Nadasurabhi Cultural Association located in Koramangala, Bangalore is in the forefront of promoting Classical Carnatic Music. Nadasurabhi conducts the highest quality music concerts every month and a week-long Annual Festival in November, free of charge to all rasikas. Our other events include a youth festival, Thyagaraja and Purandaradasa Aradhana, and music competitions for children.

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Sampagodu S. Vighnaraja presents vocal concert on 20th May 2012.

Sri. Vignaraja comes in the sishya parampara of legendary vidwan Sri. G.N.Balasubramaniam. With prodigious talent in Carnatic music from a very early age, he has specialized in singing complex varnams in six speeds. This has recently earned him the title of “Shatkaala Kalaa Gaana Prathibhamani from a reputed organistion in Bangalore. He is a graded artist of AIR. Besides being a highly talented vocalist, he is also an accomplished Carnatic flautist and Carnatic guitarist. Sri. Vignaraja is currently the Head of the the Instrument Section of the Temple of Fine Arts in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. He has given hundreds of performances in India and abroad including regular concerts at Fort High School Ramanavami festivals, Gayana Samaja, and most sabhas in Chennai. In fact Sri.Vignaraj has sung in Nadasurabhi as a Youth Artist ........

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Music Competition for Children-19th May 2012

Nadasurabhi, for the fourth successive year, will be conducting a Carnatic Vocal Music Competition for children between ages 8 and 15 (Date of Birth between 18.5.1997 and 18.5.2004).

Details:

I. Date and Venue: 19th May 2012- Saturday at Indian Heritage Academy Hall, 6th Block, Near Police Station, Koramangala, Bangalore

II. Timing of Competition:

a. For senior batch children with Date of Birth from 18.5.1997 to 18.5.2000 it is at 10 A.M.

b. For junior batch children with Date of Birth from 19.5.2000 to 18.5.2004 it is at 4 P.M.

(Junior Batch Entries are closed)

Participants are requested to be present at least 20 minutes before the scheduled time.

III. Contact: Telephone 25539368 or 9880964283 or Email to nadasurabhi at yahoo dot co dot uk or through Feedback section of our website http://nadasurabhi.org.

IV. While registering please provide the following information.

a. Name of the child

b. Date of Birth of child

c. Name of Parent

d. Contact phone number and mobile number

e. EMail Id.

V. Due to time constraints, only 25 participants/batch will be accepted on first come first serve basis. So, kindly register at the earliest. Last Date for registrations will be 10th May 2012 or once the 25 places are filled up whichever is earlier.

VI. All participants are required to bring their proof of age at the time of the competition.

VII. Each participant is expected to sing ONE carnatic song within a maximum duration of 5 minutes.

VIII. Participants should bring their own Sruti box.

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Vibrant concert by Kasthuri Rangan

15th April, Sunday amidst several Ramanavami concerts all over Bangalore and an IPL match in the city itself, saw an exciting concert at Nadasurabhi. The main artist from Chennai, Sri.Kasthuri Rangan is an unmistakable student of maestro T.N.Seshagopalan. He started his concert with the Kedaragowla varnam Sami daya judu followed by the traditional ganesha stuti in Gowla, Sree Mahaganapathim. It was nicely embellished by a few timing and spacing tricks. He then plunged deep into Hamsanandi raga alapana, which is unusual so early on in the concert. After a good reply by violinist B.Raghuram, Kasthuri Rangan went on to once again elaborate the raga using a grand virutham , an Azhwar paasuram, Chediyaya val vinaigal theerkkum tirumaale. The key word of the verse "padiyaai" signifying Lord venkateswara's temple's "steps" was highlighted by using "stepwise" swaras- a very smart innovation indeed. Hamsaanandi song was a Purandaradasa composition .......