CHENNAI: Artist Manohar Devadoss,84, turned to Carnatic music when he lost his eyesight six years ago. Prabhu, 27, an alumnus of Kalakshetra, started teaching Devadoss Carnatic music and, in return, ...

MCLEAN, VA — A 16-year-old student from McLean has raised more than $16,000 by teaching traditional Carnatic vocal music and singing at local farmers markets to help residents in rural villages in ...

BENGALURU: We tend to associate learning Carnatic music with young children. And while it is a great idea to start learning music as early as possible, there’s no such thing as “it’s too late” to ...

Carnatic guitar hero Prasanna teaches the technique he has honed over years to students from around the world. He says over a Skype call from Seychelles, “The most beautiful thing is, their mothers ...

Carnatic music students are often told to listen to yesteryear masters, in order to develop and finetune their art. The more serious ones do. What is the underlying principle in this pedagogical form?

Sathya Devi (29), a researcher who settled down in the city five years ago, used to travel 10 km in peak traffic twice a week to learn the veena. Twenty-year-old M. Chidananda, a biotechnology ...

When you’re a pint-sized musical prodigy, perhaps starting with the mridangam at the age of four is not the greatest of ideas. Too small to hold the instrument then, BC Manjunath thus began his music ...

CHENNAI:Prakash Hariharan started playing mandolin by chance. In the music industry, he is fondly called ‘Mandolin’ Prakash. Growing up in a south Indian household, it was mandatory for Prakash to ...