SangeetaRanga
Cordially invites you and your family to celebrate Gokulaashtami
( Chaandramaana Sri.Krishna Janmashtami ) with a grand vocal Carnatic music
concert
At
Sri-Ranga-Mantapam of Sri ranganatha Temple
at 8 Ladentown Road, Pomona, NY 10970 ( www.ranganatha.org )
by Dr. Bhavani Prakash
With
Dr. N. Shashidhar on the violin & Sri Prakash Rao on the mridangam
On Saturday August 12 th 2006 @4:30 pm
Dr. Bhavani Prakash is a dedicated musician by passion, and is a physician by
profession. Bhavani is very talented. Her music is known for creativity,
variety, raagabhaavam, steady shruti and flowing swaras in sarvalaghu-baani.
Vocal music, flute and veena are long-standing music traditions of India, and
Dr. Bhavani Prakash is an exponent in all three. Bhavani gives vocal concerts,
veena concerts and flute concerts. She has sung or played veena/flute, and
choreographed music for bharatanatyam and kuchipudi dance-concerts for
prominent dance-schools in US. She gives music classes, and has students
winning prizes in vocal, veena & flute.
Bhavani currently takes advanced music lessons from T.M. Krishna, a leading
vocalist of today. Initiated into vocal music at the age of four by her mother,
Smt. Vasantha Subramaniam, a disciple of Sri Delhi Gopalakrishnan and
Sangeeta-aachaarya Sri B. V. Raman, she had some vocal lessons from Rajalakshmi
Narasimhamurthy, a disciple of Dr. D.K.Pattammal, and from Sri Palghat T.R.
Rajaram(son of the legendary Palghat Mani Iyer).
Bhavani had her veena and flute lessons under Sri A. V. Prakash, a disciple of
Dr. N. Ramani.
She won the All India Radio National Award at the age of seventeen. Her other
prominent awards include the First Prize in the National Inter-University Youth
Competitions including Hindustani and Carnatic classical music, the Ambujam
Krishnan Award from the Music Academy, Madras, the Best Artist Award from Sri
Krishna Gana Sabha, Madras, and the titles Ganabharati and Nalinasudhavarshini.
Bhavani is an A-Grade AIR and Doordarshan artist. She has vocal CD albums and
instrumental CD albums to her credit. Bhavani continues to give lessons,
concerts and lecture-demonstrations in the US and in India, including in the
December Music season in Chennai every year. She has also given concerts in
Singapore.
Dr. N. SHASHIDHAR received training in violin in the Carnatic style from the
legendary Padmabhushan Sri Lalgudi G. Jayaraman from 1973. Shashidhar has also
received training in vocal Carnatic music and violin Western style. He has
given many solo violin recitals as well as accompanied prominent artists such
as Sri T. N. Seshagopalan, Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna. He has a Ph. D. in
Material Science and works for Corning.
Prakash Rao had his initial training in mridangam from Sudarshanaachaarlu,
uncle of one of the Hyderabad Brothers. Since 1982, he has been a student of
Sangeetakalaanidhi Sri Vellore Ramabhadran, one of the greatest exponents on
mridangam and ?King of the Sarvalaghu-baani?. He has also received some
advanved lessons from Sri Umayaalapuram Shivaraman, Kanjira Nagarajan and from
Palghat Sri T.R. Rajamani, son of the legendary mridanga vidwan Palghat Sri
Mani Iyer. He continues to learn from Sri Vellore Ramabhadran whenever they
meet. He has accompanied many famous and talented musicians such as Lalgudi Sri
Jayaraman, Chitravina Ravi Kiran, and has played in dance programs by several
reknowned dancers. Prakash propogates the sarvalaghu-baani of his guru in his
concerts and in mridangam classes at his home. He has several students. He is a
management consultant by profession.
For information, please contact:
Radhika: (201) 666 ? 0345 Vijaya (908) 665 9256
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