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Nirmala Rajasekar is a Carnatic Saraswati veena player, composer, vocalist, and educator. [1] One of the world's premier veena players, [2] Rajasekar has performed at Carnegie Hall, [3] the United Nations, [4] the Madras Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha, [4] [5] Sawai Gandharva Festival, [3] and the Konya International Mystic Music Festival. [4]
Over the veena's evolution and modifications, more particular names were used to help distinguish the instruments that followed. The word veena in India was a term originally used to generally denote "stringed instrument", and included many variations that would be either plucked, bowed or struck for sound. [1] [2]
Prashanth Iyengar (born 12 January 1973) is a classical musician and veena exponent from India, in the Carnatic Music genre. He is a performer, composer and teacher.He is the first composer from Karnataka to have composed Varnams in all the '72 Melakarta Ragas. [1]
Eka-tantri means single string. The alapini vina may have developed into a multi-stringed instrument. The kinnari veena had two strings in the early to mid-19th century; the early 20th century kinnari vina in the Metropolitan Museum of Art has two main strings, and like the rudra veena that came from it, three side strings.
The first of these was a mix of the sarod, veena and surbahar, developed in 1948 by Radhika Mohan Maitra. [1] [2] In 1949, Thakur Jaidev Singh, the then chief producer of All India Radio, named the instrument 'Mohan veena' after him. [3]
His elder son Salil Bhatt is a Mohan veena player (and also a player of the Satvik veena). His younger son Saurabh Bhatt is a Music Composer who has composed music for films, music albums and TV serials. Bhatt's parents, Manmohan Bhatt and Chandrakala Bhatt were teaching and performing musicians, who imparted knowledge of music to V.M Bhatt. [6]