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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Dr. Pia Srinivasan (15 May 1931 – 8 April 2022) introduced Carnatic music to a discerning concert public in Germany and other European countries for over three decades. A pupil of Rajeswari Padmanabhan, she taught Carnatic vina, vocal music and music theory. In collaboration with major music centres, museums and universities, several renowned Carnatic musicians were first …
