Bharatiya Sangeetha Sangham, Montreal
3551 Boul. St. Charles, Suite 158.
KIRKLAND, QC
Canada H9H 3C4
Bharatiya Sangeetha Sangham is a non-profit charitable organization, Reg.Number: BN88-989-6197-RR0001
Back in 1972, a group of classical music enthusiasts started an informal association to bring to Montreal leading artistes from India to perform. Those who took an active role in organizing and funding these concerts included Kasi Anantha, A. Krishnan, Vijay Mathur, Dr.N.P.V. Nair, Dr.V. Seshadri, Dr.Bobby Srinivasan and Dr.M.N.S. Swamy
The first concert was held in 1972 in which Eamni Sankara Sastry performed on the Veena accompanied by Trichy Sankaran. The following year, T.N. Krishnan gave Violin concert accompanied by Trichy Sankaran & Viji Krishnan. In 1974 M.S. Gopalakrishnan gave two concerts playing Violin in Carnatic style accompanied by Trichy Sankaran and in Hindustani style accompanied by Narendra Verma. M.S.G.’s North American tour of 24 concerts were sponsored by A. Krishnan & K. Anantha. In 1976 the North American tour by M.L. Vasanthakumari and other leading artistes were sponsored by A. Krishnan, K. Anantha, Dr. Nair, Dr. Seshadri & Dr. Srinivasan in collaboration with CMANA. The success of this event led to the birth of the Bharatiya Sangeetha Sangham in 1978.
Bharatiya Sangeetha Sangham was incorporated in 1979 as a non-profit cultural organization. Although the Sangham’s constitution includes a wide range of cultural activities, its primary focus has been the promotion of classical music & dance of India.
The Sangham has sponsored concerts by leading artistes of the time over the years. Following is a
list of some memorable artistes who have enthralled the Montreal audience:
| Bharatha Natyam Dhananjayans Padma Subramanian Chitra Visweswaran Alarmel Valli Hema Rajagopalan Vijji Prakash Lata Pada Saraswati & troupe (1991) Urmila Satyanarayanan & troupe (2005) Pooja Kumar (2005) |
Anjali (Anne Marie Gaston) Priyamvada Sankar Jaya Govinda Kalpalata Filteau La Troupe Kala Bharati Vasantha Krishnan Uma Vasudevan Sujatha Srinivasan (1996) Marie Elangovan (1998) Priyadarsini Govind (2002) Madurai R Muralidaran & Group (2007) |
Kutchipudi Dr. Vempati Chinna Satyam Raja and Radha Reddy Narasimhachari Jayaram Rao & Vanashree Swapna Sundari (2003) |
Odissi Sanjukta Panigrahi Menaka Thakkar (2003) Sonal Man Singh (2003) |
Kathakali Anupama Varma & Mala Pisharody (2006) |
Mohiniyattam Rajesh Pisharody, Mala Pisharody & troupe (2006) |
Dance drama Jaya Jaya Devi Abhyasa (1999) Annamayya (2000) Living Tree (2001) |
Silappadhikaaram (2004) Ekaantha Seetha - a lonely furrow (2006) Krishna Leela (2007) |
Carnatic Vocal Neyyatinkara Vasudevan Seshagopalan T.K. Govinda Rao M. Santhanam Dr. Balamuralikrishna (1991) S. Rajam Nedunuri Krishna Murthy K.V. Narayanaswamy (1983) Ramnad Krishnan R.K. Srikantan (1988) T. Kalyanaraman (1978) Gowri Kuppuswamy Mani Krishnaswamy Hyderabad Sisters (*, 2004) Lalitha Krishnan Nookala Sathyanarayana Jambu Kannan (1989) M.L. Vasanthakumari T.V. Sankaranarayanan (1996) S. Sowmya (1997, 2006) |
K.S. Narasiah (1997, 2005) M.S. Sheela (1998) Trichur V. Ramachandran (1998) P. Unnikrishnan (1998, 2007) Raji Gopalakrishnan (1999) O.S. Thyagarajan (1999) Nagamani Srinath (2000) Priya Sisters (2000) Malladi Brothers (2001, 2005) Vasundhra Rajagopal (1989, 2002) T.N. Seshagopal (2002) Ashok Ramani (2002) Madurai Sundar (2002) Aruna Sairam (2003) T.M. Krishna (2003) Bombay Jayashri Ramnath (2004) Ranjani & Gayathri (2006) Arthi Kumar (2005) Raji Gopalakrishnan (2005) |
Hindustani Vocal Parveen Sultana Lakshmi Shankar (1992) Pandit Jasraj |
Rashid Hussein Khan Parameshwar Hegde (1999) Sumithra Guha (1999) |
| Veena S. Balachander Chittibabu Doraiswami Iyengar |
Muthulakshmi Ranganathan R.K. Suryanarayana Veena Kinhal Geetha Bennet (2004) Veenai Jayanthi (2007) |
Violin M.S. Gopalakrishnan (1974 & 2000) T. Rukmini (1978) M. Narmada (2000) Shivakumar Krishnamurti (1988) VG Jog Ganesh & Kumaresh (1998, 2007) |
Mysore Nagaraj & Manjunath (1999) Lalgudi GJR Krishnan (2001) Lalgudi Krishnan & Vijayalakshmi (1995, 2004) Dr. L. Subramaniam (2004) Kanyakumari & Embar Kannan (2004) Vittal Ramamurthy and Smt. Padma Shankar (2006) |
| Flute Viswanathan B.N. Suresh Sikkil Sisters |
Hariprasad Chaurasia G. Raghu (1997) Dr. N. Ramani (1999) Shashank (2005) |
Clarinet A.K.C. Natarajan |
Saxaphone Kadri Gopalnath (1987, 1997, 2006) |
Nagaswaram Namagiripettai Krishnan (1983) Sheik Subhani Mahaboob & Smt. Khaleeshabi Mahaboob (2000) |
Chitraveena N. Ravikiran (2000) |
| Guitar / Mohan Veena (Indian Guitar) Prasanna Ramaswamy (1998) Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (2005) |
Sitar/Sarod Shridhar Krishnamurti (1988) Aditya Verma (1997, 2003) Brij Narayan – Sarod (2005) |
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