SRT-CONCERT-8-12-2006-Dr-Bhavani-Prakash.doc

[Guest guest]

SangeetaRanga

 

 

Cordially invites you and your family to celebrate Gokulaashtami

( Chaandramaana Sri.Krishna Janmashtami ) with a grand vocal Carnatic music

concert

At

Sri-Ranga-Mantapam of Sri ranganatha Temple

at 8 Ladentown Road, Pomona, NY 10970 ( www.ranganatha.org )

by Dr. Bhavani Prakash

With

Dr. N. Shashidhar on the violin & Sri Prakash Rao on the mridangam

On Saturday August 12 th 2006 @4:30 pm

 

 

Dr. Bhavani Prakash is a dedicated musician by passion, and is a physician by

profession. Bhavani is very talented. Her music is known for creativity,

variety, raagabhaavam, steady shruti and flowing swaras in sarvalaghu-baani.

Vocal music, flute and veena are long-standing music traditions of India, and

Dr. Bhavani Prakash is an exponent in all three. Bhavani gives vocal concerts,

veena concerts and flute concerts. She has sung or played veena/flute, and

choreographed music for bharatanatyam and kuchipudi dance-concerts for prominent

dance-schools in US. She gives music classes, and has students winning prizes in

vocal, veena & flute.

Bhavani currently takes advanced music lessons from T.M. Krishna, a leading

vocalist of today. Initiated into vocal music at the age of four by her mother,

Smt. Vasantha Subramaniam, a disciple of Sri Delhi Gopalakrishnan and

Sangeeta-aachaarya Sri B. V. Raman, she had some vocal lessons from Rajalakshmi

Narasimhamurthy, a disciple of Dr. D.K.Pattammal, and from Sri Palghat T.R.

Rajaram(son of the legendary Palghat Mani Iyer).

Bhavani had her veena and flute lessons under Sri A. V. Prakash, a disciple of

Dr. N. Ramani.

She won the All India Radio National Award at the age of seventeen. Her other

prominent awards include the First Prize in the National Inter-University Youth

Competitions including Hindustani and Carnatic classical music, the Ambujam

Krishnan Award from the Music Academy, Madras, the Best Artist Award from Sri

Krishna Gana Sabha, Madras, and the titles Ganabharati and Nalinasudhavarshini.

Bhavani is an A-Grade AIR and Doordarshan artist. She has vocal CD albums and

instrumental CD albums to her credit. Bhavani continues to give lessons,

concerts and lecture-demonstrations in the US and in India, including in the

December Music season in Chennai every year. She has also given concerts in

Singapore.

 

Dr. N. SHASHIDHAR received training in violin in the Carnatic style from the

legendary Padmabhushan Sri Lalgudi G. Jayaraman from 1973. Shashidhar has also

received training in vocal Carnatic music and violin Western style. He has given

many solo violin recitals as well as accompanied prominent artists such as Sri

T. N. Seshagopalan, Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna. He has a Ph. D. in Material

Science and works for Corning.

 

Prakash Rao had his initial training in mridangam from Sudarshanaachaarlu, uncle

of one of the Hyderabad Brothers. Since 1982, he has been a student of

Sangeetakalaanidhi Sri Vellore Ramabhadran, one of the greatest exponents on

mridangam and ‘King of the Sarvalaghu-baani’. He has also received some advanved

lessons from Sri Umayaalapuram Shivaraman, Kanjira Nagarajan and from Palghat

Sri T.R. Rajamani, son of the legendary mridanga vidwan Palghat Sri Mani Iyer.

He continues to learn from Sri Vellore Ramabhadran whenever they meet. He has

accompanied many famous and talented musicians such as Lalgudi Sri Jayaraman,

Chitravina Ravi Kiran, and has played in dance programs by several reknowned

dancers. Prakash propogates the sarvalaghu-baani of his guru in his concerts and

in mridangam classes at his home. He has several students. He is a management

consultant by profession.

 

For information, please contact:

Radhika: (201) 666 – 0345 Vijaya (908) 665 9256