LN Sisters Dr M Lalitha and M Nandini, Lec Dem on Violin Techniques in Western and Carnatic Music for Music Academy on Dec 19th.With Sri Pappu Venugopala Rao – Secretary, Music Academy and Sri T V Gopalakrishnan, the Sangeetha Kalanidhi Designate

Nandi Fine Arts and Madhuradhwani presents `STRINGS MEETING STRINGS’ -Jugalbandi DR M Lalitha – Violin, Rohan Dasgupta – Sitar, Ramkumar Neyveli – Mridangam, Sandip Banerjee – Tabla- Jan 6th 2015

LN Sisters nominated for the Live Quotient Awards 2015 in two categories in the Instrumental Category.

title of ‘Asthana Vidvan of the shri chakra maha meru peetham, Chattisgarh in the divine presence of Sri Swami Sachidanand Tirth Mahaswamy of Shri chakra maha meru peetham during Chaturmasyam 2015

Concerto e Workshop di Violino e Canto Karnatico

Involved in a teaching project for the Scholarship holders, Ministry of Culture, New Delhi who perform  at Sankara School, Tiruvanmiyur, 6 PM on Oct 18th 2015

Dr M Lalitha awarded 2nd Fulbright Fellowship

CHENNAI, October 7: Violinist Dr. M. Lalitha has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship for the second time, according to a release.

She is awarded the Fulbright Nehru Lecture Fellowship, and is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, IOWA, the release adds.

The Fulbright Programme is a programme of highly competitive, merit-based grants for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artistes. It was founded by the U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946. Under the Fulbright Programme, competitively selected U.S. citizens may become eligible for scholarships to study, conduct research, or exercise their talents abroad, and citizens of other countries may qualify to do the same in the United States.

Dr. Lalitha will be lecturing on the music of South India.

http://www.carnaticdarbar.com/news/201301/20131007a.asp

Sep 23, 2013
Global Rhythms: “Headlamps of Many Eyes” Sept. 28

The Global Rhythms World Music Ensemble, directed by Srinivas Krishnan, will present “Headlamps of Many Eyes” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, in Hall Auditorium. The concert will weave in a cast of more than 200 in a production that aims to bring in world music through the power of choir, orchestra, world percussion ensembles, theater, dance and puppetry.

The concert is the first presentation in a new Global Rhythms World Series held this fall.

“Headlamps of Many Eyes” features music from Brazil, Bulgaria, Cuba, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, India and Thailand, among other regions. The program will feature compositions by artists including A.R. Rahman, Ravi Shankar and Sting.

Special guest artists include:
• Homayoun Sakhi, Afghan rabab virtuososo

• Abbos Kosimov, Uzbek doyra virtuoso and world percussionist

• Dr. M. Lalitha. internationally acclaimed violin virtuoso

• Jason Koontz (Miami MM ’98), associate professor of percussion at Eastern Kentucky University, and Janine Tiffe, Kent State University, leading the EKU World Percussion Ensemble, African music and dance

• Marion Peraza Music Workshop student ensembles

• Kelsey Harmon, singer/songwriter

• Wasim Mit, puppeteer from Thailand

• Ari Webb, seven-year-old cellist

• Area musicians including Alyssa Mehnert, trombone; Erwin Stuckey, percussion; Michael Sharfe, bass; and Art Gore, piano

Global Rhythms World Music Ensemble and guest artists fill the stage. Director Srinivas Krishnan at far left, in blue (photo by Scott Kissell, 2011).
Miami musical ensembles include:
• Oxford Chamber Orchestra directed by Ricardo Averbach
• Collegiate Chorale directed by Jeremy Jones
• World Percussion Ensemble directed by Bill Albin
• MU Jazz band directed by Jeremy Long
• Euphonik, student a capella ensemble

Faculty performers include (among others): Thomas Garcia, guitar; Jeremy Long, saxophone; and Chris Tanner, percussion.

To view a “‘road map” of the program, with the songs, arrangers and performer information, go to the Global Rhythms Prezi site and click through the slide show.
Krishnan, a master percussionist, is the founder and artistic director of the Global Rhythms Music Ensemble and artist-in-residence at Miami’s Center for American and World Cultures (CAWC). He is a member of the guest faculty and advisory panel of the KM Music Conservatory, a multidisciplinary music education center established by Grammy Award-winning composer A.R. Rahman’s foundation.

Tickets to “Headlamps of Many Eyes” are $8 students/youth and $10 general and are available at the Miami University Box Office.

Other performances in the Global Rhythms World Series are:
“Boundary Breakers” 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Oxford Community Arts Center, and

“Dawn to Dusk” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Talawanda High School Performing Arts Center.

“Headlamps of Many Eyes” is sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures with support from the College of Creative Arts, office of the provost, Graduate School, Confucius Institute, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, office of international education and the parents office.

Written by Susan Meikle, university news and communications, meiklesb@MiamiOH.edu.
http://miamioh.edu/news/top-stories/2013/09/global%20rhythms.html