SAPNA <br />SRI ANNAMACHARYA PROJECT OF NORTH AMERICA <br />PRESENTS <br />EIGHTH VEENA CONFERENCE: 2016 <br /> <br />SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016 <br />SRI VENKATESWARASWAMY TEMPLE <br />AURORA, ILLINOIS <br /> <br />EMCEE: LAVANYA CHANDRASEKHAR <br />PADMAJA BUDHAVARAPU <br />DR. SARADA PURNA SONTY <br />DR. SRIRAM SONTY <br /> <br />AMRITHA PRIYA PRAVEEN IN CONCERT: <br />Amritha Priya is a first grader at Tripp Elementary school. She is currently learning veena from her grandmother and Guru Smt. Bhavani Boopathy, an accomplished and graded veena artist at Chennai. Amritha has a great passion for veena and started her journey at a very tender age of 6 and has given solo performances at various organizations including SAPNA, Balaji temple and HTGC cultural events, Hindu Mandir of Lake County etc. She has won prizes at Cleveland Aradhana, Sivan fine arts academy and IndianRaga competitions all within a year of her training. Besides veena, she is also learning Carnatic vocal and Bharathanatyam. <br /> <br />KRITHIS Played - <br /> <br />1) Janta varisai - Raga Maya malava gowlai <br />2) Ada modi gallade - Raga Charukesi composed by Sri Thyagarja swami set to Adi talam <br />3) Paluke bangara mayana - Raga Anandabairavi composed by Sri Badrachala Ramadasu set to Adi Talam <br />4) Varaveena - Raga mohanam set to Roopaka Talam <br />5) Enna thavam Seithanai - Raga Kaapi composed by Sri Papanasam Sivan set to Adi talam <br />6) Notes in Raga Basant Bahar <br /> <br /> <br />VIDEOGRAPHY: <br />DR. NAG RAO
