Thyagaraja Music Festival of Utah - Zmagazine

You are cordially invited to attend

Thyagaraja Music Festival’08

May 09-10, 2008

Admission Free – Generous donations appreciated

A program to pay tribute to the composers, philosophers and musicians of the past who made an everlasting contribution to Indian heritage, featuring a number of talents and guest artistes rendering masterpieces of Indian classical music!

Come and enjoy this reputed Indian Tradition

Artistic director: Sri. mullaivasal G. Chandramouli

LDS Center, 951 East 100 South, Salt Lake City

Friday, May 09,‘08, 6:30 PM

Inaugural concerts

Deepti Navaratna (vocal),Deepa Ramachandran (violin), S. Swaminathan (mridangam)

Maharajapuram Srinivasan, Ganesh Viswanathan (vocal), Pakkala Ramadas (violin),TVM Balaji (mridangam)

Saturday, May 10. 7:45 AM - 10:00 PM

7:45 -8:15 AM

Aditya Hrudayam., Bhavayami Raghuramam – group rendition

8:15- 9:00 AM

AM Homage Segment

Solo and group renditions

9:00-10:30 AM

V. K. Arun Kumar (vocal)

Divya Ramachandran (violin)

Karthik Gopalaratnam(mridangam)

Swaminathan (ghatam)

10:30- 11:15 AM

Kumar Brothers (Shyam Kumar and Roshan Kumar) (vocal)

Mahesh Iyer (violin)

S. Swaminathan (mridangam)

11:30- 12:30 PM

Pancharatna Krithis

(Thyagaraja’s masterpiece compositions)

Lunch

1:15- 1:30 PM

Fusion Music

(Shyam Kumar and group)

1:30 – 3:00 PM

PM Homage Segment

Solo and group renditions

3:00 – 3:30 PM

Vatsala Naageshwaran (vocal)

Mahesh Iyer (violin)

S. Swaminathan (mridangam)

3:30-5:00 PM

Sangeetha Sarga KAhaLam The grand Veen-Venu-Violin-mridangam ensemble by

Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli, Deepa, Divya (violin), Nirmala Rajasekar ( veena), Ashwin Krishna Kumar (flute) Swaminathan and Vijay Ganesh (double mridangam)

5:00- 6:00 PM

Thyagaraja krithi choreography in

Bharathanatyam style by Swathi Kamakshi Ravi

Dinner

7:00-10:00 PM

Sankaran Mahdevan (vocal)

Aravind Lakshmikanthan (violin)

Vijay Ganesh (mridangam)

List of invited performers include

Vocal :- Maharajapuram Srinivasan, Ganesh Viswanathan, Sankaran Mahadevan, V. K. Arunkumar, Roshan Kumar, Syamakrishnan, Dipti Navaratna,

Violin: Mullaivasal .G. Chandramouli, Pakkala Ramadas, Arvind Lakshmikanthan, Mahesh Iyer,

Veena : Nirmala Rajasekar

Flute: Ashwin Krishnakumar

Mridangam; Vijay Ganesh , TVM Balaji Syamakrishnan, Karthik Gopalaratnam

Ghatam: Ravi Balasubramanian

Bharatha natyam: Swathi Kamakshi Ravi

Our familiar performing artistes:

Vatsala, Swaminathan,Shreyas, sudha Velamuri, Deepa, Divya, Suba Thirumalai, Viji, Sarada, Priya, shyam Kumar, Balaji, Charles, Daniel, Bala, Sunita Avasarala , Archana, Sriam and a number of budding talents

For further information please call (801) 583-7531 or email: thyagarajafestival@ yahoo.com

Co-sponsored by IFU, SGHTU,ICC, ICAC,TAU, UTS

Please visit: www.thyagarajafestival.com Partly supported by Utah Arts Council.