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About the Scholar contributors |
| Arati Rao |
Arati Rao is a Veena Player who has learnt the Veena from Vidushi Smt. Kamala Swamy of Nagpur, Vidushi Smt. E.P. Alamelu of Bangalore and late Vidwan Sri R.K. Srinivasamurthy of Bangalore (son and disciple of erstwhile Mysore Asthana Vidwan Sri R.S. Kesavamurthy). She is undergoing training in vocal music from Dr. Sukanya Prabhakar of Mysore and in Manodharma Sangeetha from Dr. R.S. Jayalakshmi of Chennai. She secured the first rank at the state level in the Vidwath examination in Veena conducted by the Government of Karnataka. She holds an M.Music degree from the University of Madras and is currently enrolled for a PhD in Music at the University of Mysore under Dr. C.A. Sreedhara. Her articles have been published by the Surabhi Sinchana music magazine, Mysore and she writes a book review column for the 'Abhivyakti' monthly magazine published by Ananya, Bangalore. She also has an M.Sc degree in Maths, an Honours diploma in IT and has worked as a software professional for several years. E-mail: aratirao71@gmail.com |
| Girija Easwaran |
Mrs. Girija Easwaran (nee Shankar), learnt singing from Sri. P.N.Padmanabhan (Mumbai) and Nanganallur Sri V.Ramanathan. A student of Madras University, she completed her BA (1988-91), MA (1993-95) and M.Phil. (2001) in Music. In addition she has also qualified herself for the B.Sc. degree and D.M.L.T. She received the Senior Research Fellowship of the Department of Culture, of the Government of India (2002) and worked on a project preparing a database of Descriptions of Tala and Tala-dasa-prana. She is registered for research towards PhD degree at the University of Madras. At present she is working in the New Catalogus Catalogorum Project at the Department of Sanskrit, University of Madras. E-mail: ge62neo@gmail.com |
| Harold S. Powers |
Late Dr. Powers is a well known musicologist, who retired as a Professor of Music from the Princeton University, USA. A write up about the scholar can be found in this website – www.musicresearch.in . For obvious reasons the email address of the host of this website has been provided. E-mail: ramanathanhema@gmail.com |
| Hema Ramanathan |
Hema Ramanathan received the M.A. Degree in Philosophy and Diplomas in Karnataka Music (Vocal) and Karnataka Music (Violin) from the Banaras Hindu University. She completed the M.Phil. Degree in Samskrta at The Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, affiliated to the University of Madras. Her book "Ragalakshanasangraha (Collection of R¡ga Descriptions) from Treatises on Music of the Mela Period with translation and notes" was published in 2004. She has translated the book, "Bharatiya Sangita mein Tala aur Rupa Vidhana" (Hindi)” by Dr. Subhadra Chaudhary into English. It was published under the title "Time Measure and Compositional Types in Indian Music" in 1997. She has assisted Dr. Mrs. Sundari Siddhartha in editing and translating the Samsk¤ta work on Poetics, "Sarasvatikanthabharanam”of Bhoja". The work is awaiting publication by The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi E-mail: hemanramanathan@gmail.com |
| Hemalatha R |
Dr. Hemalatha Rangarajan qualified for M.A. Indian Music, (1994), M.Phil. (1996) and Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Madras. “A Study of Desiraga-s of Post Ratnakara period’ and ‘A Study of the Ragangaraga-s in the Sangita-sampradaya-pradarsini of Subbarama Diksitar’ are respectively the titles of her M.Phil. and Ph.D. dissertations. She is a professional violinist and has accompanied all the leading Karnataka musicians in their concert performances in India and abroad. E-mail: rhlatha00@yahoo.co.in |
| Jayalakshmi R S |
Dr. Mrs. R.S. Jayalakshmi is a Vina artist and had her training under Vina Vidvans Late Sri V.Raghavan and R.Pichumani Ayyar. She also learnt some special compositions like Padam and Javali from Smt. T. Muktha. She has been performing Vina concerts in All India Radio and Television as B-high graded artist for several years. She was on the faculty of the Department of Indian Music, University of Madras, from 1977 to 2004. Her M.Phil. dissertation entitled "Raga lakshanatthil Aarohanam - Avarohanam" (Tamizh) (Aarohanam-avarohanam as the characteristic of a Râga) has been published as a book in December 1999. The subject of her Ph.D. thesis was "Subbarama Dikshitarin Sangita-sampradaya-pradasini-yil Vilakkappattulla Gamakangal" (Tamizh) (Gamakas explained in Sangita-sampradaya-pradarsini of Subbarama Diksitar’. She has also presented Research Papers and Lecture-Demonstrations at various conferences E-mail: jayalakshmi_rs@yahoo.co.in |
| Latha R |
Miss R. Latha is a singer and had her training under Mrs. Prema Hariharan and Mrs. Suguna Varadachari. She qualified for the M.Phil. degree in 1999 and the title of her dissertation is “Nyasa-svara in Raga’. At present as a recipient of the Junior Fellowship of the Department of Culture, Government of India, she is working on the musical compositions in the book “Sangitasarvarthasarasangrahamu” (1857) of Vina Ramanuja and in the books of Tacchur Singaracharyulu Brothers E-mail: lathamusic@yahoo.in |
| Margaret Bastin |
Dr. Sister Maragaret Bastin received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Madras for her critical study of ‘Viplunanda Adigal’s Yazhnul’. She has held teaching positions in Tamil Nadu Government Music College, Queen Mary’s College and Mother Teresa University and at present is the Prinicipal of the Kalaikaviri College of Fine Arts, Tiruchirappalli. She is a singer, a vina performer and a Bharatanatyam dancer. She presented papers and lecture-demonstrations in India and abroad and has authored many books and articles. Audio recordings of her singing have been featured in many Compact Disc releases. E-mail: maggiefsj@yahoo.co.in |
| Nandhini M |
Miss. Nandhini Muthuswamy is a well known violinist, proficient in both Karnataka and Western systems, and is the younger sister of the famous Lalitha-Nandini duo. She has a post-graduate degree in Music as well as in Information Science. She is a recipient of the Charles Wallace Fellowship and is pursuing a course in M.A. (Ethnomusicology) at the School of Oriental and African Studies at London, UK E-mail: nandhinikm@yahoo.com |
| Nandini Sharma Anand |
Mrs. Nandini Sharma Anand is a renowned singer and is at present busy singing for Bharatanatyam, mainly for Mrs. Sudharani Raghupathy and her students. She has toured USA, Canada and other countries. She completed her MA in Music as a student of the Department of Indian Music, University of Madras in 1994 She was also awarded the Junior Research Fellowship of UGC but discontinued her research pursuits after two years to take to full time singing E-mail: kcanand@usa.net |
| Narayanaswami, P. P. |
Dr. P. P. Narayanaswami, M.A (Madras) Ph.D (Dalhousie University, Canada) is a Professor of Mathematics at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John,s Newfoundland, Canada. (recently retired). He has been a faculty at St. Joseph's College, Calicut, and Panjab University, Chandigarh before moving to Canada. Outside his mathematical activities (research and teaching), he is a Rasika of Indian Music, genuinely interested in the beauties of Karnatik Music, its literature, and scholarly compositions. He has served in the Editorial Board of "Sangeetham" (a newsletter of CMANA - Carnatic Music Association of North America). He has written expository articles on Karnatik music in "Sangeetham" and various musical souvenirs in North America and Australia (SrutiRanjani of Philadelphia, Keerthana of Melbourne, Sa Pa Sa Vancouver, etc). He is a regular contributor to the Website "Carnatica" (www.carnatica.net) (based in Chennai) since its inception in 1999, and has been consistently writing thematic and expository articles in their "Special features" and "Raganubhava" segment, as well as contributing regularly to their "Composition and Stotra Bank". Recently, he has been actively involving in a project to generate an English Web Edition of Subbarama Dikshitar's mammoth Encyclopedia, "Sangita Sampradaya Pradarshini". He developed all the necessary macros for various Gamaka symbols and style files to typeset that scholarly work using LaTeX/pdfLaTeX. The typing of the entire material is now complete. The material (in PDF format) is now available at www.ibiblio.org/guruguha. E-mail: swami@mun.ca |
| Premalatha V |
Dr. Mrs. V Premalatha has obtained her doctorate in music (2001) from Madras University for the study of Manuscripts in music, as part of the thesis. She has prepared a consolidated catalogue of Music manuscripts available in various indian and foreign libraries. She was the recipient of the National Fellowship in Art - Music (Junior) awarded by the Sangeet Natak Akademi (2003-5). She has presented research papers at various seminars and a few have been published in leading journals. She is now working as a Lecturer in the Department of Music, at the Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. E-mail: drvpremalatha@yahoo.com |
| Priyashri V Rao |
Dr. Mrs.Priyashri Venkat is a Bharatanatyam exponent, a Singer and a Nattuvanar and had her training in Kalakshetra, Chennai. A performer, scholar and teacher, Mrs. Priyashri as a student of the University of Madras, qualified for the M.Phil. degree in 1998 (title of the Dissertation - ‘An Analysis of A Bharatanatyam Composition - Relation Between Music, Drumming And Dance Movements’) and Ph.D. degree in 2005 (title - “Dance Performance and its Components – A Historical Study”). She was also the recipient of the Junior Research Fellowship of the UGC. She is a member of the Samskrta Ranga, and has acted in the Sanskrta dramas presented by the organisation E-mail: priyashrirao@yahoo.com |
| Ramanathan N |
Born in 1946, Professor N Ramanathan, took his Bachelor's Degree in Violin (South Indian Art Music) from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati and Master's Degree and Ph.D. Degree in Musicology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He taught and guided research in the Department of Indian Music at the University of Madras since 1978 and retired in 2004 E-mail: ramanathanhema@gmail.com |
| Richard Widdess |
Dr. Richard Widdess, is the Professor of Musicology and Research Tutor, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom. His expertise is in the Music of South Asia; historical ethnomusicology; theory and methods of musical transcription and analysis. His main areas of Research are History and analysis of South Asian music, including: history of raga; historical music notations; the dhrupad style of North Indian vocal music; analysis of performance in Indian classical music; Newar music. He is the author of two books ‘The Ragas of Early Indian Music (1995)’ and ‘Dhrupad: tradition and performance in Indian music (with Dr.Ritwik Sanyal, 2004)’. He has also contributed long articles on the Music of India and Nepal to ‘The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians’ and ‘The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments’. E-mail: rw4@soas.ac.uk |
| Ritha Rajan |
Dr. Ritha Rajan is a professional singer having undergone training under Thiru Ramanathapuram Krishnan and Tmt. T.Brinda. For her research on the subject ‘Pathantara-s in the compositions of Musical Trinity’ conducted in the Department of Indian Music, University of Madras she was awarded the Ph.D. degree. She taught at the Queen Mary's College, Chennai from where she retired as the Professor and Head of the Music Department. E-mail: ritharajan@hotmail.com |
| Sathyanarayana R |
Mahamahopadhyaya Dr.R.Sathyanarayana is one of the foremost thinkers and writers in the field of Art (especially Indian music and Indian dancing) in modern India. He is broadbased in several physical sciences, humanistic and indological disciplines. He has published numerous books including critical editions, translations, commentaries, annotations etc. of original Sanskrit texts on music and dancing, monographs, original creative works, popularisations, research papers etc. on these cognate subjects. Major areas of his interest and activity include systematic textual criticism, textual interpretation with contemporary relevance, interdisciplinal studies, performance-oriented reconstruction and revival of ancient and medieval compositions in music and dance. He is a noted guru in the Srividya tantra of Kaadimata and Aanandabhairava sampradaya.
E-mail: trayeelakshmi@yahoo.com |
| Shyamala Kannan Nair |
Dr. Shyamala Vinod nee Shyamala Kannan Nair is a singer and completed her M.A. and M.Phil. in Indian from the University of Madras. She worked on the topic ‘An Examination of Disputes regarding the Authorship of Musical Compositions with Special Reference to the Compositions of Savti Tirunal’ for her M.Phil. thesis. She was awarded the Ph.D. degree by the Sri Padmavathi Mahila Vishwavidyalaya for her thesis on a comparative study of the Maqams of Arabic Music and the Raga-s of Karnataka music. E-mail: drshyamalavinod@gmail.com |
| Subramanian M |
Born 1933 has his Research Degree (M.Sc.) in Chemistry, he retired as the Post Master General of the Government of India. A Vainika (learnt under Dr.S.Ramanthan, Sri A.Muthiah and Trivandrum Sri R.Venkataraman). Interested in musicology and developed carnatic music appreciation (Rasika) and composing (Gaayaka) softwares (http://carnatic2000.tripod.com) and is doing research using computer. E-mail: manianms@yahoo.com |
| Veerapandian S.A. |
Born in 1949, Dr.Vee ( Sebastian Asokapandian Veerapandian) took his M.Sc (Physics} from St.Joseph’s College,Trichy, M.Phil (Applied Physics) from Regional Engineering College,Trichy, B.L from Law College, Trichy, Post Graduate Dip in Journalism & Mass Communication from St.Joseph’s College,Trichy and Ph.D [interdisciplinary in Music & Physics] from the Music Dept of Tamil University, Thanjavur. After retirement as Reader in Physics in Presidency College, Chennai, India in 2002, he worked as Music Technology Director, DigiMuziq Pte Ltd, Singapore till 2005. During 2005-2006 he was the Director of AntoMusic International Research Centre, Palavakkam, Chennai-600041. At present he works as a consultant for Music Information Technology. Also he was a Resource Person and Member of Board of Studies of Music in University of Madras. (2000-2003). He developed India’s first music keyboard self learning package with wide print & TV media coverage. His credentials include several published articles and a book ‘Ancient Music Treasures – Exploration for New Music.’ E-mail: pannpandi@yahoo.co.in |
| Vijayakumar , Alathoor |
Mr. Alathoor Vijakumar, is an Engineering Graduate and passionate Rasika. In 1993 he started Kalavardhani Cassettes to promote new talent in music. He has brought out ACDs and VCDs. He is also a composer of Kirtana-s and has introduced many new raga-s. He has worked in the area of Musical acoustics and Musical Prosody E-mail: kalavardhani@hotmail.com |
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