As part of Silver Jubilee Celebrations, a Carnatic Music Concert by Dr. Nishanth Chandran and team was held on 12 August at Tarangini amphitheatre. 

Violinist Dr. Nishanth Chandran was supported by Kum. Malladi Sindhu Rageswari on Violin, Sri Malladi Sivanand Yasasvi on Mridangam and Sri Mamillapalli Chandrakanth on Ghatam.

Dr. Nishanth Chandran is a Ph.D in Computer Science from UCLA and is currently a cryptography researcher at Microsoft Research. Dr. Nishanth Chandran is a disciple of the renowned violinist Smt. A Kanyakumari, he is also a classically trained vocalist under the guidance of Sri P S Narayanaswamy. 

He gave his first carnatic violin performance at the age of 9 and has since then given several concerts all over India and the US. He has several accolades to his name – including the best violinist award from the Music Academy, Chennai (on several occasions) and the best violinist award from Sri Krishna Gana Sabha. Nishanth received the Cultural Talent Search Scholarship from the Government of India at the age of 9 and in the year 2001, he won the All India Radio 1st prize for instrumental music. 

August 2023