Congratulations and good luck to our graduating senior Venkat Tondapu! Venkat started learning violin from Shruti six years ago. He has shown steady improvement over the last years and in addition to our own recitals he was given the opportunity…
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Our 2015 Vocal and Instrumental contest was a huge success. We had nearly 30 participants from three area music schools. The event started right on time – even a few minutes early – and ran like clockwork. Most of the…
Continue ReadingContest Registration Deadline is Approaching!
As announced previously, contest registration is open, and the deadline is fast approaching! The deadline is April 12th and we would like to see all music students participate. It will be a great opportunity to get unbiased third party feedback and…
Continue Reading2015 Annual Recital
Congratulations to all of our students for their participation in the 2015 Annual Recital on March 29th. It was a very exciting program and every student had the opportunity to perform on stage. There were many new students and it…
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Welcome to 2015! We had a very interesting 2014. Among other things, Ragapriya sent several students to the Columbus competition, we had our annual recital, and we sent several students to the very exciting Carnatic Symphony at the Thyagaraja Aradhana.…
Continue ReadingAll Composer’s Day
The Balaji Temple in Richfield, OH had their first annual All Composers Day, and all of the local music schools were asked to participate. As we posted earlier, we presented Patnam Subramanya Iyer and Muthuswami Dikshitar. For Patnam Subramanya Iyer, we…
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In addition to Patnam Subramanya Iyer, Ragapriya presented compositions by Muthuswamy Dikshitar on All Composers Day, September 6th, at the Sri Venkateswara Temple. (Pictures coming soon!!) We presented the following background information about this very important composer. Muthuswami Dikshitar Muthuswami…
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One of the composers that our school is presenting on is Patnam Subramanya Iyer. Highlights from his Life Patnam Subramanya Iyer was born in 1845 – nearly 170 years ago. He was born in Thiruvaiyar, in the Thanjavur district of…
Continue ReadingAll Composers Day
The Sree Venkateswara Temple of Greater Cleveland is planning an All Composer’s Day program on September 6th. They have asked all the music schools in Cleveland to participate. Each school was given one composer per teacher to present, and Ragapriya…
Continue ReadingThe importance of varnams
I recently came across this interview of T.R. Balamani of Bombay. She is an extremely experienced teacher, and many of her students have become not only performers but superstars. Among her students are Shankar Mahadevan and Bombay Jayshree. One of the…
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