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U.Srinivas-
U.Srinivas- Mandolin
Mandolin Upalappu Shrinivas came to prominence not only for his playing but for his choice of instrument: an electric mandolin (the acoustic instrument is incapable of sustaining notes or producing th
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Ustad
Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan
Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan is among the brilliant musical gems of the Etawah Gharana and belongs to the seventh generation of this musical lineage. His family has produced the most revered and influenti
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Gundecha
Gundecha Brothers
Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha
       Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha are among India's leading exponents of the Dhrupad style of music. Born in Ujjain in Centra
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T.M.
T.M. Krishna
T.M. Krishna is one of the leading artists in the field of Carnatic Music. He has been performing for over 18 years and today, he is one of the youngest singers to occupy the top slot in every major m
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Ashwini
Ashwini Bhide
Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande is today one of the leading exponents of the Jaipur-Atrauli tradition of Khyal singing. Ashwini began her training at the age of five under the guidance of Pandit Narayanrao Da
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P
P Unni Krishnan - vocals
One of the most sought after Carnatic classical vocalists of today, P Unnikrishnan began his early training under the able guidance of Sri VL Seshadri and later under Dr S Ramanathan. After his first
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George
George Ruckert
George Ruckert is currently a senior lecturer in enthomusicology at MIT. After receiving a master's degree in western theory and composition from Queens college, he became a student of the renowned In
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Madhya
Madhya Laya
Madhya-Laya is a group of young percussionists with various instruments. It is a dailogue between various performers creating a new dimension in the field of Tala Vadya. This group consists of both fo
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Jayteerth
Jayteerth Mevundi
Jayateerth Mevundi has been gaining growing recognition as a torchbearer of the Kirana Gharana. He received his initial training in music with Pt. Arjunsa Nakod of Gwalior Gharana and later received g
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Sangeetha
Sangeetha Sivakumar - Carnatic Vocal
Sangeetha Sivakumar has been performing since the age of 15. She is among the popular musicians in the field of Carnatic music. She started learning music at the age of 9, from Sri K.P. Vasu of Calicu
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Debapriya
Debapriya Adhikary and Samanway Sarkar
       Debapriya and Samanwaya, are two young artistes who have paired together to present their ‘jugalbandi’ in a approach, where Debapriya is a vocalist and Samanwaya
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Durga
Durga Krishnan - Carnatic Veena
Durga Krishnan is a graduate of Carnatic Music College of Madras, India. She holds the degree “Sangeetha Vidwan” – Scholar of Music and is also a certified teacher of Carnatic Music. She is also one o
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Alam
Alam Khan
Alam Khan, the son of Swara Samrat Ali Akbar Khan, studied sarod with his father since he was seven. His first public performance was in 1998 at the Spirit of India Festival that celebrated the Ali Ak
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Master
Master Kunnakkudi Balamuralikrishna - Carnatic Vocal
Master M. Balamuralikrishna is a prodigy and music is in his blood. His father Sri. Meenakshi Sundaram is a music composer and also his first guru. Balamuralikrishna also had initial training under Ne
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Nitin
Nitin Mitta – Tabla
Nitin is one of the most prominent young tabla players in the Indian Classical world today. He has performed with such Hindustani masters as PanditJasraj,Rajan and SajanMishra, Pandit Rajeev Taranath,
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Arjun
Arjun Kumar - Mridangam
Bangalore Arjun Kumar is among the most respected Mridangam artistes of today, having enthralled music lovers over the past four decades with his inimitable style, novelty, fine aesthetics and precisi
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K.V.S.
K.V.S. Vinay on Violin
K.V.S. Vinay hails from a musical family. He is the grandson of Sangeetha Kalanidhi late T.K. Jayarama Iyer, violinist and father of orchestration of Carnatic music. Vinay had his initial training fro
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Mahaligam
Mahaligam Santhanakrishnan (Mridangam)
Mahalingam Santhanakrishnan (Mali) is a disciple of Sri P. Srinivasa Iyer of Madras. .Mali's forte is his seamless accompanying style that supports and embellishes the main artist's rendering of the c
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Gaurishnankar
Gaurishnankar Chandrasekhar (Mridangam)
Gaurishankar Chandrashekhar has learnt mridangam percussion for 15 years and has over 10 years of accompaniment experience for Carnatic music and dance concerts in Bombay, India and the New England re
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Akshara
Akshara Ensemble
       Akshara is an exciting new percussion group rooted in Indian classical musical traditions. Comprised of virtuosic performers in Carnatic and Hindustani classical g
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Rakesh
Rakesh Chaurasia
Rakesh Chaurasia is the nephew and prodigy of flute maestro Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia. Rakesh possesses the right balance of strength and serenity, very critical factors for an exceptional flautist. Hi
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Purbayan
Purbayan Chatterjee
Purbayan Chatterjee is recognized as a gifted torch-bearer of the Senia-Maihar Gharana of Baba Alauddin Khansaheb. He was initiated to the Sitar at age four by his father Shri Parthapratim Chatterjee,
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Yogesh
Yogesh Samsi
Yogesh Samsi is one of those rare tabla players whose reputation has been built on his consummate artistry in both fields of accompaniment and solo performance. The son of the renowned vocalist Pandit
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Mike
Mike Connors
Mike Connors studied with Boston jazz greats Joe Hunt and Bob Gullotti. He is currently a faculty member at Clark University and Rivers Conservatory. In addition to recording and touring international
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Greg
Greg Loughman
Greg Loughman started playing electric bass at age fifteen in the small town of Zanesville, OH. He obtained a Bachelor of Music in the field of jazz studies at Capital University, where he studied ele
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Michael
Michael Flanagan
Michael Flanagan - performer, educator, multi-instrumentalist, as well as composer and producer/songwriter - began playing saxophone at age 10 and piano at age 14. After only a few years of playing he
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Colin
Colin Sapp
Originally from suburban Detroit, Michigan, guitarist Colin Sapp relocated to Boston and received his Bachelor’s degree from Berklee College of Music in 2002. While there, he studied with some of toda
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Lalgudi
Lalgudi Shrimathi Brahmanandam
Lalgudi Mrs. Srimathi Brahmanandan, hails from a family of stellar musicians in South India who have been devoted to professional music for four generations. Her father, Shri Gopala Iyer, was a versat
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Anuradha
Anuradha Sridhar
As a soloist, Anuradha Sridhar has teamed up with her mother and given violin duets in venues in India, Singapore, UK, Australia, New Zealand and USA. A reputed accompanist, Anuradha has accom-panied
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Shriram
Shriram Brahmanandam
Shriram Brahmanandam was initiated into mridangam by the renowned guru Harihara Sharma and later continued his training with C.V. Kuppuswami. He completed advanced training from the percussion stalwar
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U
U Rajesh
Brother of Mandolin Maestro Shri U. Shrinivas, and tutored under the guidance of his father and brother, Rajesh started playing Carnatic Music early in his life. He has performed along with greats lik
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Raginder
Raginder Singh
Raginder Singh Momi is a young artist who resides in San Francisco Bay Area. Being born in a musical family, Raginder has always been exposed to the brilliance of Indian Classical Music. He is a disci
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Pravin
Pravin Sitaram
Dr. Pravin Sitaram hails from a family in Mumbai that is steeped in Carnatic music tradition. Introduced to mridangam at the age of 8, Pravin has learnt this art from his Guru, Shri P. S. Parameswaran
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Vishwanath
Vishwanath Shirodkar
Vishwanath Shirodkar, one of India’s finest tabla players of the younger generation, is recognized for his artistry as a vocal accompanist. Vishwanath was initiated into the art of tabla playing by Sh
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Seema
Seema Shirodkar
Seema Shirodkar is a frequent performer in several music concerts in India and abroad, in her capacity as a harmonium accompanist and soloist. She began learning harmonium at an early age from Shri Um
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Madirimangalam.S
Madirimangalam.S Swaminathan
Shri M.S Swaminathan had his early training from Palghat Sri Ramnathan and advanced training from Palani Sri Subramaniya Pillai and Poovaloor Sri Venkataraman. He has accompanied great artists of carn
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S.V.
S.V. Ramani
S.V. Ramani is a well-known Ghatam (clay pot percussion) artist who gave his debut performance when he was only eight years old. He received his early training under Guruvayur Dorai. Ramani has accomp
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Mahaligam
Mahaligam Santhanakrishnan
Mahalingam Santhanakrishnan (Mali) is a disciple of Sri P. Srinivasa Iyer of Madras. Mali’s forte is his seamless accompanying style that supports and embellishes the main artist’s rendering of the co
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Bharat
Bharat Kamat
Bharat Kamat who hails from Pune, is one of India’s leading Tabla artists who has been well received not only by discerning audiences but also by the lay listener. At the tender age of five, Bharat st
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Guru
Guru Prasad Hegde
Guruprasad Hegde is recognized as an upcoming and promising harmonium player and one of the foremost disciples of Pt. Tulshidas Borkar, the renowned concert accompanist of Pt. Bhimsen Joshi. Guruprasa
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Subhajyoti
Subhajyoti Guha
Subhajyoti Guha is one among the new generation of tabla exponents, taking this world pleasing and most popular percussion instrument to greater heights in the 21st century. An award-winning prodigy f
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Vinod
Vinod Seetharaman
Vinod Seetharaman began learning mridangam at the age of seven from Shri. Ardhanareeswaran and later received his advanced training under Bangalore Shri. Arjun Kumar and Sangeeta Kalanidhi Umayalpuram
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V.V.S
V.V.S Murari
V V S Murari is the son and disciple of violin maestro V V Subrahmanyam. He has accompanied leading Carnatic Music maestros and works as a Programme Director with Nandaki Systems in Bangalore, India.
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Ramchandra
Ramchandra Joshi
Ramchandra Joshi is an accomplished vocalist as well as an established harmonium player. Inducted to the world of music at the tender age of 8 years, he trained with Smt. Krishna Mukherjee and Smt. Sr
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Embar
Embar Kannan
Embar Kannan hails from a family of musicians. Living up to his father, Sangeetha Bhooshanam, Sri Embar Sadagopan’s dream to see his son as a concert artist, Kannan took to the violin at the tender ag
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Arjun
Arjun Kumar
Arjun Kumar is among the most respected Mridangam artistes of today, having enthralled music lovers over the past four decades with his inimitable style, novelty, fine aesthetics and precision. Born i
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