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 VOCAL
PROFILE
Ranjani and Gayatri are one of the rare few who have achieved
enduring success in both violin and vocal music. After more
than a decade as successful violinists of high calibre, the
sisters' foray into vocal music has brought them instant recognition
and wide acclaim.
Ranjani and Gayatri began their music career as violin duet
artistes even before they reached their teens. Through their
intense training, command over the violin and fine artistry,
they quickly established themselves as top-class violinists
of international repute. The sisters started giving vocal
concerts since 1997, and within barely three years, have won
high praise from discerning critics and music lovers all over
the globe. Their music, imbued with a deep and abiding classicism,
has been described as an exhilarating blend of vitality, melody
and emotion. Endowed with strong and pliant voices, the sisters
have a striking style of their own, which has won the hearts
of the traditionalist and the lay rasika at once. Recently
they were rated as one of the top twenty popular vocalists
by the leading classical music magazine "Sruti".
Ranjani and Gayatri have the special distinction of being
A-Graded in violin as well as vocal. Their concerts, both
violin and vocal are regularly featured in all prominant sabhas
in the December Music Festival in Chennai, and at premier
institutions all over the country. They have to their credit
several album releases, both violin and vocal.
Ranjani and Gayatri owe their rich musical heritage to the
focussed and high-level training received from their gurus
- Sangita Bhooshanam T.S. Krishnaswami for violin and Sangeeta
Kala Acharya Sri. P.S. Narayanaswamy for vocal. They had their
initial vocal training from their mother Smt. Meenakshi Balasubramaniam,
from whom they still continue to learn.
Career Milestones:
• Performed their debut violin duet concert at the prestigious
Indian Music Group Festival of Music when they were thirteen
and ten years old respectively
• Recipients of the Government of India Talent Search
Scholarship from the age of ten.
• Winners of the First Prize in the All India Radio
National Competition for Violin.
• Recipients of the title of "Sangeeta Shanmukha Mani'
conferred by Shanmukhananada Fine Arts and Sangeeta Vidyalaya,
Mumbai.
• Won The Outstanding Violinists Award for four consecutive
years from the Music Academy, Chennai from 1994 to 1998. Won
the Award for Best Kirtana Rendering for tir vocal concert
from Sri Krishna Gana Sabha in 1999.
• Highly successul concert tours in Singapore and Malaysia
in May 2000, and the USA and Canada in 2002 & 2003.
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