The Carnatic Vocal concert by this young artiste from Chennai was hosted on the evening of June 5 by Powai Fine Arts. Welcoming the guests and audience, G Ramakrishnan, president and promoter of Powai Fine Arts expressed his dream and desire to take Powai Fine Arts to great heights.
Quoting the example of the Tambura artiste Raghu who had to commute a long distance from Matunga to Powai, spending near two hours in the traffic, Ramakrishnan said that it has become the need of the time to host cultural programs closer to home to enable the interested to attend the same. He also expressed appreciation towards the audience who had come in large numbers to grace the evening.
Sri Kavi of Jaya Tv channel fame, chief guest of the evening and Dr Ganesh Kumar, President of The Fine Arts Society, Chembur were honoured. Kalyani Sharma, senior guru and performer from Powai was present in the audience.
Bharathi Ramasubban took training in music from her mother Sank ari Ramasubban and from her grandmother Sharada Krishnan, direct disciple of Muthiah Bhagavathar. She furthered her learning under Seetha Rajan and then under Pl S Narayanaswamy in Chennai.
She has performed in prestigious venues in Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata. An active member of Youth Assoication of Classical Music she is the editor of their newsletter ‘Dhwani’. On the academic front, Bharathi is a postgraduate in Biotechnology and law from University of Sheffield UK.
She began her concert with a Sriraga Varnam followed by Raga Alapana in Reetigowla and Tyagaraja’s “Cheraravade”. Shyama Sastri’s composition, Thalli Ninnu in Kalyani ragam set to Misra Chapu thalam and Hiranmayeem in Lalitha ragam followed next.
She took Kamboji for the main piece with neraval, swarams followed by thani avarthanam. A Padam in Dwajawanti, a composition by Bharathiyar and concluding abhang in Marathi completed the repertoire. “She is a very promising artiste and upcoming,” opines Narayan Parasuram, one of the coordinators of Powai Fine Arts.
“She has a very sweet voice and her sense of shruti and rhythm is very good. She also follows a good paddathi in music and blessed with good gurus,” says Bala Swaminathan, singer from Powai.Bharathi was accompanied by B Anantharaman on the Violin, Shyam Balasubramaniam on Mridangam, Sriram Rajan on ghatam and Raghu on the Tambura. The program proved a needed sequel to the summer vacation.
Sources: The Times of Mulund-Powai
Article by Bhanu Kumar
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