Kamalakiran Vinjamuri is a 12th grader in West Springfield High School in Springfield, VA, USA. His initial guru was his grand-father, Sri. Parthasarathy Iyengar. Then he had some training from Smt. Malladi Vijayalakshmi. His father Sri.Subhash Vinjamuri, a violinist himself started teaching him violin at the age of 7. When he is in the U.S., he gets his training from his father and when visiting India, he is under the tutelage of Kalaimamani A. Kanyakumari.
He won several PRIZES in different music competitions, both in India as well as in the US. Kamalakiran has won prizes in all the categories in the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana. In December 2010 and 2013 music seasons, Kamalakiran got the Best Performer Award from Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha, Chennai. Kamalakiran has been performing in all major sabhas in India since 2009. In 2014 Spirit of Youth series, Kamalakiran was selected as the best violinist in Music Academy.
Kamalakiran has accompanied many senior artists including Sri M. Balamuralikrishna, Sri TN Seshagopalan, and Smt. Suguna Varadachari. Kamalakiran has been giving many solo performances both in the US, and in India.
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Vignesh Venkataraman, a senior at Stanford University, is a mridangam artist hailing from Umayalpuram Sri. K. Sivaraman’s school of music. Vignesh was initiated into playing mridangam by Sri. Anand Iyer, also from the same school. For the past 5 years, Vignesh has been traveling to India every summer undergoing advanced training under the tutelage of Umayalpuram Sri. K. Sivaraman. Vignesh has accompanied various artists, including some senior musicians in concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area and in India. He has participated in competitions at the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana and has won several prizes there. He won the Best Mridangist award at the Spirit of Youth festival held by the Madras Music Academy in 2013. Vignesh is also learning vocal carnatic music from Smt. Meena Kothandaraman, a disciple of Sri. M.S. Anantharaman, and more recently from violinist Sri. R.K. Shriramkumar.
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Vivek Chellappa began learning mridangam at the age of six from Sri R. Kannan, who hails from the style of Sri Palani Subramania Pillai. He has also taken lessons from Sri. Anoor Dattatreya Sharama of Bangalore, Sri Srinath Bala of Jayamangala and Kalaimamani Guruvayur Sri Dorai.
He has won prizes in the percussion competition at the Cleveland Aradhana, including first place in the Senior mridangam category in 2005. Since his arrengetram in 2004 with Smt M.S. Sheela , Vivek has been regularly performing in mridangam and kanjira, including concerts for five years at the Cleveland Aradhana.
Vivek have been fortunate to perform with leading musicians including Dr. Balamuralikrishna Smt. M.S. Sheela, Mysore Brothers, D. Seshachari, Dr. Panthula Rama Dr. T. S. Sathyavathi, and US-based artists, including Sri Madurai Sundar, Sri. B. Balasubramiam, Sri Salem Sriram, Sri. V.K. Raman, Sri. D.B. Ashwin and Smt. Kiranavali Vidhyashankar. Vivek is a graduate of Brown University, completed medical school at Georgetown University, and is now an anesthesiology resident at UCLA.
He won several PRIZES in different music competitions, both in India as well as in the US. Kamalakiran has won prizes in all the categories in the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana. In December 2010 and 2013 music seasons, Kamalakiran got the Best Performer Award from Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha, Chennai. Kamalakiran has been performing in all major sabhas in India since 2009. In 2014 Spirit of Youth series, Kamalakiran was selected as the best violinist in Music Academy.
Kamalakiran has accompanied many senior artists including Sri M. Balamuralikrishna, Sri TN Seshagopalan, and Smt. Suguna Varadachari. Kamalakiran has been giving many solo performances both in the US, and in India.
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Vignesh Venkataraman, a senior at Stanford University, is a mridangam artist hailing from Umayalpuram Sri. K. Sivaraman’s school of music. Vignesh was initiated into playing mridangam by Sri. Anand Iyer, also from the same school. For the past 5 years, Vignesh has been traveling to India every summer undergoing advanced training under the tutelage of Umayalpuram Sri. K. Sivaraman. Vignesh has accompanied various artists, including some senior musicians in concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area and in India. He has participated in competitions at the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana and has won several prizes there. He won the Best Mridangist award at the Spirit of Youth festival held by the Madras Music Academy in 2013. Vignesh is also learning vocal carnatic music from Smt. Meena Kothandaraman, a disciple of Sri. M.S. Anantharaman, and more recently from violinist Sri. R.K. Shriramkumar.
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Vivek Chellappa began learning mridangam at the age of six from Sri R. Kannan, who hails from the style of Sri Palani Subramania Pillai. He has also taken lessons from Sri. Anoor Dattatreya Sharama of Bangalore, Sri Srinath Bala of Jayamangala and Kalaimamani Guruvayur Sri Dorai.
He has won prizes in the percussion competition at the Cleveland Aradhana, including first place in the Senior mridangam category in 2005. Since his arrengetram in 2004 with Smt M.S. Sheela , Vivek has been regularly performing in mridangam and kanjira, including concerts for five years at the Cleveland Aradhana.
Vivek have been fortunate to perform with leading musicians including Dr. Balamuralikrishna Smt. M.S. Sheela, Mysore Brothers, D. Seshachari, Dr. Panthula Rama Dr. T. S. Sathyavathi, and US-based artists, including Sri Madurai Sundar, Sri. B. Balasubramiam, Sri Salem Sriram, Sri. V.K. Raman, Sri. D.B. Ashwin and Smt. Kiranavali Vidhyashankar. Vivek is a graduate of Brown University, completed medical school at Georgetown University, and is now an anesthesiology resident at UCLA.
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