Carnatic mridangam maestro Thiruvaarur Bakthavathsalam has been conferred the Padma Shri by President Droupadi Murmu. The ...

Chennai: Percussion instruments come in various shape and sizes. The rhythmic sophistication of Carnatic classical music has for long depended on the mridangam to guide the tempo. The double barreled ...

Child actor Krish Chauhan learnt to play the musical instrument mridangam for his upcoming show Punyashlok Ahilyabai. The show, which is set in the 18th century, revolves around the life of queen of ...

It was not expected of a young boy growing up in a small town in America to pick up an instrument like the Mridangam to play but then that was what Rohan Krishnamurthy did when he was an 8 year old.

Akshay Ram began learning how to play the mridangam 25 years ago. But it was earlier this year that the percussionist turned inventor of sorts when he unveiled his Trimukhi mridangam to the world of ...

Patri Satish Kumar was fortunate that he was not fed on aspirations. His gurus never set ambitious goals and his mother, Padmavathy, who initiated him into music, had just one dream: to see her son ...

Day 11 of The Music Academy Morning Academic Conferences 2024 began with a prayer by students of the Advanced School of Carnatic Music followed by a lecture-demonstration by vidwan Tiruvarur ...

Anish Kumar Krishna forsook a medical career for music, becoming Kerala's first PhD in mridangam. His thesis explored 20th-century maestros.

PALAKKAD: Mridangam maestro Kuzhalmannam Ramakrishnan has been given the patent for the design of a lighter version of the mridangam by the Patent Office of the Government of India. Issued by the ...

In a case of science meeting art, scientists at CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute here have developed a detachable mridangam that musicians will find easier to carry. CHENNAI: In a case of ...

Legendary mridangam exponent Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, who has completed 75 years of his musical career, has authored the book, Musical Excellence of Mridangam, jointly with eminent scientists T.