Bio Sreevidhya Chandramouli | The Kennedy Center Official Karaikudi Voyage App >> Sreevidhya Chandramouli, a faculty member at the University of Oregon at Eugene, is from the illustrious Karaikudi Vina Tradition, the only living tradition from South India with more than ten generations of vina (plucked Indian lute) players. Sreevidhya learnt from her mother Rajeswari Padmanabhan and …
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Kapila & Sushruta, sons and disciples of Sreevidhya Chandramouli, perform “Sarasiruhasana” (Nata raga, Adi tala); a kriti composed by Puliyur Doresvami. Recorded on the occasion of Dhvani’s Carnatic Composers’ Day 2012
Vocal with vina accompaniment: Sreevidhya & Chandramouli (Karaikudi Bani) Dr. Srinivasa Ayya Srinivasan, a dear friend of ours, and an Indologist at University of Hamburg, Germany, passed away on May 2nd, 2019. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Pia Srinivasan, who was a student of late Rajeswari Padmanabhan. We pay homage to his …
Rajeswari Padmanabhan & Karaikudi Sambasivayer Subramanian – vinaTanjore Upendran – mridangam This double-CD edition comes with a booklet in English and German by Dr. Pia Srinivasan. It also contains seven additional tracks from the original recording (not included in the original LP-release) from the archive of the Berlin Museum of Anthropology. Published by Prof. Dr. Arthur Simon, …
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At first, this question seems easy to answer: just watch performers from either strand of Indian music and you’ll know Which is Which, merely going by the instruments in use, or how they dress and watching the body language involved: harmonium or sarangi vs. violin for melodic accompaniment for most vocal recitals, and tabla drums …
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