In Carnatic music, concerts with instrumentalist headliners such as the veena, flute or violin are a small fraction of performances at most music festivals, including the biggest one of them all the ...

Through fretless guitars and portable veenas, some Bengaluru-based artists have been instrumental in helping Carnatic music evolve and enhance its importance in a digitised world. Sampagodu and many ...

Since 2017, Ramnath Iyer and Gopinath Iyer have conducted the festival annually in Australia, as a platform for veena lovers and Carnatic musicians from around the world. There are some instruments ...

Even in a music community where young masters and child prodigies are now the norm, Ramana Balachandhran is a rarity. Something of a musical polymath, he chose to excel in the toughest and least ...

DOCTOR Lushen Govender is pioneering the integration of Carnatic music into mental health treatment. Drawing from his expertise as both a medical doctor and accomplished veena player, Govender aims to ...

At a modest house in Plymouth, the best veena player in North America goes about her busy schedule. Amid teaching a select set of students and organizing her global concert itinerary — including a ...

The air was thick with the deep, resonant hum of the veena, a sound that vibrates in the precincts of a house at Sundar Nagar in Vijayawada, as 28 prominent veena artists from the southern States of ...