Rare Chance to hear veteran violin vidwan in Chennai

rasaali · Post by **rasaali** » 05 Feb 2007, 10:20

Sri Kovai B Dakshinamurthy, a top ranking violin vidwan who retired from AIR Chennai almost two decades ago will be performing for Nadopasana on Feb 6 2007.

Sri Dakshinamurhty is in his late 70s and does not perform very regulary these days. He has accompanied every top name in the field and is known for his strength in laya.

He will be supported by his disciples Sri SP Ananthapadmanabha and Sri B. Ananthakrishnan.

Hope some of the Chennai forum friends get to listen to him.

Venue: Dakshinamurthy Auditorium, P.S. High School, R.K. Mutt Road, Mylapore, Chennai

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 05 Feb 2007, 10:30

will try to attend.

rbharath · Post by **rbharath** » 06 Feb 2007, 13:27

if not for D Balakrishna playing at home grounds, i would have happily come to the PS School ground

kaapi · Post by **kaapi** » 06 Feb 2007, 21:01

Shri Kovai Dakshinamurthy is a violinist of high caliber. He is the nephew and disciple of late sangitha kalanidhi shri T.K.Jayarama Iyer himself a noted violinist. Shri Dakshinamurthy had accompanied many top artistes in the 60s including vidwans like MDR, DKJ,KVN. He also used to play violin duets with Kovai Gnanambal, who I presume is his sister.
It is very nice to know that he is still fit to play a full length concert. It is also very nice to know Nadopasana is also around. Is it still "managed" by Srinivasan ?

P.S. MC's guru and his mother Smt ChArubAla was also a disciple of T.K.Jayarama Iyer.

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 07 Feb 2007, 12:54

kaapi wrote:It is also very nice to know Nadopasana is also around. Is it still "managed" by Srinivasan ?

Yes it is managed by srinivAsan.