Membership

Shruti Laya cordially invites you to open the 2012 season of music by participating in the celebration of Thyagaraja Aradhana. All are welcome to join the group singing of the Pancharatna Krithis. Please stay on to enjoy three beautiful concerts by our own music teachers in the area.

Artist information

Smt. Sandhya Anand is a graded professional Violinist and Vocalist having exposure to traditional Carnatic Music genre for around 20 years and performed over 800 concerts in India and abroad, having learnt and nurtured the divine art under eminent Gurus Smt. Suguna Varadachari (Vocal), Sri. T.V.Gopalakrishnan and Sri. R. Swaminathan (Violin) and Sri. K.S. Suryanarayanan (Flute). She has accompanied several leading artists on the violin - T. V. Gopalakrishnan, Suguna Varadachary, Sudha Raghunathan, Bombay S. Jayashree, P. Unnikrishnan, Sankari Krishnan, Sikkil Gurucharan, Carnatica Brothers to name a few. - and performed at several prestigious sabhas in Chennai and the USA, the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt, Sringeri Sarada Mutt, as well as in Doordarshan and other TV channels. She has won several awards and competitions including the National Senior Scholarship by the Govt. of India, First in the Kalpathi Rathotsavam Music festival for 4 consecutive years in Violin and two for vocal. She is a postgraduate in Music and Sanskrit.

Dr. Bhavani is a very versatile and accomplished artist in Carnatic Music. She is an A-grade artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan, Chennai. She performs vocal music, veena and venu/ flute. She has several awards, titles and honors to her credit, notably the All India Radio National Award when she was only 17 years old, the Best Concert award from Sri Krishna Gaana Sabha, Chennai, and the Ambujam Krishnan Award from the Madras Music Academy. She has learnt from many eminent Gurus such as Dr. N. Ramani and Sangeetacharya Smt. Suguna Varadachari(teacher of teachers) in Chennai after learning from other Gurus earlier. A concert artist from the age of 12, Dr. Bhavani has performed over 1000 times in India, USA, Canada and Singapore. She has also given or provided support for several lecture-demonstrations, notably one with Prof. T. R. Subramaniam of the Music Department, New Delhi University, and one with Vellore G.Ramabhadran, a world- renowned mridangam artist. She has also provided veena or flute support for numerous good bharatanatyam and kuchipudi dance schools in US. While music is her passion, Dr. Bhavani is a physician practicing internal medicine and nephrology.

Vivek Rudrapatna is a second-generation Indian-American who has been a vital member of the local arts community for over 10 years now. He was fortunate to discover Carnatic Music under Mysore Sateesh, an exceptional local violinist and insightful guru. He has performed as a soloist as well as accompanying regional and international artists at several local sabhas. In addition to Carnatic Classical Music, Vivek has forayed into the world of fusion music with his successful college group "Saptaswara", a melting pot of gypsy, bluegrass, western, and Indian music. Vivek is an MD/PhD candidate at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

Shenthuraan Tharmarajah began his training in mridangam at the tender age of four under the guidance of Guru Dr. C. G. Balachandran. He completed his arangetram in 2002 at the age of eleven and since then, he has accompanied the likes of Sri Maharajapuram Srinivasan, Sri Papanasam Ashok Ramani, Dr. T.V. Gopalakrishnan, and many other artists, both vocal and dance, in programs for various sabhas. The winner of numerous awards, Shenthuraan is now undertaking rigorous advanced training under Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman. Shenthuraan is currently studying at NYU

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Carnatic Music lovers of Long Island and the Five boroughs of New York, now have Shruti Laya to fulfill their dreams of listening to the favorite artists perform in their neighborhood!

The New York area has a large number of rasikas, with a deep interest in Carnatic music. It still gives them great pleasure to listen to this timeless music. Thanks to the many excellent teachers in this area, they are even able to ensure that their children learn this divine art.

Shruti Laya will strive to satisfy the musical needs of this group, with Great Performances by the masters of music, in our own neighbourhood, at a price we can afford. We will also provide a forum for local artists and children to perform on stage, and organize other music related programs.

The basic objective of Shruti Laya is the "promotion and propagation of Carnatic Musical and other closely related classical music and dance performing arts of India, especially among the second generation immigrants". We want to provide a feast of fine music to the adults, and also make sure that this divine art does not die out with our generation, by encouraging and educating our children to appreciate and perform Carnatic music.

We will keep prices low by spreading the costs over a large member base. ALL Shruti Laya programs will be free for children (18 and under).

Please support this venture. Join as a member of Shruti Laya, and help us bring Carnatic Music to New York.

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