South India Fine Arts2018 NORTH AMERICAN TOURS

Rajeev Mukundan

South India Fine Arts (SIFA) is very excited to bring the award winning duo - Shri Mysore Manjunath and Shri Mysore Nagaraj and the young, melodious and mature singer Shri Bharat Sundar for a tour in the Fall of 2018. They will be in the US from September 1

through October 11.

Please email info@southindiafinearts.org or call the SIFA Tour Operations Committee for convenient dates to present in your city.

Usha Ramaswamy (408) 421 5647 Vijaya Mahadevan (408) 801-1944

Venkat Rangan (408)-757-6760

BHARAT SUNDAR is one of the most sought after young carnatic vocalist. He is a B.com Graduate – CA (Inter), and a Gold Medalist in MA music from Madras University. He had the good fortune of learning music from Padmabhushan Sri. PS Narayanaswamy , Smt. Leelavathy Gopalakrishnan and Sri. G Srikanth. He started learning from the age of 6 under Smt. Gayathri Mahesh. He was also trained by Trichy Sri. J Venkataraman and Srimushnam Sri Raja Rao in pallavi singing. He has performed with eminent artistes all over the world.

Some of his awards and titles include Yuva Kala Bharathi, Isai Chudar, Shanmukha Sangita Shiromani, Balakala Ratna. He is an A-Graded artiste of All India Radio.

RAJEEV MUKUNDAN began his initial training from Sri N Govindarajan (Disciple of Sri M.Chandrashekaran) and for the last 15 years, he has been under the able guidance of Sangeetha Kalanidhi A.Kanyakumari. Rajeev is an ‘A’-grade artiste of the All India Radio. He has received numerous awards from prestigious organizations around the world. He has toured extensively, both in India and abroad. He has given many violin duet concerts with his Guru A.Kanyakumari, and has also accompanied many senior artistes. He has been a part of many unique jugalbandhis and musical collaborations..

Sri K. TANJORE MURUGABOOPATHY is one of the topmost mridangam players of today. His techniques and creative ability in accompaniment, solo renditions, and jugalbandhi programs with his North Indian brethren have earned him a critical acclaim around the world. He had his initial training under Sri T R Srinivasan (Mridanga Vidwan and Lecturer) at the Tamil Nadu Music College Chennai. SriMurugaboopathi was conferred the “Vadya Visharada” withdistinction by the Music College. After about two years of stage experience, he underwent further training in the gurukula tradition under the Late Mridangam Maestro Tanjore Upendran for over 10years. Sri Murugaboopathi travels extensively to countries like USA, Scotland, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, UK, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, Belgium, Turkey, Middle East, Malaysia,Singapore, Thailand and Hongkong for Concert performances, Lecture demonstrations and on Teaching assignments.

Artist Bios

Sri K. TANJORE MURUGABOOPATHY is one of the topmost mridangam players of today. His techniques and creative ability in accompaniment, solo renditions, and jugalbandhi programs with his North Indian brethren have earned him a critical acclaim around the world. He had his initial training under Sri T R Srinivasan (Mridanga Vidwan and Lecturer) at the Tamil Nadu Music College Chennai. SriMurugaboopathi was conferred the “Vadya Visharada” withdistinction by the Music College. After about two years of stage experience, he underwent further training in the gurukula tradition under the Late Mridangam Maestro Tanjore Upendran for over 10years. Sri Murugaboopathi travels extensively to countries like USA, Scotland, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, UK, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, Belgium, Turkey, Middle East, Malaysia,Singapore, Thailand and Hongkong for Concert performances, Lecture demonstrations and on Teaching assignments.

Artist Bios

Some of the world’s finest in the art of expressive tone and improvisational music style on the violin, these international touring artists share their meditative and exhilarating form of music from India. Enjoy spontaneous improvisations like sound poems createdand then spoken through the music between them. The musical “conversations” these artists express with each other are played in traditional South Indian Ragas and Talas. Sri Nagaraj and Dr. Manjunath are well-known violin Maestros who have been playing violin their entire lives, taught early at home by their father who was also an innovative and renowned violinist in India. They have an almost telepathic synchrony witheach other when they play. The Mysore Violin Brothers, as they are commonly known by, have played in some of the most prestigious festivals around the world as well as received top cultural and music awards in India. Dr. M. Manjunath received India’s top honor from Sangeet Natak Academy in 2018.

Sri Patri Satish Kumar and Sri Giridhar Udupa are two of thetop percusssion artists in India and also are widely acclaimedworld-wide. The duo’s interaction of rhythmic patterns are atreat to watch and hear.

The highly talented foursome have toured internationallyas a team and have a tremendous rapport on stage and thattranslates into an incredibly memorable musical evening thattransports the listener to a divine realm of listening.