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Sangeetha gnanamu bakhti vina sanmargamu kalathe manasa....Thyagaraja

Chitra Chitra Srikrishna is a graded artist of All India Radio and has been a Carnatic vocalist for over a decade. Chitra, who presently is a student of Smt. Seethalakshmi Venkatesan of Bangalore has performed widely in sabhas in Madras, Bangalore, Hyderabad and overseas in the US and Canada. She has also performed on the radio and television in India, Singapore and the USA. Chitra has trained with several Carnatic music stalwarts including Shri V. Subramaniam and Shri OS Thyagarajan of Chennai. Her detailed music bio is here.

Chitra is an avid writer, who's work has appeared in Deccan Herald, The Hindu and San Jose Mercury News. Between music, her children, their two sets of grandparents and a husband who is an entrepreneur, she has never ending source of inspiration for her first person essays, middles and the occasional travel article.

CD Launch
Chitra's latest music project Saranaagathi has been released. This and her second CD Anjaneya Aarti are now available on line here. The first CD Saranaagathi is that of three cantos from the Perumal Tirumozhi of the Divya Prabandhams - 30 verses set to different ragas in two talas. Shri Vellukudi Krishnan has provided a brief introduction to the work.

anjaneya_arathi Anjaneya Aarati The second recording is a thematic one based on songs praising Lord Hanuman. Her accompanists were Charulatha Ramanujam and Cheluvaraju - two of Bangalore's finest. Overall the entire process from working with a composer through launching the CD was a great learning experience for her - the CDs are available online here.

Nagendran

Dear Chitra,
Nice Site
It is relevant to place on record my sincere appreciation for the manner in which ” Saranagathi ” has been rendered
All the best
Dr Nagendran
http://forstartups.blogspot.com nandini vaidyanathan

why would you want to say and I quote : ” between music, her children, their two sets of grandparents and one husband” ? !!! hopefully that’s understood that you have one husband, unless otherwise specified
Latha

Do you teach online? I live in the US
http://forstartups.blogspot.com/ nandini vaidyanathan

why would you want to say and I quote : ” between music, her children, their two sets of grandparents and one husband” ? !!! hopefully that's understood that you have one husband, unless otherwise specified
Gopalakrishnanmg

Smt.Chitra Srikrishna -Vocalist
I even to-day heard Vetern Vocalist Smt.Seethalakshmi Venkateshan Teaching You Poorvikalyani Raga,rendering the Muthuswami Dikshitha’s Kruthi Ekambreshwara Natham,with kalpana swaras in FM 100.1 – This I am hearing from Monday to Saturday everyday from 7.15AM to 7.30AM in Gurukula Music. Somedays back & This episode is again heard for this week. So excellent… Thank you both & also I heard Smt.Seethalakshmi Venkateshan being interviewed in the Sampada also. They have all dedicated life for music & Music alone.Salute..
With Regards.
M.G.Gopalakrishnan -Mridangam Vidwan Son of Sangeetha Vidwan Late Sri. M.S.Govindar Rao (Retd.LICI ), No.533,”Laya Vinyasa”,BHEL Housing Society,2nd Stage Extension,Pattanagere South,Sri Raja Rajeshwari Nagar,Bangalore 560 098,Mobile.9901421208, Admin.Officer,Fin-Excise & Ind.Taxes,BHEL-EDN,Mysore Road,Bangalore 560 026, Phone 080-26998830/8478 email:gopalakrishnanmg@bheledn.co.in
Pushpa Sreeharsha

Hi chitra,
Harsha and I are spending a couple of months in our new flat in Bengaluru. Can you please send your e-mail id so that I can get in touch with you. I do not have your ph.# or e-mail id.
Thanks.Pushpa

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