Chennai fine arts

2004-05

A six day music festival was organized in the year 2005 which was named as the ‘Tarana Varusha Utsavam’. The festival was inaugurated by Chitravina Shri N. Narasimhan and Nadopasana Shri R. Srinivasan. The inaugural concert was performed by Smt. Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam along with Smt. Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi and Tiruvarur Shri Vaidyanathan.

Since the year witnessed the sad demise of Vidushi Bharata Ratna Dr. M.S. Subbulakshmi, the festival was dedicated to her memory. The concluding concert of the festival was held on 25th January, the 101st birthday of Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar, on the centenary year of whose memory CFA was founded. Aptly it was performed by his grand children, the Carnatica Brothers – Shashikiran and Chitravina P Ganesh.

Details of Concerts - December 2004

Date	Artists
11.01.2005	Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam – Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan
12.01.2005	Sreyas Narayanan – Vittal Ramamurthy, Umayalpuram Mali
13.01.2005	Gayathri Venkatragavan – Akkarai Subbulakshmi, Trivandrum Balaji, K V Gopalakrishnan
14.01.2005	Trichur Brothers – Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan – V V Ravi, Trichur Mohan, D V Venkatasubramaniam
15.01.2005	Palghat R Ramprasad – Palghat T R Rajaram, Trichur C Narendran
25.01.2005	Carnatica Brothers – K N Shashikiran & Chitravina P Ganesh – M A Krishnaswamy, Srimushnam V Rajarao, Trichy Murali

2005-06

A nine day music festival was organized in the year 2005 which included concerts and lectures by young and senior musicians and eminent scholars.

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam:

Six programmes were featured during this year's vaggeyakkara vaibhavam series. The compositions of devotional composers were exclusively taken up. A lecture and concert following it were held.

Details of Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam Concerts - 2005-06

Date	Topic	Concert by
7.12.2005	Azvargal aruliya amudangal	Dr. S Sunder
8.12.2005	Purandaradasa	T.M. Krishna
9.12.2005	Oothukadu Venkatakavi	Chitravina N Ravikiran
10.12.2005	Syama Sastri	R. Ganesh
11.12.2005	Swati Tirunal	Sreevalsan J Menon
12.12.2005	Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna	Aswati Tirunal Rama Varma

Visesha Vadyanubhava:

Visesha Vadyanubhava provides platform to variety of musical instruments. Chennai Fine Arts is one of the pioneers in organizing instrumental music concerts of veterans and youngsters.

Details of Visesha Vadyanubhava Concerts - 2005-06

Date	Artists	Instrument
04.12.2005	Chitravina P Ganesh	Chitravina
05.12.2005	B. Sivakumar	Veena
09.12.2005	U.P. Raju & Ms. Nagamani	Mandolin Duet
11.12.2005	G.S. Rajan	Flute

Details of Other Concerts - December 2005

Date	Artists
04.12.2005	O.S. Thiagarajan - Embar Kannan, Srimushnam Rajarao, H.S. Sudheendra
	Smt. Ranjani Chander (Bhajans & Abhangs) - Shertalai Sivakumar, B. Sivaraman
	T.K. Ramachandran - T.K. Padmanabhan, B. Sivaraman
	Chitravina P Ganesh - Mysore V Srikanth, Mannargudi Eswaran, N. Amrit
05.12.2005	Savita Narasimhan - Charumathi Raghuram, R. Sankaranarayanan
05.12.2005	B. Sivakumar - K.V. Prasad, T.V. Vasan
06.12.2005	Baby Sriram - Shertalai Sivakumar, Trivandrum Balaji
06.12.2005	Dr. T. Lokanadha Sharma - Akkarai Subbulakshmi, Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan, Trichy K. Murali
07.12.2005	Trichy Pradeep Kumar - Karaikal Venkatasubramaniam, B. Srivatsan
07.12.2005	Dr. S. Sunder - Charulatha Ramanujam, Neyveli Narayanan, Madipakkam Murali
08.12.2005	S. Mahathi - S.P. Ananthapadmanabha, M.S. Varadan, Nerkunam S. Shankar
08.12.2005	T.M. Krishna - Vittal Ramamurthy, K. Arunprakash, S. Karthick
09.12.2005	U.P. Raju & Mrs. Nagamani - Neyveli B. Venkatesh, Trichy K. Murali
09.12.2005	Chitravina N Ravikiran - Latha Ganapathy, M.A. Sundareswaran, Guruvayur Dorai, B.S. Purushotham
10.12.2005	Srividya Ganesan - Kandadevi S Vijayaraghavan, Madipakkam Suresh, Madipakkam Gopalakrishnan
10.12.2005	R. Ganesh - R. Kumaresh, P Satishkumar, S.V. Ramani
11.12.2005	G.S. Rajan - Viju Anand, Lalgudi Sriganesh
11.12.2005	Sreevalson J Menon - M.A. Sundareswaran, Tiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam, V Suresh
12.12.2005	Aparna Thiagarajan - Melakaveri Thiagarajan, Aswin Sridhar
12.12.2005	Aswathi Tirunal Rama Varma - S. Varadarajan, Shertalai Ananthakrishnan, Udupi Sridhar

2006-07

December 2006 was another grand year for CFA with the twelve-day music festival. The festival featured concerts and lectures categorized under the themes of Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam, Visesha Vadyanubhava and Yuvakala Vaibhavam. A variety of artistes and scholars took part in the festival. Smt. Suguna Purushothaman, Dr. B.M. Sundaram and Shri Nadopasana Srinivasan were among the dignitaries who attended the inaugural function. The inaugural concert was a violin performance by the Akkarai Sisters Subbulakshmi and Swarnaltha.

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam:

A lecture demonstration and a concert based on the topic of the lecture are the contents of a Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam programme. The lecture focuses on the compositions and contributions of a composer of Carnatic music. During the year under consideration, nine lectures and concerts were featured in Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam series.

Details of Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam Concerts - 2006-07

Date	Topic	Concert by
16.12.2006	Varnams	Seetha Rajan
17.12.2006	Compositions of Subbaraya Sastri	N. Vijay Siva
18.12.2006	Tanjore Quartette	Suguna Varadachari
19.12.2006	Patnam Subramanya Iyer	Bangalore S Shankar
20.12.2006	Sanskrit compositions of Tyagaraja	Chitravina N Ravikiran
21.12.2006	Padams and Javalis	Rama Ravi & Nanditha Ravi
22.12.2006	Thanjavur Shankara Iyer	Dr. S. Sunder
23.12.2006	Nagasvaram	Injikkudi E.M. Subramaniyam
24.12.2006	Veena	S. Srinivasan

Visesha Vadyanubhava:

Instrumental music - more specifically of instruments which belong to the south Indian classical music genre is featured exclusively in the Visesha Vadyanubhava Concerts. Chennai Fine Arts has remained one of the pioneers in supporting instrumental music performances.

Details of Visesha Vadyanubhava Concerts - 2006-07

Date	Artists	Instrument
16.12.2006	Akkarai sisters – Subbulakshmi & Swarnalatha	Violin duet
23.12.2006	Bhargavi Ganesh	Chitravina
	Thiruvallur K.J. Perumal	Nagasvaram
	Injikkudi E.M. Subramanyam	Nagasvaram
24.12.2006	Seetha Duraiswamy	Jalatharangam
	Rama Raghuram	Veena
	S. Srinivasan	Veena
25.12.2006	S. Gopakumar, S.G. Vijayasri, T.R. Aravind Koushik, L. Janarthanan, C. Saravanan	Arumukhanam
	Anayampatti Ganesan	Jalatharangam
	Iyer Brothers – Ramnath & Gopinath	Veena
26.12.2006	Lavanya & Subbulakshmi	Saxophone Duet
27.12.2006	Lalitha & Nandini	Violin Duet

Details of Other Concerts - December 2006

Date	Artists
17.12.2006	A. Gayathri Devi – Akkarai Swarnalatha, Aswin Sridhar
17.12.2006	M. Balamuralikrishna (Junior) – Padma Shankar, S. Gopakumar
18.12.2006	Pallavi Prasanna – Anayampatti Venkatasubramaniam, Venkatasubramaniam
18.12.2006	S.R. Veeraraghavan – Ranjani Ramakrishnan, Erode Nagaraj
19.12.2006	N. Harish – M.S. Ananthakrishnan, S.J. Arjun Ganesh
19.12.2006	Salem Gayathri Venkatesh – V. Suresh Babu, Nellai Balaji
20.12.2006	K. Gayathri – Jayanthy Kesav, Delhi Rajasubramaniam
20.12.2006	Sriram Parthasarathy – Karaikkal Venkatasubramaniam, H.S. Sudheendra
21.12.2006	Uthra Rajamani – T.K. Padmanabhan, R. Bhaskaran
21.12.2006	Girish S – V.V. Srinivasa Rao, B. Sivaraman
22.12.2006	Prarthana Rao – R. Kailasam, R. Sankaranarayanan
	Delhi P. Sunderrajan – Avaneeswaram S.R. Vinu, K. Sadgurucharan
	Thanjavur Shankara Iyer – Pakala Ramadas, Umayalpuram Mali
	Dr. S. Sunder – Pakala Ramadas, Umayalpuram Mali
26.12.2006	Aiyyar sisters – Srividhya & Sudha – Vijay, Harishkumar
26.12.2006	Poornapragna Rao – Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan, Trichur Narendran
27.12.2006	Niranjana Srinivasan – Neela Jayakumar, Jayakumar
	Calcutta Shankar – Melakaveri Thyagarajan, Tanjavur Subramaniam
	Akkarai Subhasree – Akkarai Murugan, Chromepet G. Suresh, Madipakkam Gopalakrishnan

2007-08

December 2007 was eventful for CFA with the twelve-day grand music festival. The festival featured concerts and lectures on the themes of Vaggeyakara Vaibhava, Visesha Vadyanubhava, Ragam Tanam Pallavi and Yuvakala Vaibhavam. A spectrum of artistes ranging from the veterans to the amateurs was part of the festival. Shri M. Krishnaswamy presided over the inaugural function. Shri Raghunathan of Bhimas Hotel Tirupathy was the Chief Guest and Shri Nadopasana Srinivasan was the Guest of Honor. Legal consultant Shri Parameswara Iyer lit the lamp. The inaugural concert was performed by Smt. Bushany Kalyanaraman.

Apart from the December festival, CFA also organized a special lecture on Nagasvaram on the 21st of July, 2007. Dr. B.M. Sundaram presented the lecture which was followed by an exclusive concert by Shri Kalyanapuram Srinivasan and party. The seminar was inaugurated by Mr. Ramji of Makkal Kural. Noted musicians and musicologists like Dr. N. Ramanathan were among the dignitaries present.

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam:

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam aimed at exposing various great composers of Carnatic music apart from the well-known trinity, pre-trinity and post-trinity composers is held every year in which a lecture on the musical contributions of a particular composer is presented by a scholar. This is followed by the rendition of a few of his/her compositions. During the year under consideration, seven lectures and concerts were held categorized under Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam.

Details of Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam Concerts - 2007-08

Date	Topic	Concert by
12.12.2007	Compositions of Dandapani Desikar	Bushani Kalyanaraman
13.12.2007	Compositions of Neelakanta Sivan	Thiruvaiyaru Brothers - Narasimhan & Venkatesan
14.12.2007	Compositions of Thiruvarur Ramasamy Pillai	Dr Subhashini Parthasarathy
15.12.2007	Compositions of Kavikunjara Bharati	Shertalai Ranganatha Sharma
16.12.2007	Compositions of Thiruvotriyur Tyagayyar	Suguna Purushothaman
17.12.2007	Compositions of Madurai G S Mani	Madurai G S Mani
18.12.2007	Compositions of Dr. V V Srivatsa	Neela Ramgopal

Visesha Vadyanubhava:

This program acts as a platform for instrumental music - more specifically of instruments which belong to the south Indian classical music genre. Chennai Fine Arts has remained one of the pioneers in supporting instrumental music concerts.

Details of Visesha Vadyanubhava Concerts - 2007-08

Date	Artists	Instrument
19.12.2007	Nirmala Rajasekar	Veena
19.12.2007	Allam Durgaprasad	Gotuvadyam
20.12.2007	N Anantanarayanan	Veena
	Atul Kumar	Flute
	Jayanthi Kumaresh	Veena

RTP Series:

Pallavi rendition is considered one of the most challenging aspects of Carnatic music. A special programme featuring Ragam Tanam Pallavi (RTP) was organized in which young artistes performed. The series of concerts enthralled the audience and performers alike.

Details of Ragam Tanam Pallavi Concerts - December 2007

Date	Artists	Ragam - talam
13.12.2007	Charulatha Mani - Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan, Melakkaveri Balaji	Saveri - Adi (Kanda nadai)
14.12.2007	Sikkil Gurucharan - S Varadarajan, Neyveli Skandasubramanian	Lathangi - Misra Triputa
15.12.2007	Nandita Ravi - Padma Shankar, S J Arjunganesh	Shanmukhapriya - Khanda Triputa
16.12.2007	V Sankaranarayanan - V Sanjeev, Mannarkoil J Balaji	Kalyani - Misra Jhampa (Tisra gati)
17.12.2007	Nisha Rajagopal - Shertalai Sivakumar, Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar	Ranjani - Misra Triputa
18.12.2007	Kalpana Venkat - Kalyani Shankar, Neyveli Narayanan	Bhairavi - Chatusra Jhampa (4 Kalai)

2008-09

During 2008, the festival was classified under three major categories namely Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam, Visesha Vadyanubhava and RTP Festival. Chevalier Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna was the Chief Guest of the inaugural function. Shri R. Kumar, Managing Director of Navin Housing Properties Pvt. Ltd., was the Guest of Honor and the felicitations were rendered by Vidvan Madurai G.S. Mani. Kumari K. Gayathri rendered the invocation song of the festival. The inaugural concert was performed by Smt. Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam along with Smt. Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, Shri Kallidaikuruchi Sivakumar and Shri P.S. Ramanujam.

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam:

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam is ideally an exposition of various great composers of Carnatic music apart from the well-known trinity, pre-trinity and post-trinity composers. A program under this category comprises of a lecture on the musical contributions of a particular composer followed by the rendition of a few of his/her compositions.

Details of Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam Concerts - December 2008

DATE	TOPIC	CONCERT BY
09.12.2008	Compositions of Dr B M Sundaram	Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam
10.12.2008	Compositions of Mysore Veena Seshanna	Rudrapatnam Brothers - Dr Taranathan & Tyagarajan
11.12.2008	Compositions of Gopalakrishna Bharati	Vasundra Rajagopal
12.12.2008	Compositions of Walajapettai Venkatramana Bagavathar	Prema Rangarajan
13.12.2008	Compositions of 'Poochi' Srinivasa Iyengar	Lakshmi Rangarajan
14.12.2008	Compositions of Vaideeswarankoil Subbarama Iyer	Nirmala Parthasarathy & Dr Subashini Parthasarathy
15.12.2008	Compositions of Smt Suguna Purushothaman	Suguna Purushothaman
16.12.2008	Mukhaveena	Injikudi Subramaniam
17.12.2008	Sanskrit Compositions of Madurai G S Mani	Madurai G S Mani

Visesha Vadyanubhava:

This program is exclusively for the showcase of instrumental music - more specifically of instruments which belong to the south Indian classical music genre. In times when concerts of instrumental music are a rarity, Chennai Fine Arts ensures the upkeep of our cultural tradition by organizing concerts featuring instruments like Chitraveena, Veena, Jalatarangam, Mukhaveena and so on.

Details of Visesha Vadyanubhava Concerts - December 2008

Date	Artists	Instrument
14.12.2008	B. Sivakumar	Veena
16.12.2008	Injikudi Subramaniam	Mukhaveena
16.12.2008	Manjari Chandran Ramesh	Veena

RTP Series:

During the December Music Festival, a special programme exclusively for Ragam Tanam Pallavi (RTP) was organized.

Details of Ragam Tanam Pallavi Concerts - December 2008

Date	Artists
10.12.2008	Delhi Muthukumar - V V Srinivasa Rao, A M Harinarayanan
11.12.2008	Bhavadharini - Akkarai Swarnalatha, Erode Nagarajan
12.12.2008	R Sooryaprakash - K Venkatasubramaniam, Neyveli Venkatesh
13.12.2008	Vizianagaram D Vardhani - R Ambikaprasad, T R Sundaresan
14.12.2008	B Sivakumar (Veena) - Thumkur Ravishankar, Udupi Balakrishnan
15.12.2008	K Gayathri - S P Ananthapadmanabha, R Sankaranarayanan
16.12.2008	Manjari Chandran Ramesh (Veena) - Tanjore K Praveen Kumar, Nanganallur Swaminathan
17.12.2008	D J Balakrishna - R kailasam, Aswin Sridharan

2009-10

The seventh year festival was exclusively for Ragam, Tanam and Pallavi. Vibrant young artistes rendered thought-provoking pallavis during the four day RTP festival. Dr. Sridhar, IAS, was the Chief Guest of this year's inaugural function. Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna presided over the function and Dr. B.M. Sundaram was the Guest of Honor. The inaugural concert was a violin duet performed by Prof. T.N. Krishnan and Smt. Viji Krishnan.

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam:

Details of Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam Concerts - 2009-10

Date	Topic
19.04.2009	Compositions of Mysore Veena Seshanna
26.04.2009	Compositions of Gopalakrishna Bharati
26.09.2009	Compositions of Vaideeswarankoil Subbarama Iyer
11.12.2009	Compositions of K Ponnayya Pillai
12.12.2009	Compositions of Jayachamaraja Wodeyar
13.12.2009	Compositions of Pallavi Gopala Iyer, Mambalam Sisters - Vijayalakshmi & Chitra
14.12.2009	Sangita Sthita Prajna Prof T R Subramanian, Dr Radha Venkatachalam

Visesha Vadyanubhava:

This program is a platform for instrumental music - more specifically of instruments which belong to the south Indian classical music genre. Chennai Fine Arts has remained one of the pioneers in supporting instrumental music concerts.

Details of Visesha Vadyanubhava Concerts - 2009-10

Date	Artists	Instrument
22.05.2009	D J Balakrishna	Veena
29.07.2009	Chitraveena P Ganesh	Chitraveena
10.12.2009	Prof. T N Krishnan & Smt Viji Krishnan Natarajan - Guruvayur Durai, T V Vasan	Violin duet

RTP Series:

In the seventh year of Chennai Fine Arts' December Music Festival, a special programme featuring Ragam Tanam Pallavi (RTP) was organized in which young artistes performed with acumen.

Details of Ragam Tanam Pallavi Concerts - December 2009

Date	Artists
11.12.2009	Niranjana Srinivasan - Akkarai Sornalatha, M S Venkatasubramaniam
12.12.2009	T K Ramachandran - Shertalai Sivakumar, T R Sundaresan
13.12.2009	G Madhavan - Dr R Hemalatha, K S Ramana
14.12.2009	Srividya Ramnath - Srividya R S Iyer, Erode Nagarajan

2010-11

This festival was dedicated to the great musician and artiste Shri. S. Rajam who made outstanding contributions to music by way of his vocal renditions and also his thematic paintings.

Vidvan Shri Chitravina Narasimhan lit the lamp and inaugurated this year's festival. Shri Balasubramaniam, Chairman of City Union Bank was the Chief Guest and Shri N. Murali, President of Music Academy and Managing Director of The Hindu, presided over the function. Dr. B.M. Sundaram rendered felicitations to Violin wizard Shri V. Narasimhan, who was the recipient of the maiden Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar Award for Excellence. The inaugural concert was performed by the String Quartette, led by Shri V. Narasimhan.

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam:

Details of Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam Concerts - December 2010

Date	Topic & Concert by
06.12.2010	Compositions of Lalgudi Shri. G. Jayaraman Sankari Krishnan, followed by S.P. Ramh, Vittal Ramamurthy – Violin, B. Sivaraman - Mrudangam
07.12.2010	Compositions of Mysore Vasudevacharya Rudrapatnam Brothers – Dr. R.N. Taranathan & R.N. Thiagarajan, M.R. Gopinath – Violin, Srimushnam V Rajarao – Mrudangam
08.12.2010	Compositions of Mazhavai Chidambara Bharati Dr. Premeela Gurumurthy, Pakala Ramadoss – Violin, A.S. Ranganathan – Mrudangam
09.12.2010	Javalis Dr. Subhashini Parthasarathy, Padma Shankar – Violin, Tanjavur Kumar – Mrudangam
10.12.2010	Compositions of Koteesvara Iyer Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam, V.V.S. Murari – Violin, Melakkaveri Balaji – Mrudangam
11.12.2010	Comparative study of Indian Music Dr. M. Narmada, Kudanthai A. Saravanan – Mrudangam, M.N. Munesh - Tabla

Visesha Vadyanubhava:

Details of Visesha Vadyanubhava Concerts - December 2010

Date	Artists
11.12.2010	S. Srinivasan – Veena, Shertala R Ananthakrishnan (Mrudangam), Vaikom R Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam).
12.12.2010	Chaitanyakumar – Flute – Kandadevi S Vijayaraghavan (Violin), Tanjavur R Praveenkumar (Mrudangam)
12.12.2010	Chitravina P Ganesh – Chitravina, Mysore V Srikanth (Violin), Tanjore R Murugabhoopathy (Mrudangam), Dr S Karthik (Ghatam)
13.12.2010	Aanayampatti Ganesan – Jalatarangam, Anayampatti Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), Madrimangalam Swaminathan (Mrudangam), Trichy K Murali (Ghatam)

Yuvakala Vaibhavam:

Yuvakala Vaibhavam is organized to provide a platform to the young up-coming artists to exhibit their musical prowess. By encouraging young talents Chennai Fine Arts is taking a step forward in preserving Carnatic music and making it available in its pristine form to posterity.

Details of Yuvakala Vaibhavam Concerts - December 2010

Date	Artists
14.12.2010	K. Subiksha (Vocal), Kaushik Sivaramakrishnan (Violin), M S Venkatasubramanian (Mrudangam)
	Cuddalore S K Janani (Vocal), Jayanthy Keshav (Violin), K Parthasarathy (Mrudangam)
	Maharajapuram Ganesh Viswanathan (Vocal), Melakaveri Thiagarajan (Violin), T R Sundaresan (Mrudangam)
15.12.2010	J B Sruti Sagar (Flute), Sangeetha (Violin), Srivanchiam R Sriram (Mrudangam)
15.12.2010	Arundathi Krishnan (Vocal), R Kailasam (Violin), Udupi Balakrishnan (Mrudangam)
15.12.2010	Trichur Brothers - Srikrishnamohan & Ramkumar Mohan (Vocal duet), Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan (Violin), Trichur R Mohan (Mrudangam), Anirudh Athreya (Kanjira)
16.12.2010	Uthra Rajamani (Vocal), Parur M S Ananthakrishnan (Violin), N C Bharathwaj (Mrudangam)
	Gayathri Sathya (Vocal), C K Vijayaraghavan (Violin), Madipakkam Suresh (Mrudangam), P S Ramanujam (Morsing)
	Dr. B. Vijayagopal (Flute), V L Kumar (Violin), H S Sudheendra (Mrudangam)

2011-12

December 2011 saw a number of activities at the festival organized by Chennai Fine Arts. A total of twenty-four concerts and four lecture demonstrations were performed by veteran artistes and eminent scholars. The festival was classified under three major categories namely Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam, Visesha Vadyanubhava and Yuvakala Vaibhavam. The festival spanning twelve days began with a grand inauguration on the 21st of December 2011.

Shri. S.S. Jawahar, I.A.S., Commissioner of Art & Culture, Government of Tamil Nadu, presided over the function and Mrudangam Maestro Prof. Trichy Sankaran delivered the felicitation address. The inaugural concert was by Shri. R.K. Srikantan with Shri. R.S. Ramakanth, Chitravina Shri. N. Ravikiran, Srimushnam Shri. V. Rajarao and Trichy Shri. Murali.

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam:

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam aims at elucidating the works of various great composers of Carnatic music apart from the well-known trinity, pre-trinity and post-trinity composers. A program under this category comprises of a lecture on the musical contributions of a particular composer followed by the rendition of a few of his/her compositions. About fifty rare composers have been featured under this category in the festival of Chennai Fine Arts over the years.

Details of Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam Concerts - December 2011

Date	Topic & Concert by
22.12.2011	Varalakshmi Anandkumar with Melakaveri Tyagarajan and B. Ganapathyraman
22.12.2011	Compositions of Margadarsi Seshayyangar by Dr. Prema Rangarajan with Usha Rajagopalan and Melakkaveri Balaji
23.12.2011	Compositions of Irayimman Thampi by Madhavan Namboothri with M.R. Gopinath and Udupi Sridhar
24.12.2011	Compositions of Chitravina N Ravikiran by B. Bhargavi with Ranjani Ramakrishna, H S Sudheendra
24.12.2011	Compositions of Chitravina N Ravikiran by Kunnakudi M Balamuralikrishna with V.L. Kumar and Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar

Visesha Vadyanubhava:

Traditional instrument belonging to the south Indian classical music genre are featured in the concerts held under the category Visesha Vadyanubhava. In times when concerts of instrumental music are a rarity, Chennai Fine Arts ensures the upkeep of our cultural tradition by organizing concerts featuring instruments like Chitraveena, Veena, Jalatarangam, Mukhaveena and so on.

Details of Visesha Vadyanubhava Concerts - December 2011

Date	Artists (Instrument)
23.12.2011	Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena), B Sivaraman (Mrudangam), Nanganallur Swaminathan (Ghatam)
25.12.2011	M.S. Gopalakrishnan, Dr. M. Narmada & G. Sureshkumar (Violin Trio), Neyveli Narayanan (Mrudangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)
26.12.2011	Mudikondan Ramesh (Veena), A S Ranganathan (Mrudangam), Srirangam S Ravikrishnan (Ghatam), P S Ramanujam (Morsing)
26.12.2011	Injikkudi E.M. Subramaniam (Nagasvaram), Talachankodu T M Ramanathan and Sembanarkoil S M Babu (Tavil)
27.12.2011	B. Kannan (Veena), M A Krishnaswami (Violin), Akshay Ram & Bhairav Chandrasekar (Double Mrudangam), N Sundar (Tabla & Morsing)
27.12.2011	Dr. N. Ramani (Flute), Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), Mannargudi Eswaran (Mrudangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)
28.12.2011	U.P. Raju & Smt. Nagamani (Mandoli Duet), Australia Ravichandran (Mrudangam), Trichy Murali (Ghatam), Sai Nivedhan (Kanjeera)

Yuvakala Vaibhavam:

Details of Yuvakala Vaibhavam Concerts - December 2011

Date	Artists
28.12.2011	S. Nithyasree (Veena) - Ashwin Sridharan (Mrudangam)
28.12.2011	Manasi Prasad (Vocal) - R. Kailasam (Violin), Ashwin Sridharan (Mrudangam)
29.12.2011	Akkarai Subhasree (Vocal) - Villivakkam Raghuraman (Violin), Udupi Balakrishnan (Mrudangam)
29.12.2011	Kishan Jayendran (Mandolin) - Sudha R.S. Iyer (Violin), M.S. Venkatasubramaniam (Mrudangam)
29.12.2011	Vidya Kalyanaraman (Vocal) - Sudha R.S. Iyer (Violin), Tanjore K. Praveen Kumar (Mrudangam)
31.12.2011	Vallivalam Venkatraman (Vocal) - Villivakkam Raghuraman (Violin), M.S. Venkatasubramaniam (Mrudangam)
	Ragavendra R (Vocal) - R. Rahul (Violin), R. Parthasarathy (Mrudangam)
	Smt. Pushpa Anand (Pandurangan Abhangs) & Party

2012-13

Balamurali Music Festival:

Chennai Fine Arts inaugurated the first-ever ‘Balamurali Music Festival’ named after the living legend Dr Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna, on Sunday, 5th August, 2012. This is one of the major events this year.

Details of Concerts

Date	Concert by
05.08.2012	INAUGURAL CONCERT Gayathri Venkatraghavan Poongulam Subramaniam – Mrudangam, Padma Shankar – Violin, Anirudh Athreya – Kanjira
06.08.2012	Shreya Devnath – Violin Solo Kumbakonam Swaminathan – Mrudangam, Chandrasekara Sharma – Ghatam
06.08.2012	Trichur V Ramachandran M.R. Gopinath – Violin, Umayalpuram Mali – Mrudangam, Papanasam Sethuraman - Kanjira
07.08.2012	R Lakshmi – Veena Sivasubramanian S – Mrudangam, Nanganallur Swaminathan - Ghatam
07.08.2012	Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi – Violin Duet J Vaidyanathan – Mrudangam, S Venkatramanan - Kanjira
08.08.2012	Pallavi Prasanna B. Ganapathy Raman – Mrudangam, Akkarai Sornalatha – Violin
08.08.2012	Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar – Flute Dr R Hemalatha – Violin, Kallidaikuruchi Sivakumar – Mrudangam, K.V. Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira
09.08.2012	Rithvik Raja M. Vijay – Violin, Tanjore K Praveenkumar – Mrudangam
09.08.2012	Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh – Veena Neyveli R Narayanan – Mrudangam, Trichy Krishna – Ghatam
10.08.2012	Deepak Krishnamurthy R. Kailasam – Violin, Nellai Srikrishnan – Mrudangam
10.08.2012	M.S. Anantharaman, M.A. Sundaresan, M.A. Krishnaswamy & M.S. Ananthakrishnan – Violin Quartet Shertalai R Ananthakrishnan – Mrudangam, Trichy K Murali – Ghatam
11.08.2012	Anahita & Apoorva – Vocal duet S.P. Ananthapadmanabha – Violin, M.S. Venkatasubramanian – Mrudangam
11.08.2012	Suguna Purushothaman Dr. M Narmada – Violin, Tanjavur Kumar – Mrudangam, Pudukkotai N Ramachandran - Ghatam

Centenarians’ Carnival

This year witnesses the rarest combination of the birth centenaries of eight great carnatic musicians. It includes Alathur Srinivasa Iyer, T K Rangachari, Madurai Mani Iyer, Brinda (vocalists), Mayavaram Govindaraja Pillai (Violinist), Palghat Mani Iyer (Mrudangam), Alangudi Ramachandran (Ghatam) and Mannargudi Sambasiva Bhagavatar (Vocalist, Composer and Harikatha artiste). To celebrate this unique occasion, Chennai Fine Arts organised the Centenarians’ Carnival. It was inaugurated on Friday, the 28th December, aptly by London Shri V G Sundaram, a connoisseur of music who completed 100 years of age this year.

Date	Concert by
28.12.2012	INAUGURAL CONCERT Dr T V Gopalakrishnan Guruvayur Durai – Mrudangam, V V Subramaniam – Violin,Vijay Natesan – Kanjira
29.12.2012	Madhumohan – Vocal Kalakadu Srinivasan – Mrudangam, V L Sudharsan – Violin
	Prapancham Balachandran - Flute V V Srinivasa Rao – Violin, R Ramesh – Mrudangam,
	Dr R Vedavalli – Vocal Dr R Hemalatha – Violin, K Arunprakash – Mrudangam, N Guruprasad - Ghatam
30.12.2012	Ranjani Sivakumar – Vocal S P Anantapadmanabha – Violin, Ramkumar - Mrudangam
	S Sivakumar – Veena Mannarkoil Balaji – Mrudangam, Trichy Krishna - Ghatam
	Suguna Varadachari – Vocal Usha Rajagopalan – Violin, Melakaveri Balaji – Mrudangam, Madipakkam murali - Ghatam
31.12.2012	S Srinivasan - Veena Neyveli Narayanan – Mrudangam, Madipakkam Murali – Ghatam
31.12.2012	V V Subrahmanyam & V V S Murari – Violin duet, Dr T V Gopalakrishnan – Mrudangam, Tirupunithura Radhakrishnan - Ghatam

Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar Music Festival

The grand music festival organised by Chennai Fine Arts commemorating the 110th birth anniversary of Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar as well as the tenth anniversary of the organisation was inaugurated on Monday, the 28th January. Senior vocalist Smt Suguna Purushothaman inaugurated the festival and delivered inaugural address. Mrudangam maestro Dr T K Murthy was presented the Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar Award for Excellence. Vidwan Kalaimamani Madras A Kannan presided over and presented the award. Renowned musicologist Dr B M Sundaram felicitated Dr T K Murthy and went down the memory lane to share rare information about him. Dr T K Murthy, in his acceptance speech, thanked CFA for presenting him the award. He also gave interesting anecdotes from his performance career spanning more than eighty years.

Date	Concert by
28.01.2013 Monday	Inaugural Function Presentation of Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar Award for Excellence to Dr T K Murthy (Mrudangam maestro).
	Inaugural concert – Kum A Kanyakumari, V Sanjeev & Embar Kannan (Violin) Mannargudi Eswaran (Mrudangam), B S Purushotham (Kanjira)
29.01.2013 Tuesday	Vadya Tarangini V L Kumar (Violin), Allam Durgaprsad (Atichitravina), Tiruvarur Swaminathan (Flute), K V Prasad (Mrudangam) & Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)
	T V Sankaranarayanan – Vocal H N Bhaskar (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mrudangam), K V Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)
30.01.2013 Wednesday	Vishal Sapuram - Chitravina Akkarai Sornalatha (Violin), T.K. Ramakrishnan (Mrudangam), Papanasam Sethuraman (Kanjira)
	O.S. Tyagarajan – Vocal Mysore V Srikanth (Violin), Mannargudi Eswaran (Mrudangam), S Venkatramanan (Kanjira)
31.01.2013 Thursday	Akkarai Sisters Subbulakshmi & Sornalatha – Vocal duet H N Baskar (Violin),Neyveli Narayanan (Mrudangam), Dr S Karthik (Ghatam)
	Prof T.N. Krishnan – Violin Manoj Siva (Mrudangam), N Amrith (Kanjira), N Guruprasad (Ghatam)
01.02.2013 Friday	Trichur Brothers Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar – Vocal duet Mullaivasal Chandramouli (Violin), Trichur Mohan (Mrudangam), D V Venkatasubramaniam (Ghatam)
	Ramakrishnan Murthy - Vocal Delhi Sunderrajan (Violin), Mannarkoil J Balaji (Mrudangam), Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)
02.02.2013 Saturday	Mambalam Sisters Vijayalakshmi & Chitra – Vocal duet Dr R Hemalatha (Violin), B Ganapathyraman (Mrudangam), Chandrasekara Sarma (Ghatam)
	Madurai T N Seshagopalan – Vocal M Chandrasekaran (Violin), Trichur Narendran (Mrudangam), B S Purushothaman (Kanjira)

2013-14

DIVINE COMPOSERS

CFA is known for its thematic presentations on composers (vaggeyakaras). Every year it organizes programs on many rare composers and documents them for archival, publications and future references. The event on divine composers was held between 4th and 10th December 2013 and it focused on eight composers namely Annamacharya, Badrachala Ramadas, Manambuccavadi Venkatasubbayya, Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan, Arunachala Kavi, Veena Seshanna, Mannargudi Sambasiva Bhagavatar and Tadepally Venkata Subrahmanya Sastri.

Details of Concerts

Day & Date	5.00-6.30 p.m.		6.30-8.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 04.12.2013	Sunil Gargyan S P Anantapadmanabha Guru Raghavendra	Vocal Violin Mrudangam	Compositions of Veena Seshanna Prof. Mysore Subramanya Ganakala Bushana Prof. Rajalakshmi Thirunarayanan & Vidushi Rathnaprabha Krishnan Vasudha Keshav Raghul Kallidaikuruchi Sivakumar Adambakkam Shankar		Veena Duet Vocal Violin Mrudangam Ghatam
Thursday, 05.12.2013	Raghav Krishna Melakaveri Tyagarajan M S Venkatasubramaniam	Vocal Violin Mrudangam	Compositions of Badrachala Ramadas Dr Premeela Gurumurthy Shertalai R Sivakumar Mannarkoil J Balaji S Venkatramanan		Vocal Violin Mrudangam Kanjeera
Friday, 06.12.2013	Jayakrishnan G Sureshkumar Ashwin Sridharan	Vocal Violin Mrudangam	Compositions of Mannargudi Sambasiva Bhagavatar Dr M Chandrasekar Mysore Srikanth Guruvayur Durai & Vazhuvoor Babu Trichy Murali		Vocal Violin Mrudangam Ghatam
Saturday, 07.12.2013	C K Pavandeep M rajeev Vijay Natesan	Vocal Violin Mrudangam		Compositions of Annamacharya Dr S Sunder (C) V L Kumar Kudanthai Saravanan K B Hariharan	Vocal Violin Mrudangam Ghatam
Sunday, 08.12.2013	Keerthana J B C K Vijayaraghavan Erode Nagarajan	Vocal Violin Mrudangam		Compositions of Tadepalli Subramanya Sastri Dr Tadepalli Lokanadha Sarma V V Srinivasa Rao A S Ranganathan S Hariharasubramaniyam	Vocal Violin Mrudangam Ghatam
Monday, 09.12.2013	S Girijashankar K J Dileep Sumesh Narayanan	Vocal Violin Mrudangam		Compositions of Arunachala Kavi R Surya Prakash V Sanjeev Tanjore Kumar Papanasam Sethuraman	Vocal Violin Mrudangam Kanjeera
Tuesday, 10.12.2013	Sreesha & Sreeusha K S Ramana G Subbarao	Mandolin duet Mrudangam Ghatam		Compositions of Manabuchavadi Venkatasubbayya & Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan Dr Rajshri Ramakrishna S Nithyasree Srividya R S Iyer Guru Ragavendra	Vocal Veena Violin Mrudangam

GOTUVADYAM NARAYANA IYENGAR MUSIC FESTIVAL

The GNI Music Festival of CFA marked the inaugural of its eleventh year music festival. The inaugural function which was held at the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam Information Centre at T Nagar turned out be divine indeed! Prof T N Krishnan was presented the Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar Award for Excellence.

Saturday, 25th January, 2014, 6.00 p.m.

Delhi Shri. R. Sridhar	Violin Solo
Shri. S.V. Ramani	Mrudangam
Madipakkam Shri. Murali	Ghatam

Sunday, 26th January, 2014, 6.00 p.m.

Madurai Shri. TNS Krishna	Vocal
Shri. Nagai Sriram	Violin
Trichur Shri. C. Narendran	Mrudangam
Papanasam Shri. Sethuraman	Kanjira

Monday, 27th January, 2014, 6.00 p.m.

Ms. Shantala Subramanyam	Flute
Shri. M.R. Gopinath	Violin
Shri. Patri Satishkumar	Mrudangam
Shri. Sreesunderkumar	Kanjira

Tuesday, 28th January 2014, 6.00 p.m.

Shri. V. Shankaranarayanan	Vocal
Shri. V.V.S. Murari	Violin
Trivandrum Shri. Balaji	Mrudangam
Shri. K.V. Gopalakrishnan	Kanjira

Wednesday, 29th January 2014, 6.00 p.m.

Shri. Mahadevan Shankaranarayanan	Vocal
Shri. H.N. Bhaskar	Violin
Shri. R. Ramesh	Mrudangam
Shri. Anirudh Athreya	Kanjira

Thursday, 30th January 2014, 6.00 p.m.

Mudikondan Shri. S.N. Ramesh	Veena
Tirunageswaram Shri. TRS Manikandan	Mrudangam
Adambakkam Shri. Shankar	Ghatam

Friday, 31st January 2014, 6.00 p.m.

‘Carnatica Brothers’ Shri. K.N. Shashikiran & ‘Chitravina’ Ganesh Grandsons of Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar	Vocal Duet
Shri. S. Varadarajan	Violin
Neyveli Shri. R. Narayanan	Mrudangam
Shri. B.S. Purushotham	Kanjiram

2014-15

DASARATHI SANGEETHOTSAVAM

The 'Dasarathi Sangeethotsavam', commemorating Sri Rama Navami was organized jointly by Chennai Fine Arts and Sri Krishna Mandiram from 9th to 21st April 2014 at Sri Krishna Mandiram's premises located at Canal Road, Kamarajar Nagar, Tiruvanmiyur. The festival was inaugurated on 9th April. Ms. Leela Samson, Chair Person, Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.

Details of Concerts

10th April 2014, Thursday, 6.30 p.m.
Ms. Rasika Viswanath – Vocal
Tirumarugal Sri. S. Dineshkumar – Violin Hanumantapuram Sri. Bhuvarahan – Mrudangam

11th April 2014, Friday, 6.30 p.m.
Smt. Usha Padmanabhan – Vocal
Sri. Haricharan Padmanabhan – Violin
Sri. Akshay Anantapadmanabhan – Mrudangam

12th April 2014, Saturday, 6.30 p.m.
Kottarakkara Shri. V.S. Balamurali – Vocal
Prof. V. Thanikachalam – Violin
Sri. P.K. Ranganathan – Mrudangam

13th April 2014, Sunday, 6.30 p.m.
Bengaluru Shri. G. Balakrishnan – Vocal
Tirumarugal Sri. S. Ganeshkumar – Violin
Sri. B. Gururaghavendra – Mrudangam

14th April 2014, Monday, 6.30 p.m.
Sri. V.L. Sudarshan – Viola
Tirunageswaram Sri. T.R.S. Manikandan – Mrudangam Sri. K.B. Hariharan – Ghatam

15th April 2014, Tuesday, 6.30 p.m.
Sri. B.V. Ganesh – Vocal
Sri. Gyandev Pappu – Violin
Sri. Sumesh Narayanan – Mrudangam

16th April 2014, Wednesday, 6.30 p.m.
‘Chittoor Brothers’ Sri. C.K. Pathanjali &
Sri. C.V. Mahalingam – Flute duet
Sri. C.K. Vijayaraghavan – Violin
Sri. A.S. Ranganathan – Mrudangam

17th April 2014, Thursday, 6.30 p.m.
Smt. S. Nithyasree & Ms. R. Lakshmi – Veena duet
Sri. B. Guru Raghavendra – Mrudangam

18th April 2014, Friday, 6.30 p.m.
Sri. Eswaran Bhattathiri – Vocal
Sri. Pakkala Ramadas – Violin
Sri. R. Ramesh – Mrudangam
Sri. K.V. Gopalakrishnan – Kanjira

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