Chennai Fine Arts' Balamurali Music Festival

[SREE]

Chennai Fine Arts is organising the first ever music festival in the name of Dr M Balamuralikrishna, to be held between 5th and 11th August 2012. Renowned musicologist Dr BM Sundaram will be presented the Lifetime Achievement Award and Danseuse Dr Saraswati & Prince Rama Varma will be presented the Balamurali Pavitra Patram Award.

Sunday, 5th August 2012
5.30 p.m. Inaugural Function
Guests of Honor: Dr M Balamuralikrishna, Smt. Chandra Ramani & Shri K.V. Ramani, Shri L Sabaretnam and Shri V Narasimhan
Awardees: Dr B.M. Sundaram, Dr Saraswati, Prince Rama Varma
6.30 p.m. Inaugural Concert
Smt Gayathri Venkatraghavan – Vocal
Smt Padma Shankar – Violin
Poongulam Shri Subramaniam – Mrudangam
Shri Anirudh Athreya – Kanjira

Monday, 6th August 2012
5.00 p.m.
Kum. Shreya Devnath - Violin
Kumbakonam K Swaminathan - Mrudangam
Chandrashekara Sarma – Ghatam
6.30 p.m.
Trichur V Ramachandran - Vocal
M R Gopinath - Violin
K R Ganesh - Mrudangam
Papanasam S Sethuraman – Kanjira

Tuesday, 7th August 2012
5.00 p.m.
Lakhsmi R - Veena
Sivasubramanian S - Mrudangam
Nanganallur S Swaminathan – Ghatam
6.30 p.m.
Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Smt.Vijayalakshmi – Violin Duet
J Vaidyanathan - Mrudangam
S Venkataramanan – Kanjira

Wednesday, 8th August 2012
5.00 p.m.
Pallavi Prasanna - Vocal
Akkarai Sornalatha - Violin
B Ganapathyraman – Mrudangam
6.30 p.m.
Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar - Flute
Dr R Hemalatha - Violin
Kalladaikuruchi Sivakumar - Mrudangam
K V Gopalakrishnan – Kanjira

Thursday, 9th August 2012
5.00 p.m.
Rithvik Raja - Vocal
M Vijay - Violin
Tanjore K Praveenkumar – Mrudangam
6.30 p.m.
Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh - Veena
Neyveli R Narayanan - Mrudangam
Trichy Krishna – Ghatam

Friday, 10th August 2012
5.00 p.m.
Deepak Krishnamurthy - Vocal
R Kailasam - Violin
Nellai Srikrishnan – Mrudangam
6.30 p.m.
M S Anantaraman, M A Sundareswaran,
M A Krishnaswamy & M S Anantakrishnan – Violin Quartette
Serthalai R Anantakrishnan - Mrudangam
Trichy K Murali – Ghatam

Saturday, 11th August 2012
5.00 p.m.
Kum.Anahita & Kum.Apoorva – Vocal duet
S P Ananthapadmanabha - Violin
M S Venkatasubramaniyam – Mrudangam
6.30 p.m.
Suguna Purushothaman - Vocal
Dr M Narmada - Violin
Tanjavur R Kumar - Mrudangam
Pudukottai N Ramachandran - Ghatam

VENUE: ARKAY CONVENTION CENTER, LUZ, MYLAPORE, CHENNAI - 600 004. ALL ARE WELCOME

[Nick H]

A great line up in a very good venue

[SREE]

Today's inaugural function will be live webcast. The link is

http://ivb7webcaster.com/balamuralimusicfestival.aspx