Day Session

In this programme, a particular subject related to Karnatic music is taken and presented in a lecture – demonstration format. Contemporary subjects which are useful and informative for rasikas of music are elucidated and it is followed by interactive session with audience,. Some such topics covered include – Understanding Ragas, kalpita sangitam and its forms, manodharma sangita, tamil composers, Trimurthy vaibhavam ( exploring the musical beauty of the compositions of Tyagaraja, Dikshitar, Shyama sastri, musical beauty in Papanasam Sivan’s compositions, Mudhras in music compositions, Navarathnangal ( tribute to nine salient karnatic music composers), the kritis and its forms, understanding layam & talam etc. The purpose of this programme is to take different subjects related to karnatic music and explain in detail about them to rasikas.

Mudhras in Music Compositions

March 2005 Mudhras meaning signature, is an important aspect of musical compositions in Karnatic music. Composers have incorporated many types of Mudhras like Vaggeyakara Mudhra, Raga Mudhra, Tala Mudhra etc. in their compositions. Each composer has used a distinct name as his Mudhra and this offers interesting study and also indicates to the rasika who the composer of a particular song is. Dr.Radha Bhaskar made an interesting presentation on this subject for Rajalakshmi Fine Arts, Coimbatore on 20th February 2005 by taking a gamut of composers. She also demonstrated practically to show how the various Mudhras have been incorporated into compositions. This programme was well received by the rasikas of Coimbatore. Press Review

BVB, Coimbatore - “Rasa in Trinity’s Compositions” - 2006

March 2005 As part of its 11th Pongal Festival in the year 2006, Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Coimbatore, organized a lec-dem on “Rasa in Trinity’s Compositions” by Dr.Radha Bhaskar. In this Dr.Radha explained the musical aspects of the compositions of Thyagaraja, Dikshitar and Shyama Sastri and illustrated the structure of each. She also sang a few songs and showed how each one’s compositions was distinct and unique. Many music lovers attended the programme.

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Session 1 - Thyaga Brahma Gana sabha – Navarathnangal - 2006

Session 1

As part of its December Fine Arts festival 2006, Thyagar Brahma Gana Sabha in association with Mudhra organized a special programme “Navarathnangal” – featuring a tribute to nine salient composers of Karnatic music. The session highlighted the beauty of the compositions of Purandara Dasa, Thyagaraja, Dikshitar, Shyama Sastri, Swathi Thirunal, Koteeswara Iyer, Papanasam Sivan, Gopalakrishna Bharathi, Patnam Subramanya Iyer. A group of accomplished artists – Prema Rangarajan, sriram Gangadharan, Mohan Santhanam, Lakshmi Rangarajan, Visalkshi Nithyanand, G.Srinikanth and Shreyas Narayanan accompanied Radha on the vocal and Dr.Hemalatha and Ganapathi Raman accompanied on violin and mrudangam.

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Session 2 - Ariyakudi to Semmangudi –Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha - 2006

Session 2

As part of its December Fine Arts festival 2006, Thyagar Brahma Gana Sabha in association with Mudhra organized a special programme “Ariyakudi to Semmangudi” – a multimedia presentation on the contribution of the stalwarts – Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Madurai Mani Iyer, M.D.Ramanathan, GN Balasubramaniam, Alathur Brothers, Chembai Vaidhyanatha Bhagavatar, Musiri Subramanya Iyer, M.L.Vasanthakumari, MS Subbulakshmi, Maharajapuram Santhanam. The programme was produced and presented by Dr.Radha Bhaskar and renowned musicologist Dr.SAK.Durga gave valuable inputs based on her rich experience. A unique feature of the programme was that the respective shishyas of these illustrious stalwarts were invited and honoured on the occasion. During the span of three hours, the listeners were transported to the golden era of Karnatic music and had the pleasure of listening to audio clippings of the masterpieces of these great musicians.

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Infosys Hall – Beauty in Thyagaraja’s compositions

Jan 2007

Mudhra had a 12 months music appreciation programme in the year 2007 by Dr.Radha Bhaskar, wherein different topics were taken for presentation with a view to enlighten rasikas on various aspects of music. A lec-dem to highlight the beauty in Saint Thyagaraja’s compositions was presented by Dr.Radha Bhaskar at Infosys Hall in January 2007. In her presentation, Radha briefly sketched the biography of Thyagaraja and then explained in a detailed manner, the specialty in his compositions. She made special mention of how Thayagaraja gave life to many scales and made them alive as vibrant ragas, through his beautiful compositions. She highlighted how among the Trinity, Thyagaraja had singularly contributed to the raga Karaharapriya by composing many beautiful kritis in it. She was accompanied by Swarnalatha ( violin) and M.R.subramaniam (mrudangam).

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Infosys Hall – Compositional excellence in Dikshitar’s kritis

Feb 2007

In the next session in February2007, the excellence of Dikshitar’s compositions was highlighted by Dr.Radha Bhaskar. She explained the contribution of Dikshitar in giving shape to many rare ragas and how distinct and different his style of composing was compared to the other Trinity, both in form and content. Radha demonstrated many of Dikshitar;’s kritis and the audience had an enlightened session.

Beauty in Shyama Sastri’s compositions

March 2007

This session by Dr.Radha Bhaskar featured the classic compositions of Shyama Sastri. A power point presentation summarized his contribution to music and the ragas exclusively used by Sastri to compose kritis. The compositional pattern and types as different from Tyagaraja and Dikshitar was well illustrated and demonstrated. The swarajathis which are monumental and exclusive contributions of Shyama Sastri were sung and their structure explained.

Papanasam Sivan’s contribution to music

April 2007

Papanasam Sivan is hailed as Tamil Thyagaraja as he was greatly influenced by Thyagaraja in composing songs. He also imbibed the best of the other two Trinity and evolved a unique style which made his compositions very popular. Sivan chose Tamil and Sanskrit as his medium of expression and his simple and catchy tunes gave unique shape to many ragas. Dr.Radha Bhaskar explained all these interesting aspects of Sivan’s compositions and sang many popular as well as rare kritis of Sivan. She made special mention of the number of kritis Sivan had composed, next to Thyagaraja and how they were different from Thyagaraja’s conceptualization of the raga.

BVB – Ariyakudi to Semmangudi – multimedia presentation

June 2007

This was a one of its kind event held at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai. Though the programme was scheduled at 6p.m, right from 4.30 p.m, rasikas thronged the hall and when th eprogramme began, the hall was overflowing with audience also standing in the corners to get a glimpse of the event. The programme featured 15 stalwart musicians of the golden era of music - Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Madurai Mani Iyer, M.D.Ramanathan, GN Balasubramaniam, Alathur Brothers, Chembai Vaidhyanatha Bhagavatar, Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer, Musiri Subramanya Iyer, M.L.Vasanthakumari, MS Subbulakshmi, D.K.Jayaraman, Maharajapuram Santhanam and had power point presentation, audio and video clippings and expert comments by world renowned musicologist Dr.S.A.K.Durga. The function was presided by Dr.Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti and A.Natarajan and R.Krishnaswamy were the chief guest. Many eminent personalities including Dr.Padma Subramanyam, Mrs.YGParthasarathy, L.Sabaetnam, T.V.Gopalakrishnan and others graced the occasion.

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Infosys Hall, T.Nagar - Compositional forms In Karnatic Music

July 2007

Just as we recognize and appreciate ragas, it is also important to understand the variety in compositional structure as conceived by various composers. Karnatic music has a variety fare of musical forms – varnam, kriti, padam, javali, tilan, tiruppugazg, ashtapadi, tarangam etc and each has a unique form. Also, though many vaggeyakaras have composed kritis, each composer has adopted a distinct style and understanding them will enhance our appreciation level. This was the subject taken up by Dr.Radha Bhaskar where she illustrated the different compositional forms and explained their form and content.

Infosys Hall - Manodharma sangitam

August 2007

This session highlighted the creative elements in Karnatic music like raga alapana, tanam, niraval and swaram.Dr.Radha, along with noted vocalist T.V.Ramprasadh and Meera Sivaramakrishnan (violin) and Melakkaveri Balaji (mrudangam), explained the structure of various manodharma forms. Ramprasadh also sang a ragam tanam pallavi, which is the crowning glory of Karnatic music. An interactive session precede where rasikas asked questions related to music and they were suitably answered by Mudhra Bhaskar & Radha.

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Bangalore Gayana Samaj, Bangalore

Sept 2007

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Tamil Composers

Oct 2007

Apart from the Trinity, there have been many composers in Tamil who have enriched Karnatic music. These include the composers like Arunagirinadhar, Appar Sundarar, Sambandar, Andal, Neelakanta Sivan, Gopalakrishna Bharathi, Arunachala Kavirayar, Periasami Thooran, Papanasam Sivan, Koteeswara Iyer and others. In her presentation, Dr.Radha Bhaskar outlined the contribution of these great composers and how they have enriched our music through their inimitable compositions.

Infosys hall - Trimurthy Vaibhavam

Dec 2007

If Karnatic concerts today are rich in its content, it is mainly because of the beautiful compositions of the Trinity namely, Thyagaraja, Dikshitar and Shyama Sastri who have made a monumental contribution. Many scales came alive as ragas through their beautiful compositions. They also offer a variety fare in terms of raga, tala, kalapramana, eduppu, structure etc and through a comparative study, these aspects were explained by Dr.Radha Bhaskar in her presentation “Trimurthy Vaibhavam” organized during Mudhra’s 13th Fine arts festival on 11th December 2007. Appropriate demonstrations by Radha, Prema Rangarajan, Uma & Geetha with the accompaniment of Srividhya Iyer ( violin) and Sharan Shivakumar ( mrudangam) made the presentation wholesome. The rasikas were also enlightened about the salient features and distinct style of each composer so that they could appreciate it better.

Ariyakudi to Semmangudi

Dec 2007

This programme was earlier held in Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan and due to tremendous public demand, it was screened yet again on 19th December 2007 at Infosys hall, T.Nagar. The programme featured 15 stalwart musicians of the golden era of music - Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Madurai Mani Iyer, M.D.Ramanathan, GN Balasubramaniam, Alathur Brothers, Chembai Vaidhyanatha Bhagavatar, Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer, Musiri Subramanya Iyer, M.L.Vasanthakumari, MS Subbulakshmi, D.K.Jayaraman, Maharajapuram Santhanam and had power point presentation, audio and video clippings and expert comments by world renowned musicologist Dr.S.A.K.Durga.

BVB, Coimbatore - Tamil composers

Jan 2008

As part of its Pongal Music Festival, Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Coimbatore organized a presentation on Tamil Composres by Dr.Radha Bhaskar. She covered a whole gamut of composers from Andal to Rukmini Ramani (daughter of Papanasam Sivan) in January 2007. In her presentation, Radha highlighted the contribution of each Tamil composer with special focus on Papanasam Sivan who has enriched Karnatic music with a wide variety of songs on various deities. She also highlighted the marathon contribution of Koteeswra Iyer in composing kritis in Tamil on Lord Muruga in all the 72 melakarthas. She rounded off with the contemporary composers lalgudi Jayaraman and Rukmini Ramani’s compositions.

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Narada Gana Sabha - Karnatic concert – form and content

April 2009

In association with Narada Gana Sabha, Mudhra conducted a Music Appreciation programme on “Karnatic concert – form and content ” by Dr.Radha Bhaskar. R.Krishnaswamy presided and on the occasion, a music book on “Post Trinity ragas” written by Dr.M.B.Vedavalli was also released. Dr.Radha explained how the Karnatic concert is structured and how it is developed from varnam to tillana. She explained how Kalpita Sangitam and Manodharma sangitam are perfectly balanced and presented in a concert.Radha was accompanied by Kovai Chandran and Mudhra Bhaskar.

Karthik Fine Arts - Beauty of kritis in Karnatic music

May 2009

Mudhra in association with Kartik Fine arts conducted its Music appreciation programme on the topic “Beauty of kritis in Karnatic music” by Dr.Radha Bhaskar. Kritis formthe core content of Karnatic concerts and offer great variety in form and structure. The different kritis as composed by various composers and how they differed from one another was highlighted. Practical examples enhanced the presentation.

Hamsadhvani – Mudhras in Music compositions

June 2009

Mudhra offer an interesting study and vaggeyakaras have used different Mudhras by which we can identify their compositions. Mudhras meaning signature, is an important aspect of musical compositions in Karnatic music. Composers have incorporated many types of Mudhras like Vaggeyakara Mudhra, Raga Mudhra, Tala Mudhra etc. in their compositions. Each composer has used a distinct name as his Mudhra and this offers interesting study and also indicates to the rasika who the composer of a particular song is. Dr.Radha Bhaskar made an interesting presentation on this subject. She also demonstrated practically to show how the various Mudhras have been incorporated into compositions.

Krishna Gana Sabha - Compositional Forms

July 2009

Karnatic music abounds in compositional forms like varnams, kirtanai, kriti, tillana, javali, ashtapadi, tarangam, tiruppugazh, Each form is distinct and has its own unique structure. With the help of power point presentation and practical demonstrations, Dr.Radha Bhaskar explained the compositional forms.

Music – a way of life

August 2009

Sundaram Motors organized a Music appreciation programme for its employees with a view to motivate them into listening to music. Dr.Radha Bhaskar spoke about the purpose of music in our life and society, how music is in itself a language, the different genres of music and many such interesting topics. She sang many songs from different genres like folk, devotional, film and classical music and enthralled the audience.

MFAC, Trimurthy Vaibhavam

29th August 2009

Karnatic concerts today is rich in its content, mainly because of the beautiful compositions of the Trinity namely, Thyagaraja, Dikshitar and Shyama Sastri who have made a monumental contribution. Many scales have come alive as ragas and got a concrete structure through their beautiful compositions. They also offer a variety fare in terms of raga, tala, kalapramana, eduppu, structure etc and through a comparative study, these aspects were explained by Dr.Radha Bhaskar in her presentation “Trimurthy Vaibhavam” for Mylapore Fine Arts. She also sang many gem kritis of the Trinity which greatly enhanced the presentation.

Saraswathi Vaggeyakara Trust

September 2009

Just as we recognize and appreciate ragas, it is also important to understand the variety in compositional structure as conceived by various composers. Karnatic music has a variety fare of musical forms – varnam, kriti, padam, javali, tilan, tiruppugazg, ashtapadi, tarangam etc and each has a unique form. Also, though many vaggeyakaras have composed kritis, each composer has adopted a distinct style and understanding them will enhance our appreciation level. This was the subject taken up by Dr.Radha Bhaskar in her presentation for Saraswathi Vaggeyakara Trust at Tambaram, where she illustrated the different compositional forms and explained their form and content.

Raga Appreciation at Raga Sudha Hall with OS Thyagarajan

Oct 2009

One of the most gratifying experience for a rasika is to be able to identify the raga that the main artist is performing in a concert. These ragas are identified through constant hearing but there are certain key phrases for every raga which give it its distinct flavor. If rasikas get to know these key phrases, they can identify ragas easily. It was with this focus that Mudhra organized an interactive session by noted musician O.S.Thyagarajan and Dr.Radha Bhaskar. Ragas from various categories like Rakthi ragas, vakra ragas, vivadi ragas etc. were taken and suitably illustrated. The hall -packed audience felt thrilled to hear many popular compositions sung beautifully by Thyagarajan and also his experience filled explanations.

Raga Anubhavam – Infosys Hall – Mudhra

Dec 2009

Raga Anubhavam – An exotic journey into the beautiful world of Ragas by DR. RADHA BHASKAR with SREYAS NARAYANUN, VIDYA KALYANARAMAN, BHARAT SUNDAR & DHARINI – Melakkaveri Thiagarajan – Delhi Sairam – H. Sivaramakrishnan

Raga Anubhavam - Mudhra

Feb 2009

“RAGA ANUBHAVAM” A unique presentation on Identification of Ragas by Dr. Radha Bhaskar with Dr. Subhashini Parthasarathy, Salem Gayathri Venkatesan & K. Dharini

Sri Rama Lalithakala Mandira Bangalore

May 2009

Dr.Radha Bhaskar gave an enlightening lec-dem for Sri Rama Lalithakala Mandira, Bangalore on 14th May,2010. Radha began by explaining the rationale for such a lecture –– how a music-appreciation course enriches a listener and also helps performers by creating enlightened audiences. She went on to place Carnatic music within the context of music worldwide. She also explained the salient features of carnatic music and demonstrated it suitably through practical demonstrations.

BVB - 12 months Music appreciation programme Inauguration

July 2010

Music Appreciation Programme, a 12 months series in coordination with Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan Padmashri Dr.Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti on 31st July 2010 . The first topic taken for presentation was - “How to Identify Ragas” The 12 months topics included Identifying ragas, Identifying ragas – 2, Compositional forms , Beauty of kritis, Thyagaraja, Mudhras, manodharma sangeetam etc.

Visaka Music Academy - Trimurthy Vaibhavam

Nov 2010

If Karnatic concerts today are rich in its content, it is mainly because of the beautiful compositions of the Trinity namely, Thyagaraja, Dikshitar and Shyama Sastri who have made a monumental contribution. Many scales came alive as ragas through their beautiful compositions. They also offer a variety fare in terms of raga, tala, kalapramana, eduppu, structure etc and through a comparative study, these aspects were explained by Dr.Radha Bhaskar in her presentation “Trimurthy Vaibhavam” organized by the Visaka Cultural academy, Visakapatnam. The programme was presided by maestro Nedunuri Krishnamurthy who blessed Dr.Radha and appreciated her efforts.

Ragamalika – Mudhra

Dec 2010

This was a programme by Dr.Radha Bhaskar during Mudhra’s 16th Fine arts festival on 29th December 2010, highlighting various ragas and making rasikas understand them through compositions and key phrases. She had vocal support from Aiswarya Shankar & KP Nandini and Melakkaveri Thyagarajan ( violin), Nellai balaji ( mrudnagam) and H.Sivaramakrishnan ( ghatam).

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Raga Vaibhavam

Dec 20110

In this programme for Mudhra’s 17th Fine arts festival, Dr.Radha Bhaskar selected a few ragas of different varieties and explained their structure through key phrases. Vocal support was provided by Aiswarya Shankar and KP Nandini. Ramaiah Vittal (mridangam) and Nanganallur Swaminathan (ghatam) provided the vital rhythmic support.

Raga appreciation – Discussion with OS Thyagarajan – Mudhra

Dec 2011

This was a unique interactive programme by O.S.Thyagarajan and Dr.Radha Bhaskar wherein not only tips were given about enjoying and identifying ragas but also Thyagarajan explained how each of the stalwarts rendered specific ragas and how certain ragas became their hallmark. His personal experiences and anecdote made the presentation very interesting. A question-answer session with rasikas also followed.

Raga Vaibhavam – Sri Rama Lalith kala Mandira, Bangalore

July 2012

The joy of understanding ragas and experiencing its beauty was highlighted through a scholarly presentation by Dr.radha Bhaskar with KP Nandini, Aiswarya Shankar, Anayampatti Venkatsubramaniam (violin) and Mudhra Bhaskar (mrudangam).

Music Appreciation, Singapore

Aug 2012

With a view to enlighten the Karnatic music lovers, a Music Appreciation Programme was organized at Singapore by Dr.Radha Bhaskar. The event had very earnest rasikas who were keen to know more about Karnatic music. Dr.radha, in a simple and lucid style illustrated the definition of music, its connection with our society and culture, music as a language in itself, different forms of music like folk, devotional, film and classical and then went on to xcplain the salient features of Karnatic music. An interactive session followed where the audience asked pertinent questions which were suitably answered by Dr.Radha. Vandana & R.Gopalakrishnan, who are themselves avid music lovers, oganised the event in a very meticulous manner. Mudhra Bhaskar coordinated the whole event.

Saptharathnangal – Mudhra

Dec 2012

In the 17th Fine arts festival of Mudhra, Saptharathnangal, a fitting musical tribute to seven salient composers of Karnatic music was presented by Dr.Radha Baskar. The session highlighted the beauty of the compositions of Thyagaraja, Dikshitar, Shyama Sastri, Swathi Thirunal, Koteeswara Iyer, Papanasam Sivan, Gopalakrishna Bharathi. The participants besides Dr.Radha were Vasuda Ravi, KP Nandini, Aiswarya Shankar & Dikshita. They were accompanied by Anayampatti Venkatsubramaniam, Nellai Balaji and Krishna (ghatam).

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Seventh Fine Arts Festival – 2001
7th Dec 2000	Inauguration by Dr.Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti, Presided by Shri. A.Natarajan, Former Director, Doordarshan, Chennai. Chief Guest: Shri. R. Krishnaswamy, Secretary Narada Gana Sabha Presented Mudhra Award of Excellence 2001 to Smt. Vidhya Shankar Lalgudi G.J.R.Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi Violin Duet – R.Ramesh (Mridangam) – N.Govindarajan (Ghatam)
8th Dec 2000	D.Raghavachari & D.Seshachari (Hyderabad Bros) – Vocal Peri Sreeramamurthy (Violin) – Trichy Harikumar (Mridangam) – E.M.Subramaniam (Ghatam)
9th Dec 2000	9:30 a.m. – One Day Seminar on “MUSIC FORMS” 6:15 p.m. – T.V.Shankaranarayanan (Vocal) M.A.Sundaresan (Violin) – Srimushnam Raja Rao – (Mridangam) – G.Harikrishnan (Kanjira).
10th Dec 2000	Sriram Parasuram & Anuradha Sriram (Carnatic Hindustani Jugalbandil) Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin) – Trichur Narendran (Mridangam) – Umakanth Puranik (Harmonium) – Udyaraj Karpur (Tabla)
11th Dec 2000	P.Unnikrishnan (Vocal) – R.K.Sriram Kumar (Violin) – Mannargudi Easwaran (Mridangam) – Karthick(Ghatam)
12th Dec 2000	O.S.Thiagarajan (Vocal) – Sriram Parasuram (Violin) -Tiruvarur Bakthavatsalam (Mridangam) – V.Suresh (Ghatam)
13th Dec 2000	Bombay Jayashree Ramnath (Vocal) – R.K.Sriram Kumar (Violin) – K.Arun Prakash (Mridangam) – Trivandram Rajagopal (Kanjira)
14th Dec 2000	SPECIAL FOUR HOUR CONCERT (Tamil Compositions) 5:00 p.m. Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan (Vocal) – Delhi Sunderrajan (Violin) – K.V.Prasad (Mrudangam) – T.V.Vaasan (Ghatam)

Fourth Fine Arts Festival
6th Dec 1998	Lighting of Kuthuvilakku by Anita Ratnam, Inauguration by Dr.S.V.Narasimhan and Presided by Obul Reddy. First Mudhra Award of Excellence was presented to Sri.K.S.Mahadevan, Senior music Critic.(insituted by Obul Reddy) Geetha Krishnamurthy (Veena) – V.L.Sudharshan(Violin)- Vijayendran (Mrudangam) & A.S.Shankar(Ghatam)
7th Dec 1998	S.Sowmya (Vocal) – M.Narmada (Violin) – J.Vaidyanathan (Mrudangam) – Papanasam Sethuraman (Ghatam)
8th Dec 1998	Vijay Siva (Vocal) – R.K.Sriramkumar (violin) – Mannargudi A.Easwaran (Mrudangam) – B.S.Purushotham (Kanjira)
9th Dec 1998	Priya Sisters(Vocal) – Vittal Ramamurthy(Violin) – J.Vaidhyanathan(Mridhangam) – Madipakkam Murali(Ghatam)
10th Dec 1998	Sanjay Subramaniam(Vocal) – H.K.Venkatram (Violin)-Palghat Raghu (Mrudangam) – T.V.Vasan (Ghatam)
11th Dec 1998	T.V.Sankaranarayanan(Vocal) – Nagai Muralidharan (Violin)-Tiruvarur Bakthavatsalam (Mrudangam) – Mayavaram Somu (Kanjira)
12th Dec 1998	One day seminar on “Tradition and Innovation in Music”: Participants – SriramParasuram,Dr.Sundar,S.Venkatraman,T.R.Subramanyam, N.V.Subramaniam & Ganesh. Seminar co-ordinator : Naresh Purushotham Panel discussion participants: Tradition and Innovation in Instruments – Kumaresh & B.Kannan Types of performances L.Krishnan & Venkatraman Concert format – Calcutta Krishnamurthy & Pattabhiraman Sessions on Computer & Carnatic Music – K.Baskaran CD Rom & Carnatic Music – Sowmya
13th Dec 1998	Morning : Carnatic – Hindustani Jugalbandi O.S.Thiagaran(Carnatic) & Sriram Parasuram (Hindustani) – G.Chandramouli(Violin)-K.V.Prasad(Mrudangam) – Udayaraj Karpur(Tabla)- Fayyaz Khan(Sarangi) Evening: Radha Bhaskar (Vocal) – Kalyani Shankar (Violin) – Mudhra Bhaskar (Mrudangam) & Pudukottai Ramachandran (Ghatam) – S.Shashank (Flute) – Mysore Manjunath (Violin) – Satish Kumar (Mrudangam) – S.Karthick (Ghatam) & Thamaraikudi Rajasekar (Muharsing)
14th Dec 1998	Four Hour Concert : Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan (Vocal) – Delhi Sunderrajan (Violin)- Harikumar (Mrudangam) & V.Suresh (Ghatam)

7^th Dec 2019 Saturday	4.00pm 5.30pm 7.00 pm	Nadaswaram by Chinnamanur A.Vijayakarthikeyan & Idumbavanam V.Prakash Ilayaraja – Nadaswaram Idumbavanam K.S.K.Manikandan & Srirangam M.Muthukumar – Tavil Festival Inauguration and Award function O.S.Thiagarajan – Vocal Nagai Muralidharan – Violin Mannargudi A.Easwaran & Mudhra Bhaskar–Double Mridangam
8^th Dec.2019 Sunday	6.15p.m.	Trichur Brothers – Vocal Sayee Rakshith – Violin Trichur Mohan –Mridangam D.V.Venkatasubramaniam – Ghatam
9^th Dec.2019 Monday	6.15 p.m.	Anahita & Apoorva – Vocal M.Vijay –Violin Sumesh Narayanan – Mridangam N.Sundar – Moharsing
10^th Dec 2019 Tuesday	6.15 p.m.	Gayathri Girish – Vocal Udupi Srijith – Violin (Kutcheri competition winner 2019) Aravind Srikanth –Mridangam(Kutcheri competition winner2019) Trivandrum Rajagopal – Kanjira
11^th Dec 2019 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.	S.Srivathsan–Vocal(Kutcheri competition winner 2019) Usha Rajagopalan- Violin M.S.Varadan– Mridangam H.Sivaramakrishnan – Ghatam
12^th Dec 2019 Thursday	6.15 p.m.	Neyveli Santhanagopalan – Vocal Delhi Sundararajan – Violin Parupalli Phalgun – Mridangam Vaikom Gopalakrishnan – Ghatam
13^th Dec 2019 Friday	6.15 p.m.	Abhishek Raghuram – Vocal H.N.Bhaskar – Violin Patri Satish Kumar – Mridangam V.Suresh – Ghatam
14^th Dec 2019 Saturday	6.15 p.m.	Sudha Ragunathan – Vocal L.Ramakrishnan – Violin N.C.Bharadwaj – Mridangam Anirudh Athreya – Kanjira
15^th Dec 2019 Sunday	6.30 p.m.	Sid Sriram – Vocal H.N.Bhaskar – Violin Patri Satish Kumar – Mridangam Giridhar Udupa – Ghatam Bangalore Rajasekar – Moharsing
16^th Dec 2019 Monday	6.15 p.m.	Stage Creations presents Tamil Drama Kathadi Ramamurthy in HONEYMOON COUPLE by Crazy Mohan
17^th Dec 2019 Tuesday	6.15 p.m.	A.Kanyakumari & Embar Kannan – Violin Duet Dr.Haridhwaramangalam A.K.Palanivel – Tavil Patri Sathish Kumar – Mridangam
18^st Dec 2019 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.	Ramakrishnan Murthy – Vocal R.K.Sriram Kumar – Violin Dr.Trichy Sankaran – Mridangam K.V.Gopalakrishnan – Kanjira
19th Dec 2019 Thursday	6.15 p.m.	Malladi Brothers Sriram Prasad and Ravikumar – Vocal Duet S.Varadarajan – Violin Neyveli Narayanan – Mridangam Sree Sundarkumar – Kanjira
20^th Dec 2019 Friday	6.15 p.m.	Ranjani & Gayatri – Vocal Duet L.Ramakrishnan – Violin Manoj Siva – Mridangam S.Krishna – Ghatam
21^st Dec 2019 Saturday	6.15 p.m.	“Strings Attached” – Dr.Jayanthi (Veena) & Kumaresh (Violin) B. Harikumar – Mridangam Trichy Krishnaswamy – Ghatam
22^nd Dec 2019 Sunday	6.30 p.m.	Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna – Vocal Mysore Manjunath – Violin Srimushnam Raja Rao – Mridangam Guruprasanna – Kanjira
23^rd Dec 2019 Monday	6.15 pm	NATYASMRITHI by Geetha Sridhar(Eminent Artistic Director) and Sukanya(Popular actress and Bharatanatyam exponent)
24^th Dec 2019 Tuesday	6.15 p.m	Gayathri Venkataraghavan – Vocal B.U.Ganesh Prasad – Violin Manoj Siva – Mridangam B.S.Purushotham – Kanjira
25^th Dec 2019 Wednesday	9.30 a.m.	“Khandam Square(52)” – A unique presentation by Dr.Sriram Parasuram for Silver Jubilee
25^th Dec 2019 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.	O.S.Arun – Bhajans Karaikkal Venkatasubramaniam – Violin B.Ganapathy Raman – Mridangam Martin – Tabla B.Srikrishnan – Harmonium A.Selvam – Talam
26^th Dec 2019 Thursday	6.45 p.m.	Crazy Creations presents Madhu Balaji in Tamil Drama ‘CPL (Crazy Premier League)by Crazy Mohan
27^th Dec 2019 Friday	6.15 p.m.	T.V.Sankaranarayanan – Vocal Nagai Muralidharan – Violin Mannargudi A.Easwaran – Mridangam Alathur Rajaganesh – Kanjira
28^th Dec 2019 Saturday	6.30 p.m.	Thematic Dance presentation Sheela Unnikrishnan presents VANDE MATHARAM by disciples of Sridevi Natayalaya
29^th Dec 2019 Sunday	9.30 a.m.	INFO QUIZ – by Dr.Radha Bhaskar and Gayathri Girish
29^th Dec 2019 Sunday	6.15 p.m.	SIVANUM SIVANUM Harikatha by Vishaka Hari Sai Rakshith – Violin Neyveli Skandasubramaniam – Mridangam Trichy Murali – Ghatam
30^th Dec 2019 Monday	6.15 p.m.	SPECIAL INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT – Dr.L.Shenkar(Double Violin) – Rajhesh Vaidhya(Veena) – Praveen Narayan(Tabla) – Sai Hari(Ghatam)
31^st Jan 2019 Tuesday	6.15 pm	Sikkil Gurucharan – Vocal T.K.V.Ramanujacharyulu – Violin Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam – Mridangam V.Suresh – Ghatam
1^st Jan 2020 Wednesday	9.45 am	Sthree Thyagaraja Pancharathnam by all women artists
1^st Jan 2020 Wednesday	6.45 pm	Y.GEE.MAHENDRA presents UAA’s IDHU NYAYAMA SIR by Venkat
2^nd Jan 2020 Thursday	6.15 pm	Aditya Madhavan – Vocal Mantha Sriramya – Violin Rohit Prasad- Mridangam Madipakkam Murali – Ghatam
3^rd Jan 2020 Friday	6.15 pm	Madurai N.Sivaganesh – Vocal Vaibhav Ramani – Violin Krishna Pawan Kumar – Mridangam Sunil Kumar – Kanjira
4^th Jan 2020 Saturday	6.15 pm	Srirangam Venkatanagarajan – Vocal Tirucherai Karthick – Violin Sunaada Krishna Amai – Mridangam K.Ranganathan – Ghatam
5^th Jan 2020 Sunday	5.00pm to 9 .00 pm	SPECIAL FOUR HOUR CONCERT by Bharat Sundar – Vocal L.Ramakrishnan – Violin Delhi Sairam – Mridangam K.V.Gopalakrishnan – Kanjira

8^th Dec 2018 Saturday	4.00pm 5.30pm 7.00 pm	Vyasarpadi Kothandaraman & Party-Nadaswaram Festival Inauguration and Award function Lalgudi G.J.R.Krishnan& Vijayalakshmi – Violin Duet Anantha R.Krishnan – Mridangam Guruprasanna – Kanjira
9^th Dec.2018 Sunday	6.15p.m.	S.Mahathi – Vocal L.Ramakrishnan – Violin Vijay Natesan –Mridangam Dr.S.Karthick – Ghatam
10^th Dec.2018 Monday	6.15 p.m.	Aditya Madhavan – Vocal Vaibhav Ramani –Violin Krishna Pawan Kumar – Mridangam (Kutcheri Competition Winners 2017) Madipakkam Murali – Ghatam
11^th Dec 2018 Tuesday	6.15 p.m.	Anahita & Apoorva –Vocal (Kutcheri Competition Winner 2015) R.Raghul – Violin N.C.Bharadwaj – Mridangam (Kutcheri Competition Winners 2015) Sunil Kumar – Kanjira
12^th Dec 2018 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.	Madurai N.Sivaganesh – Vocal Thirucherai Karthik – Violin Sunaada Krishna Amai – Mridangam (Kutcheri Competition Winners 2016) Chandrasekara Sarma – Ghatam
13^th Dec 2018 Thursday	6.15 p.m.	Srirangam Venkatanagarajan – Vocal (Kutcheri Competition Winners 2018) M.A.Krishnaswami – Violin Mannarkoil J. Balaji – Mridangam Vaikom Gopalakrishnan – Ghatam (Winners will be performing with Senior Vidwans)
14^th Dec 2018 Friday	6.15 p.m.	Neyveli Santhanagopalan – Vocal Mantha Sriramya – Violin (Kutcheri Competition Winner 2018) Rohit Prasad – Mridangam (Kutcheri Competition Winner 2018) Udupi Sridhar – Ghatam (Winners will be performing with Senior Vidwans)
15^th Dec 2018 Saturday	6.15 p.m.	A.Kanyakumari & Embar Kannan (Violin Duet) Dr.Haridhwaramangalam A.K.Palanivel – Tavil Sree Sundar Kumar – Kanjira
16^th Dec 2018 Sunday	6.30 p.m.	Smt Chitra Visweswaran along with Chidambaram Dance Company present SKAANDAM Concept and choreography by Smt Chitra Visweswaran
17^th Dec 2018 Monday	6.15 p.m.	V.V.Subrahmanyam & V.V.S.Murari – Violin Duet T.V.Gopalakrishnan – Mridangam Thirupunitura Radhakrishnan – Ghatam
18^th Dec 2018 Tuesday	6.15 p.m.	Ramakrishnanmurthy – Vocal T.K.V.Ramanujacharulu – Violin B.Harikumar – Mridangam V.Suresh – Ghatam
19^st Dec 2018 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.	Saketharaman – Vocal H.N.Bhaskar – Violin Mannargudi A.Easwaran – Mridangam K.V.Gopalakrishnan – Kanjira
20th Dec 2018 Thursday	6.15 p.m.	Malladi Brothers Sriram Prasad and Ravikumar – Vocal Duet S.Varadarajan – Violin Tumkur Ravishankar – Mridangam Udupi Sridhar – Ghatam
21^st Dec 2018 Friday	6.15 p.m.	Bharat Sundar – Vocal Mysore Nagaraj – Violin Srimushnam Raja Rao– Mridangam Giridhar Udupa – Ghatam
22^nd Dec 2018 Saturday	6.15 p.m.	O.S.Thiagarajan – Vocal Nagai Muralidaran – Violin V.V.Ramanamurthy – Mridangam Dr.S.Karthick – Ghatam
23^rd Dec 2018 Sunday	6.30 p.m.	NANDHALALA (Multilingual Production) by Anithaguha’s Bharthanjali
24^th Dec 2018 Monday	6.15 pm	Gayathri Venkataraghavan – Vocal B.U.Ganesh Prasad – Violin N.Manoj Siva – Mridangam B.S.Puruhotham – Kanjira
25^th Dec 2018 Tuesday	6.15 p.m	O.S.Arun – Bhajans M.R.Gopinath – Violin A.V.Manikandan – Mridangam Karthik – Dolki Srikrishnan – Harmonium Selvam – Thalam
26^th Dec 2018 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.	Kunnakudi Balamurali krishna – Vocal Mysore Manjunath – Violin Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman – Mridangam Alathur Raja Ganesh – Kanjira
27^th Dec 2018 Thursday	6.15 p.m.	Sid Sriram – Vocal Vittal Ramamurthy – Violin Patri Satishkumar – Mridangam Giridhar Udupa – Ghatam Bangalore Rajasekar – Moharsing
28^th Dec 2018 Friday	6.15 p.m.	Trichur Brothers (Srikrishna & Ramkumar) – Vocal Mullaivasal Chandramouli – Violin Trichur Mohan – Mridangam Dr.Nerkunam Shankar – Kanjira
29^th Dec 2018 Saturday	6.30 p.m.	Thematic Dance presentation ‘SRINIVASA KALYANAM’ by Students of Sheela Unnikrishnan’s Sridevi Natyalaya
30^th Dec 2018 Sunday	7.00 p.m.	Shenkar – Double Violin Rajhesh Vaidhya – Veena Sree Sundar Kumar – Mridangam Sai Hari – Ghatam
31^st Dec 2018 Monday	6.15 p.m.	Sikkil Gurucharan – Vocal V.Sanjeev – Violin Mannargudi A.Easwaran – Mridangam Anirudh Athreya- Kanjira
1^st Jan 2019 Tuesday	9.45 am	Sthree Thyagaraja Pancharathnam by all women artists
6^th Jan 2019 Sunday	5.00pm to 9 .00 pm	SPECIAL FOUR HOUR CONCERT by Akkarai Sisters Subhalakshmi & Sornalatha – Vocal Duet H.N.Bhaskar – Violin Neyveli Narayanan – Mridangam N.Guruprasad – Kanjira

Date	Time	Artiste
5^th Dec 2015 Saturday	4.00 p.m.	Nadaswaram by Vyasarpadi Kothandaraman & Party
	5.30 p.m.	Inauguration
5^th Dec 2015 Saturday	7.00 p.m.	Concert by ‘Sangeetha Mudhra’ awardees Anahita Ravindran and Apoorva Ravindran – Vocal Awardees will be accompanied by Senior vidwans B.V.Raghavendra Rao – Violin Tiruvarur Vaidhyanathan – Mridangam Sree Sundarakumar – Kanjira
6^th Dec 2015 Sunday	6.30 p.m.	SARVAM SAYIKKE –Thematic Dance Presentation by Anitha Guha’s Bharathanjali
7^th Dec 2015 Monday	6.30 p.m.	AALAAVATHU EPPADIYO Thematic Dance Presentation by Dr.Lakshmi Ramaswamy’s Sri Mudhralaya
8^th Dec 2015 Tuesday	6.15 p.m.	T.V.Gopalakrishnan – Vocal S.Varadarajan – Violin V.V.Ramanamurthy – Mridangam Thirupunithura Radha krishnan – Ghatam
9^th Dec 2015 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.	Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna
10^th Dec 2015 Thursday	6.00 p.m.	“Laya Chatura” – an ensemble by 4 Kanjira artists B.S.Purushotham , Sree Sundarakumar, K.V.Gopalakrishnan & Anirudh Athireya
10^th Dec 2015 Thursday	7.15 p.m.	Veena by B.Kannan & Party
11^th Dec 2015 Friday	6.15 p.m.	Sankaran Namboodri – Vocal S.Varadarajan – Violin Melakkaveri Balaji – Mridangam N.Guruprasad – Ghatam
12^thDec 2015 Saturday	6.15 p.m.	Gayathri Girish – Vocal V.V.S.Murari- Violin Neyveli Skandasubramaniam – Mridangam R.M.Deenadhayalu – Moharsing
13^th Dec.2015 Sunday	6.45 p.m.	Chinnamaple Periyamaple (a) CMa PMa Drama by S.Ve.Shekher
14^th Dec.2015 Monday	6.15 p.m.	Priya Sisters(Shanmugapriya & Haripriya) – Vocal M.A.Krishnaswamy – Violin Patri Satishkumar – Mridangam B.S.Purushotham – Kanjira
15^th Dec 2015 Tuesday	6.15 p.m.	KEERTHANAM – SANKEERTHANAM A combination of Carnatic & Bhajans by Senkottai Hariharasubramaniam & Party
16^th Dec 2015 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.	Papanasam Ashok Ramani – Vocal T.K.V.Ramanujacharyulu – Violin Srimushnam Raja Rao – Mridangam S.V.Ramani – Ghatam
17^th Dec 2015 Thursday	6.15 p.m.	Dr.Serthalai Ranganatha Sarma – Vocal Apoorva Krishna – Violin(‘Sangeetha Mudhra’ Awardee will be performing accompaniment with Senior Vidwans) Thiruvarur Vaidhyanathan – Mridangam Chandrasekara Sarma – Ghatam
18^th Dec 2015 Friday	6.15 p.m.	Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan – Vocal M.Chandrasekaran – Violin Trichur Narendran – Mridangam Giridhar Udupa – Ghatam
19^th Dec 2015 Saturday	6.15 p.m.	Dr.Pantula Rama – Vocal M.S.N.Murthy- Violin (‘Sangeetha Mudhra’ Awardee will be performing accompaniment with Senior Vidwans) N.C.Bharadwaj – Mridangam Udupi Sridhar– Ghatam
20^th Dec 2015 Sunday	6.45 p.m.	Crazy Creations presents GOOGLE GADOTHGAJAN by Crazy Mohan & Maadhu Balaji
21^st Dec 2015 Monday	6.15 p.m.	S.Mahathi – Vocal Dr.Jyothsana – Violin Patri Satishkumar – Mridangam Sree Sundara Kumar – Kanjira
22^nd Dec 2015 Tuesday	6.15 p.m.	Raga Vaibhavam by Dr.Radha Bhaskar with K.P.Nandini, Deekshita & Aishwarya shankar-Vocal Melakkaveri Thiagarajan – Violin Nellai Balaji – Mridangam Jayalakshmi Premkumar – Ghatam
23^rd Dec 2015 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.	S.Shashank – Flute Akkarai Subbulakshmi – Violin Parupalli Phalgun – Mridangam Vazhapalli Krishnakumar – Ghatam
24^th Dec 2015 Thursday	6.15 p.m.	Dr. Kadri Gopalnath – Saxophone A.Kanyakumari – Violin B.Harikumar – Mridangam Rajendra Nakod – Tabla Bangalore Rajasekar – Moharsing
25^th Dec 2015 Friday	6.15 p.m.	O.S.Arun – Bhajans Mullaivasal Chandramouli – Violin M.S.Venkatasubramaniam -Mridangam Krishnan – Harmonium Harisundar – Tabla Selvam – Talam
26^th Dec 2015 Saturday	6.15 pm	Malladi Brothers (Shreeramprasad & Ravikumar) – Vocal B.U.Ganesh Prasad – Violin Mannargudi A.Easwaran – Mridangam B.S.Purushotham – Kanjira
27^th Dec 2015 Sunday	6.15 p.m.	Saketharaman – Vocal H.K.Venkatram- Violin Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam – Mridangam Anirudh Athreya – Kanjira
28^th Dec 2015 Monday	6.30 p.m.	JANANI JAGATH KARINI – Thematic Dance Presentation by Sheela Unnikrishnan’s Sridevi Nrithyalaya
29^th Dec 2015 Tuesday	6.15 p.m.	O.S.Thiagarajan – Vocal H.N.Bhaskar – Violin Dr.Trichy Sankaran – Mridangam Guruprasanna – Kanjira
30^th Dec 2015 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.	Veena by Rajesh Vaidhya K.Sathyanarayanan – Keyboard Karakuruchi Mohanraman – Mridangam D.Chandrajit – Tabla Tenkasi H.Paramasivam – Kanjira Sai Hari – Ghatam Karakurichi Subramaniam – Spl Effects.
31^st Dec 2015 Thursday	6.15 p.m.	Sikkil C.Gurucharan – Vocal V.Sanjeev – Violin Dr.Umayalpuram Sivaraman – Mridangam Dr.S.Karthick – Ghatam
1^st Jan 2015 Friday	9.45 a.m.	Sthree Thyagaraja Pancharathnam Sruti 5 – Rendering of Pancharatha Kritis by all Women Artists
1^st Jan 2016 Friday	6.45 p.m.	Drama : UAA’s Y.Gee.Mahendra in “SOPPANA VAZHVIL”
2^ndJan 2016 Saturday	6.15 p.m.	Gayathri Venkataraghavan – Vocal B.U.Ganesh Prasad – Violin Mannarkoil Balaji – Mridangam K.V.Gopalakrishnan – Kanjira
3^rd Jan 2016 Sunday	5.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.	Special Four Hour Concert by Ramakrishnan Murthy – Vocal Charumathi Raghuraman – Violin Manoj Siva – Mridangam B.S.Purushotham – Kanjira

First Fine Arts Festival
1st Dec 1995	Inaugurated by Smt.M.S.Subbulakshmi and Sri.Sadasivam, Chief Guest – Suresh Krishna, Managing Director , Sundram Fasteners. In this festival, all the concerts were thematic performances and it was sponsored by Mr.Seshasayee, Managing Director of Ashok Leyland. Theme : Kritis in retrospect O.S.Thiagaran(Vocal) – Delhi Sunderrajan(Violin) – R.Ramesh(Mrudangam)
3rd Dec 1995	Theme : Four hour concert Neyveli Santhanagopalan (Vocal) – Thirupparkadal Veeraraghavan (Violin) – Mannargudi A.Easwaran (Mrudangam) & Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)
4th Dec 1995	Theme : Apoorva Ragas B.V.Balsai (Flute) – Sriram Parasuram (Flute) – Palghat Raghu (Mrudangam) & T.V.Vasan(Ghatam)
5th Dec 1995	Theme : Krishna Geetham Ashok Ramani (Vocal) – V.V.Ravi (Violin) – Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam(Mrudangam) & E.M.Subramaniam(Ghatam)
6th Dec 1995	Theme : Ragam Tanam Pallavi Concert Vijay Siva (Vocal) – B.Gayathri(Violin)-Trichur Narendran(Mrudangam) & V.Suresh(Ghatam)
7th Dec 1995	Theme : Great Composers of Mysore Nagamani Srinath(Vocal) – Meera Sivaramakrishnan(Violin)-V.Ramaiah(Mrudangam) & Pudukkottai Ramachandran(Ghatam)
8th Dec 1995	Theme : 20th Century Tamil Composers Sanjay Subrahmaniam(Vocal) – T.Rukmini(Violin)-Vellore Ramabadran(Mrudangam)
9th Dec 1995	Theme : Trinity Compositions Bharathanatyam by Smt.Chitra Visweswaran

Second Fine Arts Festival
2nd Dec 1996	Inauguration by Ajit Kumar, GM,Philips-Karthick Narayan,MD,Ucal Product presided & Sampath ,VP, Bank of America chief guest. One raga one kriti : Kamboji Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan(Vocal)- S.D.Sridhar(Violin)- Vellore Ramabadran (Mrudangam) & V.Nagarajan (Kanjira)
2nd Dec 1996	Carnatic – Hindustani Jugalbandi Mysore Nagamani Srinath(carnatic vocal) & Shyamala Bhave(Hindustani Vocal), Balu Raghuram (Violin) – Pandit Seshari Gavai (Harmonium) – C.Cheluvaraju (Mrudangam) & Viswanath Nakod (Tabla)
3rd Dec 1996	T.V.Sankaranarayanan (Vocal) – Delhi Sunderrajan(Violin)- Tiruvarur Bakthavatsalam(Mrudangam)- E.M.Subramaniam(Ghatam)
4th Dec 1996	Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone) – A.Kanyakumari (Violin) – Guruvayur Dorai (Mrudangam) – S.Karthick (Ghatam)
5th Dec 1996	Dwitala Pallavi Concert Suguna Purushothaman(Vocal)- Usha Rajagopalan(Violin)- Neyveli Narayanan(Mrudangam) – B.S.Purushotham(Kanjira)
6th Dec 1996	Neyveli Santhanagopalan (Vocal) – Sriram Parasuram(Violin) – Palghat Raghu (Mrudangam) – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan(Ghatam)
7th Dec 1996	T\One day seminar on “Tribute to Stalwarts of Yesteryears and Living Legends” T.K.Govindarao( Musiri)- T.V.Gopalakrishnan(Chembai)- Charumathi Ramachandran(GNB) – S.Rajam(Madurai Mani) – Chengalpattu Ranganathan(Alathur) – S.A.K.Durga(Maharajapuram Viswanathaiyer) & Pattabhiraman(Ariyakudi) followed by Video Cliping of Live Concert of Semmengudi Srinivasa Iyer(vocal) – T.N.Krishnan(Violin) – Trichy Sankaran(Mrudangam) & Harishankar(Kanjira)
8th Dec 1995	Four Hour Concert Papanasam Ashok Ramani (Vocal)-M.A.Sunderasan(Violin)-Mannargudi A.Easwaran(Mrudangam) & T.V.Vasan(Ghatam) Four Hour Concert Papanasam Ashok Ramani (Vocal)-M.A.Sunderasan(Violin)-Mannargudi A.Easwaran(Mrudangam) & T.V.Vasan(Ghatam) Sudharani Raghupathy ‘s Bharathanatyam”Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum”

14th Fine Arts Festival − 2008
7th Dec 2008	6.00 p.m : Inauguration by Prof. S. Ramachandran, Vice-Chancellor, University of Madras – presided by Dr. Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti President, Mudhra – Chief Guests: Shri R. Seshasayee, Chairman & Managing Director, Ashok Leyland Ltd.-Shri A. Natarajan, Former Director, Chennai Doordarshan,- Mudhra Award of Excellence presented to Madurai Shri T.N.Seshagopalan (Outstanding Musician, Teacher, Composer & Harikatha exponent) 7.00 pm : MYSORE NAGARAJ & MANJUNATH (Violin Duet) – Mannargudi Easwaran – V.Suresh
8th Dec 2008	6.15pm : R.SURYAPRAKASH –M.R.Gopinath – Shrimushnam Raja Rao – S.V.Ramani
9th Dec 2008	5.00 pm : ‘RANJANI – SRIRANJANI’ conducted by Violin Vidwans KUMBAKONAM M.R.GOPINATH & V.L.KUMAR 7.00 pm : Crazy Mohan’s Drama CHOCKLATE KRISHNA
10th Dec 2008	6.15 pm : V.V.SUBRAMANIAM, V.V.RAVI & V.V.S.MURARI (Violin Trio) – Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam – Tripoonithura Radhakrishnan
11th Dec 2008	6.30 pm : NEYVELI SANTHANAGOPALAN – Sriram Parasuram – Mannargudi Easwaran – Dr.S.Karthick – Nerkunam Shankar
12th Dec 2008	6.15 pm : T.V.SANKARANARAYANAN – Nagai Muralidharan – Neyveli Narayanan – E.M.Subramaniam
13th Dec 2008	6.15 pm : MADURAI T.N.SESHAGOPALAN – V.L.Kumar – B.Harikumar – Sree Sundarkumar
14th Dec 2008	7.00 pm : Drama – RE(A)L ESTATE by T.V.Varadharajan
15th Dec 2008	6.15 pm : VADHYALAHARI by KANYAKUMARI (Violin) – MAMBALAM M.K.S.SIVA (Nadaswaram)_- MUDIKONDAN RAMESH (Veena) – Thirupangur T.G.Muthukumaraswamy (Tavil) – Bangalore AMRIT (Kanjira)
16th Dec 2008	6.15 pm : Namasankeerthanam by UDAYALUR KALYANARAMA BHAGAVATHAR
17th Dec 2008	6.15 pm : – SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM – S.Varadharajan – Guruvayur Dorai – Bangalore Rajasekar
18th Dec 2008	6.15 pm : S.SOWMYA – R.K.Shriramkumar – Neyveli Narayanan – Anirudh Athreya
19th Dec 2008	6.15 pm : A special thematic programme “Saptharathnangal” – a tribute to seven salient composers of Karnatic Music. Concept and presentation – DR.RADHA BHASKAR, PARTICIPANTS – SREYAS NARAYANAN, R.SURYAPRAKASH, MOHAN SANTHANAM, PRARTHANA SAI NARASIMHAN, VIDYA KALYANARAMAN AND VASUDA RAVI with Kovai Chandran, Mudhra Bhaskar & H.Sivaramakrishnan
20th Dec 2008	6.15 pm : LIGHT CLASSICAL JUGALBANDI by Padayappa Sriram
21st Dec 2008	6.15 pm : RAJESH VAIDHYA(VEENA) – Karaikurichi Mohanram – Lalgudi Sriganesh – Chandrajit – Subramaniam
22nd Dec 2008	6.15 pm : Karnatic Hindustani Jugalbandi LALGUDI VIJAYALAKSHMI – PRAVIN GODKHINDI – J.Vaidhyanathan – Udayaraj Karpur
23rd Dec 2008	6.15 pm : HYDERABAD BROTHERS – Peri Sriramamurthy – Kamalakar Rao – Srirangam Kannan – Sree Sundarkumar
24th Dec 2008	7.00 pm : S.Ve.Shekhar Drama “YAMERUKKA BAYAMYEN
25th Dec 2008	10.00 am : A MEGA INFO- QUIZ ON MUSIC, DANCE, DRAMA & CINEMA 5.30 pm A classical Violin Solo album by V.L.Kumar accompanied by Mudhra Bhaskar (Mridangam), Pudukkottai Ramachandran (Ghatam) & N.Sundar(Tabla)
26th Dec 2008	6.15 pm : KADRI GOPALNATH – A.Kanyakumari – Patri Satishkumar – B.S.Purushothaman – Rajasekar
27th Dec 2008	Talented Young Musicians 9.00 am : One Raga One Kriti by G.ABILASH – M.Rajeev – Thalaignayiru S.Harishkumar 10.45 am : Compositions of Thyagaraja by HYDERABAD N.SUBBULAKSHMI – U.N.Niranjan – R.Sankaranarayanan 11.30 am : Krishna Ganamrutham by SRIRAJANI SANTHANAGOPALAN – Arunachala Karthick – Rajna Swaminathan 12.45 pm : Compositions of Oothukkadu Venkatakavi & Narayana Theerthar by B.SUCHITRA – Karaikal Venkatasubramaniam – Akshay Ram 2 . 00 pm : Compositions of Lord Muruga by ADITYA VENKATESH – S.P.Ananthapadmanabha – Rishikesh Tirumalai 3 . 15 pm : Tamil Compositions by POORNIMA KRISHNAN – K.J. Dileep – Sumesh Narayanan 6 . 15 pm : O.S.ARUN (Bhajans) – M.R.Gopinath – A.V.Manikandan – Ganapathy – Kalaiselvan
28th Dec 2008	Talented Young Musicians 9.00 am : Thyagaraja Kritis on Music by AISHWARYA VIDYA RAGHUNATH – Aditi Krishnaprakash – K.S.Ramana 10.15 am : Swathi Thirunal Compostions by GAYATHRI DEVI – S.P.Ananthapadmanabha – K.S.Ramana 11.30 am : Ragam Tanam Pallavi by VIDYA KALYANARAMAN – Parur M.S.Anantharaman – Kumbokanam Swaminathan 12.45 pm : Compositions of Gopalakrishna Bharathi by N.C.BADRINARAYANAN – M. Vijay – N.C.Bharadwaj 2.00 pm : Various Composers on Lord Siva by KARTHIKA & KEERTHANA – Bombay V.Anand – Srivanchyam Sriram 3.15 pm : Rare Sanskrit Compositions of Various Composers by VRINDA ACHARYA – C.N. Srinivasamurthy – J.Arivind 6.15 pm : MALLADI BROS – Embar Kannan – Patri Satishkumar – E.M.Subramaniam
29th Dec 2008	Talented Young Musicians 6.15 am : GANESH & KUMARESH – Bangalore Praveen – Arunkumar
30th Dec 2008	Talented Young Musicians 6.15 pm : JUGALBANDI BY SRIRAM PARASURAM & ANOORADHA SRIRAM – V.V.Srinivasa Rao – Parupalli Phalgun- Umakanth Puranik – Rajendra Nakod
31st Dec 2008	6.15 pm : SIKKIL GURUCHARAN – Nagai Muralidharan – Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman- T.V.Vasan
1st Jan 2009	9. 00 pm : VIOLIN TRIO by T.N.KRISHNAN, VIJI KRISHNAN & SRIRAM KRISHNAN – Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan. 5.00 pm : APARNA BALAJI – Melakkaveri Thiagarajan –Mayavaram Muralidharan 6.45 pm : Felicitations to Y.Gee.Mahedraa on UAA’s 75th Show of SWADESHI IYER 7.00 pm : Drama SWADESHI IYER
2nd Jan 2009	5.00 pm : DEEPTI VENKATARAMAN (Disciple of Ramya Ramanarayanan); 7.00 pm : Kathak by DIVYA KASTURI
3rd Jan 2009	5.00 pm : ARAVINDA HARIRAM (Disciple of Urmila Sathyanarayana); 7.00 pm : PARVATHI RAVI GHANTASALA
4th Jan 2009	5.00 pm : SOWJANYA SURESH (Disciple of Urmila Sathyanarayana); 7.00 pm : DHAMAYANTHI BALARAJU & Disciples (Australia)
5th Jan 2009	5.00 pm : SATHVIKA (Disciple of Hemamalini Chari); 7.00 pm : Kuchipudy by SAILAJA
6th Jan 2009	5.00 pm : URMILA GADGIL (Disciple of Ratna Papa, USA) ; 7.00 pm : KEERTHANA RASA MALA by MOHANAN & Disciples of Kalakshetra
7th Jan 2009	5.00 pm : VIJAYALAKSHMI (Disciple of Parvathi Ravi Ghantasala) ; 7.00 pm : Bharathanatyam by SUMAMANI
8th Jan 2009	6.30 pm : MEERA by SHOBANA BALACHANDRA
9th Jan 2009	5.00 pm : ARUPA LAHARI (Disciple of Chitra Visweswaran) 7.00 pm : PANCHANUBHAVAM (5 emotions – 5 episodes – 5 Talas) by MEENAKSHI CHITHARANJAN
10th Jan 2009	6.15 pm : One raga one Kriti & Tukkadas by T.M.KRISHNA – R.K.Shriram Kumar- B.Harikumar – T.V.Vasan
11th Jan 2009	5.00 to 9.00 pm : Four hour concert by NITHYASREE MAHADEVAN –B.Raghavendra Rao – Patri Satish Kumar – H.Sivaramakrishnan – A.S.Krishnan

13th Fine Arts Festival – 2007
8th Dec 2007	6.15pm : Inauguration by Dr. B.K.Krishnaraj Vanavarayar, Chairman, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Coimbatore – presided by Dr. Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti President, Mudhra – Chief Guests: Shri R. Seshasayee, Chairman & Managing Director, Ashok Leyland Ltd.-Shri A. Natarajan, Former Director, Chennai Doordarshan,- Mudhra Award of Excellence presented to Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam (Outstanding Dancer, Researcher, Choreographer & Teacher) TRICHUR BROS.(Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan) – Sherthalai Sivakumar – Trichur Mohan – B.Subbarao
9th Dec 2007	6.15pm : – T.V.SANKARANARAYANAN-M.A.Sundaresan – Shrimushnam Raja Rao – E.M.Subramaniam
10th Dec 2007	6.15 pm : – Namasankeethanam by UDAYALUR KALYANARAMAN
11th Dec 2007	6.15 pm : – THRIMOORTHY VAIBHAVAM : a thematic musical presentation by Dr.RADHA BHASKAR with PREMA RANGARAJAN & MAYAVARAM SISTERS(Uma & Geetha) – Srividhya R.S.Iyer – Sharan Sivakumar
12th Dec 2007	6.30 pm :- MADURAI T.N.SESHAGOPALAN – M.Chandrasekaran – B.Harikumar – B.S.Purushotham
13th Dec 2007	6.15 pm : – Bharathanrithyam by Dr.PADMA SUBRAHMANYAM & Students of Nrithyodaya
14th Dec 2007	6.15 pm : – S.SOWMYA – Vittal Ramamurthy – Poongulam Subramanyan – Dr.S.Karthick
15th Dec 2007	5.00 pm : – MEERA SRINIVASAN – R.Sathish Kumar – B.Sivaraman – N.Narasimhan 7.00pm : – S.Ve.Shekar’s comedy drama ELLAME THAMASHTHAN
16th Dec 2007	6.15 pm : – KARNATIC & HINDUSTANI JUGALBANDI by A.KANYAKUMARI(Violin) & M.JANARDHAN MITTA(Sitar) – Bangalore Praveen(Mridangam) – Pandit Abhijit Banerjee (Tabla)
17th Dec 2007	6.30 pm : – DIVYA KASTURI (Bharathanatyam)
18th Dec 2007	6.15 pm :- A unique KARNATIC & HINDUSTANI JUGALBANDI by LALGUDI G.J.R.KRISHNAN( Violin) & DEBASHISH BHATTACHARYA (Slide Guitar) – Tiruvaarur Vaidhyanathan – Rupak Bhattacharya
19th Dec 2007	6.15 pm :- Ariyakkudi to Semmangudi – a multimedia presentation Concept : Dr.Radha Bhaskar – Live comments : Dr.S.A.K.Durga
20th Dec 2007	5.00 pm :- Dr.RADHA BHASKAR – Srilakshmi Venkataramani – Mudhra Bhaskar – H.Sivaramakrishnan 7.00 pm :- Crazy Mohan’s comedy drama MARRIAGE MADE IN SALOON
21st Dec 2007	6.15 pm : – VIOLIN TRIO by V.V.SUBRAMANYAM, VVRAVI & VVS MURARI. – Thiruvaarur Bhakthavatsalam – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan
22nd Dec 2007	6.15 pm :- NEYVELI SANTHANAGOPALAN – Mullaivasal Chandramouli – T.K.Murthy – Anirudh Athreya
23rd Dec 2007	6.15 pm : – HYDERABAD BROS.(RAGHAVACHARI & SESHACHARI) – S.Varadarajan – Kamalakar Rao – Sukanya Ramgopal
24th Dec 2007	6.15 pm :- O.S.THIAGARAJAN – Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi – Mannargudi A.Easwaran– Srirangam Kannan
25th Dec 2007	10.00 am :- MEGA INFO QUIZ ON MUSIC, DANCE, DRAMA AND CINEMA
25th Dec 2007	6.15 pm : – MALLADI BROTHERS – Mysore Manjunath – Mannargudi A.Easwaran– V.Suresh
26th Dec 2007	6.15 pm :- KKADRI GOPALNATH – A.Kanyakumari – Haridwaramangalam A.K.Palanivel(Special Tavil) – B.S.Purushotham – B.Rajasekar.
27th Dec 2007	6.15pm :- BHAJANS by O.S.ARUN – Mullaivasal Chandramouli – B.Ganapathiraman – Kiran Kumar – Selvam
28th Dec 2007	6.15 pm – SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM – S.Varadharajan – B.Harikumar – Uduppi Sridhar
29th Dec 2007	Talented Young Musicians 9.00 am :- Tamil Compositions by BHAVYA KRISHNAN –K.Rahul – Sharan Sivakumar 10.15 am :- Swathi Thirunal Compostions by GAYATHRI DEVI – S.P.Ananthapadmanabha – K.S.Ramana 11.30 am :- Compositions of Thiagaraja by O.S.SUDHA – M.Rajeev – Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan 12.45 pm : – One Raga One Kriti (Bhairavi) by VEENA SRIRAM – J.Arvind – S.Krishna 2.00 pm : – Songs of Lord Siva by different Composers by PRASANNA VENKATARAMAN – V.Sanjeev – A.M.Harinarayanan 3.15 pm : – Compositions of Muthuswami Diskhithar by NIRANJANA SRINIVASAN – K.Gokul – Sumesh Narayanan 6.15 pm :- GANESH & KUMARESH(VIOLIN DUET) – Parupalli Phalgun – S.V.Ramani
30th Dec 2007	Talented Young Musicians 9.00 am- Oothukkadu Compositions by S.M.VILASINI – Karaikal Venkatasubramaniam – Kumbakonam Swaminathan 10.15 am – Thiruppugazh by BHAIRAVI & MALAVI – Ambika Prasad – Delhi Sairam 11.30 am – Compostions of Papanasam Sivan by GANESH VISWANATHAN – R.Nagaraj – Ammangudi S.Ramanarayanan 12.45 pm – Ragam Tanam Pallavi by AYYAR SISTERS(VIOLIN DUET) – Thalaigayiru Harishkumar – Chandrasekara Sharma 2.00 pm – Shyama Sastri Compositions by VASUDHA RAVI – T.Hemamalini – Erode Nagaraj 3.15 pm – Trinity Kritis on Devi by V.SANKARANARAYANAN – Neela Jayakumar – V.R.Jayakumar 6.15 pm :- SRIRAM PARASURAM & ANURADHA SRIRAM – V.V.S.Murari – B.Ganapathiraman – Umakanth Puranik – Udayaraj Karpur
31st Dec 2007	6.15 pm : – SIKKIL GURUCHARAN – R.K.Sriram Kumar – Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman – B.S.Purushotham
1st Jan 2008	9.30 am :- T.N.KRISHNAN & VIJI NATARAJAN (Violin Duet) – Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan 6.30 pm :- LIGHT CLASSICAL JUGALBANDI by RAMJI’S ISSAI MAZHALAI. (Talented Youngsters participate with combination of Carnatic and Light music)
2nd Jan 2008	5.00 pm :- SUPRIYA RAJAN & APSARA RAMKUMAR(Mohiniattam) 7.00 pm :- ROJA KANNAN (Bharatanatyam)
3rd Jan 2008	5.00 pm :- SRUTHILAYA & ABHINAYA(Bharathanatyam) 7.00 pm :- KAVITA DWIBEDI(Odissi)
4th Jan 2008	5.00 pm :- ARCHANA RAJA(Bharathanatyam) 7.00 pm :- SWARNAMALYA(Bharatanatyam)
5th Jan 2008	5.00 pm : RATIPRIYA & LAVANYA RATHI RAMESH (Bharathanatyam) 7.00 pm : Barathikku Oru Bharatanjali by SHOBANA RAMESH
6th Jan 2008	6.15 pm : Bharatanatya Arangetram of KEERTHANA RAVISHANKAR (Disciple of K.Mohanan & Sunitha of Kalakshetra)
7th Jan 2008	5.00 pm : FARISHTHA VENKATESH (Bharatanatyam) 7.00 pm : BHARGAVI GOPALAN (Bharatanatyam)
8th Jan 2008	5.00 pm : PRASANNA THOTHADRI (Bharatanatyam) 5.00 pm : PRIYA JAYARAMAN (Bharatanatyam)
9th Jan 2008	5.00 pm : AISHWARYA JAYARAMAN (Bharatanatyam) 7.00 pm : ‘ATHMA RAMANA OLI’ (Music & Choreography :Ambika Kameshwar)
10th Jan 2008	5.00 pm : APSARA RAMKUMAR (Bharatanatyam) 7.00 pm : SRIKALA BHARATH (Bharatanatyam)
11th Jan 2008	5.00 pm : NEERAJA SRINIVASAN (Bharatanatyam) 7.00 pm : ‘SRI SHARADHEY’ by Students of KRISHNAKUMARI NARENDRAN
12th Jan 2008	5.00 pm : SRUTHI RADHAKRISHNAN (Bharatanatyam) 7.00 pm : ‘NEELAM’ (Drowning in Bliss) Solo Dance by ANITA RATNAM Music: Anil Srinivasan, Sikkil Gurucharan & O.S.Arun
13th Jan 2008	5.00 to 9.00 pm : 4 hour concert T.M.KRISHNA- R.K.Sriram Kumar – Trichy Sankaran – V.Suresh

12th Fine Arts Festival – 2006
9th Dec 2006	6.00pm : Inauguration by N Shri.T.S.Narayanasami Chairman & Managing Director, Indian Overseas Bank – presided by Dr. Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti President, Mudhra – Chief Guests: Dr. Vyjayantimala Bali, Shri. A.Natarajan, Former Director, Chennai Doordarshan, Swami Padmasthananda Maharaj, Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, – Mudhra Award of Excellence presented to Smt. Vani Jairam, (Veteran Devotional & Play Back Singer, Artist, Lyricist & Composer) 7.00pm : Ghatam Karthick’s Heart Beat Ensemble S. Karthick – U.P.Raju – Palakkad Sreeram – Pongulam Subramaniam – Sree Sundar Kumar – N. Sundar – B.S. Arunkumar
10th Dec 2006	6.15pm : Namasankeerthanam by Udayalur Kalyanaraman
11th Dec 2006	6.15pm : Dr. N.Ramani – Mysore Nagaraj – Mannargudi Easwaran – Srirangam Kannan
12th Dec 2006	6.15pm : Sanjay Subramaniam – S. Varadarajan – Guruvaiyur Durai – Thirupunithura Radhakrishnan
13th Dec 2006	6.30 pm : Sudha Raghunathan – M.R.Gopinath – Thiruvarur Vaidhyanathan – Raman
14th Dec 2006	6.15pm : P.Unnikrishnan – Embar Kannan – Arun Prakash – B.S.Purushothaman
15th Dec 2006	6.15pm : ‘Layamudhra’ by Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam
16th Dec 2006	7.00pm : Natakapriya’s – ‘Athirshtakaran’ a hilarious comedy drama by S.Ve.Shekher’s
17th Dec 2006	6.15pm : A musical evening of devotional and light melodies by Smt. Vani Jayaram
18th Dec 2006	6.15pm : Bharathnatyam by Sarayu Sai
19th Dec 2006	6.15pm : T.M.Krishna – Mysore Nagaraj – Srimushnam Rajarao – T.V.Vasan
20th Dec 2006	6.15pm : T.V.Sankaranarayanan – Nagai Muralidharan – Thiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam – V. Suresh
21st Dec 2006	6.15pm : T.V.Ramprasad – Perisriramamurthy – Kamalakar Rao
22nd Dec 2006	6.15pm : Violin Duet by A. Kanyakumari & Embar Kannan – Vellore Ramabadran – Bangalore Amrit
23rd Dec 2006	6.15pm : O.S.Arun – M.R.Gopinath – Srimushnam Raja Rao – Kiran Kumar
24th Dec 2006	7.00pm : UAA presents Y.Gee. Mahendra’s Drama
25th Dec 2006	5.00pm : Special Four Hour concert by Malladi Brothers – Mysore Manjunath – Mannargudi Easwaran – V. Suresh
26th Dec 2006	6.15pm : O.S.Thiagarajan – T.K.V.Ramanujacharyulu – Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan
27th Dec 2006	6.15pm : Light Classical Jugalbandi by Gopal Saptaswaram
28th Dec 2006	6.15pm : Kadri Gopalnath – A.Kanyakumari – Haridwaramangalam A.K.Palanivel – Trivandrum Rajagopal – Bangalore Rajasekar
29th Dec 2006	6.15pm : Violin Duet by Ganesh & Kumaresh – Bangalore Praveen – Bangalore Amrit
30th Dec 2006	Talented Young Musicians 9.00am : Compositions of Mysore Vasudevachar P.Prarthana Rao – S.P.Ananthapadmanabha – Thillaisthanam R.Suryanarayanan 10.15 am -“Goula” Ragas Ranjani Hebbar – S.Karthick – B. Srivatsan 11.30 am – Compositions of Purandara Dasar K.Dharini – M.Rajiv – Srivanchiam Sriram 12.45 pm – One Raga One Kriti Karaharapriya Erode S. Anantharaman – Sudha R.S.Iyer – Thalaignayiru S. Harish Kumar 2.00 pm – Compositions of Muthuswami Dikshithar Priyanka Raman – Rahul – Mayavaram Siva 3.15 pm – Popular songs of the Women Trinity Subiksha Rangarajan – Gokul – Arjun Ganesh 6.15 pm – Karnatic Hindustani Jugalbandi by Sriram Parasuram & Anooradha Sriram – V.V.Srinivasa Rao – Trichur Narendran – Umakanth Puranik – Rajendra Nakod
31st Dec 2006	Talented Young Musicians Rare 9.00 am : Compositions on Lord Siva by Muthuswami Dikshitar Amrutha Venkatesh – L.Ramakrishnan – Arjun Ganesh 10.15 am – Ragam Tanam Pallavi M.R.Subramanian – B.Ananthakrishnan – M.R.Sreekrishnan 11.30 am – Compositions of Thyagaraja L.Athira – Palghat Sriram – S.Krishna 12.45 pm – Compositions of Papanasam Sivan K.Bharat Sundar – K.P.Nandini – N.C.Bharadwaj 2.00 pm – One Raga One Kriti – Todi Rithvik Raja – M.S. Ananthakrishnan – K.S.Ramana – Alathur Rajaganesh 3.15 pm – Ramavibakthi Kritis of Muthuswami Dikshitar Nadhamuni Gayathri Bharat – Srividhya R.S.Iyer – Calcutta Venkatram 6.15 pm – Sikkil Gurucharan – Nagai Muralidharan – Umayalpuram Sivaraman – B.S. Purushothaman
1st Jan 2007	9.00 am : New Year Special Nadaswaram concert by Injikkudi M.Subramaniam & Party 6.15pm : Krishnakumari Narendran’s group presentation “Sri Akhilanda Nayaki”

Eleventh Fine Arts Festival – 2005
17th Dec 2005	6.00pm : Inauguration by N.R.Chandran,Advocate General of Tamilnadu – presided by Dr. Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti President, Mudhra – Chief Guest: Shri. A. Natarajan Vice President, Mudhra- Mudhra Award of Excellence presented to Sri. T.K. Govinda Rao (Musician, Author, Teacher & Composer) 7.00pm : Violin Solo Dr.M.Narmada – Balashankar – S.V.Ramani
18th Dec 2005	6.15pm : Karnatic Hindustani Jugalbandhi by Sriram Parasuram & Anuradha Sriram – V.V.S.Murari – Trichur Narendran – Umakanth Puranik – Gurumurthy Vaidya
19th Dec 2005	6.15pm : Dr. N.Ramani – Mysore Nagaraj – Mannargudi Easwaran – Srirangam Kannan
20th Dec 2005	6.15pm : Aruna Sayeeram – Mullaivasal Chandramouli – Murugaboopathy – N.Guruprasad
21st Dec 2005	6.15 pm : T.V.Sankaranarayanan – V.L.Kumar – Srimushnam Raja Rao – Giridhar Udupa
22th Dec 2005	6.15pm : O.S.Arun (Bhajans) – Mullaivasal Chandramouli – A.V.Manikandan – A. Kiran Kumar – Kuldeep – Kalaiselvam
23rd Dec 2005	6.15pm : T.M.Krishna – Sriram Parasuram – Thiruvaarur Bakthavatsalam – B.S.Purushothaman
24th Dec 2005	5.00pm : O.S.Thiagarajan – Delhi Sunderrajan – Kamalakar Rao – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan
25th Dec 2005	5.00pm : Four Hour Concert by Malladi Brothers – Mysore Manjunath – K.V.Prasad V.Suresh
26th Dec 2005	6.15pm : Light classical Jugalbandi conducted by L.Krishnan (Exclusive songs music composed by L.Krishnan)

Tenth Fine Arts Festival – 2004
15th Dec 2004	6.00pm : Inauguration by Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna Presided by Dr.Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti President, Mudhra –Chief guest :A. Natarajan Vice President – Mudhra- Mudhra Award of Excellence presented to T.V.Gopalakrishnan (Vocalist, Mridangist, Composer & Teacher) For her outstanding service to the field of fine arts by Dr.Padma Subrahmanyam 7.00pm : T.V.Gopalakrishnan – Delhi Sunderrajan – T.V.Vasan – V.Suresh 8.15pm : Thermatic Concert-Dr.Radha Bhaskar,Gayathri Girish, Subha Ganesan- Melakkaveri Thiagarajan-Kallidaikuruchi Sivakumar
16th Dec 2004	6.15pm : O.S.Arun(Tamil Ghazal) – Mullaivasal Chandramouli – Ganapathy – Kuldip Pai
17th Dec 2004	6.15pm : Sanjay Subramanyam – S. Varadarajan – Arun Prakash – K.V.Gopalakrishnan
18th Dec 2004	5.00pm : Special Four Hour concert Injikudi Subramaniam – Tiruvarur Swaminathan – Sikkil Bhaskaran – Tiruvarur Bakthavatsalam – V.Suresh – B.S.Purushotham – A.S.Krishnan – Venkatasubramaniam
19th Dec 2004	6.15pm : Karnatic – Hindustani Jugalbandi – Sriram Parasuram & Anuradha Sriram – M.A.Sundaresan – Trichur Narendran – Umakanth Puranik – Gurumurthy Vaidhya
20th Dec 2002	6.15pm : T.M.Krishna – Sriram Parasuram – Dr.T.K.Murthy – Anirudh Athreya
21st Dec 2004	6.15pm : S.Shashank – Santhala – Embar Kannan – Sathish Kumar – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan – Payyanur govindaprasad
22th Dec 2004	6.15pm : Ganesh & Kumaresh (Violin duet) – Bangalore Praveen – S.Karthick
23rd Dec 2004	5.00pm : Special Four Hour concert by Malladi Brothers – Mysore Manjunath – Umayalpuram Sivaraman – V.Suresh

Ninth Fine Arts Festival – 2003
19th Dec 2003	6.00pm : Inauguration by Dr. Nalli Kuppuswamy ChettiPresident, Mudhra – presided by Shri. A. Natarajan Vice President, Mudhra- Mudhra Award of Excellence presented to Dr. (Mrs.) Y.G.Parthasarathy (Educationist & Cultural Activist) For her outstanding service to the field of fine arts by Dr.Padma Subrahmanyam 6.45pm: S.Shashank – S.Shanthala – B.U.Ganesh Prasad – Haridwaramangalam A.K.Palanivel – Neyveli Venkatesh – E. Ramakrishnan
20th Dec 2003	6.15pm: Sriram Parasuram & Anooradha Sriram (Carnatic – Hindustani Jugalbandi) V.V.S.Murari – Guruvayur Dorai – Umakanth Puranik – Gurumurthy Vaidhya
21st Dec 2003	5.00pm : Malladi Brothers (Sriram Kumar & Ravi Kumar) – Mysore Nagaraj – K.V.Prasad – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan
22th Dec 2003	6.15pm : T.V.Sankaranarayanan – V.L.Kumar – Trichy B.Harikumar – B.S.Purushotham
23rd Dec 2003	4.15pm : Kannakudy Vaidhyanathan (Violin Solo) & Party 6.15pm : O.S.Arun (Bhajans Sandhya) – Mullaivasal Chandramouli – Tanjore Murugaboopathy – S.Ganapathy – Jai Kishan
24th Dec 2003	5.00pm : Special Four Hour Concert (One Raga One Kriti & Tukkadas) Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan – S.D.Sridhar – Mannargudi Easwaran – Giridhar Udupa
25th Dec 2003	6.15pm : O.S.Thiagarajan – V.V.Ravi – Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman

Eighth Fine Arts Festival – 2002
16th Dec 2002	5.30pm : K.L.Sreeram (3-in-1 Concert-Flute,Keyboard and Vocal) – R.Ramesh-N.Govindarajan 7.30pm : Mr.N.S.Raghavan, Co-Founder, Infosys inaugurated, Dr.Nalli presided and Mr. A.Natarajan and Mr. Cleveland Sundaram felicitated. Mudhra award of excellence Presented to Sri.S.Rajam (musician, teacher, author & artist) 8.15pm : Thermatic Concert-Dr.Radha Bhaskar,Gayathri Girish, Subha Ganesan- Melakkaveri Thiagarajan-Kallidaikuruchi Sivakumar
17th Dec 2002	6.15pm : P.Unnikrishanan – Embar kanan, Trichy Harikumar – Srirangam Kannan
18th Dec 2002	6:15pm : T.V.Shankaranarayanan (Vocal), Ramanujacharlu – Tiruvarur Bakthavatsalam – V.Suresh
19th Dec 2002	6.15pm : Mudhra’s “Quiz Time” on Music, Dance, Drama and Cinema – a mega event where eminent artists, students and audience participate.
20th Dec 2002	6.15pm : Kannakudy Vaidhyanathan (Violin Solo) & Party
21st Dec 2002	6.15pm : Hyderabad Bros(D.Raghavachari & D.Seshachari)-Peri Sreeramamurthy- K.V.Prasad-T.V.Vasan
22th Dec 2002	SPECIAL FOUR HOUR CONCER (One Raga one kriti & Tukkadas 5.00pm : Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan (Vocal) – S.D.Sridhar – Mannargudi Easwaran – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan
23rd Dec 2002	6.15pm : Sanjay Subramanian – H.K.Venkatram – Palghat Raghu – Abishek Raghuram
24th Dec 2002	6.15pm : Light-Classical Jugalbandi by Sridhar Navraags (a novel programme on raga appreciation) Popular Light music singers and carnatic musicians participate
25th Dec 2002	6.15pm : Sriram prasuram & Anooradha Sriram (Karnatic & Hindustani Jugalbandi) – Pakkala Ramdas – K.V.Prasad-Umakanth Puranik-Gurumurthy Vaidhya
26th Dec 2002	6.15pm : O.S.Arun(Bhajans) – Vittal Ramamurthy – Mudhra Bhaskar – Ganapathy – Sundar
27th Dec 2002	6.15pm : Vasumathi Badrinathan – Melavakkam Thiagarajan – Melakkaveri Balaji -A.S. Krishnan.
28th Dec 2002	6.15pm : R.Suryaprakash – V.V.Ravi – Umayalpuram Sivaraman – E.M.Subramaniam
29th Dec 2002	4.30pm : Hindustani Music by Kala Ramesh (Pune) – Rajeev Thambe – Milland Pote 6.15pm : Dr.Radha Bhaskar – Usha Rajagopalan – Tanjore Subramaniam- E.M.Subramaniam
30th Dec 2002	6.15pm: Bharathnatyam by Sunita (Disciple of Smt.Parvathi Ravi Gantasala)

Sixth Fine Arts Festival – 2001
5th Dec 2000	Inauguration by N.Ram, Editor-Frontline, Presided by Dr.Sushila Mariappan Director, USAB, University of Madras Inauguration by N.Ram, Editor-Frontline, Presided by Dr.Sushila Mariappan Director, USAB, University of Madras Presented Mudhra Award of Excellence 2000 to Smt. Sulochana Pattabhiraman Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone) – A.Kanya Kumari(Violin) – Guruvayur Dorai (Mrudangam) – Rajasekar ( Moharsing)
6th Dec 2000	“Quiz time” on Music, Drama, Dance and Cinema
7th Dec 2000	Cassette & CD release of “ Taka Dimi Taka Junu” Conducted by Ghatam Karthick – Released by A.V.M.Saravanan, first copy received by Dhanajayan, Chief Guest : Yuhi Sethu. Ensemble by Ghatam Karthick with K.L.Sreeram, Embar Kannan, Poongulam Subramaniam, Papanasam Sethuraman, Sundar, C.Veda.
8th Dec 2000	Neyveli Santhanagopalan (Vocal) – M.A.Sundaresan (Violin) – K.V.Prasad (Mridangam) -T.V.Vasan (Ghatam)
9th Dec 2000	T.V.Sankaranarayanan(Vocal) – Mysore Nagaraj (Violin) – Srimushnam Raja Rao (Mrudangam) – Karthick (Ghatam)
10th Dec 2000	Mysore Nagaraj & Manjunath(Vocal) – Tiruvarur Bakthavathsalam(Mrudangam)-Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam) 4 p.m.: Talent promotion Concert by Shobha Ramesh (Vocal) – Melakkaveri Thiagarajan – Mudhra Bhaskar (Mrudangam) – Trichy Murali (Ghatam) Evening : Sanjay Subramaniam (Vocal) – S.Varadarajan (Violin)- Vellore Ramabadran (Mridangam) – V.Nagarajan (Kanjira)
11th Dec 2000	Bombay Jayashree Ramnath (Vocal) – Embar Kannan (Violin)- P.Sathish Kumar (Mrudangam) – Trivandram Rajagopal (Kanjira) Lecture by Dr. Mathrubhootham and Dr.Rangarajan on ” The Psyche of an Artist”
12th Dec 2000	P.Unnikrishnan (Vocal) – Delhi Sunderrajan (Violin) – Tiruvarur Bakthavathsalam (Mrudangam) – E.M.Subramaniam (Ghatam)
13th Dec 2000	O.S.Thiagarajan (Vocal) – A.Kanyakumari (Violin) – Palghat Raghu (Mridangam)-G.Harishankar (Kanjira)
14th Dec 2000	SPECIAL FOUR HOUR CONCERT : Kalpita followed by Ragam, tanam, Pallavi Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan (Vocal) – Delhi Sunderrajan (Violin) – Mannargudi Easwaran (Mrudangam)-V.Suresh (Ghatam)

Fifth Fine Arts Festival
5th Dec 1999	Inauguration by Lalgudi Jayaraman, Presided by Dr.Mathrubootham, Chief Guest: R.Kothandaraman MUDHRA AWARD OF EXCELLENCE’99 was presented to T.R.Subramaniam (Musician, Teacher, Musicologist) Sudha Raghunathan (Vocal) – B. Gayathri (Violin) – Thiruvaru Vaidhyanathan (Mrudangam) – Karthick (Ghatam)
6th Dec 1999	Classics of the Millennium – CD and cassette release function . Participants Cleveland Sundaram & N.V.Subramaniam Raji Gopalakrishnan (Vocal) – Varadarajan (Violin) –Skandasubramaniam (Mrudangam) – A.S.Shankar (Ghatam)
7th Dec 1999	T.V.Sankaranarayanan(Vocal)- M.A.Sundaresan (Violin) – Tiruvarur Bakthavatsalam (Mrudangam) – E.M.Subramaniam (Ghatam)
8th Dec 1999	Nithyashree Mahadevan (Vocal) – B.Raghavendra Rao (Violin) – Neyveli Narayanan (Mrudangam) – Madipakkam Murali (Ghatam)
9th Dec 1999	Unnikrishnan (Vocal) – Embar Kannan (Violin) – Mannargudi Easwaran (Mrudangam) – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)
10th Dec 1999	O.S.Thiagarajan (Vocal) – Nagai Muralidharan (Violin) – Palghat Raghu (Mrudangam) – N.Govindarajan (Ghatam)
11th Dec 1999	ONE DAY SEMINAR ON “THE HUMAN IN AN ARTIST” Panel Discussion: Professionalism, the need of the hour for a proficient Artist? Participants : Naresh Purushotham, Anitha Ratnam, Gnani, G.Chandramouli, Saranathan, K.Srinivasan Lecture by Dr. Mathrubhootham and Dr.Rangarajan on ” The Psyche of an Artist” Lecture by T.Srinivasan On ” Team work and personality development” Concluding lecture on Professionalism by Naresh Purushotham Evening: S.Sowmya(Vocal)- Usha Rajagopal(Violin)- J.Vaidyanathan(Mrudangam)
12th Dec 1999	O.S.Arun’s Ghazals and Bhajans 4 p.m. : What is film music? A lec-dem by cine music director Bharadwaj Evening : Sanjay Subrahmaniam (Vocal)- V.L.Kumar (Violin) – K.V.Prasad (Mrudangam) – Harishankar (Kanjira)
13th Dec 1999	Vijay Siva(Vocal) – R.K.Sriram Kumar(Violin) – Srimushnam Raja Rao(Mrudangam) B.S.Purushotham(Kanjira)
14th Dec 1999	Special Four Hour Concert: One raga one kriti(Karaharapirya) followed by Tukkadas – Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan(Vocal)- Sriram Parasuram(Violin) – Mannargudi Easwaran(Mrudangam)- T.V.Vasan(Ghatam)

Third Fine Arts Festival
7th Dec 1997	Inauguration by K.J.Yesudas,Chief Guests:Parasuram,MD,MK India & B.R.Kumar,SD,AIR S.Sowmya (Vocal) – Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin) – Neyveli Narayanan (Mrudangam) B.S.Purushotham (Kanjira)
8th Dec 1997	Neyveli Santhanagopalan(Vocal) – Sriram Parasuram(Violin)-Tiurvarur Bakthavathsalam(mrudangam) & V.Nagarajan(Ghatam)
9th Dec 1997	M.S.Gopalakrishnan & Narmada (Violin Duet) – Mannargudi Easwaran (Mrudangam) – T.V.Vasan (Ghatam)
10th Dec 1997	Sudha Raghunathan (Vocal) – M.R.Gopinath (Violin) – Trissur Narendran (Mrudangam) – T.D.Balasubramaniam (Ghatam)
11th Dec 1997	T.V.Sankaranarayanan (Vocal) – Nagai Muralidharan (Violin) – Srimushnam Raja Rao (mrudangam) – V.Selvaganesh (Kanjira)
12th Dec 1997	S.Shashank (Flute) – Delhi Sunderrajan (Violin) – Bangalore Arjun Kumar (Mrudangam) – P.Sathish Kumar (Ganjira) – B.V.S.Prasad (Morshing)
13th Dec 1997	Morning : One Day Seminar on ” Microphones in concerts” Panel discussion: Microphone -Does it make or break a concert Participants: Sudha Raghunathan, T.R.Subramaniam, B.Kannan, N.V.Subramaniam, K.S.Mahadevan, Ravikiran, Abayambika Instruments & Microphones : Sriram Parasuram & Ravikiran Mike operators & Microphones: S.V.Krishnan History, Technicalities & Advancement of P.A.System: Philips Sundarakrishnan & Sudhir Evening : Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan(Vocal)- V.V.Ravi(Violin)-T.K.Murthy(Mrudangam) – N.Govindarajan(Ghatam)
14th Dec 1997	Morning: Four hour concert: ParasuramBros (Sriram&Viswanath) (VocalDuet) – M.A.Sundaresan (Violin)-Palghat Raghu (Mrudangam) – G.Harishankar (Kanjira) Evening: “Paavai Nonbu” -Dance by Dr.Padma Subrahmanyam & aritsts of Nrithyodaya

15th Fine Arts Festival – 2009
9th Dec 2009	6.00 p.m : Inauguration by Shri T.Thenappan, General Manager, Indian Overseas Bank – presided by Dr. Nalli Kuppuswamy Chetti President, Mudhra – Guest of Honour: Shri ‘Vikku Vinayakram’ – Chief Guests: Shri A. Natarajan, Former Director, Chennai Doordarshan,- Mudhra Award of Excellence presented to Prof. Trichy Sankaran (Outstanding Mridangam Exponent, Composer, Academician and Cultural Ambassador) 7.00 pm : Madurai T.N.S.KRISHNA – Mysore Srikanth – Trichur C.Narendran – K.V.Gopalakrishnan
10th Dec 2009	6.15pm : Harikatha “KRISHNA LEELA” by KALYANAPURAM AARAVAMUDHACHARIAR – Dr.Hemalatha – A.S.Ranganathan
11th Dec 2009	6.15 pm : Harikatha “SOODIKODUTHA SUDARKODI” by KALYANAPURAM AARAVAMUDHACHARIAR – Vittal Ramamurthy – Melakkaveri Balaji
12th Dec 2009	6.15 pm : MADURAI T.N.SESHAGOPALAN – M.Chandrasekaran – Guruvaiyur Dorai – T.V.Vasan
13th Dec 2009	6.15 pm : NEYVELI SANTHANAGOPALAN – V.V.Ravi – Mannargudi Easwaran – Udupi Sridhar – Nerkunam Sankar
14th Dec 2009	6.15 pm : PRIYA SISTERS – M.A.Krishnaswamy – Parupalli Phalgun – S.V.Ramani
15th Dec 2009	6.15 pm : “NAMASANKEERTHANAM” by UDAYALUR KALYANARAMAN
16th Dec 2009	6.15 pm : “NAADHA PRAVAHAM” by V.V.SUBRAHMANYAM, V.V.Ravi, Mullaivasal Chandramouli, V.V.S.Murari, B.U.Ganesh Prasad & Sunitha (6 Violins) – Guruvayur Dorai – Thirupunitura Radhakrishnan – Srirangam Kannan
17th Dec 2009	6.15 pm : “SRI PANDURANGA LEELAI” by KADALUR GOPI BHAGAVATHAR
18th Dec 2009	6.15 pm : KARNATIC HINDUSTANI JUGALBANDI – LALGUDI G.J.R.KRISHNAN(Violin) PANDIT BALESH(Shenai) Mannargudi Easwaran(Mridangam) Ravindra Havagal(Tabla)
19th Dec 2009	Talented Young Musicians 9.00 am : Muthuswami Dikshitar Kritis on Lord Siva by REVATHY KUMAR – Hosahalli V.Raghuram – Ethirajan 10.15 am : Thamizh Moovar by V.PRADEEP KUMAR – K.J.Dileep – N.C.Bharadwaj 11.30 am : Compositions of GNB by V. DEEPIKA – S.P.Ananthapadmanabha – Arjun Ganesh 12.45 pm : Papanasam Sivan’s Compositions by BRINDA MANICKAVASAKAM – U.N.Niranjan – Varun Ramaswamy 2.00 pm :Ragam Tanam Pallavi by K.P. NANDINI – H.V.Raghuram – Thalaignayiru Harish Kumar 3.15 pm :Tharangams of Narayanatheerthar by R. SWATHI – Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan – Nanganallur Vignesh. 6.15 pm :Carnatic Music by ANOORADHA SRIRAM – Ambika Prasad – Arjun Kumar – Papanasam S.Sethuraman
20th Dec 2009	Talented Young Musicians 9.00 am : Compositions on Devi by K.SUBHIKSHA – Sundeep Bharadwaj – Guru Raghavendra 10.15 am :Compositions of Mysore Vasudevachar by V.BHARAT KUMAR – K.Rahul – Uzhavoor K. Babu 11.30 am :Compositions on Lord Rama by CHAITRRA SAIRAM – M.Rajeev – Kumbakonam Swaminathan 12.45 pm :Compositions of Thyagaraja by RAHUL NARAYANAN – Sudha R.S.Iyer – Thirucheri Kaushik Rajagopal 2.00 pm :One Raga One Kriti by ADITYA PRAKASH – Akkarai Swarnalatha – Arthavan Selvanathan 3.15 pm :Tamizhe Amuthe by V. SREE CHITRA – Villiwakkam Raghuraman – Thillaisthanam Suryanarayanan 7.00 pm :Drama “ORU KOODAI PASAM” Written & Directed by K. BALACHANDER
21st Dec 2009	6.15 pm :“VADHYA THARANGINI” by V.L.KUMAR – ALLAM DURGAPRASAD – THIRUVARUR SWAMINATHAN – MUDHRA BHASKAR – N. SUNDAR – PUDUKKOTTAI RAMACHANDRAN – PAPANASAM SETHURAMAN
22nd Dec 2009	5.30 pm : DOCUMENTRY TO STALWARTS (M.L.Vasanthakumari) 6.15 pm :AMUDHUM THENUM by R. SURYAPRAKASH (Carnatic Classical Kritis and Vintage Hits ) – V.Suresh Babu – Manarkoil J.Balaji – A.S.Krishnan – Thenkasi Paramasivam – Venkatasubramanian
23rd Dec 2009	5.30 pm : DOCUMENTRY ON STALWARTS (G.N.Balasubramaniam) 6.15 pm :Varakari Sampradaya Harikeerthan – SRI TUKKARAM GANAPATHY MAHARAJ
24th Dec 2009	5.30 pm : unique documentary on Dr.M.S.SUBBULAKSHMI 6.30 pm : Raga Anubhavam – An exotic journey into the beautiful world of Ragas by DR. RADHA BHASKAR with SREYAS NARAYANUN, VIDYA KALYANARAMAN, BHARAT SUNDAR & DHARINI – Melakkaveri Thiagarajan – Delhi Sairam – H. Sivaramakrishnan
26th Dec 2009	5.30 pm : a unique documentary on MAHARAJAPURAM SANTHANAM 6.15 pm : KADRI GOPALNATH – A.Kanyakumari – Patri Satishkumar – Udayraj Karpur – Bangalore Rajasekhar
27th Dec 2009	4.00 pm : BHARGAVI GANESH – Abhinav Ganesh – Navin Basavanhally 5.30 pm : a unique documentary on Stage Veteran NAWAB RAJAMANICKAM PILLAI 6.15 pm : BHAJAN SANDHYA by O.S.ARUN – Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli – A.V.Manikandan – Ganapathy & Kiran – Kalai Selvan
28th Dec 2009	5.30 pm : a unique documentary on T.K.S.BROS 6.15 pm : MALLADI BROTHERS (SRIRAM KUMAR & RAVI KUMAR) – Mysore Manjunath – Umayalpuram Sivaraman – DR. S. Karthick
29th Dec 2009	5.00 pm : B. KANNAN – Bombay V.Anand – Prapancham Ravindran – Prashanth – N.Sundar 6.30 pm : a unique documentary on Stage Veteran “Y.G.PARTHASARATHY” 7.00 pm :Y.GEE. MAHENDRA’S DRAMA “VIETNAM VEEDU”
30th Dec 2009	6.15pm : Karnatic – Hindustani Jugalbandi by SRIRAM PARASURAM
31st Dec 2010	6.15 pm : SIKKIL GURUCHARAN – R.K.Shriramkumar – Umayalpuram K.Sivaraman – B.S.Purushothaman
1st Jan 2010	9.30 am : T.N.KRISHNAN & VIJI KRISHNAN NATARAJAN – Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam –Vaikom Gopalakrishnan ‘7.00 pm : TV’ VARADHARAJEN’S Drama “IPL KUDUMBAM”
2nd Jan 2010	6.30 p.m. : Bharatanatyam by SHARANYA BALAJI 7.00 pm : Kathak by DIVYA KASTURI
3rd Jan 2010	5.00 pm : Bharatanatyam by ANEESHA KRISHNAKUMAR (Disciple of Ramya Ramnarayanan) 7.00 pm : Bharatanatyam by SRI. PAVITHRA BHAT (Mumbai) (Disciple of Guru Sri Deepak Mazumdar)
4th Jan 2010	6.30 pm : Bharatanatyam by DIVYA KASTURI
5th Jan 2010	6. 30 pm : Bharathanatyam – “Navavidha Darsanam” by KEERTHANA RAVISHANKAR (Disciple of Mohanan & Sunitha Mohanan)
6th Jan 2010	6.30 pm : Bharathanatyam by SRUTHILAYA & ABHINAYA (Disciple of Roja Kannan)
7th Jan 2010	6.30 pm : “Nrithya Sandhya” by KALAKSHETRA MOHANAN & STUDENTS
8th Jan 2010	6.30 pm : Bharathanatyam by PADMALAKSHMI SURESH (Disciple of Kalaimamani Smt. Ranganayaki Jayaram)
9th Jan 2010	6.15 pm : RAGAM TANAM PALLAVI Concert by T.M.KRISHNA – R.K.Sriramkumar – Arun Prakash – N.Guruprasad
10th Jan 2010	10.00 am : STHREE THYAGARAJA PANCHARATHNAM SRUTI 5 – For the first time a unique homage to Saint Thiagaraja by all women artists during music festival – Participants : Dr.Radha Bhaskar, Gayathri Girish, Dr.Subashini Parthasarathy, Subha Ganesan, Padmavathi Nagarajan, Varalakshmi Anandkumar,Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam, Geetha Rajasekar, Raji Gopalakrishnan, Girija Ramaswamy, Dr.R.Abhiramasundari, Vasuda Kesav, Vidya Kalyanaraman, Swathi Srikrishna, Radha Ramji, Vasantha Rajagopal, Jayashree Jayaramakrishanan, Bhavani Ganesan, Padma Krishnan, T.M.Prabhavathi, Salem Gayathri, Gayathri Sankaran, Gayathri Sreyas, Uma Venkataraman, Krithika, Keerthana, Mayavaram Gita, J.B.Keerthana, Lakshmi Sriram, Seethalakshmi (Vocal) – Dr.M.Narmada, Kalyani Shankar, Srilakshmi Venkataramani, Sudha Iyer, Srividhya Iyer (Violin) – Shobhana, Jayalakshmi Sekar, Dr.R.S.Jayalakshmi(Veena) – N.S.Rajam, Tanjore Padma, Jayamangala Krishnamani, Rajna Swaminathan (Mridangam) 5.00 pm : SPECIAL FOUR HOUR Concert by P. UNNIKRISHNAN – Embar Kannan – Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam – B.S.Purushothaman – Vaikom Gopalakrishnan

17th Fine Arts Festival – 2011
Date	Time		Artiste
9th Dec 2011 Friday	4.00 p.m.		Mangala Isai Sitthukadu T.G.Murugavel –Nadaswaram Vadapalani S.Rajaram & Sivanvoyal S.M.Rajarathinam – Tavil
	5.30 p.m.		Inauguration
9th Dec 2011 Friday	7.00 p.m.		Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna – Vocal Mullaivasal Chandramouli – Violin B.Sivaraman – Mridangam Dr.S.Karthick – Ghatam
10th Dec 2011 Saturday	6.15 p.m.		Shantala Subramaniam – Flute Avaneeswaram Vinu – Violin Neyveli Venkatesh –Mridangam N.Guruprasad – Ghatam
11th Dec 2011 Sunday	6.15 p.m.		S.Saketharaman – Vocal H.K.Venkatram – Violin Neyveli Skandasubramaniam – Mridangam Alathur Rajaganesh – Kanjira
12th Dec 2011 Monday	4.30 p.m.		Papanasam Ashok Ramani –Vocal V.V.S.Murari – Violin Neyveli Narayanan – Mridangam Trichy Murali – Ghatam
12th Dec 2011 Monday	6.45 p.m.		Drama : Mother Creastions “SWASAM” by C.V.Chandramohan
13th Dec 2011 Tuesday	6.15 p.m.		Madurai T.N.S.Krishna – Vocal Vittal Ramamurthy – Violin R.Ramesh – Mridangam Nerkunam Sankar – Kanjira
14th Dec.2011 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.		Dr.Pantula Rama – Vocal M.S.N.Murthy – Violin Melakkaveri Balaji – Mridangam Papanasam Sethuraman – Kanjira
15th Dec 2011 Thursday	6.30 p.m.		Dr.Saraswati Vidyardhi – Vocal Dr.M.Narmadha – Violin Mudhra Bhaskar – Mridangam Madipakkam Murali – Ghatam
16th Dec 2011 Friday	6.15 p.m.		Gayathri Girish – Vocal Mysore Srikanth – Violin J.Vaidyanathan – Mridangam Alathur Rajaganesh – Kanjira
17th Dec 2011 Saturday	6.15 p.m.		Raga Vaibhavam by Dr.Radha Bhaskar, Salem Gayathri, K.P.Nandini, (Vocal), Melakkaveri Thiagajaran(Violin) Ramaiah Vittal (Mridangam) Nanganallur Swaminathan(Ghatam)
TALENT PROMOTION CONCERTS FROM 9 A.M. TO 4.30 P.M.
18th Dec 2011 Sunday	9 .00 a.m.		Theme: Compositions of GNB Deekshita Venkataraman – T. Dinesh Kumar – Akshayram
	10.15 a.m.		Theme :One Raga One Kriti (Bhairavi) Prachothan – Kamalakiran Vinjamuri – L.Subramanaiam- Krishna
	11.30 a.m.		Theme : Ragam Tanam Pallavi Visweswar(flute)- K.Gokul – Guru Bharadwaj
	12.45 p.m.		Theme: Compositions on Lord Krishna Roopa Sastry –M.Rajeev -Arjun Raghavan
	2.00 p.m.		Theme : Lord Rama as Visualised by Thyagaraja Srirangam Venkatanagarajan – Sruthi Sarathy – PBV Krishnamachari
	3.15 p.m.		Theme : Compositions on Devi Mumbai Silpa- Srinivasamurthy – Thirucheri Koushik Rajagopal
18th Dec 2011 Sunday	6.15 p.m.		Lalgudi Srimathi Brahmanandam & Anuradha Sridhar – Violin Duet Sriram Brahmanandam – Mridangam B.S.Purushotham – Kanjira
19th Dec 2011 Monday	6.15 p.m.		V.V.Subramaniam – Violin Solo Guruvayur Dorai – Mridangam Tripunithura Radhakrishnan – Ghatam
20th Dec 2011 Tuesday	6.15 p.m.		Sankeerthanamum – Sangeethamum Udayalur Kalyanaraman – Namasankeerthanam Dr.Ganesh – Carnatic Vocal
21nd Dec 2011 Wednesday	6.30 p.m.		Sri.V.P.Dhananjayan and Smt.Shantha Dhananjayan– Bharathanatyam
22st Dec 2011 Thursday	6.15 p.m.		S.Sowmya – Vocal Embar Kannan – Violin Manoj Siva – Mridangam Anirudh Athreya – Kanjira
23rd Dec 2011 Friday	6.15 p.m.		S.Sashank – Flute B.U.Ganesh Prasad – Violin K.V.Prasad– Mridangam N.Amrit – Kanjira
TALENT PROMOTION CONCERTS FROM 9 A.M. TO 4.30 P.M
24th Dec 2011 Saturday	9.00 a.m.		Theme : Viruttham & Papanasam Sivan compositions N.S.Kamatchi – Nagarkoil Anand – V.S.Raghavan
	10.15 a.m.		Theme : Ragam Tanam Pallavi Sherya Devanath(Violin) – Guru Raghavendra – Venkataramanan
	11.30 a.m.		Theme: Vahanam Maalavika – M.Vijay – V.S.Raghavan
	12.45 p.m.		Theme : Sanskrit Compositions of Saint Thiagaraja Vignesh Easwar- Raghul – N.C.Bharadwaj
	2.00 p.m.		Theme: Compositions of Shyama Sastri Srividya – Lavanya Raman – Thirucheri Koushik Rajagopal
	3.15 p.m.		Theme : Compositions of Neelakanta Sivan Sandeep Narayanan – S.P.Ananthapadmanabha – Nirmal Narayanan
24th Dec 2011 Saturday	6.15 p.m.		Gayathri Venkataraghavan – Vocal Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi – Violin B.Ganapathiraman – Mridangam N.Guruprasad – Ghatam
TALENT PROMOTION CONCERTS FROM 9 A.M. TO 3.15 P.M.
25th Dec 2011 Sunday	9 .00 a.m.		Theme: Compositions of Lalgudi Gopala Iyer and Lalgudi Jayaraman A.Narayanan – Srinivasamurthy-Pannaga
	10.15 a.m.		Theme :One Raga One Kriti Lahari Kochala – Anayampatti Venkatasubramaniam– Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan
	11.30 a.m.		Theme : Kritis of Muthuswami Dikshitar in Popular Ragas G.Ravikiran- K.P.Nandini – Tanjore Praveen Kumar
	12.45 p.m.		Theme: Krishna Smarana Lakshmi Surya Teja – Anuthama Murali – B.Saishankar
	2.00 p.m.		Theme : Rare Kritis of Trinity Vishnudev Nambudri –Apoorva Krishna-Vikram Vasudevan
25th Dec 2011 Sunday	4.00 p.m. to 5.30pm		S.R.Santaprakash(USA) – Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan – Australia Ravichandira
25th Dec 2011 Sunday	6.15 p.m.		Bhajans by O.S.Arun Embar Kannan – Violin J.Vaidhyanathan – Mridangam Srikrishnan – Harmonimum Ganapathy & Kiran – Tabla Selvam – Talam
26th Dec 2011 Monday	6.15 p.m.		Dr.Kadri Gopalnath – Saxaphone A.Kanyakumari – Violin Trichy B.Harikumar – Mridangam Rajendra Nakod – Tabla Bangalore Rajasekar – Moharsing
27th Dec 2011 Tuesday	6.15 p.m.		Neyveli Santhanagopalan – Vocal V.V.Ravi- Violin Neyveli Narayanan – Mridangam B.S.Purushotham-Kanjira
28th Dec 2011 Wednesday	6.15 p.m.		O.S.Thiagarajan – Vocal Nagai Muralidharan – Violin Dr.Trichy Sankaran – Mridangam V.Suresh – Ghatam
29th Dec 2011 Thursday	6.15 p.m.		T.M.Krishna – Vocal Akkarai Subbulakshmi – Violin Arun Prakash – Mridangam Guruprasanna – Kanjira N.Guruprasad – Ghatam
30th Dec 2011 Friday	6.15 p.m.		Dr.Nithyashree Mahadevan M.A.Krishnaswami –Violin Neyveli Skandasubramaniam –Mridangam E.M.Subramaniam – Ghatam
31st Dec 2011 Saturday	4.00 p.m.		Music Appreciation Programme – An interactive session by O.S.Thiagarajan & Dr.Radha Bhaskar
	6.15 p.m.		Sikkil Gurucharan – Vocal S.Varadarajan – Violin Umayalpuram Sivaraman – Mridangam E.M.Subramaniam – Ghatam
1st Jan 2012 Sunday	9.45 a.m.		Sthree Thyagaraja Pancharathnam Sruti 5 – Rendering of Pancharatha Kritis by 60 Women Artists
1st Jan 2012 Sunday	6.45 p.m.		Drama : U.A.A.presents Y.GEE.Mahendra in “NATAGAM”
2nd Jan 2012 Monday	6.30 p.m.		Cuddalore Sri Gopi Bhavathar’s “PANDURANGA LEELAI”
DANCE FESTIVAL FROM 2nd JAN TO 7TH JAN 2012 DAILY AT 6.30 P.M.
3rd Jan 2012	6.30 p.m.	Bharathanatyam by Ragha Mohan (Disciple of Rangashree, Kuwait)
5th Jan2012	6.30 p.m.	Bharathanatyam by Nethra Gururaj (Disciple of Smt.Nagamani Srinivasa Rao)
6th Jan 2012	6.30 p.m.	Bharathanatyam by Anugraha Sridhar (Disciple of Dr.Padma Subrahmanyam)
7th Jan 2012	5.00 p.m.	Bharathanatyam by Devika
	7.00 p.m.	Odissi by Sikata Das
8th Jan 2012	5 p.m. to 9 p.m.	Special Four Hour Concert by Madurai T.N.Seshagopalan – Vocal S.D.Sridhar – Violin Patri Satishkumar – Mridangam H.Sivaramakrishnan – Ghatam

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Session 1: Thyaga Brahma Gana sabha – Navarathnangal

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Infosys Hall – Beauty in Thyagaraja’s compositions

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Beauty in Shyama Sastri’s compositions

Papanasam Sivan’s contribution to music

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