R Sankaranarayanan
Mridangam
R.SANKARANARAYANAN hails from a traditional music family of the legendary Sangeetha Kalanidhi Brahmashri Papanasam Sivan. He started learning Mridangam from Vidwan Papanasam Sri Kumar for a few months and now he is under the able guidance of Mridangam legend Kalaimamani Vidwan Srimushnam Shri V.Rajarao to learn the nuances and intricacies. At the age of 9, he started performing for Carnatic music concerts.
From then on, he has performed all over India accompanying various senior artists. He has also performed in Australia, Singapore & Dubai. He is an 'A' graded artiste of All India Radio, Chennai. Sankaranarayanan also has a few CD / Cassette recordings to his credit.
Sankaranarayanan has done M.A., M.Phil., with his M.Phil dissertation topic being " Depiction of Mridangam in Sanskrit literature".