JuLY 2024 concertS

We have three concerts this Month. Please attend in large numbers, encourage the artists and enjoy the concerts.

DATE: Saturday, July 20th, 2024 

TIME: 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM

VENUE: SANATHANA DHARMA KENDRA, 3102 Landess Ave, San Jose, CA 95132

Saeesha Shubhraveti (Vocal)

Saeesha Subhraveti is a rising senior at Evergreen Valley High school. She has been learning carnatic vocal under the guidance of Guru Sri Hari Devanath for the past 10 years. She has participated in several music events around the bay area and won prizes. Apart from singing, Saeesha enjoys spending time outdoors with friends and family, listening to music, and teaching young kids.

Pramati Barath (Violin)

Pramati Barath has been learning the Carnatic violin for the past 9 years. She received her initial training from Sri Mahesh Balaji. Since 2017, she has been training under the able guidance of Sri Delhi P. Sunder Rajan. She has both accompanied and given solo performances across platforms such as SRFA, CCC, Lotus, and Bay Area Margazhi Utsavam. Pramati has also been learning Carnatic vocal under Sri Hari Devanath and Sri Vivek Sunderaraman of Sri Paduka Academy for the past 13 years. This fall, she will be a rising sophomore studying neuroscience at the University of Washington Seattle.

Rajeev Devnath (Mridangam)

Rajeev Devanath is a rising 11th grader at University Preparatory Academy. He had his mrudangam arangetram accompanying his father Guru Sri Hari Devanath under the guidance of Sri Ramesh Srinivasan. He is currently learning from Vid Sri Chennai Thyagarajan for the last 5 years. He also learns vocal music from Sri Paduka Academy. He enjoys participating in music events, especially spontaneous ones. Rajeev enjoys robotics, basketball and biking.

Saarika Gunapu (Saxophone) 

Saarika Gunapu is a student of saxophone Guru Vidwan Sri E.R.Janardhan who is the senior most disciple of Late Sri Vidwan Kadri Gopalnath ji. She has been training in saxophone from the age of 8 and has won several awards from India and in USA. She is also trained in Carnatic vocal music under her Mother Subhashini Gunapu’s guidance and in Bharathanatyam dance form under Guru Nirmala Madhava. 

Saarika is currently a senior at Santa Clara high school also part of 49ers STEM leadership institute. She is a passionate Volleyball player.

Vignesh Sadasivan (Mridangam)

Vignesh Sadasivan is a rising sophomore at UT Austin. He is the disciple of Laya Kala Ratna Sri Ramesh Srinivasan, the prime disciple of Sangita Kalanidhi late Sri Vellore Ramabhadran. He had his Mridangam Arangetram accompanying for Violin Maestro Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. M. Chandrasekharan in 2018. Vignesh has been providing accompaniment for several artists in the bay area and other cities in the USA and India.

Adharsh Hariharan (Vocal)

Adharsh Hariharan has started learning Carnatic Vocal Music at the age 5. He is currently learning from Guru Shri Niranjan Krishna.  Adharsh had performed in the OSSAT Natya Raaga and SV lotus Thyagaraja Aradhana. He is a rising freshman at UC Santa Cruz. He enjoys playing Basketball, Soccer and listening to music.

Rathika Balaji (Violin)

Rathika is rising sophomore at Homestead High, Cupertino. She has been learning violin from Padmasri A. Kanyakumari since 2021. She was initiated into violin by her father Shri Mahesh Balaji at the age of 7. Rathika also learns vocal music from Shri K Chandrasekaran. Besides music, Rathika enjoys participating in her school plays and drama musicals.

Niranjan Ravichandran (Mridangam)

Niranjan Ravichandran has been learning Mridangam for 9 years under Guru Shri. Natarajan Srinivasan at Nandi Laya Vidyalaya. He has been a regular performer and accompanist at various Bay Area platforms including CCC, Rasamanjari, Lotus, SR Fine Arts, TVMC, and others. He has also won prizes in the OSAAT Naatya Raaga competition.

He completed his Arangetram in May 2023, with guidance and mentorship from his Guru Shri Natarajan Srinivasan and Paramaguru Shri. S.V.Ramani.

Niranjan is a rising sophomore at Heritage High School in Brentwood, California. He actively participates in his school’s Speech and Debate and Model UN programs.

In his free time, he enjoys listening to Carnatic and Western Classical Music, reading, and writing.