Vedanth Ramanujam – June 7th 2017 : PARAMPARA  YUVA SANGEETH I Of 2017 Yesterday Mahadevan Sriram disciple of Padmasri Prof Smt Parasala Ponnammal was outstanding. Calm and composed his Budhamashrayami-Nattakurinji and Thyagaraja Yogavaibhavam-Anandabhairavi were excellent. Brahmmaduttan, disciple of Sangita Kalanidhi Kanyakumari Avasarala simply excelled well supported by Nochur Nagaraj Mahadevan Sriram preferred to invoke Mannargudi Rajagopalaswami with the Dikishtar krithi […]

Udupi, the Temple City of Lord Krishna, in the coastal Karnataka, had great thinkers ,litterateurs, Yakshagana artistes , dramatists, painters ,besides the great saints – Sri Madhwacharya and Sri Vadiraja. But seldom classical music had any role to play with. People here were not exposed to the seriousness of this art. However top ranking artistes […]

G SWAMINATHAN, FRIDAY REVIEW, THE HINDU – NOVEMBER 06, 2014 New talent on the go Composers from Kerala and Karnataka were chosen for exploration. The teenager S. Mahadevan looks quite frail and vulnerable on stage; yet his credentials are impressive. He was trained by his mother in music from the age of six, and became […]

The auspicious Tamil new year day (Vishu) celebrations, was conducted at Sammelani Hall in the steel city. Mr.Shankar, Secretary, Madrasi Sammelani, gave the welcome address. Chairman of the Tata Sons Group was the chief guest. Musician S Mahadevan the performer for the day from Thiruvananthapuram lighted the kuthuvilakku(lamp) followed with a 3 hour music concert. Mahadevan started the […]

After eight months of intense competition, Amrita TV’s Raga Ratnam Junior’s grand finale on May 31, 2008 saw three winners KS Harisankar, S Mahadevan, and Arjun Krishna. The selection of the winners was based entirely on the basis of the marks allotted by the jury in the presence of an invited audience of nearly 1,500 music […]

Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi in connection with Edappally Sangeetha Sadas at Changampuzha Park, Kochi organized a special music concert of Sri S Mahadevan featuring exclusively Swathi Thirunal krithis on the occasion of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal‘s birthday celebrations. Starting with Kamboji Padavarnam, Mahadevan presented Pahi Soure in Nattai, Kalayami in Kannada, Panchabana in Purvikalyani, and Samodam in Suddhadhanyasi. Mamava Jagadeeswara in a […]

G SWAMINATHAN, FRIDAY REVIEW, THE HINDU – OCTOBER 28, 2011 It’s all about lyrical beauty The three-day thematic concerts by musicians from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala, which was organised by Sarvani Sangeetha Sabha at Infosys Hall, began with a talk by Dr. Pappu Venugopala Rao on the compositions and speciality of three Telugu composers […]

Edappally Sangeetha Sadas‘ August month programme featured a music concert of young promising talent S Mahadevan who is a Vocal and Veena Artist. Mahadevan was accompanied by Sri Thiruvizha Viju S Anand on the Violin, Sri Palakkad Mahesh kumar on the Mridangam and Sri Vazhappally Krishnakumar on the Ghatam respectively. Mahadevan began the concert with a rare Ata tala […]

The Neyyattinkara Vasudevan and Mohanachandran Anusmaranam programme was organized by the Department of Music, University of Kerala. S Mahadevan presented a Veena concert, accompanied by Trivandrum Syamakrishnan on the mridangam and Trivandrum Rajesh on the ghatam. Dr. Pushpa Krishnan gave a welcome speech and introduced the artists on the stage. Mahadevan played krithis popularized by the […]

Saastha Preethi Celebrations for the year 2012 started with a music concert of S Mahadevan from Thiruvananthapuram. Mahadevan beginned the concert with Malavi Varnam, composed by Vidwan Calcutta Krishnamoorthy.  Mahadevan sang Swathi Thirunal‘s Deva Deva Jagadeeswara in Poorvikalyani as the sub-main item. A detailed Ragam Thanam Pallavi in the ragam Charukesi – (Ayyappan Padam Panivom Nammai […]