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| About
the Artists Prapancham Balachandran (Carnatic Flute)
M A
Sundaresan
(Violin)
Parur M. A.
Krishnaswamy is a violinist in the Carnatic
tradition who hails from the legendary Parur
family of violinists. He had the unique
opportunity to play his maiden performance
with his grandfather Shri Parur A.Sundaram
Iyer in 1965 at Shri Thyagaraja Sangeetha
Vidwath Samajam, Mylapore, Chennai. He started
giving violin duets with his father from 1972
and also started accompanying leading artists
in the carnatic music field. In his professional
career of nearly five decades, he has
accompanied the several stalwarts including
Semmangudi Sreenivasa Iyer, D K Jayaram, R K
Srikantan, T K Govinda Rao, Smt Brinda &
Mukta, M L Vasanthakumari, and D K Pattammal.
Parur M. A. Krishnaswamy, his son Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan and daughter Parur M.S.Ananthasree in AIR and Doordarshan as well as many public performances both in India and abroad. He joined the AIR in 1985 as violin staff artiste. He has given many special programmes such as south zone hookups, chain booking programs, national programs and sangeeth sammelan. He has been part of the 72 mela kartha tala yagnya conducted at AIR Pondicherry. Since joining the AIR he got opportunities to accompany many stalwarts regularly at their special requests and thus has become one of the most sought after violinist. He is now a “TOP RANK” artiste in AIR. In 1985 he visited
USSR to participate in the 12th International
Youth Festival. Since then, he has made
several concert tours to USA, UK, Malaysia,
Australia, France, Germany, & Belgium
Shertalai
R Ananthakrishnan
(Mridangam) Born in a musical
family, Shertalai R Ananthakrishnan has been
initiated into Carnatic Vocal Music by his
mother Lalitha Ramachandran. He had his
initial training in Mridangam at the age of 8
from Vidwan Late K R Bhaskara Kurup.
Later on receiving the Cultural Scholarship
from Govt.of India for advanced studies, he
underwent rigorous training from Vidwan Sri M
Balasubramaniam & also from Vidwan late
Sri Pudukode S Krishnan. Shertalai.R.
Ananthakrishnan is a top rank (Grade) Staff
Artste of All India Radio, Chennai. He
has received numerous awards and felicitations
such as First Prize Award and Scholarship in
the Kerala Sangeeth Natak Academy Music
Competition in 1988. "Best Mridangist" award
from The Music Academy, Madras in the year
2005 & 2007. Honoured by the Chembai
Trust, Trivandrum in 2000 for his exemplary
talent & skill. Meritorious Award
from Maharajapuram Santhanam Trust,
Chennai in the year 2009. Asthana Vidwan
of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham 2009. Kalaimamani
from Govt.of Tamilnadu for the year 2011. Being one of the
leading performing Vidwan of the present, he
has carved a niche of himself He has
accompanied all the leading vidwans of
Karnatic Music, both yesteryear and the
present. He has also performed Jugal bandhi
concerts with Hindustani Musicians.
Apart from playing Mridangam, he is also adept
in playing instruments like Ganjira,
Ghatam,Tabla and in reciting Konnakkal.
Most recently, he had the good fortune to
enact as the Mridangam Legend Shri. Palghat
Mani Iyer in the biopic Drama “ManiOsai” in
2016, staged at The Music Academy, Chennai,
which he considers as the greatest ever Life
time Opportunity & Blessing. He had
presented two special Layavinyasam concert in
2013 & 2017, telecast live by SVBC -
Official TV Channel of Tirupati
Devasthanam. He has been featured in the
prestigious National Programme of Music of All
India Radio in 2017 for a special Layavinyasam
concert titled “Navamani Layam”. D V Venkatasubramaniam (Ghatam) Shri D V Venkatasubramaniam (DV) has learned Mridangam and Ghatam for the past 15 years from Grammy Award Winner, Padmashri, Shri. Vikku T.H. Vinayakaram. He is an A Grade Artist in All India Radio. DV gave hisfirst performance at the age of 18 where he accompanied Dr. Seerkazhi Sivachidmbaram son of the legendary vocalist Sri Seerkazhi Govindarajan. Since then, DV has accompanied with many reputed artists such as Smt. Nithyasree Mahadevan, Smt Ranjani and Smt Gayathri, Sri. M.S. Gopalakrishnan, Smt. Sangeetha Krishnamoorthy, Sri Sriram Gangadhran. DV has performed in many sabha’s like Narada Gana Sabha, Krishna Gana Sabha, Nada Inbham, Tamizhisai Sangam, Mylapore Fine Arts, Karthick Fine Arts, Kapali Fine Arts, and many recognized sabha’s in Hyderabad, Pune, Bombay, Delhi & Kochi in India. He has also performed in “All India Radio”, “Doordarshan” and other Satellite Channels. He has performed under Guru Padmashri Sri. Vikku Vinayakram’s Sapthakshara Troop in Indonesia & Malaysia for Festival of India. He has been part of percussion ensembles led by his guru Sri Vikku Vinayakaram ji, drummer Shri. Sivamani, and Shri.V. Selvaganesh. He is also fortunate to have performed with renowned music director A.R.Rehman for his recordings. DV holds a Bachelor’s degree in commerce from Chennai and an MA in Rhythmology from Madras University. He has been awarded 'Gadamamani' from Nemili Isai Mandram and 'Nadhachudar' Lions Club.
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| Acknowledgments: IMSOM's
Fall 2020 Concert Series has been is made
possible in part, by the UHG “Dollars for
Doers” Grant, matching grants from Honeywell
& US Bank, a generous donation from the
Dr. Dash Foundation, late Dr V Premanand
& family, and the generosity of IMSOM’s
members and donors. The
activity is made possible by voters of
Minnesota through a grant from Minnesota
Regional Arts Council (MRAC), thanks to a
legislative appropriation from the arts
and cultural heritage fund. All
concerts are co-sponsored by KFAI Radio (90.3
FM Mpls/106.7 FM St. Paul).
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