - only then the music elevates to a timeless state - else, however enchanting the music might be at the moment, it it still does not have the force to stand the forces of history and stand timeless for many many years.

Veteran Veena R. Venkatraman is one of the rare Vainikas who will always enlighten audience from timeless posterity. Sadly, he remains an intensely beautiful gem blushing under the unrecognized depths of the ocean!

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 03 Mar 2009, 21:24

venkataraman mama is a far underrated musician and a person of great vidwat, most prolly only next to kalpakam mami.

i have heard him enuf number of times and hope he performs more.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 04 Mar 2009, 05:48

Sri Venkataraman is currently in Australia (Sydney) teaching music students. He is scheduled to perform at the Sydney Music Festival in June.

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 04 Mar 2009, 14:07

@ mohan

I don't know who told you this ... because he lives in Indira Nagar and teaches in the college run by the Music Academy, and some more students, I suppose.

Funnily, I've heard the same thing about TNK too.

It was definitely Australia, probably Sydney too!

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 04 Mar 2009, 15:58

Srikant - I live in Sydney and saw him on the weekend! TNK is not in Austalia at the momentt and I have not heard tha he is coming in the near future. TNK often visits USA where his son/daughter live.

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 04 Mar 2009, 19:09

I saw TNK's performance here in Chennai just the day before yesterday.

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 13 Apr 2009, 19:46

mgkumars,

Thanks for the youtube videos!

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Here's one more: Ahiri.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLXN6I_ibW4

srinivasrgvn · Post by **srinivasrgvn** » 13 Apr 2009, 20:36

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 14 Apr 2009, 06:28

srikant, mgkumars: thanks for the links to some great music by Sri. Venkataraman.

srikant, I am confused by your exchange with Mohan on RV and Sydney. There are a quite a few people from outside India who learn from him and I assumed he travels to different parts of the world for teaching.

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 14 Apr 2009, 07:14

vasanthakokilam,

I've heard of gurus teaching in students' homes (that too only a generation ago), but actually travelling across countries to teach? That should be stressful! And I believe he's in his seventies!

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 14 Apr 2009, 07:24

srikant, those are all valid concerns, and I do not know the logistics either but when Mohan said he saw him in Sydney in March, what is the doubt? May be he does a combination of on-line and on-site.

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 14 Apr 2009, 07:36

Well, if we have any student of his or some other rasika who knows him personally, they can confirm.

He might be doing on-site when he has concerts abroad maybe, and maybe when some institutes call him. It seems plausible now.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 14 Apr 2009, 08:16

Iyer brothers (veena) in Melbourne and Kishan Jeyendran (mandolin) in Sydney are his students so he visits Australia nearly every year to conduct advanced lessons for them.

Artists making overseas trips to teach one or more students has been going on for decades. TS Kalyanaraman came to Australia in the 1980s to teach a student here. Some artistes (like Vittal Ramamurthy) have regular bases in USA.

kishanj · Post by **kishanj** » 14 Apr 2009, 12:12

Srikant,

Venkitraman Sir has many students in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth and he has come to Australia for the last 6 years to train students for arangetrams. Iyer Bros are his senior disciples and he takes advance training for their senior students. He is a true globe trotter having regularly traveled to Paris to train students and has recently been to New Jersey and London to teach students for arangetrams. Anyone who has learned from him knows the value and quality in his teaching and no doubt that is the reason he is in such high demand around the world.

Hopes this clarifies.

Kishan.

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 14 Apr 2009, 14:18

@ mohan and kishanj

Thanks for the information.

I'd like to listen to some of his students too.

Rasika911 · Post by **Rasika911** » 17 Apr 2009, 08:24

I believe Trivandrum Venkatraman is performing in SydneyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s aradhana festival this year...heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s not seen very much on the concert scene in places like Cleveland.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » 08 Jun 2009, 17:14

Rasika911 wrote:I believe Trivandrum Venkatraman is performing in SydneyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s aradhana festival this year...heÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s not seen very much on the concert scene in places like Cleveland.

Yes he performed a lovely Rithigowla (Janani) and Purvikalyani (Minakshi).

cacm · Post by **cacm** » 09 Jun 2009, 09:50

He has performed in Cleveland Aradhana a few years back. There ia an attempt to cover as many artists as possible. vkv

skanchana2002 · Post by **skanchana2002** » 18 Jun 2009, 08:39

I have had the opportunity to take classes with Venkataraman Sir in melbourne in the last week. I must say it is an Intriguing experience. He is extremely patient, polite and enthusiastic when he teaches. I asked him how come he doesn't get angry when the student doesn't get it correct in the 2 or 3 times tried. He asked me 'Will the student get it quickly if I get angry'?

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 18 Jun 2009, 08:49

He asked me 'Will the student get it quickly if I get angry'?

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 21 Jul 2009, 18:01

Shri Venkataraman will be awarded the Sangita Kala Acharya this year.

http://www.musicacademymadras.in/awardees_2009.php

cienu · Post by **cienu** » 21 Jul 2009, 18:17

Hearty congratulations to the Vidwan Sri Trivandrum R Venkataraman

kam · Post by **kam** » 21 Jul 2009, 18:28

He really deserves it hearty congratulations to him

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 22 Jan 2010, 14:54

A nice writeup by another musician.
http://www.hindu.com/fr/2010/01/22/stor ... 430300.htm

true_rasika · Post by **true_rasika** » 23 Jan 2010, 09:06

Rajeshnat:

Thank you for posting that Hindu writeup by Sri V Subrahmanyam - very touching indeed. Mani Mama (as Sri Venkataraman was known in our family circle) excelled in both vocal music and VeeNa at the SwAti TiruNAL Academy. His older sister (R Subbalekshmi) was senior to him by a couple of years. After several years of tutelage under SSI, KSN and CSK, they were both advised by SSI to apply for jobs for teaching VeeNa at the Academy because:

a) their excellence in VeeNa playing matched the excellence in vocal music, placing them in a unique position to apply for openings in the VeeNa department.

b) There was a huge backlog of applications for jobs in the vocal department when compared to the VeeNa department.

Both siblings joined the Academy. However, Mama quit shortly thereafter to take up a job with AIR, and his sister continued to served at the Academy for 32 years. She is a performing 'A' grade artiste and her (VeeNa) recitals are featured regularly on AIR / DD (Podhigai).

The siblings imbibed the 'gAyaki' style from KSN and honed it further to create an almost unique bANi, thanks to years of intensive vocal music training under SSI and CSK.

srikant1987 · Post by **srikant1987** » 24 Jan 2010, 13:28

Who is CSK?

true_rasika · Post by **true_rasika** » 24 Jan 2010, 20:05

C S Krishna Iyer

skanchana2002 · Post by **skanchana2002** » 07 Dec 2010, 14:27

Dear Rasikas,

Please follow the link below to view the You Tube upload made available by the Iyerbrothers (Shri Ramnath and Shri Gopinath) and their school in Melbourne in remembrance of Guru Late Trivandrum Shri. R. Venkataraman.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 6CCBBEA3F7

Kind Regards,
Kanchana

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