Instrumentalists

Nagai Muralidharan

Nagai Muralidharan

Nagai R. Muralidharan is an Indian musician and Carnatic violinist. He had his initial training in music from Smt. Komalavalli at the age of seven and continued his violin under Shri R.S. Gopalkrishnan. He has been a regular stage performer for over 40 years now, and has accompanied many leading vocal artists from the late Dr. Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer to Shri T.M. Krishna.

Kunnakudi Vaidhyanathan

Kunnakudi Vaidhyanathan

Kunnakudi Vaidhyanathan was an Indian musician and violinist. He was born on 2nd March 1935 at Kunnakudi in the then Madras Presidency of British India. His father was a Sanskrit and Tamil scholar. He started to learn classical music of South India from his father when he was a small boy.

Mandolin Raju

Mandolin Raju

A freelance carnatic musician,who is a native of PALAKOL, West Godavari Dist, ANDHRA PRADESH. Raju, underwent 7 years of rigorous training through Gurukulavaasam system from Late Sri. R.SUBBARAJU.

Raghu and Ravi

Raghu and Ravi

Raghu and Ravi have an instinctive flair for the flute. The kalpanaswaras saw the flautists exchange single avarthana rounds between them, which were marked by refined, trimmed and tapering combinations.

Vaikom Gopalakrishnan

Vaikom Gopalakrishnan

Vaikom R Gopalakrishnan is an outstanding performer of Ghatam and an ‘A’ grade artist on AIR. He made his debut performance at the age of eight and is an outstanding performer of ghatam offering performance support to prominent musicians.

Veenai Chittibabu

Veenai Chittibabu

Chitti Babu Challapally (surname) was born on October 13, 1936, in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India, to music-loving parents, Ranga Rao Challapally and Sundaramma Challapally, who had initially named him Hanumanlu, when he was born. Chitti Babu was his nickname at home, which came to stay eventually, after his father formally changed it to be so.

Valayapatti.S. Malarvannan

Valayapatti S Malarvannan

Valayapatti Malarvannan is a gifted artist, a wizard in fact. He conducted the sparkling concert. He played on the thavil. He had to plan the next sequence of the concert. He had to arrange the next programme as the organiser of the festival. And, he managed to do all this with a smile.

Chitravina Vishal R Sapuram

Chitravina Vishal R Sapuram

Vishaal Sapuram is a proficient Carnatic (South Indian classical) vocalist, ‘chitravina’ player, and music teacher. A child prodigy, he showed his innate aptitude towards music even as an infant, and was initiated into Carnatic music under Karpagam Narayanan of Houston, U.S.A. when he was three years old.

Embar Kannan

Embar Kannan

Embar Kannan the typical carnatic violinist is perceived as one who provides accomapaniment for recital Kannan has refrained from this commonplace role by pushing frontiers and breaking barriers, even as he strives to retain the fidelity and purity of his music.

Emani Lalitha Kirshna.P

Emani Lalitha Kirshna.P

Lalita Krishna received her initial training in the veena from her mother Lakshmisuramma Somayajulu, and later from veteran violin vidwan Annavarapu Ramaswami. She is also a renowned player of the Gotu Vadyam