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Vidwan Saketharaman has always lived his life celebrating music. Hailing from a rich musical heritage of Padma Bhushan Lalgudi Jayaraman, Saketharaman had climbed up the ladder of his passion steadily and devotedly. His career in music has been decorated with many prestigious awards including Sangeet Natak Academy Award, Isai Peroli, Shanmuka Sangeetha Shiromanai, Best Vocalist from Music Academy with performances in the prestigious halls all over the world including Madras Music Academy, Shanmuganandha Sabha Mumbai, Thiruvaiyaru Thyagaraja Aradhana, Cleveland Thyagaraja festival, Learn quest conference Boston, Theatre De Villa Paris, Sydney music festival among many others.

Immersed in music from a tender age of 6, with over a quarter-century’s performance behind him, he is a unique musician with a perfect blend of intellectuality, innovation and tradition. He believes in a fluid approach to music, embracing the magic that unfolds with prolificacy and originality. Often called the “Prince of Pallavis“, his presentations brim with superlative virtuosity, brilliance and aesthetics. His proclivity to explore, clarity of musical expressions, precision of delivery and delectable Laya make his performances soul stirring and reverberates in the hearts of his listeners. His penchant for clear diction and his salutiferous music has been effectively resuscitating the Tamil Isai, music from and before the Sangham literature.

He is a rare breed of artist who can balance many roles – vocalist, tunesmith, composer, philanthropist, music educator, each one seemingly as natural as the next. He flavours his concerts with new songs tuned by him, composed by Alwars, Adhi Shankaracharyar, Purandaradasar, Annamacharya, Bharathiar, Bharathidasan, Kannadasan, Arunagirinathar, Thiruvalluvar. The pertinence of the ragas in compositions tuned by him, resonates the mood of the composers very aptly.

He is an avant-garde of music -promoting “music for all” movement by “Music to educate” and “music to heal” initiatives under the auspices of his Samuditha Foundation. He is determined to break the obstacles to Carnatic music listening by one-of a kind programmes like “Cross-over with Saketh”, which bridges the gap for the first time listeners. Kalashiksha school is a pet project of Saketh to teach Carnatic music, Tamil Isai and moral values to school children in a fun contemporary way. “Musimedic“, music-to -heal initiative, in collaboration with major hospitals to take music to the unwell.

Violinist Kamalakiran Vinjamuri started his journey with the violin from his grand-father, Sri. Parthasarathy Iyengar. He subsequently had training from Smt. Malladi Vijayalakshmi. His father Sri.Subhash Vinjamuri, started teaching him the violin at the age of 7. He has been under the tutelage of Sangeethakalanidhi A. Kanyakumari since 2006. Kamalakiran has won several accolades and has accompanied several leading artists of both past and present generations. Kamalakiran has also widely worked in collaborations with musicians of different genres. As a soloist, he has performed across Asia, the US, and Europe.

Mridangist Sri Kuchibhotla Sai Giridhar, a student of Sri Sathya Sai Mirpuri college of music is an ‘A’ grade artist of All India radio for Mridangam. He is the disciple of legendary guru Sri M.L.N Raju and Parupalli S.Phalgun and has travelled extensively both within India and abroad. He has performed at famed theatres like Queen Elizabeth hall, Theatre De la Ville, South bank centre UK and Tung Auditorim in liverpool. He has been a part of prestigious festivals like The Darbar festival at London, Copenhagen Jazz festival, Ojai Festival LA, the ITC Dhaka festival, Cross Culture festival in Poland , Esplanade Theatre in Singapore, Doverlane festival and Sawai Ghandarva at Pune to name a few. He has been awarded the prestigious ‘ YUVA PURASKAR ‘ by Sangeet Natak Akademi for the year 2017. He has been awarded the title ‘Laya Ratna’ by Trinity Fine Arts for the year 2024. He has also been honored with the prestigious Palani Subramanya Pillai Award by Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai. He has accompanied all leading musicians in Carnatic music and Hindustani Jugalbandis.

Ghatam percussionist Sowmiya Narayanan is a disciple of Mridangam Maestro Trichy Sri Harikumar and earlier he took training from Sangita Acharya Sri Subash Chandran. Sowmiya has accompanied many leading past and present artists including Sri Saketharaman. Sowmiya is also a current board of trustee of Sankara Nethralaya USA supporting the premier eye hospital in Chennai. He conducted over 750 online concerts and 55 plus concerts all over US. He has supported and raised over $4 million in donations and supported 39000 free cataract eye surgeries for poor indigent patients.