Between talent and visibility there is a gulf. While some think public relations can bridge the gap, others feel it is all about luck. But for 52-year-old Venkatesan Vedakrishnaram, belief in his ...

Chennai: Percussion instruments come in various shape and sizes. The rhythmic sophistication of Carnatic classical music has for long depended on the mridangam to guide the tempo. The double barreled ...

Day 11 of The Music Academy Morning Academic Conferences 2024 began with a prayer by students of the Advanced School of Carnatic Music followed by a lecture-demonstration by vidwan Tiruvarur ...

It was not expected of a young boy growing up in a small town in America to pick up an instrument like the Mridangam to play but then that was what Rohan Krishnamurthy did when he was an 8 year old.

Akshay Ram began learning how to play the mridangam 25 years ago. But it was earlier this year that the percussionist turned inventor of sorts when he unveiled his Trimukhi mridangam to the world of ...

Child actor Krish Chauhan learnt to play the musical instrument mridangam for his upcoming show Punyashlok Ahilyabai. The show, which is set in the 18th century, revolves around the life of queen of ...

Legendary mridangam exponent Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, who has completed 75 years of his musical career, has authored the book, Musical Excellence of Mridangam, jointly with eminent scientists T.

Oscar-nominated percussionist and music composer Bickram Ghosh holds forth on traditional Indian drums and how electronic sounds can never replace them. I have spent most of my career trying to break ...

PALAKKAD: Mridangam maestro Kuzhalmannam Ramakrishnan has been given the patent for the design of a lighter version of the mridangam by the Patent Office of the Government of India. Issued by the ...

Mridangam vidwan T K Murthy was presented with the Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar Award for Excellence in recognition of his services to Carnatic music. here on Monday. Murthy is the third recipient of ...