Homage to Mysore Sri Vasudevacharya No 150 Violin concert of Chi Karthik Iyer & Team from Chicago MI
Channel: Homage to Mysore Vasudevacharya
Date: 05/03/2022

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Namaskarams to all Musicians and Rasikas.

We welcome you all for Shivaratri Special Thematic Concert by Chi Karthik Iyer (Violin) & Mridangam by Chi Vishvak Kumaran from Chicago MI

Song List :- 
Varnam - Reetigowlai - Khanda Jati Ata Talam Vanajaksha Reethigowla Veenai Kuppaiyer

Siddhi Vinayakam - Shanmukhapriya - Rupaka Talam - Muthuswamy Dikshitar

Natanam Adinar - Vasanta - Khanda Jati Ata Talam - Gopalakrishna Bharati

Chintayamaa Kanda - Bhairavi - Rupaka Talam - Muthuswamy Dikshitar

Sri Maathrubhootam - Kannada - Misra Chapu - Muthuswamy Dikshitar

Ardhanareeswaram - Kumudakriya - Rupakam - Muthuswamy Dikshitar

Thillana - Ragesri - Adi - Lalgudi G Jayaraman

Chi Karthik Iyer  ( Violin )
Karthik Iyer is a disciple of the renowned violinist Smt. Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi. He began his violin lessons with Smt. Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi and has been under her tutelage for the past 16 years. Karthik is a young but mature practitioner of his school, having imbibed the Lalgudi Bani of the legendary Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman with all its nuances. Smt Vijayalakshmi has carefully provided optimal learning techniques and developed him to achieve this level of mastery and proficiency both in layam and melody.  Karthik continues to inspire many young artists.
Karthik is also proficient in vocal. He had his initial training in vocal under Smt. Vasanthi Iyer of Chicago. His keen sense of Laya and Raga Bhavam makes him a sought-after accompanist for Music concerts as well as Dance productions. Currently Karthik is a sophomore at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in Physics.

Karthik also trains in western violin techniques since his high school and has been part of the prestigious CYSO : Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Chi Vishvak Kumaran (Mridangam )
Chi Vishvak Kumaran is a disciple of Padma Vibhushan Awardee, Sangitha Kalanidhi, Mridangam Legend Dr. Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman. 
He started learning the Mridangam at the tender age of five, initially from Sri. Vinodh Gopinath, and later from Sri Vinod Seetharaman. Since the age of nine, Vishvak has been under the tutelage of Maha Vidwan Umayalpuram Sivaraman. He had his Mridangam arangetram in Chennai in July, 2013. 
Vishvak has been accompanying concerts regularly since the age of eleven and has performed more than 500 concerts in India and the USA. He was selected to perform in the Music Academy’s Spirit of Youth concert series in 2018 and was subsequently invited to take part in their HCL Concert series. He won the HCL Best Concert Award for 2019 from the Music Academy.

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