Past Events

Over the past 4 years, the Indian Fine Arts Academy of San Diego has been able to organize a number of music and nAtya concerts including those by Malladi Brothers, Sudha Raghunathan, Vijay Siva, Prince Rama Varma, Ranjani Gayathri, Shjith Nambiar and Parvathy Menon, Maharajapuram Ramachandran, Dr. L. Subramaniam and Ambi Subramaniam, Priyadarshni Govind, Parthasarathy Desikan, and Rama Vaidyanathan.


Sangeetha Sivakumar

Sangeetha Sivakumar – Madura Geetham
Date: Friday, Nov 18th 2011



Lakshmi Shankar

Lakshmi Shankar – Melody Queen
Date: Friday, Nov 4th 2011



Abhishek Raghuram

Abhishek Raguram – Isai Vaibhavam
Date: Saturday, Oct 29th 2011



Ravi Shankar

An Evening with the Maestro: Celebrating his tenth decade
Date: Sunday, Oct 9th 2011



Dr. Gowri Ramnarayan

Bhakti Poetry
Date: Saturday, Oct 8th 2011



Kadri Gopalanath

Carnatic Quest: A Saxophone Performance
Date: Saturday, October 1st 2011



Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan

Vibrations
Date: Friday, Sept 23rd 2011



Nirmala Rajasekar, Gaurav Majumdar, Thanjavur K Murugaboopathi, Vishal Nagar

Sublime Journey: Celebrating a Confluence of Hindustani and Carnatic Music
Date: Friday, Sept 16th 2011



Smt. Anuradha Shridar & Shriram Brahmanandam

Salutations to the Guru
Date: Saturday, August 27th 2011



Hemmige Srivatsan

In the Footsteps of KVN
Date: Saturday, August 20th 2011



Suguna Purushothaman

Sampradaya
Date: Sunday, June 5th 2011



Priya Sisters

Tracing GNB Bani
Date: May 20th 2011



Sankari Krishnan

Guru Vandanam
Date: May 14th 2011



TM Krishna

An Evening of Classical Brilliance
Date: May 13th 2011



Shankar Mahadevan

Workshop presented by the Shankar Mahadevan Academy.
Date: April 20th 2011



IFAASD Festival 2011: April 13th – April 17th

Event 1
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
April 13th, Wednesday

Learning Padams and Javalis
Lecture Demo

Nirmala Sundararajan & Subhashini Parthasarathy
V V S Murari (Violin)
Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar (Mridangam)
Cleveland Balu (Kanjira)


Event 2
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
April 14, Thursday

Opening Ceremony

Bamboo Melodies
Shashank (Flute)
Akkarai S. Subbulakshmi (Violin)
Parupalli S. Phalgun (Mridangam)


Event 3
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
April 15, Friday

Generations of Genius:
A unique vocal-instrumental jugalbandi featuring
Sangita Kalanidhi Dr M Balamuralikrishna (Vocal )
Sangeet Samrat Chitravina N Ravikiran (Chitravina)
Nagai Muralidharan (Violin)
Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam)
A.S. Murali (Ghatam)


Event 4
8:00 AM – 10:30 AM
April 16, Saturday

Sri Papanasam Sivan’s rAmacaritam – a rAgamAlika
by Students of Sri Venkatachalam

Omkara
by Students of Smt Revathi Subramanian
Cleveland Balu (Kanjira)


10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Break


Event 5
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM
April 16, Saturday

Remembering KVN
Pattabhirama Pandit (Vocal)
Amirtha Murali (Violin)
Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)


12:45 PM – 1:15 PM Lunch


Event 6
1:15 PM – 3:30 PM
April 16, Saturday

Recreating Semmangudi Bani
Sherthali Ranganatha Sarma (Vocal)
Dr. M Narmadha (Violin)
Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam)
A.S. Murali (Ghatam)


3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Break


Event 7
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
April 16, Saturday

Ramayana Bala Kandam and Seeta Kalyanam


Event 8 (SOLD OUT)
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
April 16, Saturday

Honoring Living Legends
Bharat Ratna Ravi Shankar
Padma Vibhushan M. Balamuralikrishna
Padma Bhushan R.K. Srikantan
Padma Shri N. Ramani

7:30 PM – 10:30 PM

Flights of Fantasy
Ganesh – Kumaresh (Violin)
Tanjavur Govindarajan (Thavil)
Patri Satish Kumar (Mridangam)


Event 9
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
April 17, Sunday

Musical Treat
Mambalam Sisters (Vocal)
Amritha Murali (Violin)
Raamkumar Balamurthi (Mridangam)


10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Break


Event 10
10:45 AM – 1:15 PM
April 17, Sunday

Mesmorizing Melodies
Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. R.K. Srikantan (Vocal)
Prof. R.K. Ramakanth (Vocal)
Dr. M. Narmadha (Violin)
Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan (Mridangam)
Cleveland Balu (Kanjira)


1:15 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch


Event 11
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
April 17, Sunday

Sankeerthana Mahathi
Dr. Dwaram Lakshmi (Vocal)
Ranjani Ramakrishnan (Violin)
Kallidaikuruchi Sivakumar (Mridangam)
A.S. Murali (Ghatam)


4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Break


Event 12
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
April 17, Sunday

Nritya Samarchita
Lavanya Ananth


6:30 PM – 7:00 PM Break


Event 13
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
April 17, Sunday

In Tandem – An enchanting Sitar and Tabla concert
Purbayan Chatterjee (Sitar)
Tari Khan (Tabla)

 

IFAASD Concerts in 2008

Carnatic Vocal Concert by Smt. Aruna Sairam
Violin – Sri. H.N. Bhaskar
Mridangam – Sri. J. Vaidyanathan
Date: 16th April, 2008


Whistle Carnatic Concert by WHISTLE Wizard Pt. Siva Prasad
Violin – Sri. R. Kailasam
Mridangam – Sri. Arjun Narayanan
Date: 8th June, 2008


Devotional Singing by Karnataka Kalashree Smt. Ranganayaki Rajan
Flute – Sri. Radhakrishnan
Mridangam – Sri. Raamkumar Balamurthi
Date: 25th July, 2008


Carnatic Vocal Concert by Smt. Sankari Krishnan
Violin – Sri. Arun Ramamurthy
Mridangam – Sri. Raamkumar Balamurthi
Date: 15th August, 2008


Carnatic Vocal Concert by Sri. Sanjay Subramanian
Violin – Sri. Nagai Murali
Mridangam – Sri. Neyveli Venkatesh
Date: 19th September, 2008


Veena Concert by Smt. Geetha Ramanathan Bennet
Mridangam – Sri. Neyveli Narayanan
Ghatam – Sri. Mahesh Chidambara
Morsing – Sri. Nirmal Narayanan
Date: 27th September, 2008


Carnatic Vocal Concert by Sri. Mahrajapuram Ramachandran
Violin – Sri. B.U. Ganesh Prasad
Mridangam – Sri. Mannargudi Easwaran
Date: 11th October, 2008


IFAASD Concerts in 2007

Carnatic Vocal Concert by Gayathri Venkataraghavan

Violin – Akkarai S. Subbalaksmi
Mridangam – Sri Manoj Shiva
Date:28th October, 2007



Carnatic Vocal Concert by “Sangeetha Kalanidhi” Madurai T. N. Sheshagopalan

Violin – Sri Chandramouli
Mridangam – Sri Tanjore Murugabhupathy
Date: 13th October, 2007



Chitravina N Ravikiran’s Workshop on 12 navarana krithis of Uttikadu Venkata Kavi

Date & Time:
7th Oct, 2007 – 1pm – 5pm
8th Oct, 2007 – 6pm to 9pm



Carnatic Vocal Concert by Malladi Brothers

Violin – Sri Embar Kannan
Mridangam – Sri Neyveli Narayanan
Date:21st September, 2007