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. Karaikudi Subramanian and Dr. Meenakshi Subramanian salute Dr. Pia Buonomo Srinivasan (May 15, 1931 – April 8, 2022)1 for her respect and selfless contribution to vina and its tradition. […] We dedicate the raga Sri she loved particularly in her memory. | Read the full tribute posted on the video channel of Brhaddhvani – …
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With the demise of Dr. Pia Srinivasan, the world of Indian music has lost one of its most fervent supporters. For over three decades she and her husband, renowned Indologist Prof. S.A. Srinivasan, spared no effort to acquaint discerning music lovers with the intricacies of South Indian classical music; and this with remarkable success as …
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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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karaikudivoyage.us (Oregon, USA vina & vocal classes and workshops) eambalam.com (Chennai, “teaching arts & culture online integrated with wellness”) kalasangam.org (“South Asian and collaborative arts organisation”, Bradford, UK) Manickam Yogeswaran: Global Music Academy (Berlin, Germany) P. Nandakumar (Kerala percussion idakka and mridangam) K. Sai Shankar (Chennai, vocalist and specialist for the classical dance repertoire known as bharanatyam): karunakaran.saisankar@gmail.com
By Dr. Pia Srinivasan (15 May 1931 – 8 April 2022) I joined Kalakshetra in 1968 to learn Carnatic music. It was there that I met Rajeswari. It was a great event in my life as I came to realise more and more. Rajeswari, along with her music, is the central figure in my book titled Il …
Concerto-conferenza di musica indiana di Pia Buonomo Srinivasan Centro yoga Satyananda di Napoli , aprile 2001 Liz Letizia © Redazione a cura di Enrico Renna / musicbOOm Anche in questo aprile, come nello scorso anno, il Centro yoga Satyananda di Napoli ha ospitato il concerto-conferenza di musica indiana di Pia Buonomo Srinivasan. Il programma era …
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