123rd Year – ISAI VIZHA DECEMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL  (15-12-2023 to 4-1-2024)

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Sri Ramajayam

SRI PARTHASARATHY SWAMI SABHA

123rd Year –   ISAI VIZHA DECEMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL    (15-12-2023 to 4-1-2024)

At  VIDYA BHARATHI, 55, Bheemasena Garden Road,

Mylapore, Chennai – 4.  Phone : 2499 7269 / 2499 1248.

INAUGURATION  on  15-12-2023   (Friday )   at 6.00 p.m.

By His Holiness Srirangam Srimath Andavan SRI VARAHA MAHADESIKAN SWAMIGAL

Pooja at 10.15 a.m.  4.30 p.m : Mangala Isai Nadaswaram By Sembanarkoil  Vidwan S.R.G.S. Mohandass & Party

6.00 p.m.  Inauguration and conferring the Awards

“Sangeetha Kalasarathy”   on Violin Maestro   Sri. NAGAI R. MURALIDHARAN

Presenting   Palghat Mani Iyer Centenary award to Mridangam Maestro Dr.  YELLA VENKATESHWARA RAO

“Partha Acharya Puraskar” Award to Vainika,  Guru & Musicologist Dr. R.S. JAYALAKSHMI

Gottuvadyam Narayana Iyengar Award for Musical Excellence to Ghatam Maestro Dr. SURESH VAIDYANATHAN

Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu Award to Violin Vidwan Sri.  VITTAL RAMAMURTHY

G. Ramanathan Award to Media Fame, Producer, Arts Curator. Smt. SUBHASREE THANIKACHALAM

 Dr. M.L.V. Award to  Sri.Kalyanapuram S. ARAVIND  and Sri.  VITTAL RANGAN

Dr. NALLI KUPPUSWAMI CHETTI – Presides

Felicitation By: 

Sangeetha Kalasarathy   Dr. TRICHY SANKARAN

Sangeetha Kalasarathy  Dr. NITHYASREE MAHADEVAN

Sangeetha Kalasarathy Neyveli Sri. R. SANTHANAGOPALAN

6.45 p.m.  ‘Bajan Sandya’  By O.S. ARUN – Karaikal Venkatasubramanian (Violin),  MS Venkatasubramanian (Mrudangam), Martin (Tabla), S Venkatraman (Harmonium),  Selvam (Thalam)

15-12-2023  (Friday)

4.30 p.m : Mangala Isai Nadaswaram By Sembanarkoil  Vidwan S.R.G.S. Mohandass & Party

6.00 p.m. Inauguration

7.00 p.m.  ‘Bajan Sandya’  By  O.S. ARUN – Karaikal Venkatasubramanian (Violin),  MS Venkatasubramanian (Mrudangam), Martin (Tabla), S Venkatraman (Harmonium),  Selvam (Thalam)

16-12-2023 (Saturday)

8.30 a.m.  Lect. Demo. “Structuring Aesthetic Swara/Laya Based Korvais’ By  Kunnakudi M.Balamuralikrishna with Akkarai Sornalatha and B. Shree Sundarkumar

10.00 a.m.   Jayashree Vaidyanathan (Vocal) – Durai srinivasan (Violin)-  Manikkudi  S. Chandrasekar (Mrudangam) – H Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m.    Abhishek Ravishankar (Vocal) – Vocal  Saketha Pantula (Violin) – Adarsh Devarajan (Mrudangam)   

2.00 p.m.   Akshay Padmanabhan (Vocal) – Sahana Vasudevan (Violin)-  Sunaada Krishnan (Mrudangam) – Shivaramakrishnan (Kanjira)

4.00 p.m.    AKKARAI SISTERS (Vocal) – Shruthi Sarathy (Violin)-  R Sankaranarayanan (Mrudangam) –  S Krishna (Ghatam).

6.30 p.m.     ABHISHEK RAGHURAM  (Vocal) – Akkarai S. Subhalakshmi (Violin)– Pathri Satish Kumar (Mrudangam) – Anantha R. Krishnan (Mrudangam)

17-12-2023 (Sunday)

8.30 a.m.  Lect. Demo. “Madhyama Kala Saahithya in Muttuswamy Dikshitar Krithis” – Pinnacle of Compositional Craft- Dr. Sriram Parasuram

10.00 a.m.   K.S. Vishnudev (Vocal) – S R Mahadevasarma (Violin) –  K V Prasad (Mrudangam) – Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m.    Archana & Samanvi  (Vocal) – V.S.P.Gayatri Sivani (Violin) –  Ashwini Srinivasan (Mrudangam)

2.00 p.m.     Vivek Sadasivam (Vocal)  – B Ananthakrishnan (Violin) – N C Bharadwaj (Mrudangam) – Sunil Kumar (Kanjira)

4.00 p.m.    Cherthala  Dr. K.N. RENGANATHA SHARMA  (Vocal) – L. Ramakrishnan (Violin) Mannargudi A Easwaran (Mrudangam)  –  Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.    SUDHA RAGUNATHAN  (Vocal) –  Embar Kannan (Violin)– Nanjil Arul (Mrudangam)  –  Sowmya Narayanan(Ghatam)

18-12-2023 (Monday)

8.30 a.m.  Lect. Demo. Tyagaraja’s “Neethi Bodha” Kritis- Malladi Brothers (Malladi Sreeramprasad and Malladi Ravikumar)

10.00 a.m.   Kalyanapuram S. Aravind  (Vocal) – V.S. Gokul (Violin)- G. Vijay Ganesh (Mrudangam)

12.30 p.m.    Sri Sri Sisters  (Vocal)  – Parur Ananthalakshmi (Violin) –  Pazhani Balaj (Mrudangam)

2.00 p.m.      Abilash Giriprasad (Vocal) – Trivandrum S.R. Rajasree  (Violin)– Ethirajan Ramanujam (Mrudangam)  – N. Rajaraman (Ghatam)

4.00 p.m.    PRINCE RAMA VARMA (Vocal) –   Avaneeswaram Vinu (Violin)  – B.Harikumar (Mrudangam) – Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.    GAYATHRI VENKATARAGHAVAN (Vocal) – Trivandrum Sampath (Violin) – N. Manoj Siva (Mrudangam) – Udipi Sridhar (Ghatam)

19-12-2023 (Tuesday)

8.30 a.m.  Lect. Demo. “Greha Bedham (Shift of Tonic note); Pada Chedam (Sahitya -Split) in Carnatic Music”- A overview by Charumathi Ramachandran  

10.00 a.m.   Thiruvarur S. Girish (Vocal)  –   R. K. Shriramkumar (Violin) –   Tiruvarur Bakthavatsalam (Mrudangam) –  N. Guruprasadh (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m.    Pooja & Supraja  (Vocal) –  Aparna Thiagarajan (Violin) –  Vishvak Kumaran (Mrudangam)

2.00 p.m.  Krithika Natarajan  (Vocal) – Visvesh Chandrasekhar(Violin) –   Akshay Anantapadmanabhan  (Mrudangam)  –  Nerkunam Dr. S. Sankar (Kanjira)

4.00 p.m.    Papanasam ASHOK RAMANI (Vocal)  –  Trivandrum Sampath (Violin) –  R. Sankaranarayanan (Mrudangam)  –  Dr Ravi Balasubramaniam (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.    N. VIJAY SIVA  (Vocal) –  B.U.  Ganesh Pradad (Violin) –   Dr. Trichy Sankaran (Mrudangam) – Alathur T Rajaganesh (Kanjra)-

20-12-2023 (Wednesday )

8.30 a.m.   Lect. Demo. “Layanubhava”- Experiencing the Beauty of Layam- Dr.Yella Venkateshwara Rao(Mridangam), N. Amrit(Khanjira), Giridhar Udupa(Ghatam)

10.00 a.m.   Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena) –  B.V. Raghavendra Rao (Violin)  – Melakkaveri Balaji (Mrudangam) – D V Venkata Subramanian (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m.    Prithvi Harish  (Vocal) –  Haritha Narayanan (Violin) –  Jayendra Kumar (Mrudangam) –  Sai Bharath (Kanjira)

2.00 p.m.       Sooryagayathri  Devotional Concert with B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin) –  P.V. Anilkumar (Mrudangam) – S. Ganapathy (Tabla) –  Saravanan (Spl. Effects)

4.00 p.m.    Dr. PANTULA RAMA  (Vocal) –   MSN Murthy (Violin) –   Sri Sai Giridhar (Mrudangam) –  K V Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

6.30 p.m.    Dr. S. SOWMYA (Vocal)  – Embar S Kannan (Violin) – Praveen Sparsh (Mrudangam) – S.  Krishna (Ghatam)

21-12-2023 (Thursday)

8.30 a.m. Lect. Demo. “Hiranmayim Lakshmim”- A Insight into the Kritis of Shri Muttuswami Dikshitar on Sri Mahalakshmi  By  R.K. Shriramkumar

10.00 a.m.   Amrutha Venkatesh (Vocal) –  Rajeev Mukundan (Violin) – S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mrudangam) – Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m.    Srividhya Vasudevan (Vocal) –  Srividhya R S Iyer (Violin) – Surya Nambeesan (Mrudangam)

2.00 p.m.   Dr. Brindha Manickavasakan (Vocal) –  Sruti Sarathy (Violin) – Vijay Natesan (Mrudangam) –  S. Krishna (Ghatam)

4.00 p.m.    Dr. GAYATHRI GIRISH  (Vocal) –   M A Krishnaswamy (Violin) –  Poongulam Subramaniam (Mrudangam) –  N  Guruprasad (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.    Kunnakudi  M. BALAMURALIKRISHNA  (Vocal) –   L Ramakrishnan  (Violin) – Thanjavur K Murugaboopathi  (Mrudangam) –   Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)

22-12-2023 ( Friday )

8.30 a.m.  Lect. Demo. “Purposeful Practise Methods”- Prince Rama Varma & Amrutha Venkatesh

10.00 a.m.   Vasudha Ravi (Vocal)  – B.Raghavendra Rao (Violin) – S.V.Ramani (Mrudangam) – Prasanna Hariharan (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m.   Akshara Samskriti (Vocal)  –   Malladi Sindu Rageswari (Violin) –   Sai Raghavan (Mrudangam) – Achyut Srinivasan (Kanjira)

2.00 p.m.      Spoorthi Rao  (Vocal) –  B.Ananthakrishnan (Violin) –  Sai Giridhar (Mrudangam)

4.00 p.m.    CARNATICA BROTHERS  (Vocal) –  Nagai R. Muralidharan (Violin) –  Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (Mrudangam)  – B.S.Purushothaman (Kanjira)

6.30 p.m.    RAMAKRISHNAN MURTHY (Vocal)  – Charumathy Raghuraman (Violin) – N. c. Bharadwaj (Mrudangam) – Vazhappally R Krishnakumar – (Ghatam)

23-12-2022 ( Saturday )

8.30 a.m.  Lect. Demo. “Vision of Raga as seen in the Compositions of Shri Tyagaraja and Shri Dikshitar”- Amritha Murali & Nisha Rajagopalan  

10.00 a.m.     “Jaya Jaya Sri Sudarshana”  By Sri. U. Ve.Dushyanth Sridhar  

12.30 p.m.    S. Swarathmika (Vocal) –   Keerthana Sankar (Violin) –  Aduthurai Guruprasadh (Mrudangam)

2.00 p.m.      Kruthi Bhat  (Vocal) – Sindhu Suchethan (Violin) – Rohan Krishnamurthy (Mrudangam) –  Nerkunam Sankar (Kanjira)

4.00 p.m.    RAMANA  BALACHANDRAN  (Veena)   Patri Satish Kumar (Violin) –   Vyazhapalli Krishnakumar (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.    TRICHUR BROTHERS  (Vocal) –  V S Gokul (Violin) – Trichur R Mohan (Mrudangam)  – Vazhapally Krishnakumar (Ghatam)

24-12-2023 ( Sunday )

8.00 p.m. Group Presentation – Devotional By the Post Graduate Students of TamilNadu Dr. J Jayalalithaa Music and Fine Arts University

8.30 a.m. Lect. Demo. “Chittaswarams & its Role in Enhancing the Beauty of a Kriti”- Bharat Sundar, Dr. Baby Sreeram, Ramana Balachandran

10.00 a.m.   J.A. Jayanth (Flute) –   L. Ramakrishnan (Violin) – Thanjavur K Murugaboopathy (Mrudangam)  – Dr.S. Karthick (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m.    Vivek Moozhikulam (Vocal) – Vishaal Sowmyan  (Violin) –   Arvind Raman (Mrudangam)

2.00 p.m.     Harikatha  “Sundara Kandam”  By B. Suchitra  withUdupi Sreejith (Violin) – M S Venkatasubramaniam(Mrudangam)  

4.00 p.m.    AMRITHA MURALI  (Vocal)  – R K Shriramkumar (Violin) – Patri Satish Kumar (Mrudangam) – N Guruprasad (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.    MALLADI BROTHERS  (Vocal) – Mysore Srikant  (Violin) – Delhi Sairam (Mrudangam) –  Vellattanjoor Sreejith (Ghatam)  

25-12-2023 ( Monday)

8.30 a.m.   Lect. Demo. “Carnatic Concert- Preparation, Planning, Presentation and Global Propagation” – Dr. Trichy Sankaran, Chitravina N.Ravikiran, Mysore Dr.M.Manjunath

10.00 a.m.    Anahita & Apoorva  (Vocal)  – Trivandrum Sampath (Violin) –  Arjun Ganesh (Mrudangam) – Trichy Murali (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m.    R.P. Shravan -(Vocal)   Chetana Shekar (Violin) –  S.Hariharan (Mrudangam)  

2.00 p.m.      Rahul Vellal (Vocal) –  Bhargav Tumkur (Violin) –  Rohit Prasad (Mrudangam) –  Udupi Srikanth (Kanjira)

4.00 p.m.     HYDERABAD BROTHERS (Vocal)  – Delhi Sundararajan (Violin) –  Trivendram Balaji (Mrudangam) –  Dr. V. Suresh (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.   Sikkil C. GURUCHARAN (Vocal)  –   V Sanjeev  (Violin) – Patri Satish Kumar (Mrudangam) – Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam)

26-12-2023 ( Tuesday)

8.30 a.m.  Lect. Demo. “Use and Role of Anyaswarams in Ragams”- Moderated by Dr. Radha Bhaskar with Shertalley Dr.K.N. Renganatha Sharma, Dr. R. Suryaprakash, K.S.Vishnudev

10.00 a.m.   V.K. Manimaran (Vocal) –  R.K. Shriramkumar (Violin)  –  N.C. Bharadwaj (Mrudangam) –  Sriram Natarajan (Kanjira)

12.30 p.m.    Radhika Kannan (Vocal) – Rishabh Ranaganathan (Violin) –   Puthur Nikshith (Mrudangam)

2.00 p.m.      Shruthi Shankar  Kumar  (Vocal) –  Bhargav Tumkur (Violin)  – Akshay Anand (Mrudangam) – Sunil Kumar (Kanjira)

4.00 p.m.      Carnatic-Hindustani Jugalbandhi by Dr. SRIRAM PARASURAM  –  L Ramakrishnan (Violin) –  Umakant Puranik (Harmonium) – Kartik Bhat (Tabla)

6.30 p.m.     N. RAVIKIRAN – Chitravina &  S. SHASHANK – Flute   with V.V.Ramanamurthy – G. Guruprasanna 

27-12-2023 (Wednesday)

8.30 a.m.  Lect. Demo.”Compositions of Mysore Vasudevacharya” By  Rama Ravi and Dr. Nandhitha Ravi

10.00 a.m.   Namasankeerthanam  By  Dr. Udayalur Kalyanaraman Bagavathar   

12.30 p.m.    Cotah Sisters (Vocal)  – Sahana Sreeram (Violin) –  Sarvesh Karthick (Mrudangam)

2.00 p.m.      Deepika Varadarajan (Vocal) –   Delhi Sridhar (Violin) – Ajay Gopi (Mrudangam) –  Ram Siva (Kanjira)

4.00 p.m.    SRIRANJANI SANTHANAGOPALAN  (Vocal) –   S Sayee Rakshith (Violin) – Delhi Sairam (Mrudangam)  –  Chandrasekhara Sharma (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.    S. SAKETHARAMAN  (Vocal) –  Avaneeswaram Vinu (Violin) – Delhi Sairam  (Mrudangam)  – N Guruprasad (Ghatam)

28-12-2023 (Thursday)

8.30 a.m.   Lect. Demo. “Art of Tanam Presentation”- Suguna Varadachari, R.S. Jayalakshmi, Dr. R.Hemalatha

10.00 a.m.   Aswath Narayanan (Vocal) –  L Ramakrishnan (Violin) –  Delhi Sairam (Mrudangam) – Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)

12.30 p.m.    Shradha  Ganesh (Vocal) –  Vignesh Thiagarajan (Violin) – Karun Salvady (Mrudangam)  

2.00 p.m.      Savita Sreeram  –  N Chandrasekhar (Violin)-  M S Venkatasubramanian (Mrudangam) with  Students  

4.00 p.m.    Neyveli R. SANTHANAGOPALAN (Vocal) –  M A Sundareswaran (Violin)  – Nanjil Arul (Mrudangam) – Udipi Sridhar (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.    SANDEEP NARAYANAN (Vocal) –   VVS Murari (Violin) – Dr. Trichy Sankaran (Mrudangam) – KV Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

29-12-2023 (Friday)

8.30 a.m.  Lect. Demo. “Varnam as a Building Block for Voice Culture, Laya & Manodharmam”-Sankari Krishnan, Dr. K.Gayatri, Dr. N.J. Nandini

10.00 a.m.   Vignesh Ishwar (Vocal) –  Vittal Rangan (Violin) – Delhi Sairam (Mrudangam)  – Chandrasekhara Sharma (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m.    Sai Vignesh  (Vocal) –   Aditya Satyadeep (Violin) – Srihari Raman (Mrudangam) –  Sathya Ganesan (Ghatam)

2.00 p.m.       Ranjani Sivakumar (Vocal)  –  Chidambaram G Badrinath (Violin) – B.S. Prashant (Mrudangam)  

4.00 p.m.    S. MAHATHI (Vocal) –  Kamalakiran Vinjamuri  (Violin) –  K V Prasad (Mrudangam) – Anirudh Athrey (Kanjira)

6.30 p.m.    P. UNNIKRISHNAN (Vocal) –   MS Ananthakrishnan (Violin) –  Tiruvarur Bakthavathsalam (Mrudangam) – Ravi Balasubramaniam (Ghatam)

30-12-2023 (Saturday)

8.30 a.m.  Lect. Demo. “Beyond Boundaries”- Use of Vishesha Prayogas in Beautifying Ragas- Nagai R.Muralidharan, Neyveli R.Santhanagopalan, Delhi P.Sunderrajan

10.00 a.m.     Rithvik Raja  (Vocal) –   R K Shriramkumar (Violin) – Praveen Sparsh (Mrudangam) –  G Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m.    Barghav Hariharan (Vocal) –  Sanchit Narayanan (Violin) –  Madurai Venkatasubramanian (Mrudangam)   

2.00 p.m.      Pattabhirama Pandit (Vocal)  – T K V Ramanujacharlu (Violin) – H S Sudhindra (Mrudangam)     

4.00 p.m.    NISHA RAJAGOPAL AN (Vocal) – R K Shriramkumar (Violin) –  K Arun Prakash (Mrudangam) – N Guruprasad (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.    SID. SRIRAM  (Vocal) –  H N Bhaskar (Violin) –  J. Vaidyanathan (Mrudangam) – S.  Karthick (Ghatam)

31-12-2023 (Sunday)

8.30 a.m.  Lect. Demo. “Music Education in the Young: Approaches and Ideas”- Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi,  Anil Srinivasan, Ghatam Dr. V.Suresh with Prof. Sumithra Ranganathan, Krea University

10.00 a.m.     Dr. R. Suriya Prakash (Vocal)  – Kamalakiran Vinjamuri (Violin) – Patri Satish Kumar (Mrudangam)  – Sowmya Narayanan (Ghatam)

12.30 p.m.    Aditya Madhavan (Vocal) –   Vaibhav Ramani (Violin) –  B.N.Kasinath (Mrudangam)  

2.00 p.m.      S. Aishwarya & S. Saundarya (Vocal)  –  Madan Mohan (Violin) –  Akshay Venkatesan  (Mrudangam) – Samyukta Sreeram (Ghatam)

4.00 p.m.    K. GAYATHRI  (Vocal) –  Nishanth Chandran  (Violin) – J Vaidhyanathan (Mrudangam) – Sivaramakrishnan (Kanjira)

6.30 p.m.    K. BHARAT SUNDAR  (Vocal) –  Vittal Rangan (Violin) – Patri Satish Kumar (Mrudangam)   – K V Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

1-1-2024 (Monday)

10.00 a.m.   Sri Srinivasa Kalyanam By Sri. U.Ve. VELUKKUDI  KRISHNAN SWAMIGAL

12.30 p.m.    R. Lakshmipriya  (Vocal)  –  G. Raghavendra Prasath (Violin) –  A. Rohith (Mrudangam)   

2.00 p.m.     Sunil R. Gargyan (Vocal) –   M. Srikkanth (Violin) –  Akshay Ananthapadhmabhan (Mrudangam) –  Harihara Subramanian (Ghatam)

4.00 p.m.    Dr. B. VIJAYAGOPAL ( Flute) withMYLAI KARTHIKEYAN (Nadaswaram) – Kulur Jayachandra Rao (Mrudangam) –  Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatm)

6.30 p.m.    Dr. NITHYASREE MAHADEVAN  (Vocal) –  Raghavendra Rao (Violin) – I. Sivakumar (Mrudangam) – Sukanya Ramgopal (Ghatam)

2-1-2024 (Tuesday)

2.00 p.m.     G.  Ramanathan  (Saxophone) –  Bombay Madhavan (Violin) –  Sarvesh Karthik (Mrudangam) – D. V. Venkitasubramaniam (Ghatam)

4.00 p.m.    ANIL SRINIVASAN  (Piano)&U. RAJESH (Mandolin)  – Swaminathan Selvaganesh (Kanjir) -Saihari  (Ghatam)-  Parveen Narayanan (Tabla)

6.30 p.m.     Musical Discourse by  Smt. VISHAKHA HARI on‘Parthasarathy Mahimai’ with Vittal Rangan – Ganapathy Raman

3-1-2024 (Wednesday)

4.00 p.m.   Dr. MYSORE MANJUNATH & SUMANTH MANJUNATH (Violin Duet) –  Patri Satish Kumar (Mrudangam) –  Dr. V. Suresh (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.    RAJHESH VAIDHYA (Veena)  – Mohanaraman (Mrudangam)  – Saihari (Ghatam)  – Swaminathan Selvaganesh (Kanjira) –   Praveen Narayan(Tabla)

4-1-2024 (Thursday)

4.00 p.m.    NAGAI R. MURALIDHARAN (Violin)  Dr. Badrinarayanan -(Violin Support) – Dr. Yella Venkateshwara Rao (Mrudangam) –  Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

6.30 p.m.  PRIYA SISTERS (Vocal)  –  M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin) – Sai Giridhar (Mrudangam) –   B.S. Purushotham (Kanjira)