Kalavanta '14 winners & participants @Ranjani Fine Arts,Nov8

[ranjanifinearts]

Ranjani Fine Arts warmly invites you to its November 2014 Program, featuring two special Carnatic concerts by winners and participants at Kalavanta 2014 - the National level youth music festival conducted by the Karnataka Fine Arts Council in May this year. (click on each artiste's name below to view a recording of their Kalavanta concert)

5.00 PM : Apoorva Krishna (violin), Sumesh Narayan (mridangam)
6.30 PM : Hemantha and Heramba (flute duet), Vittal Rangan (violin), Akshay Anand (mridangam)

Students of Kalasampurna School of Music will perform at 4.00PM

Date : Saturday, Nov 8th, 2014
Venue : Sobha Lakeview Club, off Outer Ring Road, Bellandur, Bangalore-560103

We look forward to seeing you at the event. Please feel free to forward this to anyone who may be interested.

About the artistes:
Apoorva Krishna has been learning Carnatic violin from Smt. Lalgudi Srimathi Bramhanandam and Smt. Anuradha Sridhar since 2002. She has performed violin solo concerts at several prestigious sabhas in Bangalore and Chennai, and participated in the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana and SIFA California music festivals. She is the winner of the Best Performing Artiste at Kalavanta 2014, the National youth music festival conducted by the KFAC, and the Sheik Chinna Moulana Yuva Puraskar at the Naad Bhed competition conducted by SPIC MACAY and Doordarshan, and has won several other prizes in music competitions.

Sumesh Narayan hails from Thrissur District, and has been learning mridangam from Sri Tiruvarur Bakthavathsalam. He is a recipient of the Cultural Talent Search Scholarship from the Govt of India, and led the percussion segment at the "Unity in Diversity" festival conducted by the Centre for Cultural Resources and Training at New Delhi and Shillong.

Hemantha and Heramba are a Carnatic flute duo hailing from Coorg district of Karnataka. They are the grandsons of esteemed musician and cultural personality Sri Ambale Subbarao were trained in classical music and art in the Gurukula system at Hassan under the tutelage of their aunt Vidushi Ambale Rajeshwari.They are currently pursuing Carnatic music under the supreme guidance of well-known Carnatic Vocalist, Guru Sri Neyveli Santhanagopalan, Chennai. They have picked up the art of playing flute from the renowned Flautist, Sri Mysore A. V. Prakash, and are also being trained under Pt. Ravishankar Mishraji in Hindustani Music. They have performed at several venues in India, and are graded artistes of AIR. They are winners of the first prize in the AIR National level Carnatic Flute competition in 2013, and several other prizes.

Vittal Rangan started learning violin at age 8 initially from Late Sri. RR Keshavamurthy and later from Kalaimamani Kumari A Kanyakumari. He is training for Pallavi Singing from Vid. Sreekantam Nagendra Shastry. He is the winner of the best violinist at Kalavanta 2014, the 1st prize at the AIR National Competition in 2010 and several others. He has accompanied his Guru, and several senior musicians like Sri R.K.Srikantan, Sri. T.V.Sankaranarayanan, Smt. Neela Ramgopal and others, and performed at several venues all over India and abroad.

Akshay Anand started learning Mrudangam initially under Vidwan MT Rajakesari of Bangalore. He is presently under the tutelage and guidance of Vidwan Sri. KS Kalidas of Chennai who is a direct disciple of the legendary Palani Sri M Subramanya Pillai . He has accompanied several senior artistes like Vid. Neela Ramgopal, Vidwan Bangalore S Shankar, Vid. Vijayalakshmi Subramanyam and has performed at prestigious sabhas like Madras Music Academy, Krishna Gana Sabha, Bangalore Gayana Samaja, Sri Rama Lalitha Kala Mandira. He is a graded artist of All India Radio, and the winner of the AIR Music competition in 2013, and several other awards.

[arasi]

So good to see this!

Apoorva Krishna, we here in north america are very proud about.
I heard Vittal Rangan playing once for Sumitra Nitin and thought highly of him.
Akshay Anand is also known here by many for his playing.
Sumesh Narayanan--isn't he Sandeep's brother?
The flute duo, Hemanth and Heramba are to be congratulated too.

For a young sabhA, for all that you do, you are appreciated too!

Bengaluru is getting bigger in its carnatic music expression

[harimau]

Sumesh Narayanan--isn't he Sandeep's brother?

Naah! You are thinking of Nikhil Narayanan.

[ranjanifinearts]

Thanks very much for the kind words, Arasi ma'am.
We look forward to this weekend's music.

[rajeshnat]

Sumesh Narayanan--isn't he Sandeep's brother?

Naah! You are thinking of Nikhil Narayanan.

Nirmal narayan - brother of sandeep plays mrudangam. Nikhil plays flute.

Arasi,
Sumesh is young vidwan who is a student of Tiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam . He is really promising and is playing very well.

[munirao2001]

Sumesh Narayanan is highly talented and I watched his playing in the finals of the SPIC-MACAY Naad-Bhed contest telecast by DD.
He received wholesome praise from all the Great Maestros and Gurus like Sri TNK, Smt.RV, Pandit Hariprasad Chourasiya and Smt.Parveen Sultana and their blessings.

munirao2001

[kssr]

The twins are flautists of a very high calibre. Also, Apoorva when she plays solo is extremely melodious and perfect. In fact more than 90% of the artists who participated in Kalavanta 2013 performed very well. The credit for selecting the artists for Kalavanta should go to Sri.Krishna Prasad who is currently Chairman of Karnataka Fine Arts Council. Interestingly the instrumentalists, even out station ones, who participated are getting the lion's share of young artists' slots in Bangalore. That is really a good thing. The vocalists will probably soon catch up.

There is a lot of encouragement now for the young artists, which is very welcome. As for rasikas, there is a great support for the young artists, in principle. But that does not translate into people attending these concerts. That, I think, is sad. I hope that all rasikas who are free should attend these concerts as a mark of solidarity. Organisations like Ranjani which are doing an excellent job will also feel encouraged to continue with their cultural service to the community.

[harimau]

"Naah! You are thinking of Nikhil Narayanan."

Nirmal narayan - brother of sandeep plays mrudangam. Nikhil plays flute.

At least I got 50% of the letters in the name correct.

I should have said "Ni***l".

[kvchellappa]

Is it pass mark, Harimauji, in your exacting standards?

[arasi]

Or, nil?

[ranjanifinearts]

There is a lot of encouragement now for the young artists, which is very welcome. As for rasikas, there is a great support for the young artists, in principle. But that does not translate into people attending these concerts. That, I think, is sad. I hope that all rasikas who are free should attend these concerts as a mark of solidarity.

Well said, KSSR sir, and thanks for your kind words. We trust that the Kalavanta videos give rasikas some idea of the high calibre of all these talented young artistes.

We warmly invite all rasikas, once again, to this evening's concerts and look forward to some great music, and an equally great turnout.