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A grand concert featuring the celebrated Carnatic vocalist O.S. Thiagarajan will be presented by Jiva Performing Arts, Mukthambar Fine Arts and the Youth Center for Music & Arts on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at the Hindu Temple Community Center in Flushing, NY.

OS Thiagarajan is one of the world’s leading Carnatic vocalists and has performed all over the world with senior accompaniments like Sri M.S. Gopalakrishnan, Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman, Sri Palghat Mani Iyer, and Sri Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman.  O. S. Thiagarajan is perhaps one of the few male vidwans whose gifted voice is in complete alignment with the sruti (pitch), and whose oral expression is effortless. He is an ‘A’ grade Vidwan of the All India Radio and of Doordarshan, and has been giving a large number of concerts to great acclaim around the world.

He will be accompanied by B.V. Raghavendra Rao on violin, who is the disciple of the violin maestro Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri.T.N.Krishnan as well as receiving advanced training from Dr.M.Balamuralikrishna.  He has traveled the world accompanying international artists as well as giving solo violin concerts.  A.R. Balaskandan will be accompanying on the mridangam.  Balaskandan is a prominent mridangist in the NYC area.  He is the student of Guru Karaikudi R. Mani of Chennai, India, and has accompanied leading artists in the US, UK and India.