8th Annual Thyagaraja Music Festival

What do O S Thiyagarajan, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Garimella Balakrishna Prasad and Peri Thyagaraju mean to you? If your answer is emphatic any which way, this one's going to be a treat.

Sri Chandrasekharendra Sangeeta Educational Society is organising the 8th Annual Festival & Aradhana of Satguru Sri Thyagaraja Swamy at the Keyes High School For Girls, from 24th to 28th January. The 5-day festival will see some of the best artistes of Carnatic music perform, including O S Thiyagarajan, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Sanjay Subramanyam, S Sashank, Garimella Balakrishna Prasad, Peri Thyagaraju and many young and upcoming artistes.

This is the detailed schedule:

24th January
05:15pm - Vocal by U V Mohana Vamsi
06:45pm - Vocal by O S Thiyagarajan

25th January
05:15pm - Vocal by R Kalyana Sundaram
05:30pm - Violin recital by Peri Thyagaraju
06:45pm - Vocal by Kalaimamani Nithyasree Mahadevan

26th January
05:15pm - Vocal by Pooja Devaraj
05:45pm - Vocal by Rayaprolu Swarna
06:45pm - Vocal by Sanjay Subramanyam

27th January
05:15pm - Vocal by Master J Kartik Bharadwaj
05:45pm - Vocal by Master Kanthi Swaroop
06:45pm - Flute recital by S Sashank

28th January
08:3am -  Nadaswaram by T R Ramana & Party
09:30am - Thyagaraja Swamy Aradhana Pancharatna Gosthi Ganam
11:00am - Annamacharya Keerthanas by disciples of D Seshachari, namely T Chandra Bhanu, Soumya Srinivasan, P Ranjani Sampath, Hema Murali, Vasumathi Mahadevan, Varanasi Sri Soumya and Sreenidhi
12:00pm - Samaradhana & Poor Feeding
06:00pm - Flute recital by Master K N R Tejaswi
06:30pm - Felicitation to Mridanga Kala Prapoorna Pulletikurthy Rama Rao
06:45pm - Vocal by G Bala Krishna Prasad

Sri Chandrasekharendra Sangeeta Educational Society was founded in 2000, with the objective of imparting and spreading Carnatic vocal music to music lovers of all ages. It was established by S Chandrasekhar, a renowned vocalist, who has a diploma in Carnatic vocal and teaches about 50 students, both young and old. Every Sunday, he also teaches Annamacharya Keertanas from 3pm to 5pm, free of cost to anyone eager to learn. The society also organises various music concerts of local upcoming and established artistes, and renowned classical musicians from Chennai.

The entry to the programs is free. For further details, please contact the S Chandrasekhar at 2780-5161, 93910-11704 or 98661-87955.