The Boston area is blessed to have youngsters who work hard for six to eight years to gain proficiency in classical music and perform an Arangetram. We present the Lokvani Rising Stars in Music award to students of Tara Bangalore, Durga Krishnan, Pradeep Shukla, Gaurish Chandrashekar, Aparna Balaji, K.V.S.Vinay and Amit Kavthekar. The students will be honored at the event on the Community and Youth Night to be held on Dec 16.
Guru Amit Kavthekar - Atharva Kasar
Guru Aparna Balaji - Mahathi Athreya
Guru Durga Krishnan - Aparna S. Rajan
Guru Gaurishankar Chandrashekar - Hari Shanmugam
Guru K.V.S. Vinay - Srinath Sundar
Guru Pradeep Shukla - Selina Banerjee
Guru Tara Bangalore - Amrita Ajai Thirumalai
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Every student here has an inspirational story. However we would like to share the story of one student who has not done an Arangetram whose story is truly special.
Inspirational Story of Srinath Sundar
Guru K.V.S.Vinya
Srinath Sundar (Sri) is an mid-range autistic youth who has been learning violin from me for about 6-7 years. He first learned from his father Dr. Sundar who continues to work with him very closely. Playing the violin is a huge part of Sri's core. His dad brought to me because he felt I could help expand his training and repertoire. Apparently even as a kid, he used to wait for Sundar to come back from surgery even if it was midnight so that he could play violin with his dad. Sri has recently graduated from Brookline High School. Apart from Carnatic violin, he was also fortunate to find a great teacher for western violin in recent years who has helped Sri and other autistic youth found a band called the MUSE foundation which performs around the Boston area. He has also been running 5Ks and marathons around to raise money for autism related causes and is now planning to run the Boston Marathon. Just last week he and his parents were in Nepal doing volunteer work in some orphanage. Teaching Sri and knowing his parents Dr. Sundar and Dr. Sugantha has been a huge privilege in my life. The family is constantly engaged in giving back.
Here are some videos of his:
Muse foundation recitals
Chinmaya Aradhana with dad
Sri’s video resume
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