Past Events
Mrudangam: R. Sankaranarayanan
Kanjira: K.V. Gopalakrishnan
Venue: Katella High School
Address: 2200 E Wagner Ave, Anaheim, CA 92806
Time: 5:00 pm
Mar 11 - Sangitha Kalanidhis Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi - Violin Duet
Mar 25 - Thyagaraja Aradhana
8:45 am: Pancharatna Krithis
10:45 am - 8 pm: Individual Performances by SIMA members
Venue: Katella High School
Address: 2200 E Wagner Ave, Anaheim, CA 92806
Apr 8 - Abhishek Raghuram
Violin: Mysore N. Karthik
Mrudangam: Bangalore Arjun Kumar
Venue: Bristol Civic Auditorium
Address: 16600 Civic Center Dr., Bellflower, CA 90706
Time: 5:00 pm
Violin: Sayee Rakshith
Mrudangam: Tumkur Ravishankar
Venue: Bristol Civic Auditorium
Address: 16600 Civic Center Dr., Bellflower, CA 90706
Time: 5:00 pm
Apr 15 - Malladi Brothers
Apr 29 - Kalyanapuram Aravind
Violin: R Raghul
Mrudangam: NC Bharadwaj
Ghatam: Chandrasekara Sharma
Venue: Hoover Middle School
Address: 3501 Country Club Dr., Lakewood, CA 90712
Time: 5:00 pm
Violin: L Ramakrishnan
Mrudangam: Thanjavur Murugabhoopathi
Kanjira: B Shreesundarkumar
Venue: Katella High School
Address: 2200 E Wagner Ave, Anaheim, CA 92806
Time: 5:00 pm
May 20 - Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna
Jun 3 - Ragam Tanam Pallavi Festival
SIMA’s 2nd annual RTP Fest, featuring local senior artistes and young upcoming students, with a unique presentation of Ragam Tanam Pallavis
Program #1
Violin Duet: Anish Neervannan & Arjun Neervannan
Mrudangam: Satvik Subbaraman
Ghatam: Mahesh Chidambara
Program #2
Vocal: Vivek Thyagarajan
Violin: Sankara Subramanian
Mrudangam: Vivek Chellappa
Program #3
LECTURE DEMONSTRATION - Led by 4 senior artistes, featuring over a dozen local young upcoming musicians
Featured Artistes: Arun Ramamurthi, Sanchitha Chari, Sankara Subramanian, Shubha Chandramouli
Program #4
Vocal: Chari Sisters (Sanchitha & Saadhvi Chari)
Violin: Keerthana Sankar
Mrudangam: Shubha Chandramouli
Kanjira: Vivek Chellappa
Venue: Katella High School
Address: 2200 E Wagner Ave, Anaheim, CA 92806
Time: 4:30 pm
Sep 9 - Ramakrishnan Murthy
Violin: Shiva Ramamurthi
Mrudangam: Patri Satish Kumar
Venue: Katella High School
Address: 2200 E Wagner Ave, Anaheim, CA 92806
Time: 5:00 pm
Sep 23 - Sanjay Subrahmanyan
2023
Violin: S. Varadarajan
Mrudangam: Neyveli Venkatesh
Venue: Cabrillo High School
Address: 2001 Santa Fe Ave, Long Beach, CA 90810
Time: 5:00 pm
Oct 7 - Sunil Gargyan
Violin: M Vijay
Mrudangam: Sai Ragavan
Venue: Katella High School
Address: 2200 E Wagner Ave, Anaheim, CA 92806
Time: 5:00 pm
Oct 14 - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan
Violin: Sayee Rakshith
Mrudangam: Praveen Sparsh
Venue: Katella High School
Address: 2200 E Wagner Ave, Anaheim, CA 92806
Time: 5:00 pm
Nov 4 - Mayuri Vasan
Violin: Sanjay Sharma
Mrudangam: Aditya Ganesh
Venue: Katella High School
Address: 2200 E Wagner Ave, Anaheim, CA 92806
Time: 5:00 pm
Nov 11 - Dikshitar/Shyama Shastri Day
Venue: Hoover Middle School
Address: 3501 Country Club Dr., Lakewood, CA 90712
9 am - 8 pm: Individual Performances by SIMA members
Vocal: Malladi Sreeramprasad & Malladi Ravikumar
Violin: Vittal Rangan
Mrudangam: N. Manoj Siva
Ghatam: S. Krishna
Available online - SIMA YouTube channel
March 19 - Malladi Brothers
April 9 - Anahita & Apoorva
Violin: L. Ramakrishnan
Mrudangam: N.C. Bharadwaj
Ghatam: Chandrasekara Sharma
Available online - SIMA YouTube channel
April 23 - Vivek Sadasivam
Violin: B.U. Ganesh Prasad
Mrudangam: Vijay B. Natesan
Ghatam: H. Prasanna
Available online - SIMA YouTube channel
Flute: Anirudh Bharadwaj
Mrudangam: Gopal Ravindran
Kanjira: Vivek Chellappa
Venue: Segerstrom High School
Address: 2301 W MacArthur Blvd, Santa Ana, CA 92704
Time: 4 pm
May 7 - Vani Ramamurthi
May 14 - Thyagaraja Day
(Live - In person)
9 am: Pancharatna Krithis (followed by Breakfast)
11 am - 4 pm: Individual Performances by SIMA members
Venue: Katella High School
Address: 2200 E Wagner Ave, Anaheim, CA 92806
event details/schedule
Performances open to All SIMA members
Available online - SIMA YouTube channel
May 21 - Thyagaraja Day (Online)
Jun 4 - KR Subramanyam (Flute)
Violin: Arun Ramamurthi
Mrudangam: Shubha Chandramouli
Ghatam: Ravi Balasubramanian
Venue: Hoover Middle School
Address: 3501 Country Club Dr, Lakewood, CA 90712
Time: 5 pm
Jun 11 - S. Varadarajan (violin)
Accompanied by:
Mrudangam: Neyveli B. Venkatesh
Ghatam: N. Guruprasad
Available online - SIMA YouTube channel
June 18 - SIMA Community Series - Ragam Tanam Pallavi Festival
2022
Four of SIMA’s young upcoming artistes present unique Ragam Tanam Pallavis, accompanied by SIMA’s homegrown local vidwans
Violin: Vignesh Nydhruva
Mrudangam: Satvik Subbaraman
Vocal: Ananth Mysore
Violin: Krishna Parthasarathy
Mrudangam: Arjun Narayanan
Vocal: Devesh Vashishtha
Violin: Krishna Parthasarathy
Mrudangam: Nirmal Narayan
Vocal: Keerthana Sankar
Violin: Krishna Parthasarathy
Mrudangam: Vivek Chellappa
Venue: Hoover Middle School
Address: 3501 Country Club Dr, Lakewood, CA 90712
Time: 3:30 to 6:30 pm
Violin: L. Ramakrishnan
Mrudangam: N. Manoj Siva
Venue: Kennedy High School
Address: 8281 Walker St, La Palma, CA 90623
Time: 3:00 pm
Sep 11 - Ranjani & Gayatri
Oct 8 - Gayathri Venkataraghavan
Violin: Mysore Srikanth
Mrudangam: B. Sivaraman
Venue: Loara High School
Address: 1765 W. Cerritos, Anaheim, CA 92804
Time: 5:00 pm
Violin: Shiva Ramamurthi
Mrudangam: Vignesh Venkataraman
Venue: Loara High School
Address: 1765 W. Cerritos, Anaheim, CA 92804
Time: 5:00 pm
Oct 22 - Anirudh Venkatesh
Violin: V.V.S. Murari
Mrudangam: Trichy Sankaran
Kanjira: K.V. Gopalakrishnan
Venue: Kennedy High School
Address: 8281 Walker St, La Palma, CA 90623
Time: 5:00 pm
Nov 12 - Sandeep Narayan
Nov 19 - Dikshitar/Shyama Shastri Day
Venue: Loara High School
Address: 1765 W. Cerritos, Anaheim, CA 92804
2021
SIMA has partnered with “5D Entertainment” from the month of February to August 2021 to offer a series featuring 14 eminent artistes. Concerts will be available to all SIMA members, and available for individual purchase for non-SIMA members. Concerts will be released via Vimeo every other weekend, and will be available for one full week (7 days) after the release.
Along with this, SIMA will be hosting a virtual Thyagaraja Day by the SIMA community and a concert by Flute Shashank in April.
In September, SIMA is hosting a veena concert by Vidwan Ramana Balachandran.
Please see below for more details on dates of these concerts.
S.Sowmya // Sikkil Gurucharan
february 27 // 28
Sandeep Narayan // Rajhesh Vaidhya
march 20 // 21
Bharat Sundar // A. Kanyakumari
april 10 // 11
THYAGARAJA DAY // Flute Shashank
april 24 // 25
Gayathri Venkataraghavan //
Ramakrishnan Murthy
may 23 // 24
TNS Krishna // Anil Srinivasan
july 24 // 25
Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna //
Sriranjani Santhanagopalan
august 28 // 29
Ramana Balachandran
september 25
RP Shravan // Sudha Raghunathan
june 26 // 27
