Nagumomu Ganaleni
Raga Abheri
Thala Adi
Kriti Thyagaraja

A composition of Shri. Thyagaraqja in the Raga Abheri, set to Adi Talam.
This is a part of the concert played for Sarvamangala Productions.

Mridangam: Vid. Sumesh Narayanan


Ramana Balachandhran, the 20yearold prodigy from Bengaluru, is the son of Carnatic music practitioners Balachandhran and Sharanya. His talent for music was noticed when he was a toddler: with no formal training, he could identify ragas and point out nuances. In fact, he says his introduction to the veena came about when he found a mistake while his mother was playing the instrument.
Ramana started his vocal training with his mother. He then pursued veena under B Nagalakshmi for three years and now continues under his father. He was also trained in vocal music by Neela Ramgopal and on the mridangam by Ranganatha Chakravarthy. As a young musician, he says that he wouldn’t venture so far as to place himself definitively under a style of veena playing. “I’m still learning and discovering my style in the process,” he says. Among others, he looks up to S Balachander for the intensity with which he plays the instrument.

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