Hyderabad: Effectively-known mridangist Dr Yella Venkateshwara Rao will open Kalasagaram’s Sri C.P. Sarathy Memorial Non-Resident Indian (NRI) Artistes Sequence of concert events on Monday. The match will doubtless be held over three days at 6 pm at Meenakshi Sundaram Hall, Shrinath Bhavan Hall.
The opening day will feature a lecture-demonstration titled ‘Splendour of Muthuswamy Dikshitar’ by Jagadisan Shivakumar. Based fully in Northern Virginia, Shivakumar is president of a consulting agency and a eminent musician and musicologist. He is a disciple of Sangeetha Kalacharya Prof. S.R. Janakiraman.
Shivakumar is the founder and director of Gamakam, a music faculty within the Washington DC home that specialises in thematic displays. He has equipped concert events and lecture-demonstrations at several music festivals, composed tunes for rather a number of shlokas, and actively contributes to the neighborhood by teaching devotional kritis, Thyagaraja Pancharatna kritis, and Thiruppavai at a temple in Virginia. His modern music quizzes private earned huge acclaim across the US, in conjunction with on the prestigious Aradhana pageant in Cleveland.
