Tamil Nadu

Teachers & Performers of Indian Music & Dance

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Name: A.S. Murali
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic vocal
Location: H.A2/1, Breeze Apart­ments, Jayaram Street, Thiru­van­miyur, Chen­nai – 600041
Telephone: +914443042926 / +919952990304
Misc. Info: Ver­satile and multi­face­ted artiste in Car­natic vocal, mri­dangam, ghatam nat­tuvan­gam fac­ulties – hails from family of mus­ic­ians – dis­ciple of re­nowned Guru Padma­bhu­shan Sri P.S. Narayana­swami and ghatam maestro Sri. T,V. Vaasan -“A” graded artiste from A.I.R. Chen­nai- Awarded Yuva Kala Jothi – Honou­red as Asthana Vidwan of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam- Awarded as Best Guru of 2006 in Vocal by VDS Arts Aca­demy Chen­nai.- tavelled all over the world. Presen­tly work­ing as vocal lec­turer in Kala­kshetra Foun­dation, Chen­nai.

Name: Ms. Bhava­dhaarini Ananta­raman
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Car­natic Music, Light Clas­sical, Ab­hangs, Sam­pradaya Bhajan, and De­vo­tio­nal Music
Location: AE-132 80 D Shanthi Colony Anna Nagar Chen­nai 600 040
Telephone: 044-26202289, Mo­bile num­ber 0-9841504099, 0-9043493523
Misc. Info: Short pro­file Bhava­dhaa­rini Ananta­raman is a dis­ciple of San­geetha Kala­nidhi Smt. D.K. Pattam­mal for more than 25 years. Bhava­dhaarini hails from the family of veteran com­poser Mayuram Vish­wanatha Shas­try. For more details about clas­ses please log on to www.bhavadhaarini.com

Name: Shanthi Ashok­kumar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Vocal Music
Location: Shanthi Ashok­kumar, Flat # A/2, Ram­leela Apart­ments, No. 33, 3rd Street, Abirama­puram, Chen­nai-­600018
Telephone: Hand Ph – 0091 9940539307 Land -0091 44 47438525
Misc. Info: Post gra­du­ate in Car­natic vocal music from Chem­mbai College of Music at Palghat-Kerala in India under tute­lage of Pro­fes­sors Shri Kedara­nathan and Smt Meera Kedara­nathan, prin­ciple dis­ciples of San­geetha Kala­nidhi Sem­man­gudi Dr. R. Sri­nivasa Iyer and gui­ded by San­geetha Kala­nidhi Shri. M.D. Rama­nathan, with over 20 years of teach­ing ex­peri­ence at Chen­nai from begin­ners to ad­vanced levels. Performed in many local con­certs in India. Currently moul­ding on­line Car­natic vocal music stu­dents glo­bally to spread our rich cul­ture and he­ri­tage of tra­di­tio­nal music. As­piring stu­dents can con­tact my land / mobile phones. Skype: shanthi0072

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Name: B.H. Murali
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Indian Music – Vocal – Key­board – On­line Clas­ses
Location: “Shree­raagam”, Ashok­nagar, Chen­nai, Tamil­nadu, India
Telephone: +91 98402 – 04293
Misc. Info: visit http://bhmurali.com

Name: Prathima B. Rao
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Kuchi­pudi Clas­sical Dance
Location: J-23, J.N Salai, Block-8, Neyveli-607801
Telephone:
Misc. Info: I have lear­ned Kuchi­pudi clas­sical dance under San­geetha Natya Siro­mani Smt. Anuradha Ven­kata­krishna for 12 years and also had ex­po­sure to Bharata­natyam and folk dances. I had won various clas­si­cal and folk dance com­peti­tions and have won laurels for my talents from dig­ni­taries from India and abroad. I have per­for­med at var­ious dance festi­vals and dis­tin­guished gather­ings in India. I am trained in Car­natic music under Kalaima­mani Guru Sri. Anayam­patti Ganesan. I am in­ter­ested in per­for­ming in India and abroad and pro­pag­ate my art.

Name: Umamah­eswari B.
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Vocal Carnatic Music
Location: 87/S2 Ist Sea­ward Road, Val­miki Nagar, Thi­ru­van­miyur, Chen­nai – 600 041
Telephone: 95000 82781 / 43042907
Misc. Info: Lear­ned music from Leela Raja­gopalan and per­for­med on many stages and given per­for­man­ces of note in this field and have taken up coach­ing bud­ding talents.

Name: Padmavathy Balajee
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Vocal, Veena
Location: 24 Ram­kamal Apart­ments, 79th Street, Ashok Nagar, Chen­nai 83
Telephone: +91-98406 31870
Misc. Info: www.padmavathycarnaticmusic.blogspot.com

Name: Rajat Kumar Behera
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Tabla (Hindustani Clas­sical and light)
Location: No 22/45, Abaiya Nagar, Nehru Street, Choolai­medu, Chen­nai 600094. 
Telephone: +91 9444476481, +91 9444718521
Misc. Info: I have a M. Mus in Tabla ( Viswa­bharati, Shanti­nike­tan ), B-High Grade in clas­si­cal and light music from A.I.R (All India Radio). I have been play­ing for clas­sical, gha­zal and light music con­certs in Chen­nai and other parts on India. I have stu­dents of dif­fer­ent age groups. For more infor­ma­tion on con­cert accom­pani­ment and clas­ses con­tact by mail or on the mo­bile numbers given above.

Name: Burra Sriram
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Mridangam
Location: #40/48, Door No: 4, Srihi Flats, Soliappan Street, Mylapore, Chennai, India -600004
Telephone: +91 8754­536271
Misc. Info: I am a mridangam per­former-cum-tea­cher. Am an ‘A’ grade artiste of All India Radio, Chennai. I have been in the teach­ing field for 12 Years. I also take on­line classes.

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Name: Carva Ra­jasekar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Violin
Location: Flat- D, Sri Soun­darya­valli Flats, No-1, Rajaji Street, West mam­ba­lam, Chen­nai-600 033.
Telephone: +91 44 24896073,
Misc. Info: Shri C.A. Raja­sekar learnt his first vocal les­sons at the age of four from his father. It was soon fol­lowed by violin les­sons under the watch­ful eyes of his illus­tri­ous father. He pla­yed along with his father from an early age at the lat­ter’s per­for­mances. To fur­ther hone his skills, he had been un­der the tu­te­lage of the dis­tin­gui­shed vio­linist San­geetha Kala­nidhi Shri. M. Chandra­se­karan and had also under­gone les­sons from Shri V.S. Narasim­han for a broader under­stand­ing and appre­cia­tion of Western clas­sical genre. Shri C.A. Raja­sekar, also known as the back­bone of CARVA Trust, re­cei­ved the “Isai­kalai­mani” title from Adyar Music Col­lege.

Name: Cuddalore  M.S. Sunda­resan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Vocal, Mridangam
Location: ‘Lalith­kala­laya’ School for music. in 2 loca­tions in Chen­nai. 1. ‘C’ Type, 3/205, 37th street, sidco Nagar, Vil­livak­kam, Chen­nai, 600 049. 2. No: 22 Bharath rathna Rajiv Nagar, Pudur, Ambattur, Chen­nai 600 053. Ph:26862580.
Telephone: -26862580 / 26171250.
Misc. Info: I am the el­dest son of well known mu­si­cian Kalaima­mani Cud­dalore M. Subra­maniam. He was an great vage­yakara in his time. Has writ­ten Kri­this in 72 mela­kartha ragas, enumer­able no of around 600 tamil kri­this, Nava­raga Var­nams, Thil­lanas. Just want to name few popu­lar kri­this are his Raja Rajesh­wari Pancha­rath­nam, Raga­thil Siranda Raga­medhu, Janani Janani Janani (Revathi), Ven­ka­ta­rama­nam, Kuza­ludum, Kadai­kan Paramma etc. In this style of teach­ing gives special at­ten­tion to all age group to per­form well in sing­ing.

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Name: D.K. Anur­rad­dhaa (Anuradha Ven­kata­krishna)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Kuchi­pudi, Bharata­nat­yam and Folk dances; Indian clas­si­cal music, light, de­vo­tio­nal and folk music.
Location: F2, Kamaraj Road, Block 16th, Ney­veli­Township 607801, Tamil­nadu.
Telephone:
Misc. Info: Can give train­ing in the above fields and can per­form; Can choreo­graph music and dance. Al­ready trai­ned many stu­dents and gave many pres­ti­gious per­for­man­ces. Taking clas­ses at Hyder­abad also.

Name: Natiya­kalai­mani D.M. Sada­cha­ram
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Clas­sical Bharath­natyam and Clas­sical Vocal
Location: Sirkali, Nagai Dis­trict, Tamil­nadu, South India.
Telephone: 9865593991, 9486347226
Misc. Info: Honors – Natiya­kalai­mani (2000), Gana Vathiya Nrithya Choo­da­mani (2002) Acha­riya Ra­thinam (2005)

Name: Sikata Das
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Odissi Dance
Location: Sikata Das. 115/A/5, IOB Apartment, Chi­dam­baram Gardens, Sterling Road, Nungam­bakkam, Chen­nai – 600034, Tamil Nadu, India
Telephone: 044 – 28270158,
Misc. Info: Senior most Odissi dancer, re­search scholar, tea­cher, choreo­grapher of the country, direct dis­ciple of Padma bi­bhusan Guru Kelu Cha­ran Moha­patra. Pre­sen­tly she is im­part­ing train­ing at Chen­nai.

Name: Dayananda Sisters – S. Dar­shana & T.S. Sowmya
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Car­natic music Vocal
Location: Chen­nai, Tamil Nadu, India
Telephone: +91 9884010225
Misc. Info: Web­site – www.dayanandasisters.com Youtube channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/DayanandaSisters?feature=watch

Name: Mrs. Abithu Dinesh)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Veena, Vocal & Key­board (all in car­natic music)
Location: No.5, Pra­sath Flats, B2 (ground floor), Mad­ley road, 1st Street, T. Nagar, Chen­nai-620017, Tamil­nadu
Telephone: 80124-81780, 99424-39169
Misc. Info: Founder – Avarthana Music Research Academy. FB page: www.facebook.com/AvarthanaMusicResearchAcademy

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Name: Erode Nagaraj
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Mrudangam (The South Indian Drum)
Location: Erode Nagaraj, Mrudan­gam Artiste, New no.31, Adhi Ke­sava Perumal Koil st., West Mam­balam, Chen­nai – 600033.
Telephone: 091-44-24713177 / +91-95662-19764
Misc. Info: Erode Na­garaj learnt mru­dangam ini­tially from Pal­ladam Sri V. Rama­chand­ran and he is a prime di­sci­ple of San­geetha Kala­nidhi Padma­bushan Umayal­puram Sri K. Siva­raman for the past 21 years. He is an “A” grade artiste and works as Lec­turer in “The Than­javur Vai­dhya­natha Iyer School for Percus­sion”, The Music Aca­demy, Chen­nai since 1998. He has accom­pa­nied artis­tes like P.S. Nara­yana­swamy, Chengal­pet Ranga­nathan, O.S. Thya­garajan, M. Chandhra­sekaran, Calcutta Krishna­murthy, Neyveli Santhana­gopa­lan, Sik­kil Sis­ters, Mal­ladi Bro­thers, Vijay Siva, P. Vageesh, Ran­jani Gaya­thri, Sik­kil Guru­charan, Gaya­thri Venkat­raghavan, V.V. Ravi. He had visi­ted coun­tries like the USA, Ca­nada, Ni­geria and he is con­duct­ing skype (internet) classes too. Skype id: eroddenagaraj

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Name: G. Sri­dhar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Flutist
Location: West Wood Gar­dens , Plot 6, C1/998 , New Ku­bera Nagar 4th Street, Madi­pak­kam, Chen­nai 91
Telephone:
Misc. Info: Expe­riance – Wor­ked as full time Flute tea­cher and per­for­mer for TFA , Singa­pore for 12 years. com­pose Music for dance. per­for­ming widely this re­gion. Guru – Smt Vasanti Sekar , Kalaima­mani Smt N. Kesi M.A de­gree from. Tamil Univer­sity, Tanjore, skype id = sriflute

Name: Gayatri­san­karan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Vocal / Violin/Veena
Location: A/G4 Mahaveer Apts 4, East Coast Road Thiru­van­miyur Chen­nai-41 Tamil­nadu India
Telephone: 091-044-24415043
Misc. Info:

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Name: Kalaima­mani H. Rama­krish­nan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Mridan­gam, Kon­nakkol, kan­chira, vocal
Location: #3 sri­vidya avenue, Thora­pak­kam, Chen­nai 600096
Telephone: 91-44-24961277 / 91-98410 13568
Misc. Info: Learnt mri­dan­gam under Palani Subra­mania Pil­lai, T Hari­hara Sarma, and Kut­talam Viswa­natha iyer. Pre­sen­tly having super advan­ced course in Karai­kudi Mani School. Has won the kalaima­mani title from the Govt. of Tamil­nadu. Vocal: learnt under stal­warts like M D Rama­na­than, Sem­man­gudi, D K Jaya­raman.

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Name: Mathangi Iyengar Nee K Mathangi
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharata­natyam
Location: No 1, 58th Street, Ashok Nagar, Chen­nai 600 083, Tamil Nadu
Telephone: 914424892887
Misc. Info: Bharata­nat­yam danseuse of na­tional & inter­na­tio­nal acclaim. Gra­duate & post-gra­duate alumnus of the famed Kala­kshetra Foun­dation Chen­nai. She is a solo per­former & has her own troupe. Has choreo­graphed ballets & held work­shops.

Name: Karthick Iyer
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Violin (Carnatic & Indo-pop)
Location: Chenai, Tamil Nadu, India
Telephone: (+91)9884034040
Misc. Info: Kar­thick has been play­ing Car­natic for the past 13 years and has played in all the top sabhas in the country. An All India Radio artist, he has pla­yed for top-notch bands in the country, like Raghu Dixit Project, Emer­gence and Oxygen and toured all around the world (US, Europe, Canada, Australia, China). He is also a ses­sions re­cord­ing artiste for Indian cinema and has worked with AR Rahman, Vidyasagar, Devisri­prasad and Vijay Anthony among se­veral other re­pu­ted music di­rec­tors. Web­site: www.karthickiyer.com

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Name: J. Jaga­dee­san
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic music – Vocal
Location: Gandhi Nagar, Adyar, Chen­nai 600020 Tamil Nadu
Telephone: 9840284380
Misc. Info: My music school is named as “Rasi­kapriya’s Vocal Music”. I had my ini­tial train­ing from Dr. Vasan­tha Sri­ni­vasan of Tuti­corin and advan­ced train­ing from Mr Rama­samy Pillai of Su­seen­dram More than 40 stu­dents learn from me now. I take di­rect clas­ses at my home, Home tu­tions and on­line clas­ses. My in­no­va­tive-easy tech­ni­ques would enable any student with in­te­rest to learn to come up quic­kly. Purely dedi­cated and indi­vi­dual at­ten­tion orien­ted train­ing is given. Mo­de­rate fees are char­ged. Ti­mings are fle­xible to suit any­one from school kid to house wives, work­ing men , wo­men and col­lege going stu­dents etc., They would feel more com­for­table and gain con­fidence in sing­ing so quic­kly once they join my classes.

Name: Aadal Kalai­mani Guru Smt J. Vijaya­mohana
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharata­nat­yam and natu­van­gam
Location: 1/8. gowri­colony nan­ganal­lur Chen­nai; 600061
Telephone: 044-22248374 mobile; +91 9445170248,
Misc. Info: My music and tra­ditional dance in­sti­tution Sri Sai Naty­alayam [since 1950]. I am teach­ing for more than 24 years. My hus­band, P.V.S. Jagath Eesan [mu­si­co­lo­gist]. I am the dis­ciple of my father Nat­ya­chel­vam Na­tu­vanaar, Maya­varam Guru M.S. Rama­samy Pillai who was the first desciple of the great Padmashree Vazhuvoor B.Ramiah Pillai. I am teach­ing more than 300 stu­dents presently. See our videos in youtube music­mohana site. Thank you.

Name: Geetha Jaya­ram
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Hindu­stani Light Clas­sical – Bha­jans, Gha­zals and Geets and old Hindi Film songs.
Location: Chen­nai, Tamil Nadu
Telephone: +919600015942
Misc. Info: An AIR B High artis­te in sugam san­geet I have broad­cast from Hyde­ra­bad and Chen­nai. I have per­for­med de­vo­tio­nal music pro­grams in or­ga­ni­za­tions in Hyder­abad and Chen­nai. I have gi­ven stage shows fea­tur­ing old Hi­ndi film songs in sabhas, as­so­cia­tions, cor­porate events, mar­riages, re­cep­tions and other family fun­ctions. I also offer clas­ses in Hindu­stani based light clas­si­cal music.

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Name: Kailasanathan  K.
E-Mail:  [email protected]
Field:  Tabla & Mridangam
Location:  Neyveli, Tamilnadu
Telephone:   Mo 9442897861
Misc. Info: I am learn­ing tabla  from various teachers and my learning goes on. I studied mri­dangam under Kumba­konam Mr. Singaram pillai and Thiru­varur Krishna­murthi. I am inter­ested in teaching mri­dangam and tabla by skype or zoom.

Name: Vijay K. J.
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Flute Pla­yer, Flute Tea­cher and Flute Ma­ker
Location:
Telephone: 0-98410-78922
Misc. Info:

Name: K. R. Ga­nesh
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Miru­dangam (Than­javur style)
Location: A 5 Abirami Ap­part­ments. No. 5 Babu Rajendra­prasad street, West Mam­balam, Chen­nai 600 033, Tamil Nadu. India.
Telephone: 044 – 24744350 Cell No 9940583376
Misc. Info: Son and dis­ci­ple of Mr. Kum­ba­ko­nam Raj­appier and per­form­ing artiste of All India Radio and ac­com­pany­ing all lead­ing artistes in India and abroad in the field of Car­natic music.

Name: K.R. Suresh
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Violin
Location: 3/7 Du­rai­swami Reddy Street, Vijaya­la­kshmi­puram, Am­bat­tur, Chen­nai, Tamil Nadu
Telephone: 04426571657 cell 9841330512, 9940384677
Misc. Info: per­for­ming violin artist for Bharatha­natyam and vocal. Giving solo con­certs etc. traveling abroad for dance con­certs run­ning music in­sti­tu­tion namedRaga­var­dhini Academy of Per­for­ming Arts. Here clas­ses taken by me vio­lin and key­board , and vocal by my Mrs S. Vidhya I am from a musi­cal family. Son-in-law of N.S. Ra­jam female mru­dang­ist who is the s/o Padma­sree DR. N. Ramani­Flute mas­treo. clas­ses taken for NRI’s. visit; www.violinkrsuresh.com. I am taking on­line clas­ses also

Name: K.T. Dasa­rathy
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Flute
Location: 2/1, Varun Flats, Ba­roda First Street, W. Mam­balam Chen­nai-33
Telephone: 9380740336
Misc. Info: I am also now teachin flute to the group of stu­dents from IIT, Madras. I am teach­ing Car­natic flute thru on­line since 2002. I have around 810 plus con­tacts all over the world.

Name: Vijayalakshmi Kannan
Email: [email protected]
Field: Vocal and Instru­mental teacher / Per­former / Composer
Location: 29, Mullai street, Dr. Radha­krishnan salai, Vala­saravakkam, Chennai – 600087
Telephone: +91 9940268808
Misc. Info: Website – www.varshikaacademy.com Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3rsAAXFLSxuuGIRVtk8psg. Am into this music industry for the past 17 years and I have learnt from the basics of music from top notch people like Nithya­nandam sir – Guru of A R Rahman sir, Dass Daniel sir, K V Ramanujam – A top artist, AIR and Chandra­mohan sir. I do have a music school for the past 7 years running suc­cessfully and have trained more than 300+ students.  www.varshikaacademy.com

Name: Karaikal R. Jai­sankar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Car­natic music – Vocal
Location: Plot No.17, G-2, Sai San­thosh Apartments (OMM Builders), 1st Street, Maha­veer Nagar, Via Bha­rani Street, Vela­chery, Chen­nai 600042 (Op­po­site to TCS)
Telephone: +91 9444945217
Misc. Info: Worked as a music tutor in Rukmani­devi Col­lege of Fine arts, Kala­kshetra Foun­dation, Chen­nai. Won the Gold Medal for Car­natic vocal music in the senior cate­gory at the 7th Natio­nal Youth Fes­tival 2002 at Hisar, Har­yana, from Sri Pramod Maha­jan which was con­duc­ted by the Minis­try of Youth Af­fairs, Govt. of India. Per­for­med con­certs in va­rious sa­bhas in and around Chen­nai, Mum­bai, Nel­lore, Trichy, Karur, Et­ta­ya­puram, Thiru­vai­yaru. Gra­duated with a First Class in B.A (Indian Music) and M.A (Indian Music) from Mad­ras Univer­sity, Chen­nai. Teach music class through Inter­net.

Name: Smt. Soun­daram Krish­nan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Car­natic vocal
Location: Chen­nai, Tamil­nadu India.
Telephone: 09282410868 and 044 28155354
Misc. Info: She is an A Grade artist of Chen­nai AIR. In the year 1973 she was awarded; Deva­gana Var­shini’ a title from Pra­kala mutt Mysore. Audio Re­leases – The Ut­sava Sam­brathaya kri­this, Skanda Puranam and Pan­charatna Kri­tis. Rare Kri­this in ‘Guru Sthu­thi’ Kal­yana Pat­tukal’ Kummi Kolatam in dif­fer­ent lan­gua­ges. Rare Kri­this of Shyama Sas­tri and Muthiah Bha­ga­vathar Kal­yana Go­pa­lam from compo­si­tions of Na­ra­yana Theer­thar’s Kri­shna Leela Tha­rang­ini. She has trained with Chengal­pattu Ran­ga­na­than as well as Prof. T.R. Subra­ma­nian, amongst other gurus. Some of her stu­dents are per­forming artists.

Name: Ganesh Kumar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Per­cus­sion Instru­ments Viz., Mri­dangam, Kan­jira, Gha­tam, Mor­singh, and Kon­nakkol (Vocal Per­cus­sion)
Location: Ganesh Kumar Flat No: 3 “San­kara Apart­ments” No 91, Lake View Road West Mam­balam Chen­nai – 600 033.
Telephone: 91 44 4266 8907 / 098844 60904
Misc. Info: Tea­ching Car­natic Per­cus­sion In­stru­ments viz., mri­dan­gam, kan­jira, gha­tam, mor­singh, kon­ak­kol (vocal per­cus­sion). Indi­vidual pri­vate les­sons and group les­sons at San­kara Aca­demy of Music and Arts.

Name: Kundurthi Ven­ka­ta­kri­shna
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: mytho­logi­cal drama
Location: K Ven­ka­ta­kri­shna, Asst. Chief Ma­na­ger, F 2 , Ka­maraj Road, Block 16, Ney­veli, Tamil­nadu-607803
Telephone: 9442253558 – 04142253558
Misc. Info: I am a dip­loma holder in thea­tre arts from An­dhra Uni­ver­sity. Trai­ned in dra­matics by re­nowned ma­sters as chatla Sri­ramulu Athili Kri­shna­rao, Ab­buri Gopala­krishna and mytho­lo­gi­cal drama under late Sri Pasu­pu­leti Mu­nu­swami Naidu of An­jali pic­tures and dia­logue delivery in the mytho­lo­gi­cal drama under Pou­ra­ni­ka­sar­wa­bhouma Sri Mal­ladi Chandra­Sekhara­sasthry . I was best actor Andhra Uni­ver­sity, honou­red by great cine heroine Smt Jamuna, and won many pri­zes for best per­for­man­ces. I was ho­noured by the then go­ver­nor of AP & Tamil­ Nadu Sri Ran­ga­rajan at AP Bha­van New Delhi, per­for­med and ho­nou­red at Na­di­gar San­gham, Chen­nai right now I am por­trying Kri­shna roles in Thu­la­bharam and Pandavodyogavijayalu.

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Name: L.S. Ramesh
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic On Key­board
Location: Chen­nai, Tamil Nadu, India
Telephone:
Misc. Info: Web­site http://www.faces108.com I de­sig­ned an in­novative Car­natic music chakra (Sri Saraswathi 72 mela­karta Chakra) seeing which anyone can play the ra­gas by them­sel­ves on key­board/ piano. No music know­ledge ne­ces­sary. Cost US.$50/- includ­ing pos­tage. You may buy on­line from our web­site

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Name: Madras Sym­phony (School Of Arts)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: On­line Clas­ses For Car­natic Music, Key­board, Gui­tar, Piano, Drums, Veena, Vocal, Draw­ing, Em­broi­dery, Paint­ing, Me­hendi
Location: Chen­nai, India.
Telephone: +91-9941902699
Misc. Info: We offer on­line tuit­ions for all the ca­te­go­ries of music, arts & craft.

Name: Veena Mohan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Clas­sical vocal
Location: Coim­ba­tore, Tamil Nadu, India
Telephone: 9500920661
Misc. Info: Veena Mo­han is a gold medal­ist from the Ban­galore Uni­ver­sity (M.A. Music). She is also a graded art­ist with AIR Ban­galore. She has per­for­med in in­nu­mer­able sabhas ac­ross India, which in­clude Sri Shan­mughan­anda Fine Arts and San­gee­tha Sabha (Mumbai), Nu­rani Gra­mam, (Pa­la­ghat, Kerala), Na­da­brahma Gana Sabha, (Coim­batore, Tamil Nadu), Gayana Samaja (Ban­galore), Gana Sudha (Hubli), N.C.P.A (Natio­nal Centre for the Per­for­ming Arts Mumbai), Can­nan­ore San­geetha Sabha (Kannur, Kerala), Poona San­geetha Sabha (Pune) etc. She has a flair for teach­ing and is cur­rently of­fering both on­line and off­line classes.

Name: Mudikondan S.N. Ramesh
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic instru­mentsl-Veena & Vocal
Location: C-7 Maitri Apartments, 54/10 Ju­bilee Road, West Mambalam, Chen­nai- 600 033
Telephone: 044 – 2371 9450, Mobile No 94442 84546
Misc. Info: Ver­sa­tile ar­tiste with ex­cel­lent pro­fes­sional record. Has been per­for­ming since 1985. Hails from the sishya pa­ram­para of famous San­geetha Kala­nidhi Shri Mu­di­kon­dan Ven­kat­rama Iyer. Has been gra­ded ‘A’ by A.I.R. Chen­nai. Honou­red as Asthana Vid­wan of Srin­geri Sri Sa­rada Pee­tam & Sri Kanchi Ka­makoti Peetam. Also per­for­ming in the in­stru­men­tal en­sem­ble ‘Vadya Lahari’ with violin­ist A. Kanya­kumari and Mam­balam M.K.S. Siva.

Name: Goutama Sarma Myla­va­rapu
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Clas­sical Music ( Carnatic)
Location: Ko­dam­bak­kam, Chen­nai, India
Telephone: 91+ 9940649670
Misc. Info: For begin­ners 8 classes per month and $20 per class is the charge and one hour per class.

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Name: N. Amutha
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: bharathanatiyam
Location: 49, Sam­ban­dam Nagar, Thi­run­indra­vour, via. P.P. Main Road, Chenai.
Telephone: 9176145516, 9840802975
Misc. Info: I am a clas­si­cal Bharatha­natiyam dancer. I finished B.F.A [ba­che­lor of fine arts] gold meda­list, 81%. I done my M.F.A [Mas­ter of Fine Arts] gold medal. 80%. Now I did my M.Phil dance. Dis­ting­tion. Ex­peri­en­ced in teach­ing 15 years, and I have done my great job in north india vara­nasi 2004 to 2006. I want to do my best career in my field. I want to ac­cieve my field.

Name: N. Girish­kumar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: karnatic flute
Location: N. Girishkumar, Lec­tu­rer In Flute, Music Depart­ment, An­nama­lai Univer­sity, An­nama­lai Nagar – 608002
Telephone: 9894195962
Misc. Info: I am per­for­ming Carnatic music – flute (Solo) reci­tals and Bharata­natyam con­certs. I am ta­king pri­vate clas­ses.

Name: N.S. Aarthi Madhu­mita – Kooth­amba­lam Aca­demy of Bharatha­natyam
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharata­natyam Clas­ses through Skype
Location: Chen­nai, Ta­mil Nadu India
Telephone: +91 9840911480
Misc. Info: Face book page- koo­tham­balam dance school

Name: Namagiri Ramesh
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Vocal – Carnatic
Location: T Nagar, Chennai, India
Telephone: 98407 34054
Misc. Info: Priveleged to be under the tutelage of Dr. M.L.V., Dr. B. Rajam Iyer, Dr. R. Vedavalli and Dr. B. M. Sundaram. Performed in India and abroad. Titles – Suswara Gana, Dasa Kala Mani and Nallor Virudhu. Specialised in thematic concerts. Founder member and President of the musical NGO Bharat Kala Samarpan and first woman Secretary of Sri Thyagaraja Sangeetha Vidwath Samajam (a heritage musical institution that is 90 years old).

Name: Ajay Nam­budiri
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Vocal
Location: door no: 1060, 68th st, 11th sec­tor, West k k nagar. Chen­nai. Tamil­nadu. India. pin: 600078
Telephone: 044-24721720 / mobile: 94440 22102
Misc. Info: A new voice in the fir­ma­ment of Car­natic music, Ajay Nam­boo­diri started learn­ing mu­sic at the age of twelve un­der the able tu­te­lage of Sri. Kal­madi Sada­shiva Acharya of Kasara­god in Ke­rala. He con­tin­ued his stu­dies under Sri. Palai C.K. Rama­chandran, a re­nowned ex­ponent of the car­natic music. His ad­van­ced train­ing in music was under the great tea­cher san­geetha Maho­pa­dhyaya Prof. T. R. Subrah­manyam. At pre­sent he is a dis­ciple of Sri. Ney­veli San­thana Gopa­lan one of the lead­ing lights of con­tem­po­rary car­natic music. His train­ing under Shri. Ney­veli San­thana Gopa­lan in the past three years has vir­tually been a kind of Gu­ru­kula Vaasa and has aided him to im­bibe the dis­tin­ctive “Ney­veli Bani” in all its clas­si­cal and aes­thetic dimen­sions.

Name: Mrs Usha Nara­simhan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic, voice culture, all ages
Location: R A Puram, Chen­nai 28
Telephone: 9840358853
Misc. Info: https://sites.google.com/site/onlinekarnaticmusic/instructors

Name: Anjali Narayanan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharat Natyam
Location: 3A, Adithi Apartments, 99, 4th Street, Abhiramapuram, Chen­nai – 600 018 India
Telephone: 91-044-24987538
Misc. Info: Dis­ciple of Smt. Jay­anthi Sub­ra­ma­niam

Name Neerajaa Narayanan
Email [email protected]
Field Veena, South Indian classical music
Location: Porur, Chennai, India
Telephone: 8907631133
Misc. Info: Graduate in Veena from R.L.V. College of Music and Fine Arts Thripunithura. 6 years of teaching experience.

Name: Ms. Nar­thaki Nata­raj
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharathanatyam
Location: Nar­thaki Nru­thya Kala­laya, 10, Ananda saro­var Apart­ments, 198, Kut­chery Road, Myla­pore, Chen­nai-600 004. India.
Telephone: +91 44 24660413/ 9444844420
Misc. Info: An­cient Tamil litera­ture and Rare compo­si­tions of Tan­jore Quar­tets will be pre­sen­ted in these con­certs…. Ms Nar­thaki Nata­raj – A Brief Pro­file Ms Nar­thaki Nata­raj, is one of the very few lead­ing Bharata­natyam ar­tists in India today who has made it to the “Top Grade” artist Status in Door­dharshan. She is a re­ceip­ient of Kalai­mani award from Govt. of Tamil­nadu and a Fel­low­ship awar­dee of the San­geet Natak Aka­demi. Every year she per­forms in pres­ti­gious sabhas and cul­tural organi­za­tions in India. She had also con­duc­ted per­for­mances and work­shops in USA, UK, Nor­way and Swit­zer­land. Web Site – www.narthakinataraj.com

Name: Sasi­dharan Nata­rajan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Vocal – Carnatic
Location:
Telephone: 91-9840 094626
Misc. Info: A Masters in Arts, Indian Car­natic music from Ma­dras Uni­ver­sity, and a dis­ciple of Padma­shree Dr. K.J. Yesu­dass, Sasi is also a re­si­dent sin­ger for Bha­ratha Kal­anjali, a premium dance troupe by Dha­na­jayans. Sasi is also the rec­ipient of “Isai Chem­mal From The “Indira Gandhi Ilak­kiya Man­dram” And “Isai Mani” From The Bhara­thi Youth As­so­cia­tion, Chen­nai. Sasi has an excel­lent skill, sing­ing for dance where he con­nects, comp­li­ments and flow with the dancer.

Name: Neeraj
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Hindi Bha­jans, Dan­diya, Mata Ki Choki.
Location: 18. Amman koil st. Chen­nai-79
Telephone: +919283104321, +919841462301.
Misc. Info: Nee­raj or­ga­nises excellent Hindi bha­jans i.e, Mata ki Choki, Shiva bha­jan, Kri­shna bha­jan from past 5 yrs. He also organise Dan­diya pro­gram in Nav­ratri, other parties & for mar­riages too.

Name: Neyveli S. Radhakrishna
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Violin and Double Vio­lin
Location: Ney­veli S. Radhakrishna 7/4, 14th Street, Ram Ganesh Flats, Nan­ga­nal­lur, Chen­nai India – 600061. :
Telephone: 0091-(0)44-22336332, 43588896
Misc. Info: www.doubleviolin.com & https://www.facebook.com/radhakrishna.neyveli for en­quries mail me. Radha­krishna’s latest feat- “Stereo­scopic Dou­ble Neck Vio­lin is unique the first of its kind in Asia and cur­rently third in the world. Nay. There were only two dou­ble neck violins in the world. Re-invention, re-mo­dell­ing and in­no­va­tive up gra­dation makes the dou­ble neck violin Radha­krishna plays the first of its kind in the world! Its or­ches­tral range spans a spec­trum en­com­pas­sing a range of four in­stru­ments – vio­lin, viola, cello and dou­ble bass. His uni­que style has crea­ted a niche in the hearts of ra­sikas and music buffs.

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Name: P.V.S. Jagath Eesan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Tabla, Mru­dan­gam, [for Bharatha­natyam] gui­tar, bass guitar, man­do­line, Har­mon­ium, key­board, thumba, tri­ple kango, drums, drum pad
Location: 1/8 gowri co­lony, nan­ga­nal­lur Chen­nai; 600061
Telephone: 044-22248374, mobile – +91 9445170248,
Misc. Info: I teach pre­sen­tly for more than 300 childrens] my in­sti­tu­tion foun­ded by my father in law; Nat­ya­chelvam, Natu­vanaar, stal­wart, Maya­varam, guru M.S. Rama­samy Pillai [first des­ciple of Padma­shree Late Vazhu­voor B. Ramiah Pil­lai] in the year 1950.

Name: P. Ven­ka­ta­ra­mana
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Flute south Indian clas­sical
Location: 21/5 Antony Street Ro­ya­pettah Chen­nai = 600014 South India
Telephone: 044=28132030
Misc. Info: has been in the field of per­forming arts since 1980-play­ing both solo con­certs and ac­com­pany­ing for bharata­natyam / Kuchi­pudi re­ci­tals. has been teach­ing stu­dents in Chen­nai for nearly twenty years. Avail­able for taking flute clas­ses per­so­nally and also on inter­net. Has been trai­ned by father Late Shri P. Vis­wa­natha Rao (A.I.R.) and by Dr. Pra­pancham Sita Ram. has toured exten­sively U.S.A and Europe.

Name: Pakala Jaya­pra­kash
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Violin, Vocal and Music Key­board
Location: No.9, Munu­swamy Naicken Street, Gana­pathy­puram, Chrome­pet, Chen­nai – 600 044, Tamil­nadu, India.
Telephone: 9840030766, 9176770177
Misc. Info: Qua­lifi­ca­tion – Ph.D, M.Phil (In­dian Music) M.Music B.Music, Dip. in Violin, San­geetha Vi­sha­radha, San­geetha Pra­veena, Grade Artiste in AIR. I am hailing from the fa­mily of Car­natic mu­si­cians. I am taking clas­ses for vio­lin, vocal, and musical key­board. I am work­ing as fine arts teacher at Sri­mathi Sun­da­ra­valli Me­mo­rial School, Chrome­pet, Chen­nai-44. I am a pro­fes­sional car­natic violinist. I am giving per­for­mance for the last 10 years in India and abroad.

Name: Meera Partha­sarathy
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic music, de­vo­tio­nal music and bha­jans
Location: Chen­nai, Tamil Naud
Telephone: 0091 9884391665
Misc. Info: I take clas­ses thru Skype and charge USD 25 per class. My song is at­tached here. One of my links is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpsA-k8RLw8

Name: Rakesh Pazhedam
Email: [email protected]
Field: Mridangam, South Indian classical music
Location: Porur, Chennai, India.
Telephone: 8056146589
Misc. Info: All India Radio’A’ Graded artist.

Name: Jayanthi Prabu
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Veena
Location: Old No 25, New No 56, Sarangapani Street, T-Nagar, Chen­nai 600017.
Telephone: +91-9962595432 / 99432
Misc. Info: Daughter and dis­ciple of renowned veena instru­men­ta­list, Kalaima­mani Smt. Ranga­nayaki Raja­gopa­lan, win­ner of Pre­si­den­tial Award for Car­natic Instru­men­tal Music. Hails from a family of musi­cians. B-high ar­tist from AIR Chen­nai. Cen­tral go­vern­ment scho­lar­ship reci­pient for car­natic veena. Has played in many sa­bhas and local con­certs in India. Look­ing for­ward to teach on­line clas­ses to stu­dents to spread the know­ledge of the beau­ti­ful Indian car­natic veena.

Name: Prof. Pra­pan­cham Sita Ram
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Flute, Vocal, Music teach­ing, lec­tures, work­shops, lecture de­mon­stra­tions, solo con­certs
Location: 45 Ven­kata­chala St, Trip­li­cane, Chen­nai 600005. India.
Telephone: +91 94444 54599 (India), 805-901-0082 (USA).
Misc. Info: The celebrity Pra­pan­cham Sita Ram star­ted his musi­cal ca­reer as a child pro­digy. He is A top grade flutist, music com­po­ser for All India Radio, Door­dar­shan and a top ar­tiste of ICCR panel. His in­nu­mer­able Natio­nal and In­ter­na­tio­nal awards and honours in­clude UNESCO spon­sored Asian Ros­trum Glo­bal First Prize (1993), Pre­si­dent Of India Awards twice (1957 and 2004), State In­si­gnia Honor by King of Laos(1964), “Kalaima­mani” title ho­nour by Tamil Nadu Go­vern­ment long back in 1983 on a par with film per­sonality Raj­ni­kanth, and Madras Music Academy awards for his out­stan­ding main con­certs a num­ber of times.

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Name: R. Guru­raaj
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Music Key­board Teaching
Location: Gu­duvan­chery, Chen­nai, Tamil­nadu India
Telephone: 99529- 80040
Misc. Info: Learn the fun­da­men­tals of Car­natic music and start play­ing the songs in music key­board. On­line clas­ses avail­able. Fle­xible ti­ming. Classes for all age groups. Indi­vi­dual at­ten­tion.

Name: R. Usha
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Dance- Toddlers, kids dances Bharatha­natiyam, South Indian folk dances, Yoga varieties. Therapy, Mu­dras, Eye exer­cises, Spe­cial Yoga for Spe­cial Kids
Location: C8A, CeeDeeYes Regal Palm Gar­dens, Tam­ba­ram Vel­achery main Road, Vel­achery, Chen­nai – 42. Near Adyar Anan­dha Bha­van
Telephone: LL – 044-49595170 Cel – +91 9840034079
Misc. Info: *Won “Nat­ya­ka­la­mani” Award * Bharatha­natiyam Gold Me­dalist * 25 years ex­pe­ri­ence * Theory classes under­take *Can trained stu­dents for Govt & Uni­ver­sity Exams. * Masters in Yoga (1st class)

Name: Appsara Raam­kummar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharatha­natyam
Location: New No.12/15, 9th Lane, Sa­sthri Nagar, Adyar, Chen­nai – 600020 Tamil Nadu, INDIA
Telephone: 9840789994 Res : 91-44-24910522 / 42018196
Misc. Info: Best clas­sical Bhartha­natyam dan­seu­ses. Dis­ciple of Kalaima­mani Smt. Uma Dan­da­yu­tha­pani Pillai.

Name: Raghavendra Academy of Music
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Vocal
Location: A/G4 Mahaveer Apts 4, East Coast Road Thiru­van­miyur Chen­nai-41 Tamil­nadu India
Telephone: 098404-99879
Misc. Info: Please con­tact via mail or phone.

Name: Smt. Guru Jayasre Raj
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Clas­si­cal dance, car­natic vocal music, natu­van­gam
Location: Kai­rali Natya Kala Sheth­ram, 37/43 A, South street no:1, K R Puram, Avaram­pala­yam, Coim­batore -06.
Telephone:
Misc. Info: I have lear­ned clas­si­cal dance under Guru. Sri. Mu­ri­yadu Murali­dha­ran of Kerala an unique Dis­ciple of Smt. Guru. Padma Sub­ra­ma­niam. I have foun­ded my dance school “Kai­rali Natya Kala Sheth­ram” at the year 1998. And I have per­for­med in var­ious dance festi­vals and cultural fest all around in Tamil­ Nadu and Kerala. I have trained more than 600 stu­dents all around in Ke­rala and Tamil­ Nadu.

Name: Ms. Archana Rajan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharatha­natyam.
Location: Abinaya Bharatam Academy, No 32, Pil­layar koil Street, Vada­palani, Chen­nai – 600026. Tamil Nadu, India
Telephone: Res – 044-24730147 Mobile: 9176635395
Misc. Info: I am an ardent dis­ciple of Kalaima­mani Smt. Uma Anand (daug­hter and dis­ci­ple of Late Sri Dhan­da­yu­da­pani Pillai). Bharatha­natyam is my passion. Abinaya Bha­ra­tam Academy is a stage for bud­ding artists.

Name: Ganga Rama­chandran B.A {Economics- Statistics}, MA, M.PHIL, {Ph.D} (Music)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Per­for­ming Car­natic Mu­si­cian / Re­search Scholar/ Teacher – Vocal/ key­board / violin/ Veena -per­for­mance and exam orien­ted.
Location: Pro­vi­dent Cosmo city, Pudup­pak­kam, Chen­nai 603103
Telephone: 9283400160
Misc. Info: Gee­tan­jali Global Guru­kulam per­sonal and on­line clas­ses for dil­igent stu­dents. Re­sear­cher on com­po­sers from Ke­rala, tea­ching ex­pe­rie­nce of 30 yrs guest lecturer @ madras university and mother Teresa Womens university for distance and re­gular stu­dents of musi­co­logy and mu­sic. 2 Yrs re­gular lec­tu­rer @tea­chers train­ing col­lege Music Aca­demy. Per­for­med concerts, lec dems, dance re­ci­tals @ va­rious sabhas & Inter­na­tio­nal con­fe­ren­ces Air edu­ca­tio­nal talk shows,   http://geetanjali2014.blogspot.in/ http://geetanjaliglobalgurukulam.blogspot.in/ 

Name: Smt. Shyamala Ranga­rajan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Indian Music (Car­natic – Vo­cal)
Location: 25, Ro­hini Vas­tu­gra­mam, Melur Road, Sri­ran­gam, Trichy 620006, Tamil­nadu.
Telephone:
Misc. Info: I am an MA in In­dian music (Car­natic – vocal) from Ma­dras Univer­sity. I had ex­ten­sive train­ing un­der emi­nent gurus like – Culcut­ta Shri Krishna­murthy, Shri S. Ra­jam, Lal­gudi Shri G Jaya­raman, Smt Su­guna Varad­achari. I am a gra­ded artist of the All India Radio. I have per­for­med in va­rious sabhas in dif­fe­rent parts of India. I have more than 30 years ex­peri­ence in teach­ing Car­natic music. For the past 6 years, I have been train­ing stu­de­nts in the US, Europe, Aus­tra­lia and the Gulf and other coun­tries through In­ter­net media – Skype. Anyone in­ter­ested to learn Car­natic music from me through inter­net, may con­tact me for fur­ther de­tails. Skype id srangarajan47.

Name: Rithu
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Car­natic vocal, Bha­jans
Location: plot no 9, thi­ru­ven­ka­tam street, vi­rugam­bakkam, Chen­nai 600092.
Telephone: 98845682875 / 09840124870
Misc. Info: Mrs. Rithu is M.Phil. in Car­natic music. She has won many pri­zes includ­ing 1st prize in All In­dia com­peti­tion held by AIR for which she was awar­ded B grade. She is the niece of vio­lin vidwan Trichur. C. Raj­end­ran and Mri­dangam Vid­wan Trichur. C. Narendran. She is a per­for­ming artist also teach­ing on­line to stu­dents abroad. She is run­ning a music school “Swara San­githa Vid­ya­laya”. She is a stu­dent of Vi­dushi. Smt. Padma­vathy Anantha­gopalan (sis­ter of violin maestro Late. Lal­gudi Jaya­raman) and Vi­dushi. Smt. Sya­mala Ven­ka­te­swaran.

Name: Rukmani­krishnan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Car­natic Vocal
Location: Rukmani­kishore­kumar, Plot no 58, pamba nagar 1st street, Iyer Bun­galow, Ma­durai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Telephone: +91-9488237972, 04522681291
Misc. Info: I got ini­tial train­ing in mu­sic under my mo­ther and took mu­sic as a full time course in my gra­dua­tion and post gra­dua­tion at Bha­ra­ti­dasan Uni­ver­sity and secu­red uni­ver­sity gold medal for the both. Along with my acade­mic ca­reer i had under­gone spe­cial train­ing under Sri S. Subra­mani­yam a tra­di­tional San­geetha vid­wan in Tan­jore for 5 years. Later, took advan­ced train­ing from ve­teran mu­si­cian and also a ce­le­brated vag­ge­ya­kara in Car­natic music- Smt. Ambu­jam vedan­tam. carrying out my re­sea­rch in music in Ka­maraj Univer­sity. As an aca­de­mi­cian, pre­sen­ted var­ious pa­pers on dif­fe­rent to­pics in many mu­si­cal se­mi­nars and work­shops.

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Name: S. Muru­gana­than
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharatha­natiyam
Location: S. Muru­ga­nathan Erode Muru­gan Nadana­laya No.6, V.V.C.R. Nagar I street Erode 638001.
Telephone: 0424-2216798, 94425-16798; 98427-7557
Misc. Info: I am the dis­ciple of Ms. Ponni Bala­subra­ma­nian, the dis­ci­ple of renowed Guru Smt. Bala­sa­ra­swathi. Tea­ching dance for more than 20 years, be­sides per­for­ming va­rious ex­cha­nting pro­gram­mes in va­rious South In­dian places. Has chore­graphed numer­ous bal­lets in­clud­ing the fa­mous ballet of Kan­nappa Na­yanar. Parti­ci­pa­ted in various Govt. work­shops. Has won the title “Kalai Sudar­mani” from the Govt of TN. :

Name: Nirupa S.
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Veena and vocal
Location: Chennai, India
Telephone: 9176279373
Misc. Info: Sara­swathi Music online classes – Chennai offering online veena and vocal classes by Professor Nirupa. She has vast experi­ence in teaching Veena and Vocal through Skype, Zoom, Face­time etc; students age 6 to 65yrs can contact her to learn Carnatic music. She specially teach sarali swaras, jantai swaras, geetham, varnams and keerthanas. If the student wants to learn apart from these that too can be taught by teacher.

Name: Sharwari S. Pyati
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Vocal
Location: B-3, Swarna­mukhi Apart­ments, 3rd Main Road, Gan­dhi­Nagar, Adyar Chen­nai, Tamil Nadu, India
Telephone: 91 -9940028718
Misc. Info: Com­pleted di­ploma in Car­natic music from Kala­kshet­ra Foun­dation Chen­nai with First Class in 2004. Se­cured lower and Higher Grades in Car­natic music from Govern­ment of Kar­na­taka. Wor­ked as a part time tea­cher at Kala­kshetra Chen­nai and cur­rently teach­ing Car­natic music in Chen­nai. I have given va­rious con­certs in Chen­nai and I have been learn­ing Car­natic music for the past 18 years.

Name: S. Vara­lakshmi
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Vocal
Location: Chen­nai
Telephone:
Misc. Info: I star­ted my sing­ing in the age of 5, have sung in Tamil movies. Star­ted my sing­ing with M.S. Vis­wa­nathan, Shan­kar Ga­nesh, and with many more music di­rec­tors.

Name: Kal­li­dai­ku­richi Veenai S Ven­ka­tesan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Clas­sical Music in Veena, Vocal and Key­board, Ed­iting and Pub­lishing Music Books
Location: Door No. 4/51, Up­stairs, Ala­me­lu­manga­puram, My­la­pore, Chen­nai – 600 004, Tamil Nadu, India
Telephone: 0 91 94441 63092
Misc. Info: I am be­long­ing to sishya parambara of Muthu­swami Dik­shitar and con­duct­ing veena, vocal and key­board classes in Chen­nai. Now I started classes through inter­net. Please visit my web­site www.sundaraveenai.com for more de­tails

Name: Kuldeep Sagar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Hindu­stani Clas­sical and Light Vocal Mu­sic
Location: No: 5, 35th street, 3rd avenue, Ashok Nagar, Chen­nai 600083 (be­hind Ja­wa­har vidha­yala school)
Telephone: +91 9840428195, +91 9444452876
Misc. Info: Mr. Kul­deep Sagar is an emi­nent Hindu­stani clas­sical and Light Music Vo­cal­ist as well as a re­mark­able Gha­zal sin­ger. He stu­died to get both Bachelor’s and Ma­ster’s De­grees in Music from the In­dira San­geet Maha­vidhya­laya in Khaira­garh, M.P. He also earned the dip­lomas San­geet Pra­veen, San­geet Pra­bhakar and Senior Di­ploma in Sugam San­geet from the Pra­yag San­geet Samiti, Al­la­ha­bad. His skills were fur­ther honed under the guid­ance of the Late Sangeet­acharaya Pan­dit Nand Kis­hore Sharma of the Gwa­lior Gha­rana, with whom he stu­died for seven years in Bho­pal. He is a AIR “B. High” Grade Artist in Hindu­stani Clas­si­cal and Light Music Cur­rently he runs his school for Hindu­stani music in Chen­nai – Alaap Music Academy which is af­fi­lia­ted to Prayag Sangit Samiti, Al­la­ha­bad.

Name: Janani Sai­ram
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: veena
Location: Ma­napak­kam porur
Telephone: 9840156938
Misc. Info: You can find more details in veena artist Janani – veena swaralaya Face­book page Watsapp 009715­584­94733

Name: Shankar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic (Vocal/Violin)
Location: Plot No:7, Balaji Nagar, Mudichur, Madras 600
Telephone: 048- 2276 1376
Chelliah nagar 1 st street Koodal Nagar Madurai – South India Pin – 625 018
Telephone: 0452 – 2660396 , 09443166039
Misc. Info: Taking basic music class and small Kir­thanas to both ladies & gents of ages bet­ween 10 years and above at stu­dents home itself. If stu­dent desire to allot a se­parate room for music class, it will be wel­come.

Name: Pooja Shanthosh
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharathnatyam
Location: 181, Imayam Colony, Anna Nagar west, Chen­nai 600 101
Telephone: +91 9962926295
Misc. Info:

Name: Srinivasan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Car­natic Music (both clas­sical and de­votio­nal) com­poser, per­former (car­natic, de­votio­nal, light music in Tamil & Hindi), hari­katha/ san­geetha upanya­sam.
Location: 29/11, 2nd Street, Bha­rathy Road, Perambur, Chen­nai 600011
Telephone: 91- 44- 25520189 / 91- 9789082719
Misc. Info: I had my train­ing under Sri Ch. Sanyasi Rao, a Vio­lin Vid­hwan of AIR, Vizianagaram. I used to per­form for good causes and cha­rity fund rising nor­mally. Please visit my blog http://ilikepaattu.wordpress.com to know more about me.

Name: Raja­raj­eswari Sri­ni­va­san
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Car­natic Violin and Car­natic Vocal
Location: Plot # 74, Door # 46/16, Sa­ra­vana Nagar, Aan­garai, Lalgudi Taluk, Trichy – 621703
Telephone: Mobile – 09940543211
Misc. Info: Having five years of experi­ence in teach­ing both car­natic violin and vocal. Taking clas­ses on­line through skype. I am a B high Vio­lin­ist of All India Radio and hold Mas­ters in Music from Uni­ver­sity of Ma­dras.

Name: Seetha Srinivasan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharatha­natyam
Location: Mrs. Seetha Sri­ni­vasan School of Bharatha­natyam Nri­thiya kala kendra 1-11/3 Chelliah nagar 1 st street Koodal Nagar Madurai – South India Pin – 625 018
Telephone: 0452 – 2660396 , 09443166039
Misc. Info: in person

Name: Vidhya Srinivasan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Veena
Location: Thanjavur District
Telephone: 8015469093
Misc. Info: Guru Isai­ka­lai­mani in Adyar Music Col­lege & I’m com­pleting B.A , M.A (music) in Than­javur Tamil Uni­ver­sity & I’m teached veena, Car­natic vocal & Car­natic ba­sed key­board also. If you want my per­for­mance watch on you tube user name- vithyveena

Name: Preethe Sri­ram
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Vocal- Carnatic Music
Location: A6, 1st Floor, San­gath Apart­ments, MGR Nagar 2nd Main Road, Vela­chery, Chen­nai 42
Telephone: 98840 45346
Misc. Info: Namaskaram. I am Pree­the Sri­ram. I got gra­dua­ted from Kala­kshe­tra Foun­dation (DFA) and won the best per­for­mer award from Di­rec­tor Leela Sam­son & Pappu Venu­gopal Rao in the year ’08- ’09. I have won the 1st place in the State Level Com­peti­tion for Div­ya Pra­ban­dhas in Tan­jore Tamizh Sangam. Per­formed in All India Poets As­so­cia­tion before Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Perfor­mance on Thi­ru­vai­yaaru- Thya­ga­raja Ara­dhana, Narada Gana Sabha- Rare Com­po­si­tions on Ranga­nathar, Given vocal per­for­man­ces in Chidambaram, Tanjore, Trichy, Shimoga, Dharmasthala, and Bangalore. Also I am a freelancer sing­ing for dance. I have worked with Kalaimamani Nar­thaki Natraj for the De­cem­ber dance festival in Bha­ra­thiya Vidya Bha­van. I have 6-7 of ex­peri­ence in teach­ing vocal Car­natic music clas­ses for Kids and Soft­ware Pro­fes­sio­nals. Music has no limits or boun­daries and I con­duct on­line clas­ses for stu­dents from the age of 7.

Name: Radhika Shura­jit
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharatha­natyam
Location: Plot No. 2, Jaya­ram Avenue, Shas­tri Nagar, Adayar, Chen­nai 600020, India
Telephone: +91-44-24911544, +91-98410-84599
Misc. Info: Rad­hika is the Di­rec­tor of Thra­yee School of Bharata­natyam (Regd).  For more info check: www.RadhikaShurajit.com

Name: Sowmiya
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Hindu­stani Vocalist
Location: Raja Annamalaipuram, Chen­nai 600 028
Telephone: +44 98402 81720
Misc. Info: Smt Sow­miya is a well known Hindu­sta­ni vo­calist, coming from a great musical li­neage. She is the niece of San­gita Kala­nidhi GN Bala­subra­manian. Sowmiya is also a visual ar­tist and has dis­played her works in several art ex­hi­bi­tions. She has per­for­med for Na­rada Gana Sabha, The Music Aca­demy and all major Sab­has in Chen­nai. At Sow­miya’s Sunad, centre for Hindu­stani Music, clas­sical Hindu­stani vocals is taught. Many film playback singers have been trained by Sowmiya

Name: Priya Sriram
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic vocal
Location: 1/9 rangas apart­ments , RA puram 4th main road, Chen­nai-600028. India
Telephone: +9144 24954928 Handy – +919884621506
Misc. Info:I am a Car­natic vocal­ist who is in­ter­es­ted to teach stu­dents abroad on Skype. I am Post gra­duate in music and pur­suing my doc­to­rate on the same. I hail from a family of mus­ic­ians and my grand­father is late K.V. Na­ranyan­swami and my music style is in line with late Smt. D.K. Pat­ta­mal School and have trai­ned under Smt. Lat­litha Siva­kumar, the mother of Smt. Nitya­shree. Skype ID – nara­yani1976

Name: Anand Subra­manian
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Mirudangam, ganjira
Location: West Mambalam, Chen­nai, Tamil Nadu, India 600033
Telephone: 9176694144, 7200859298
Misc. Info: Been awarded as first run­ner up in dis­trict level ta­lent com­peti­tion senior level in year 2003 and awar­ded title (De­vo­ted De­di­cated and Out­stan­ding Star of Sara­swathi Kala Ken­dra) Vel­lore. Fees for classes in mru­dangam will be Rs2000 per month for home tui­tion and on­line clas­ses will be Rs5000.

Name: Shantala Subra­manyam
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Flute, Vocal, kun­nakol
Location: 12/2 II Main Road, CIT Colony, Mylapore, Chen­nai 600 004
Telephone: 91 98405 39402
Misc. Info: Con­cert per­for­mer and tea­cher. I take on­line classes also.

Name: Srinivasan Swami­na­than
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Clas­sical flute (kar­natic)
Location: Shastri nagar, Adyar, Chen­nai, 600020,India.
Telephone: 9841617681 LL 044 24900718
Misc. Info: Have been under the tute­lage of a re­pu­ted flaut­ist for about 15 years and have per­formed local­ly and pre­par­ing stu­dents upto Keer­thana level.

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Name: T.R. Samba­sivan.
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Veena
Location: No,1, Firdst Street,  Bhaktha­vathsalam Nagar, Adyar, Chen­nai. 600 020.
Telephone: 91 9444411891
Misc. Info: Initial­ly trained by my father late Sri T.N. Ramaswamy Sastry  and later by Smt.  Ranga­nayaki Raja­gopa­lan both decip­les of the Great Karai­kuddy Sam­ba­siva Iyer. I have been teach­ing and per­for­ming and in 1988  Joined the singa­pore In­dian Fine Arts So­ciety to teach veena till 1994, and later joined Tamil­nadu Govt. Music Col­lege as Lec­turer in veena, and pre­sen­tly teach­ing veena and per­forming. I have per­for­med many solo per­for­mances in India Singa­pore France and also joined with Great mus­ic­ians like Thavil Chakra­varthy Pala­ni­ve­lin his troupe and also ac­com­pa­nied for dance like Shri Adyar Lak­sha­ma­nan in Japan and also Shrdi Dha­nan­jayans. Awarded Kalai­ma­mani in 1999. For clas­ses through net please my mail [email protected]

Name: T. Shyam Sunder
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Mri­dan­gam and Vocal
Location: Old No 43, New No 30, Flat 15 Third Street, Abhiramapuram, Chen­nai-600018
Telephone: +91 44 24996963 Mobile 9444162117
Misc. Info: Mri­dan­gam – Senior dis­ciple of mri­dan­gam maestro Guru Kaaraik­kudi Mani and an A grade artist of All India Radio Chen­nai for the last 20 years. Awar­ded Yuva Kala Ba­ra­thi by Bha­rat Kala­char. Has toured USA, Europe, Middle East & Sri Lan­ka on con­cert tours with lead­ing mus­ic­ians. Impar­ting train­ing to many stu­dents. Vocal – Disciple of Late Vairamangalam Lakshminarayanan and giving public con­certs for the last 6 years. Presen­tly undergoing advan­ced train­ing from Mr. T.G. Badri­na­ra­ya­nan a senior dis­ciple of San­geetha Kala­nidhi DK Jaya­raman.

Name: Dr. T. Suresh­sivan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Vocal (thevaram)
Location: Madurai, Tamil­nadu
Telephone: 9443930540
Misc. Info:I teach the­va­ram for collage and school stu­dents at free of cost. we had a music trust con­duct­ing music semi­nars and work­shops for the past 11 years.

Name: Thanjai. S. Vidhya
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Veena
Location: No:377, Engineer Lane, North Main Street, Near by muthoot finance, Thanja­vur- 613001.
Telephone: 7639952229
Misc Info: Veena. S. Vidhya is M.A Holder. She’s​ performed as solo Veena & also accompanist with to some great lengends. She was honored as Veenai Isai Arasi in 2017. Her trained students also yearly gave some precious per­for­mance. She takes classes at her place & home classes also. She takes vocal & carnatic key­board class also.

Name: Thiruvarur K. Ven­katesh
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic Ghatam & Mridangam
Location: G3, Murali­ram Ragav­endra Flats, #32, State Bank Colony Extn., Nanganal­lur, Chen­nai-600 061.
Telephone: +914422243296 / 9444364800
Misc. Info: Ver­satile and multi­face­ted ar­tiste in mri­dangam, gha­tam facul­ties. Hails from dis­ci­ple of re­nowned Guru Sri Trichy R. Tha­yu­ma­navan is well known of guru sishya pa­ram­parai from the Sri­lasri Pudu­kot­tai Maha­peri­yava Sri Dakshina­moorthy Pil­lai­val. This is well­-known in the music field all over the world -“B” gra­ded artiste from A I R Ho­nou­red as As­thana Vi­dwan of Sri Kan­chi Kama­koti Peetam- Awar­ded as Best Ar­tiste of Gha­tam & mri­dangam 2008 and I have per­for­med to all leading & experi­enced Vidwans. I had as­sociated in one Mu­sic Troop its Name is Sruthi Laya Laya, we are per­for­ming and teach­ing music clas­ses.

Name: Thiruvellore V Par­tha­sa­rathy
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Violin – Per­former (solo & accom­pani­ment) & Teacher
Location: T nagar , Chen­nai 600017, Tamil­nadu, India
Telephone: 91-44- 24342102 (H) 91-9444- 667296 (c)
Misc. Info: I have been per­for­ming for over four de­cades and have accom­pan­ied great maestros like Sri. Madu­rai Somu, Dr.S. Rama­nathan, Sri. DK Jayaraman, Srimans. BV Raman- Lakshmanan, Dr. Ramani, Sri. TN Seshagopalan, Sri. Maharajapuram Santhanam, Sri. OS Tyagarajan, Smt Vedavalli, smt. DK Pattammal, Smt. ML Vasan­tha­kumari and Sri. Man­ddolin Sri­nivas, etc. I have also been per­for­ming solo con­certs all over India and through­out the world. I had my tute­lage for my father Sri Thi­ru­vel­lore B. Veera­ragha­van and uncle Sri Thiru­vel­lore B. Subra­man­iam. I prou­dly play the unique bhaani / style of the he­ri­tage pas­sed on to me. I teach stu­dents from basic to ad­van­ced levels both in-per­son and also con­duct vir­tual clas­ses through the inter­net and phone. The fee is very nomi­nal as my in­ten­tion is in­itaite and kindle the love of music in many gene­ra­tions to come.

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Name: Deepthi V. S.
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic – Vocal
Location: 99A, 8th street, Lakshmi Nagar, Madipakkam, Chen­nai 600091
Telephone: 9884695347
Misc. Info: BA music 2nd Rank, MA music 3rd Rank (Cal­icut Univer­sity, Kerala), NET quali­fied

Name: Ghatam Vai­dya­nathan Suresh
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Ghatam, Mri­dangam, Kan­jira, Mor­sing, Kon­nak­kol
Location: B5,I Floor, Prince Tower, 4/13, Marvadi Thot­tam, Sub­barayan Road Mylapore, Chen­nai 600004 India.
Telephone: 91 44 2461 4539, Mobile: 94442 08033
Misc. Info: www.ghatamsuresh.com – Spe­cia­li­sed train­ing in South In­dian per­cus­sion mri­dan­gam, ghatam, kan­jira, kon­nak­kol and mor­sing and also Car­na­tic vocal from basics to pro­fes­sio­nal levels are given under one roof. Perfor­man­ces are also ar­ran­ged. If you have a group to learn crash cour­ses are given at your lo­ca­tions in any part of the world. CDs and cas­sest­tes of aesthetic per­cus­sion avail­able.

Name: Srilakshmi Ven­ka­ta­ram­ani
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Violin (Carnatic)
Location: no.7, door no. 1, Balaji Apart­ments, Baroda second street, West Mam­balam, Chen­nai – 600033 ,Tamil Nadu , India
Telephone: +91 94444 63986 , 044 2483 0022
Misc. Info: Sri­lakshmi Ven­ka­tar­amani is a ver­satile artiste with excel­lent pro­fes­sio­nal re­cord and been per­for­ming since 1985. she is a deciple of Kalaimamani A. Kanyakumari and has been graded ‘B High’ by A.I.R. Chen­nai. she also accompanies leading vocal­ists like Bombay Sisters, Smt. Suguna Varadh­achary & other lea­ding ar­tists and lea­ding dancers like Ms. Mala­vika Saruk­kai, Mrs. Alermel Valli, Mrs. Lavanya Ananth. She is look­ing for­ward to ac­com­panying up­coming & talen­ted vocal­ists and dan­cers. More de­tails and bio­data can be had at www.srilakshmivenkataramani.blogspot.com. Web­site – www.srilakshmivenkataramani.blogspot.com

Name: Visalakshmi (Usha)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Veena and Key­board (Carnatic)
Location: 18 A block Sakun­thala Apart­ments Swami­nathan Nagar 2Nd Street Kot­ti­bak­kam
Telephone: 9841956144 / 9710577090
Misc. Info: I have experi­ence in teach­ing more than ten years. Pre­viously I have given pro­gram­mes also I was in Ban­glore re­cently I shif­ted to Chen­nai

Name: Visveshwar
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Indian Carnatic FLUTE
Location: 3/269, First Street, Sub­ra­manya Nagar, Madipak­kam, Chen­nai – 600 091
Telephone: 9444912316
Misc. Info: www.flutevisveshwar.com – rec­ipient of Govt of India CCRT Scholar­ship – Guru Dr R.S. Jaya­lak­shmi and Sin­ga­nallur S.V. Ramaraja – Given con­certs in va­rious cities in India and Malay­sia

Name: Lalitha Viswanathan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic – Vocal
Location: old no 2/2, new no 5, v.p. kovil street, mylapore, Chen­nai – 600 004.
Telephone: 77083 23252, 93812 00492
Misc. Info: a post gra­duate in music, had train­ing under Smt. Meena Sub­ra­ma­niam. had done many per­for­man­ces and is teach­ing music on­line to stu­dents abroad.

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