Sruti is proud to present a grand Carnatic music concert by Saketharaman-vocal, Kamalakiran Vinjamuri-violin, K. Sai Giridhar-mridangam, Sowmiya Narayanan-ghatam on Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 4:30 pm EDT
Vocalist Sri Saketharaman has always lived his life celebrating music. Hailing from a rich musical heritage of Padma Bhushan Lalgudi Jayaraman, Saketharaman had climbed up the ladder of his passion steadily and devotedly. His career in music has been decorated with many prestigious awards including Sangeet Natak Academy Award, Isai Peroli, Shanmuka Sangeetha Shiromanai, Best Vocalist from Music Academy with performances in the prestigious halls all over the world including Madras Music Academy, Shanmuganandha Sabha Mumbai, Thiruvaiyaru Thyagaraja Aradhana, Cleveland Thyagaraja festival, LearnQuest Conference Boston, Theatre De Ville Paris, Sydney Music Festival among many others. unique musician with a perfect blend of intellectuality, innovation and tradition. Violinist Kamalakiran Vinjamuri started his journey with the violin from his grand-father, Sri. Parthasarathy Iyengar. He subsequently had training from Smt. Malladi Vijayalakshmi. His father Sri.Subhash Vinjamuri, started teaching him the violin at the age of 7. He has been under the tutelage of Sangeethakalanidhi A. Kanyakumari since 2006. Kamalakiran has won several accolades and has accompanied several leading artists of both past and present generations. Kamalakiran has also widely worked in collaborations with musicians of different genres. As a soloist, he has performed across Asia, the US, and Europe.
Mridangist Sri Kuchibhotla Sai Giridhar, a student of Sri Sathya Sai Mirpuri college of music is an 'A' grade artist of All India radio for Mridangam. He is the disciple of legendary guru Sri M.L.N Raju and Parupalli S.Phalgun and has travelled extensively both within India and abroad. He has performed at famed theatres like Queen Elizabeth hall, Theatre De la Ville, South bank centre UK and Tung Auditorim in liverpool. He has been a part of prestigious festivals like The Darbar festival at London, Copenhagen Jazz festival, Ojai Festival LA, the ITC Dhaka festival, Cross Culture festival in Poland , Esplanade Theatre in Singapore, Doverlane festival and Sawai Ghandarva at Pune to name a few. He has been awarded the prestigious ' YUVA PURASKAR ' by Sangeet Natak Akademi for the year 2017. He has been awarded the title 'Laya Ratna' by Trinity Fine Arts for the year 2024. He has also been honored with the prestigious Palani Subramanya Pillai Award by Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai. He has accompanied all leading musicians in Carnatic music and Hindustani Jugalbandis.Ghatam percussionist Sowmiya Narayanan is a disciple of Mridangam Maestro Trichy Sri Harikumar and earlier he took training from Sangita Acharya Sri Subash Chandran. Sowmiya has accompanied many leading past and present artists including Sri Saketharaman. Sowmiya is also a current board of trustee of Sankara Nethralaya USA supporting the premier eye hospital in Chennai. He conducted over 750 online concerts and 55 plus concerts all over US. He has supported and raised over $4 million in donations and supported 39000 free cataract eye surgeries for poor indigent patients.
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