Sai Parivaar Presents a Grand Veena Recital by Nirmala Rajas

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SHIRDI SAI CENTER
1221 California Circle, Milpitas, CA 95035
http://www.shirdisaiparivaar.org[*]

Presents

A GRAND VEENA RECITAL on Saturday Feb 19th, 2011 (3pm to 6pm) by Nirmala Rajasekar Accompanied by Anuradha Sridhar on the Violin and Ramesh Srinivasan on Mridangam.

ARTIST PROFILES
Smt.Nirmala Rajasekar is one of most recognized names in the world of veenamusic. She is an A
grade artist of All India Radio Chennai and a leading disciple of the eminence grise Prof. Kalpagam
Swaminathan. She is an accomplished vocalist as well having had vocal mentoring under Prof.
B.Sitarama Sarma and Prof. T. R. Subramaniam. She has been featured at many venues worldwide
including at the Carnegie Hall, NewYork and the Musee Rietburg, Zurich to name a few. She has
won several awards for her performance including Best Veena performance awards from the Music
academy and Indian Fine Arts Society Madras, best senior Veena Vidvan from Narada Gana sabha
and MaharajapuramSanthanam Award from Sri Krishna Gana SabhaMadras. She is the first Indian
to have won both Bush and the McKnight Performing Artists Fellowships in the USA. She has
released many CDs her most recent one being 'Into the Raga'. She is the founder of the Nadha Rasa
school of music in Plymouth, Minnesota.

Smt. Anuradha Sridhar is one of the leading musicians and violinists of the Carnaticmusic world.
Hailing from a renowned musical family, as the daughter and disciple of Lalgudi Smt. Shrimati
Brahmandam, she made her mark at the early age of seven and has continued to dazzle us with her
artistic brilliance. She has repeatedly won the Best Violinist Award from the Music Academy over
many years. She has trained a new generation of students to a high caliber through her Trinity
School of Music, and she won the "Best Teacher Award" in North America at the Cleveland
Aradhana in 2008.

Shri. Ramesh Srinivasan is the leading disciple of MridangamMaestro SangitaKalanidhi Shri Vellore
G. Ramabhadran and is the recipient of the prestigious ‘Laya Kala Rathna’ award for the year 2007,
by SriragamFine arts, Chennai.Ramesh had his maiden concert in 1976 and has since performedat
Music Academy and other Sabhas in Chennai on several occasions as well as numerous
organizations abroad, providing accompaniment to leading artists. Ramesh has also had the unique
honor & privilege of performing in the inaugural show of Festival of India in US inNew York
StateatSyracusein 1986. He is the founder of the Sarvalaghu Percussion Art Center where he has
trained students of all ages.

ABOUT SHIRDI SAI CENTER
Shirdi Sai Parivaar (SSP) was started in 2001 when a handful of devotees inspired by Shirdi Sai
Baba's teachings decided to have group prayer every Thursday evening in His honor. The Thursday
evening bhajans have been happening uninterrupted since then. Initially, the gatherings happened
at the homes of devotees who played the host for Thursday evening bhajans. By early 2005, with
increasing gathering a bigger facility - Odd Fellows Hall, at Cupertino was rented for Thursday
evenings. On October 8th, 2006, SSP opened Shirdi Sai Center located at Kifer Rd, Sunnyvale. Shirdi
Sai Baba murthy, which was sculpted by Rajiv Talim (grandson of late Shri B. V. Talim who sculpted
the murthy at Shirdi temple, Shirdi, India), was installed at Sunnyvale location on March 7th, 2007
and Sthanaprathista was performed on May 6th, 2007.

The new Shirdi Sai Center (SSC) located at 1221 California Circle, Milpitas became operational from
June 2010. A grand Shirdi Sai Pranaprathista function was held from June 18th to Jun 20th, 2010.
Various charitable and community services are being conducted at this location. For details please
refer to our website http://www.shirdisaiparivaar.org.