Naada Lahari

Naada Lahari 2008 Photos…

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Introduction to artistes performing at Naada Lahari 2008

Nachiketa Sharma
Hailing from Dharwad, Karnataka, Nachiketa Sharma was initiated into Hindustani classical vocal music by his parents. His formal study began in Madras under Shri B. N. Simha and later under Shri B. Hanumantachar. His rigorous and extended pedagogy came under the virtuoso late Padmabhushan Pandit Basavraj Rajguru. Nachiketa has performed in several cities across India and the United States. He is a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and runs the Rajguru Sangeet Vidyaniketan school of music.

Jayanthi Umesh
Shrimathi Jayanthi Umesh started her music training with the late Vidushi M. Janaki and later continued with Vidushi Sugandha Raman, the well known exponent of classical Indian Music. Shrimathi Jayanthi passed the Vidwath Examination of Karnataka State with honors. She received the Best Musician Award from Bangalore Gayana Samaja in 1984. She has performed as an invited artiste at the Annamacharya Music Festival at Tirupathi and has been on the panel of musicians of All India Radio, Bangalore since 1983. She has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993 teaching music and has performed in several music concerts at Bangalore Gayana Samaja, Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhane, Hindu Temples at Sunnyvale, Livermore and Malibu in California and sponsored events of South India Fine Arts. She also works with Bay Area's well known musician, Shrimathi Asha Ramesh in furthering her musical interests.

Anand Karve
Anand has musical roots in his family. Originally from Mumbai, he was initiated into classical music by Late Shri Narayanrao Deulkar. Later he was fortunate to receive Harmonium training from Late Shri Vishwanath Pendharkar.

Anand moved to the Bay area last year and continues to receive guidance from Shri Vivek Datar.

He is Business Systems Project Manager by profession and lives in Cupertino.

Nagaraj Mandya
Nagaraj started his music education more than 15 years ago at the Vijaya College of Music, Bangalore, India. He continued his advanced music education under Sangeetha Kalarathna Prof.H.V.Krishnamurthy, Principal of the Vijaya College of Music and his son, Ganakalashree Sri.H.K.Venkatram. Nagaraj is currently furthering his musical interests with the bay area's leading musician Smt.Asha Ramesh. Nagaraj has accompanied many renowned and accomplished artistes both in India and in the USA and has played at many prestigious sabhas. Along with his guru, Sri.H.K.Venkatram, Nagaraj has developed multi-media presentations on the "Life and Times of Sri Muthuswami Dikshithar", "Panchabhutha krithis of Sri Muthuswami Dikshithar" and "Navagraha krithis of Sri Muthuswami Dikshithar". He has also developed a multi-media CD on Saint Thyagaraja's Pancharathna krithis. Recently, he co-authored a multi-media presentation on Sangeetha Kalanidhi Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer on the occasion of Semmangudi's birth centenary celebrations.

Ravi Gutala
Ravi Gutala is originally from Hyderabad, India and has been initiated at a very early age into Tabla by Shri P.Anjaiah, a senior staff artiste at AIR, Hyderabad, India. Currently he resides in San Jose, California and has been studying Tabla under Maestro Swapan Chaudhuri at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, CA for the past 16 years. He also has been teaching Tabla to a number of aspiring students in the Bay Area. Ravi has won numerous awards and is a recipient of All India National Talent Search Scholarship. He had been a regular performer at AIR, Hyderabad, India between 1982-1986. He has accompanied many noted artistes such as, Pt.Jasraj, Smt. Lakshmi Shankar, Prof TVG, Dr.Rajeev Taranath, Pt.Vijay Shankar, Smt Veena Sahasrabuddhe, Dr.L.Subramaniam, Pt.Buddhadev Das Gupta, Pt.Budhaditya Mukherjee, Ustad Shujaat Khan, Master Shashank, Gingger etc. Ravi has 7 CD recordings and 2 cassette recordings to his credit. Ravi designs semiconductor chips for a living.

Ravindrabharathy Sridharan
For Ravi, playing the mridangam is more of a passion than a hobby. He had his initiation into the mridangam under Sri M.A.Krishnamurthy in Mysore in 1980. He then continued to learn under Sri M.K.Venugopal, a student of H.P. Ramachar in Bangalore ; during this time, he started playing ghatam as well. In the bay area he received training under Sri Shriram Brahmanandam. Currently he is furthering his knowledge under Sri Neyveli Narayanan. Ravi has accompanied various artistes such as Lalgudi Srimathi Brahmanandam, Prof. T.V.Gopalakrishnan , Sri Papanasam Ashok Ramani, Sri Vidhya Bhushana and his mother, Ranganayaki Sridharan. Ravi has performed in AIR Chennai and on Sun TV. Here in the Bay Area, Ravi continues to accompany musicians for dance arangetrams and concerts. Ravi has been involved in various fundraisers for Shankara Eye Foundation, Chinmaya Mission etc. He has also been teaching mirdangam for the past 8 years in the bay area at Sruthi Swara laya and Cupertino.