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.
(Artists' Website: http://rajeev.byethost14.com/)
(Bio sourced
from http://www.suvithramusic.org/rajeev-mukundan.html)
Tanjavoor
Murugaboopathi
Thanjavur Murugaboopathi
belongs to a family of artists and musicians.
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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