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| About the
Artists Bharat Sundar Bharat Sundar is one of the most sought after young carnatic vocalist. He is a B.com Graduate – CA (Inter), and a Gold Medalist in MA music from Madras University. He had the good fortune of learning music from Padmabhushan Sri. PS Narayanaswamy , Smt. Leelavathy Gopalakrishnan and Sri. G Srikanth. He started learning from the age of 6 under Smt. Gayathri Mahesh. He was also trained by Trichy Sri. J Venkataraman and Srimushnam Sri Raja Rao in pallavi singing. He has performed with eminent artistes all over the world. Some of his awards and titles include Yuva Kala Bharathi, Isai Chudar, Shanmukha Sangita Shiromani, Balakala Ratna. He is an A-Graded artiste of All India Radio. (Bio sourced from: http://madrasana.com/) Rajeev
Mukundan Rajeev was initiated into this art form at the tender age of four. He’s currently under the tutelage of the legendary Kalaimamani A.Kanyakumari for almost a decade. He was awarded scholarship from the Government of India from 2001 to 2009. One of the youngest ‘A’ graded artiste of All India Radio (AIR). He is a receipient of several prestigious awards like ‘Spirit of Youth Award’ given by ‘The Music Academy, Madras’ in the year 2008, “The Best Violinist Award” from ‘The Music Academy, Madras,’ in December 2011, etc. Rajeev has given many violin duet concerts with his Guru A.Kanyakumari, and also has toured and accompanied leading artistes like Sangeetha Kalanidhi T.V.Sankaranarayanan , Dr. N.Ramani, Malladi Brothers, Vijay Siva, T.M.Krishna, Oscar nominee Bombay Jayasri, Dr Nithyashri Mahadevan & Ranjani Gayathri. Rajeev
is also a programmer, with Masters in
Entertainment Technology at the Entertainment
Technology Center (ETC), Carnegie Mellon
University. (Bio sourced
from http://www.suvithramusic.org/rajeev-mukundan.html)
Tanjavoor
Murugaboopathi He had his initial training under Sri T.R.Srinivasan, a Mridangam Vidwan and Lecturer in the Tamilnadu Government Music College. After receiving the 'Vadhya Visharada' with distinction from the Music College, he came under the guidance of Late Sri Tanjore Upendran. He learnt from the late maestro in the age old tradition of Gurukulavasam. Sri Murugaboopathi has won numerous awards including the Vadya Kalaimani from the Music College, Chennai, the Laya Kala Ratna from the Tiruppur Murugan Mandram, the Best Artiste Award from the South Indian Music Club, Andhra Pradesh, the Music Academy and the Sivan Mandram, Sydney, Australia. Murugaboopathi can adapt his playing to any style of singing or instrumental music and has won the appreciation of the artists as well as the rasikas. With his uncompromising orthodox style of playing he gracefully blends the best of the Pazhani Subramania Pillai and the Palghat Mani Iyer schools making him one of the most sought after mridangam players today. Boopathi as he is fondly known with his contemporaries, regularly accompanies leading artists such as Sangeetha Kalnidhis Shri Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan, Dr. N. Ramani, Shri T V Sankaranarayan, the Hyderabad Brothers, Mandolin Srinivas, Sudha Ragunathan, and other contemporary artists such as Sanjay Subramaniam, T M Krishna, Bombay Jayashri and Aruna Sayeeram to name a few. Within India, he has performed in various venues in most metros including New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram and across Tamil Nadu. Internationally, he is widely travelled on tour with the above reputed artists in North America including USA and Canada, in Europe including Great Britain, Scotland, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Turkey, South Africa, the Middle East at Dubai, Muscat, and Doha, South East Asia in Singapore and Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. |
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| About the Venue: St Catherine University is located at : 2004 Randolph Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55105 To get to St Catherine University, follow the directions provided here |
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| Acknowledgments:
IMSOM's Fall 2018 Concert Series
has been is made possible by the voters of
Minnesota through a grant from the
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks
to a legislative appropriation from the arts
and cultural heritage fund, the UHG “Dollars
for Doers” Grant, matching grants from
Honeywell and US Bank, a generous donation
from the Dr. Dash Foundation, and the
generosity of IMSOM’s members and donors.
All concerts are co-sponsored by KFAI Radio
(90.3 FM/106.7 FM).
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