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| About the
Artists E R Janardhan E R Janardhan was born in a family of musicians in 1974 at Eluru in Andhra Pradesh. His father Shri Ramba Satyanarayanamoorthy was Saxophone artist and performed on All India Radio, Vijaywada. At the age of seven Janardhan moved to Chennai and started learning Guitar & Mandolin from his Guru Shri. Rudraraju Subbaraju. E R Janardhan gave his first stage performance on mandolin & guitar at the age of 10. Between the years of 1989 and 19194, he gave over 1000 performances all over India. E R Janardhan also started playing the saxophone as the main instrument since 1992, under the guidance of Shri. Kadri Gopalnath- saxophone Masetro. His first Saxophone concert was in 1994. Since then he has been performing at several well known music sabhas in India. In 1997, E R Janardhan won the Best Musician Award instituted by Narada Gana Sabha. This award was bestowed on him by the Legendary vocalist Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer . In 2003, he won the Best Musician Award instituted by Music Academy. He has received great critical acclaims from critics and media - Tamil & Telugu press, in particular. K V S Vinay Vinay
hails from a
musical family. He is the grandson of
Sangeetha Kalanidhi late Sri T.K.
Jayarama Iyer, eminent violinist and father of
orchestration of Indian
music.
Born and raised in Sriram Natarajan Sriram is a versatile artiste and collaborative world musician specializing in the classical South Indian instruments Mridangam (barrel drum) and Kanjira (Frame Drum). Sriram started
training on the Mridangam at the age of 9, under
the veteran Guru Sri K
V Maniappan in Mumbai, India. Sriram has
had advanced training from the
Late maestro Sangeetha Kalanidhi Padma Sri
Palghat Raghu. He
is presently under the able tutelage and
guidance of Tanjavur Sri
Murugaboopathi. His
style of accompaniment is very adaptive to both
vocal and instrumental music.
Sriram
regularly accompanies renowned and upcoming
artistes in India during the
December music season in Chennai, India. In the
US and has performed at several
prestigious venues in Boston, Chicago,
Cleveland, Columbus, Connecticut,
Madison, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, New York, New
Jersey and across the state of
Minnesota.
Sriram is a resident of Excelsior MN, teaches students across the midwest, and is the founder of the Layyasaaram Institute of Indian Arts, a Twin Cities based non-profit organization. Ravi Balasubramanian Dr. Ravi Balasubramanian is the most sought-after Ghatam artiste in North America and is known for his energetic and sensitive accompaniment and solos. With over five hundred concerts, Ravi has extensive experience in Carnatic percussion, including performing on the Ghatam at top musical institutions such as the Chennai Music Academy and the Cleveland Aradhana for over sixteen years. He received the title Yuva Kala Bharathi in 2003 from Bharat Kalachar, a music organization in Chennai, for excellence and dedication in the art of Ghatam. Ravi has expanded the envelope of using the Ghatam in music, when he presented a “GhataTarang” concert with seven Ghatams as the lead melody and percussion instrument for the first time outside India. Ravi has had the rare honor and experience of performing with leading artistes including Sangitha Kalanidhi vocalists, violinists, flautists, and mridangists in India, USA, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia. Ravi received his initial tutelage from Palghat Sri P. K. Sekar and Sangitha Kalanidhi Dr. T.K.Murthy and later pursued advanced training from Sri V.Suresh in Chennai, India. Ravi has given lecture-demonstrations on the Ghatam in the University of Pittsburgh and Chatham college in Pensylvania, and has been featured in several local and national media articles. He is also Guru to several students in USA, guiding them in the vast ocean of Indian percussion theory and performance. He recently published an article in Sruti magazine, India’s leading arts magazine, that was extremely well-received. Ravi received his doctorate in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. (Artist's website: https://sites.google.com/site/ghatamravi/) |
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| About the Venue: Normandale Community College is located at : 9700 France Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55431 To get to Normandale Community College, follow the directions provided here |
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| Acknowledgments: IMSOM
’ s Fall 2017 Concert Series has been made
possible, in part, by the Honeywell and UHG
“Dollars for Doers” Grant, a matching grant
from US Bank, a generous donation from the Dr.
Dash Foundation, and the generosity of its
members and donors. All concerts are
co-sponsored by KFAI Radio (90.3 FM Mpls/106.7
FM St Paul). IMSOM, established in 1980, is a
registered non-profit 501(c)(3) organization
serving Minneapolis - St. Paul and the greater
Twin Cities Metro Area.
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