Monday, September 03, 2007



The 5th workshop , was asusual a very memorable one for us the music forum team. It started with a beautiful , namasankeerthanam , by students of shruthi layam school , which showed how young children showed so much of an interest into devotion , and the entire rani seethai hall was packed with positive vibration and divinity.Namasankreethanam , is nothing but , a musical prayer , to all the dieties.After a very captivating namasankeethanam , we had a formal inaguration of the workshop , and the release of the book on FAQS in carnatic music , written by Dr.Sunder.This book was very well recieved by the children and all the musicians who participated in the workshop , really appreciated the book .I will continue soon.....

Mega Workshops



Iam again writing probably after a month ! but the instinct to write comes when something really makes u feel happy or sad . During this span of a month lot of changes have occured in my life both Good and bad.I will write about those a little later , but my latest happiness has been our successful mega workshop titled "Demystifying classical carnatic music", on sept 1 at rani seethai hall.Two years back , in 2005 , Feb this idea of conducting mega workshop occured to Mrs .Usha Bharadwaj and Dr.Sunder and we conducted one such mega workshop which was a begining of a great series !I worked with them as volunteer , and the next few wkshops i started marketing in the schools and also compereing the programmes,music forum has become the most important aspect of my life , it gave me a chance to interact with all musicians , also play a role in taking forward our music to the students.I wouls say i have become a totally different person after i have got into music forum , and it is a pleasure to work with Dr.Sunder and Mrs Usha Bharadwaj , my music teacher.
The first workshop was held on 26th Feb 2005 , where several stars like N.Vijay Siva , K.N.ShashiKiran , R.K.ShriramKumar , Dr.Sunder, J.Balaji and Subashree thanikachalam , spoke on different topics in music and from then we have conducted 4 successful workshops.

Iam extremely happy to share with all of u , that the 5th mega workshop , demystifying classical carnaticmusic was a big success.We had 680 registration , almost a week before the programme! The hall was filled with enthusiastic youngsters and they enjoyed all the sessions . Evry time we conduct a workshop we have an overwhelming response for it .I will soon write about the diff sessions.