2023 Apr 02 1830 StringsAttached Kumaresh JayanthiKumaresh KUJayachandraRao PramathKiran @ SRSM

Violin: Vid. Kumaresh 

VINA: Vid. Jayanthi Kumaresh

Mridanga: Vid. KUJayachandraRao 

MorsingL: Vid. PramathKiran 

Venue / Organiser: SRSM, Fort High School, Chamarajapete, Bangalore

Theme: StringsAttached 

01 kalyANi strings attached (O)

02 shrI nArada nAda sarasIruha kAnaDA rUpakA tyAgarAja (A, S)

Swaras at sri narada

03 mA jAnaki chetabettaga kAmbODhi Adhi tyAgarAja (A, S)

Swaras at nagaraju..

04 nI dayarAdA vasanthabhairavi rUpakA tyAgarAja (A)

05 kaligi yuntE gadhA kIravANi Adi tyAgarAja (R, T, N, S, T)

swaras at bhAgavatAgre

Tani..insterspersed with ragamalika awards in kambOdhi, sAvEri,

06 folk tune bEhAg

07 madhayamAvati medley starting with harivarAsanam

2019 Apr 08 JayanthiKumaresh AkkaraiSubhalakshmi KUJayachandraRao PramathKiran @ RSM

VINA: Vid. JayanthiKumaresh 
Violin: Vid. AkkaraiSubhalakshmi 
Mridanga: Vid. KUJayachandraRao 
Morsing: Vid. PramathKiran

Venue: Sree Ramaseva Mandali, Fort High School
Occasion: Ramanavami Music Festival

01 rAma ninnu namminA mOhana Adi tyAgarAja

02 pariyAchaka mA mAta vanaspathi Adi tyAgarAja (A, S)
Swaras at pariyAchakama

03 marivErE dikkevaru rAmayya laTAngi khanda chApu patNam subrahmaNya iyer (A, S)
Swaras at dharalOna nI sATi

04 nannu viDachi kadhalaku rA rIthigowLa chApu tyAgarAja (A)

05 idi samayamurA inakula tilaka chAyAnaTa Adi tyAgarAja

06 rAga tAna pallavi vasantha chaturaSra tripuTa (T)

07 dwijAvanti tillAna Adi LGJ

08 kAmAkShi lOkasAkShi madhyamAvathi thriputa shyAma shAsthry

2018 Oct 25 Kumaresh JayanthiKumaresh (ViolinVeena) PatriSatishkumar GGuruprasanna @ 49thBGSConference

Violin: Vid. Kumaresh 
Veena: Vid. JayanthiKumaresh 
Mridanga: Vid. PatriSatishkumar 
Khanjira: Vid. GGuruprasanna 

Occasion: 49thBGSConference 

01 nera nammithinayya VarNa kAnada k aTa pUchi shrInivAsa iyengAr

02 gaNapathE mahAmathe kalyANi rUpaka m.dhIkshithar

03 mA jAnaki chetta bettagA kAmbOdhi Adi tyAgarAja (A)

04  Vasantha in its purest form Vasantha m.cApu GK JK (A, S)

05 sadA madin dalatu gAdara mudaspada nagajadhi gambhIravANi Adhi tyAgarAja

06 rAga tAna pallavi shaNmukhapriyA miSra tripuTa 2 Kalai, eDupu 3 beats after samam (RS, T)
Pallavi Line: guha muruga pArvati kumar nI virai vinilvA mayil mIdu varum dEva

07 folk song in bEhAg

08 madhyamAvati medley

2018 Mar 23 KumareshJayanthiKumaresh KUJayachandraRao PramathKiran @ VaniSchool

Violin : Vid. Kumaresh
VinA: Vid. JayanthiKumaresh 
Mridanga: Vid. KUJayachandraRao 
Morsing: Vid. PramathKiran 

Venue / Occasion: VaniSchool / Ramanavami Sangeethotsava

01 sarasUda ninne kOri sAvEri Adi kotthavAsal venkatarAma iyer (O)

02 kanugoNTini shrI rAmunI bilahari dEshAdi tyAgarAja (A, S)
swaras @ pallavi

03 AbhEri Strings attached composition (rAgapravAha ?)

04 nIkEla dayarAdu sarasAngi m.cApu mysUru vAsudEvAchArya (A, S)
swaras @ pallavi

05 rAga tAna pallavi Saraswati  khaNDa tripuTa on samam (R, T, P, T)

06 muralIdhara gOpAla mAND periyaswamy tUran

07 composition in sindhubhairavi

08 kAmAkshi madhyamAvati Adi shyAmA shAstri

2017 Jan 22 Dr JayanthiKumaresh TumkurBRavishankar PramathKiran @ Gudiya Sambhrama

vINA: Vid. Dr JayanthiKumaresh 
Mridanga: Vid. TumkurBRavishankar 
Tabala, Moring: Vid. PramathKiran 

Organiser: Gudiya Sambhrama
Venue: Sri Ramanjaneya Temple, Gavipuram, Bangalore

01 kanjadaLAyatAkSi kAmAkSi kamalamanOhari m.dIkshitar (O)

02 sItamma mAyamma vasanta rUpaka tyAgarAja (S)

03 tuLasI bilva mallikAdi kEdAragauLa Adi tyAgarAja (A, S)

04 pAlintuvO pAlimpava kAntAmaNi Adi tyAgarAja

05 RTP brindAvana sAranga Adi
Pallavi Line : rAma raghukula sOma tanayuni brOva bArama.. dasharatha tanaya
Ragamalika : nATakuranji, varamu, vAsanti

06 srI rAmachandra kripAlu bhajamana yamunakalyANi tulsidAs (O)

07 tillAna dwijAvanti LGJ

08 kAmAkShi lOkasAkShi madhyamAvathi thriputa shyAma shAsthri

2016 Apr 12 1900 Kumaresh JayanthiKumaresh RShankarnarayanan Giridhar Udupa @ Vani School

Violin: Vid. Kumaresh R

ViNA: Vid. JayanthiKumaresh 

Mridanga: Vid. RShankarnarayanan 

Ghata: Vid. Giridhar Udupa 

Occasion: 25th Ramanavami Music and Dance Festival @ Vani School, Basaveshwara Nagar, Bangalore

01 vanajAkSirO I viraha kalyANi varNa Adi rAmanathapuram srInivAsa iyengAr

02 praNamAmyaham shri gaurisutam gauLa mysore vAsudEvacarya (S)

swara @ natalOka santOshadAyakam

03 shrI nArada nAda sarasIruha kAnaDA rUpakA tyAgarAja (A, S)

swara @ sri nArada

04 yArE rangana yArE krishNana HindhOLa Adhi puranDhara dhAsa

05 rAga tAna pallavi nATTakuranji chaturaSra tripuTa, 1 Kalai, Tani

06 composition in sindhubhairavi

07 medley madhyamAvati


Power packed concert in the season of T20s. The concert was in full speed from the very first note. 

KalyANi varna was directly played in second speed. During the chittaswaras, both fiddling  monk and vaiNika took turns to play the swaras independently. It was almost like both hands were dancing to 


swaras played for praNamAmyaham had interesting and trademark ma .. pa .. ni ending presented beautifully

kAnaDa was the choice for submain of the evening. Was expecting sukhi evvaro... but it turned out to be srI nArada. The very first bow of the AlApane indicated it would kAnaDa. Such was the precision !!

Post the quick hindOLa filler, came the elaborate rAga tAna in nATTakuranji. Very expansive essay of the rAga with each instrumentalists taking turns to decorate. The final tAna by Kumaresh received thunderous applause. 

There was no announcement of the pallavi line, nor were any rAgamAlika swaras at the end. It was a pure and pristine nATTakuranji all through the 40 minutes of RTP. 

Tani was another highlight of the concert. The newly setup pendal resonated many times during the ghumki playing by both percussionists. 

A composition in Sindhubhairavi and further medley in madhyamAvati (harivarAsanam, nagumOmu, bhAgyAdalakshmi bAramma) indicated that they are going to end the concert 15 mins early !!

A small note of dissappointment.. a 3 hour concert slot was used only for 2 hrs ! the junior concert earlier ended whopping 30 mins late !

However, everthing that was presented in 2 hrs was worth the hadrship of travelling 32 kms to the concert in hot summer evening of Bangalore when it was 40 Degree Celsius.

2016 Jan 25 JayanthiKumaresh TumkurBRavishakar GiridharUdupa @ Yamini IIMB

vINA: Vid. JayanthiKumaresh 
Mridanga: Vid. TumkurBRavishakar 
Ghata: Vid. GiridharUdupa

01 vAtApi gaNapatim bhajEham hamsadhvani Adi m.dIkshitar  (O, S)
swara @ vAtApi

02 sItamma mAyamma shrI vasanta rUpaka tyAgarAja (O, S)
swara @ sItamma

03 idi samayamurA inakula tilaka chAyAnaTa Adi tyAgarAja

04 rAga tAna pallavi latAngi chaturaSra triputa 2 kaLai eDupu 5 counts
rAgamAlika tAna (Arabhi vAsanti varamu)
pallavi Line: not announced
Tani

05 tillAna kApi Adi kumaresh

2015 Jul 03 JayanthiKumaresh GiridharUdupa PramathKiran@ kAnchanOtsava

Veena: Vid. JayanthiKumaresh 
Ghata: Vid. GiridharUdupa 
drumpad: Vid. PramathKiran 

Ocassion: kAnchanOtsava


01 sAmi ninnE kOri varNa shankarAbharaNa Adhi vINa kuppier

02 panchamAtanga malahari rUpaka m.dikshitar (O, S)

03 pAlintuvO pAlimpava kAntAmaNi Adhi tyAgarAja (A, S)

04 guitar experiments on vINA

05 rAga tAna pallavi pantuvarALi m.cApu (R, T, P, T)
rAgamALika swaras in kAnaDa, valaji

06 mangala madhyamAvati

2015 Feb 07 Dr.MysoreMManjunath Dr.JayanthiKumaresh ArjunKumar AnanthaRKrishnan @ SRLKM SpringFestival

Violin: Vid. Dr.MysoreMManjunath 
Veena: Vid. Dr.JayanthiKumaresh 
Mridanga: Vid ArjunKumar
Tabala: Vid. AnanthaRKrishnan


01 vanajAkSirO I viraha kalyANi varNa Adi rAmanathapuram srInivAsa iyengAr (O)

02 praNamAmyaham shri gaurisutam gauLa mysore vAsudEvacarya (O)

03 rAma nI samAnamevaru Kharaharapriya rUpaka thyAgarAja (A, N, S)

04 manavi nAlakicha rAdhaTE naLinakAnthi Adhi thyAgarAja (O)

05 rAga tAna pallavi nAsikAbhUshaNi Adi 2 kaLai (R, T, N, S, T)

06 venkatAchala nilayam sinDhubhairavi Adhi puranDhara dhAsa (A)

07 bhAgyAda lakshmi bAramma madhyamAvati Adhi purandaradhAsa

2014 Apr 01 Kumaresh, Jayanthi Kumaresh, KU Jayachandra Rao, G Guruprasanna @ Sri vANi kalA kEndra

Violin : Vid Kumaresh
Veena : Vid Jayanthi Kumaresh
Mridanga : Vid K U Jayachandra Rao
Khanjira : Vid G Guruprasanna

01 nera nammithinayya VarNa kAnada k Ata pUchi shrInivAsa iyengAr

02 rAma nannu brOva rA mOhana Adi thyAgarAja (S)

03  anurAgamule saraswati Adi tAla (A, S)

04 vallabha nAyakasya ?   bEgaDa( A, S)

05 yAre rangana yAre krishnana hindOLA tALa p.dAsa

06 rAga tAna pallavi nAsikAbhUshaNi
 rAgamAlika in gaULa sAma Anandabhairavi varALi kEdAra rEvati Violin Veena Violin dhanyAsi V mOhanakalyANi and endless list of rAgas and a grand tani

07 rAga mAlikA AlApane V dEsha nIlAmbari rEvati kApi

08 tillAna kApi

09 kAmAkshi madhyamAvati Adi shyAmA shAstri

It was my first concert of the season, and what a welcome..  The stage decor was so pleasing.. I was having butterflies in the stomach.

This was the first time, the couple (off and on stage) was performing in Bangalore. 

The concert began on time and with the very first bow across the strings, the concert set its standards. 

Kumaresh announced that he would not inform the name of the tracks, but would congratulate the audience who would come up with the correct list .. at the end of the concert. However I was not one of those fortunate ones to get the tracks...(especially the rAgamAlika swaras.. which were showered.

Highlight of the concert was saraswati and nAsikAbhUshaNi. (now a days alapane of this rAga is hardly heard on stage). 

(Ganesh and ) Kumaresh known for the rAga pravAha demonstrated similar virtuosity in the swaras played.

Another aspect to highlight was inspite of 2 artists coming from 2 different schools, the blending was so smooth, one could fathom the amount of effort spent to bring this harmony.

It was a bumper start to the long season that follows. It was indeed an evening well spent.