Visiting Artists since 1993
1993
Hyderabad Brothers - Seshachari & Raghavachari - Vocal
Delhi P. Sundar Rajan - Violin
Srimushnam V. Raja Rao - Mridangam
1994
Ravi Kiran - Chitra Veena
Delhi P. Sundar Rajan - Violin
Vellore Ramabhadran - Mridangam
Meenakshi Kalyanam Dance Drama (in July)
1995
(Programs Arranged for Meenakshi Temple Kumbhabhishekam)
Indravadan Trivedi - Lecture Demonstration
Nirmala Ramachandran - Lecture Demonstration
Dr. Michael Hammond - Lecture Demonstration
Hyderabad Brothers - Seshachari & Raghavachari - Vocal
Srimushnam Raja Rao - Mridangam
Peri Sriramamurthi - Violin
Bombay Jayashree & Party
1996
Prema Hariharan - Lec-Dem - Divynama Kirthanas
Malavika Sarukkai - Bharatanatyam Dance Recital (in August)
1997
Hyderabad Sisters - Lalita & Haripriya Balu - Violin Kalladikuruchi S. Sivakumar - Mridangam
Sowmya - Concert & Lecture Demonstration (In Fall)
1998
R. Ganesh & R. Kumaresh - Violin N. Ramakrishnan - Mridangam Tripunithura N. Radhakrishnan - Ghatam
Prema Hariharan - Lec-Dem - Ramabhakthi Samrajyam
1999
Lakshmi Vishwanathan - Bharatanatyam Bhama Visweswaran - Vocalist Mayuram Shankar - Mridangam Dallas S. Venkatraman - Violin Sashikiran - Interactive CD demonstration and talk
Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan - Vocal Delhi P. Sundar Rajan - Violin Srimushnam V. Raja Rao - Mridangam
2000
Sanjay Subrahmanyan - Vocal
S. Varadarajan - Violin
Srimushnam V. Raja Rao - Mridangam
2001
Savithri Satyamurthy - Vilolin
Poovalur Srinivasan - Mridangam
Sundari Janakiraman - Lecture Demonstration
Malladi Brothers - Sreeram Prasad & Ravikumar - Vocal
B.V. Raghavendra Rao - Violin
Neyveli B. Venkatesh - Mridangam
2002
No Visiting Artists in 2002
2003
Ranjani and Gayathri - Vocal
H.N. Bhaskar - Violin
Manoj Siva - Mridangam
Shubashree Ramachandran - Vocal
Mysore Srikanth Venkataraman - Violin
P.K. Swaminathan - Mridangam
Charumathi Ramachandran - Lecture Demonstration
Aruna Sairam - Vocal
B.V. Raghavendra Rao - Violin
J. Vaidyanathan - Mridangam
Alarmel Valli - Bharatanatyam Dance Recital (in May)
2004
Bombay Jayashri Ramnath - Vocal
H.N. Bhaskar - Violin
Poongulum S. Subramaniam - Mridangam
Charumathi Ramachandran - Lecture Demonstration
A. Kanyakumari & Embar Krishnan - Violin Duo
Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan - Mridangam
2005
Malladi Brothers - Sreeram Prasad & Ravikumar - Vocal
Embar S. Kannan - Violin
Arjun Kumar - Mridangam
T.M. Krishna - Vocal R.K. Shriramkumar - Violin
K. Arun Prakash - Mridangam
B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira
Ranjani Ramachandran - Hindustani Vocal (in June)
Aruna Sairam - Vocal Concert (in October)
2006
Sanjay Subrahmanyan - Vocal
Nagai Murali - Violin
Guruvayur Dorai - Mridangam
Neyveli Venkatesh - Kanjira
2007
Vishakha Hari - Sangeetha Upanyasam
Sandhya Srinath - Violin
Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan - Mridangam
Gayathri Girish - Vocal
Akkarai Subhalakshmi - Violin
Thiruvarur Vaidyanathan - Mridangam
Percussion Ensemble - Subash Chandran - Gatam
Hari Krishnan - Keyboards and Vocal
H.N. Bhaskar - Violin
N. Ganesh Kumar - Kanjira
Chitravina N. Ravikiran - Chitravina
Akkarai Subhalakshmi - Violin
Trichy Sankaran - Mridangam
Chitravina N. Ravikiran - LecDem - "Sri Tyagaraja, A Fresh Perspective"
Panel Discussion featuring Ravikiran, Trichy Sankaran, Gowri Ramnarayan
P. Unnikrishnan - Vocal Vittal Ramamurthy - Violin Arun Prakash - Mridangam
2008
Lec-Dem - R.K. Shriramkumar
Panel Discussion featuring T.M. Krishna, Sriramkumar.
T.M. Krishna - Vocal Sriramkumar - Violin;
Arun Prakash - Mrdangam
2009
Lec-Dem - Madurai R. Sundar
Trichy Ramesh - Vocal Savitha Viswanathan - Violin
Sreenivas Ponnappan - Mrdangam
Taalavadya Kacheri - Prof Trichy Sankaran - Mrdangam Ravi Balasubramanian - Ghatam Desi Narayanan - Kanjira
Madhurai R. Sundar - Vocal Sri Jayshankar Balan - Violin Sri Ravi Balasubramanian - Ghatam
2010
Bharat Sunder - Vocal Jayshankar Balan - Violin Kalladikuruchi S. Sivakumar - Mridangam
Talk and Lec-Dem - "My Ilustrious Guru GNB and his compositions" by Trichur Ramachandran, accmpanied by Shubasri Ramachandran
"Sangitha Samvadam" - Dialogue on Music between Charumathi Ramachandran & Bharat Sundar
Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal Sri Jayshankar Balan - Violin Kalladikuruchi S. Sivakumar - Mridangam
"Chatur Sri Ratnas" - A tribute to MS, DKP, MLV & Brinda-Muktha by Charumathi
Trichur Ramachandran - Vocal
Jayshankar Balan - Violin
Kalladikuruchi S. Sivakumar - Mridangam
2011
D.B. Ashwin - Vocal Nishan Chandran - Violin Trivandrum Balaji - Mridangam
Toronto Brothers - Aswin Iyer and Rohin Iyer
Nishan Chandran - Violin Trivandrum Balaji - Mridangam
2012
Manimaran - Vocal Nagai Sriram - Violin
Tanjore Murugaboopathy - Mridangam
K.V. Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira
Suryaprakash - Vocal Nagai Sriram - Violin
Tanjore Murugaboopathy - Mridangam
Lec-Dem by R. Vedavalli and Sumithra Vasudev
R. Vedavalli - Vocal;
Sumithra Vasudev - VocalSupport
Nagai Sriram - Violin
Srimushnam Raja Rao - Mridangam
K.V. Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira
Carnatica Brothers - K.N. Sashikiran and Chitravina
P. Ganesh - Vocal
Nagai Sriram - Violin
Srimushnam Raja Rao - Mridangam
K.V. Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira
Fall Concert - Padma Bhushan T.V. Sankaranarayanan
Vittal Ramamurthi on the violin
Thiruvarur Bhakthavathsalam on the mridangam
Fall Youth Festival - Guruguha Yatra
2013
Keynote - "Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam" - Dr. B.M. Sundaram
Malavika Sarukkai - Lec-Dem and Dance presentation
Abhangs and Lavani - Maratha Presence in Tanjore - Dr. B. M. Sundaram
Sikkil Gurucharan - Vocal
Sanjeev Venkataramanan - Violin
Satish Kumar Patri - Mridangam
Kasthuri Shivakumar - Vocal
Deepa Ramachandran - Violin
Murali Gopalan - Mridangam
V. Shankaranarayanan - Vocal
Nagai Sriram - Violin
Ganpathyraman Balasubramanian - Mridangam
Nirmala Rajasekar - Veena Concert
Nagai Sriram - Violin
Ganpathyraman Balasubramanian - Mridangam
2014
Ranjani and Gayathri - Vocal H.N. Bhaskar - Violin;
Manoj Siva - Mridangam
Panel Discussion on Melody, Harmony and "Melharmony"
N. Ravikiran & Snehasish Mazumder (Indian Classical Music),
Dr. Mena Mark Hanna (Western Classical Music and Opera Music)
Kanniks Kannikeswaran (Indian Classical Music and Choral Music)
Dr. Robert Morris (Speaker and Moderator from Eastern School of Music)
Melharmony by Houston School for Performing and Visual Arts Jessie DeArman, John Koozin, Anna Howard and Sandhya Nagarajan
Opera Music by Houton Grand Opera Alisa Magallon - Soprano, Alejandro Magallon - Tenor, Teruhiko Toda - Piano
Jugalbandi Concert by Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Snehasish Mozumder on Mandolin Rohan Krishnamurthy on Mridangam, Gouri Shankar Karmakar on Tabla
2015
Sanjay Subrahmanyan - Vocal S. Varadarajan - Violin
Neyveli B. Venkatesh - Mridangam
Malladi Brothers - Sreeram Prasad & Ravikumar - Vocal
Embar S. Kannan - Violin Narayanan Rajagopalan - Mridangam
(Scheduled Malladi Brothers concert got cancelled because of artists' flight delays)
Trichur Brothers - Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan - Vocal
Trichur Mohan - Mridangam Rajeev Mukundan - Violin
Cosponsored with BKM: Sriranjani Santhanagopalan - Vocal V.V.S. Murari - Violin Trivandrum Balaji - Mridangam K.V. Gopalakrishnan - Kanjira
2016
Jugalbandhi: Shantala - Flute and Vishal Sapuram - Chitraveena Melakkaveri Balaji - Mridangam Sukanya Ramgopal - Ghatam
V. Shankaranarayanan - Vocal 2016 B.V. Raghavendra Rao - Violin Tanjore Murugaboopathy - Mridangam Sundar Kumar - Kanjira
"Born to Sing", Presented by Gowri Ramnarayan Shreya Devnath - Violin R. Thiagarajan - Flute Ramesh Babu - Mridangam Narration - Gowri Ramnarayan
2017
P. Unnikrishnan - Vocal Kamalakiran Vinjamuri - Violin Akshay Anathapadmanabhan - Mridangam
Sowmiya Narayanan - Ghatam
Sri Nagai Muralidharan - Violin Sri Nagai Sriram - Violin Mannargudi Easwaran - Mridangam Vijay Ganesh - Mridangam
“Sri Thyagarajar”, a biographical musical by written by VSV T. V. Varadharajen & Party of 20 artistes from Chennai and Houston Music Direction by Bombay Jayashri
Sanjay Subrahmanyan - Vocal S. Varadarajan - Violin Neyveli Venkatesh - Mridangam
2018
Joint with Samskriti - Rama Vaidyanathan & Troupe - "Vivarthana"
Ramana Balachandhran - Veena
Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam
T.M. Krishna - Vocal R.K. Shriramkumar - Violin Arun Prakash - Mridangam
2018
Vijay Siva - Vocal R.K. Shriramkumar - Violin J. Vaidyanathan - Mridangam
Joint with Samskriti - Rama Vaidyanathan & Troupe - "Vivarthana"
Ramana Balachandhran - Veena
Sumesh Narayanan - Mridangam
T.M. Krishna - Vocal R.K. Shriramkumar - Violin Arun Prakash - Mridangam
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