Musicians
Babu Parameswaran |
Prabhu Sriram |
Vinothkumar Soundar Rajan |
Sunil Bhasker |
Babu is the Director of Keerthana School of Indian Music & Fine Arts, Los Angeles. He is one of the sought after musician who is specialized in singing Indian Classical Music. Babu is a versatile artist who can sing both the Carnatic and Hindustani styles of music and Keyboard artist who can create great music on the newly developed synthesizers. He has performed many of the leading dancers like the Dhananjayans, Dr.Vyjayanthi Mala Bali, Guru Adyar Lakshman, and India’s Dancer Icon Prahu Deva. He is a staff artist of Bharata Kalanjali, the dance academy of the world-renowned dancers The Dhananjayans for more than 23 years. He has composed music for many dance productions like Meera, The Nutcracker, The Cinderella, Tagores Shyama, Thulsi Ramayan, and many others. He has performed in the Carnegie Hall and also for the proclamation of the Pandit Ravishankar day in San Diego. Babu has been actively performing in the US for more than 25 years and is one of the most accomplished fulltime Indian Musician in the United States.
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Mr. Prabhu Sriram is one of the talented young Mridangam artist (Indian Traditional drum) in the field of Indian classical dance and music. He had his initial triaging under Vidwan Sikkal Sri. R. Vadivel Pillai and continued with Sri. Needamangalam Kannappa Pillai.. He had his Advance training under one of the leading drummer Poraiyar Shri. Venugopal Pillai. He has been trained for accompanying for with different types of music like Carnatic Vocal, Instrumental, Tevaram, Bharathanatyam, Kuchupudi, Traditional Bhajans and Bhagavatha Mela Dramas . His performances have been highly appreciated for his clarity in presentation of traditional music and have received rave reviews and encomiums both from the press and the audience. He has performed with many leading dancers like Dr. Padma Subramaniam. Chitra Visweswaran and many others. He toured the US in the year 2012, 2013 &2014 under the sponsorship of Keerthana School of Indian Music. He performed for the San Diego fine arts festival in 2015.
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Mr. Vinothkumar comes from a family of musicians. One of the leading flute artist in the field of dance and music, Mr. Vinothkumar initially got trained in playing Nadaswaram one of the traditional instrument of south India. Later he learned the flute under the tutelage of Vidwan Sri. Thiruvarur Swaminathan . He is a graduate in music from the Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. For the past 10 years he has been performing as a solo artist and also accompanying many leading dancers. He toured the US in the year 2014 under the sponsorship of Keerthana School of Indian Music.
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Mr. Sunil comes from a family of musicians. He had his initial training under his mother and advanced training under the well-known violin artist Trichur C. Rajendran, staff artist of All India Radio. After graduating from the Tripunitura College of Music, Sunil Bhasker worked as a violin instructor in Cochin Kalabhavan. He was also a violin instructor for two years in a reputed institution the Bahrain. Recently, he moved to Chennai and has been associated with leading dancers and musicians. He has accompanied many leading musicians including the world famous singer Dr. K.J. Jesudas for his concerts. He has been associated with Bhratakalanjali, the world famous institution of the Dhananjayans, also Chitra Visweswaran, Urmila Satyanarayana and many others. Sunil Bhasker toured the US for the Keerthana School in the 2010 & 2011.
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