Veenavaadhini Sadhanalaya

A hectic quarter of the year began with Guru Purnima Celebrations featuring two veena chamber concerts, one a duet by students Jayash and Manash Ramanathan of Tampa, Florida. They impressed the [...]

Mr Raj Parameswaran and Dr Latha Parameswaran hosted a programme by Veenavaadhini Students recently. The main programmes of the evening were two Vocal recitals, one by 12-year-old Kumari Harini [...]

Young students of Veenavaadhini participated in local events in India and abroad recently. Radha Madhuri played veena at Thyagaraja Music Festival organized by Hampton Road’s Association of [...]

Veenavaadhini students Jayash and Manash learn veena and vocal over the Internet. They were in Chennai this summer for one-to-one classes. They, along with their brother Ashwin Ramanathan (a [...]

Young students of Veenavaadhini got together on August 9th to present an evening of instrumental music. Platform was made available for them to render the music taught to them on the veena, under [...]

On the 27th and 28th of December, 2008, the Gayatri Fine Arts, Rohini, New Delhi, organized a Talent Promotion Concert Series. On the 28th was a solo Veenai recital by Veena Venkatramani. The [...]

The Veena Foundation and Indira Gandhi National Council for the Arts came together once again this year to celebrate the Veena Navarathri in Chennai with a series of Veena concerts for nine [...]

Teaching keen students who are prepared to put in the requisite time and effort is always a pleasure. It is difficult to understand why people talk of veena being on the wane, when you have [...]

A five-day vocal and veena workshop was conducted on Dikshitar kritis in Fremont, California from June 23rd to June 27th. The syllabus included the following Samashti Charanam Kritis, one taught [...]

Students of Veenavaadhini, Kum. Kamakshi and Kum. Meenakshi performed a vocal concert for Rama Seva Mandali in Bangalore recently. Featured is a report that appeared in Kannadaprabha, a Kannada [...]