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Prashanth Iyengar (born 12 January 1973) is a classical musician and veena exponent from India, in the Carnatic Music genre. He is a performer, composer and teacher.He is the first composer from Karnataka to have composed Varnams in all the '72 Melakarta Ragas. [1]
Suma Sudhindra is a classical musician and veena exponent from India, in the Carnatic Music genre. She was awarded Karnataka 's second highest civilian award, the Rajyotsava Award , in the year 2001.
String instrument; Other names: Vina [1]: Classification: String instruments: Developed: Veena has applied to stringed instruments in Indian written records since at least 1000 BCE. . Instruments using the name have included forms of arched harp and musical bow, lutes, medieval stick zithers and tube zithers, bowed chordophones, fretless lutes, the Rudra bīn and Sarasvati v
The veena has a recorded history that dates back to approximately 1700 BCE. In ancient times, the tone vibrating from the hunter's bow string when he shot an arrow was known as the Vil Yazh. The Jya ghosha (musical sound of the bow string) is referred to in the ancient Atharvaveda. Eventually, the archer's bow paved the way for the musical bow.
D. Balakrishna is a Carnatic musician who plays veena in the Mysore tradition. [1]Born c. 1955-1956, [2] he is the son of noted veena player, Doraiswamy Iyengar and grandson of Venkatesh Iyengar, a student of Veena Venkatagiriyappa.
Jyoti Hegde (Sanskrit: ज्योती हेग्डे, IPA: [dʑjoːtɪ ɦeːɡɖeː]) is a Rudra veena and sitar artist from the Khandarbani gharana. She has pursued music since age 12 and completed her master's in music from Karnatak University of Dharwad. Vidhushi Jyoti Hegde is the first woman player of Rudra veena in the world. [1]
Many musical instruments are associated with Hindustani classical music. The veena , a string instrument, was traditionally regarded as the most important, but few play it today and it has largely been superseded by its cousins the sitar and the sarod , both of which owe their origin to Persian influences.
It is also known as chitravina (Sanskrit: चित्रवीणा), chitra veena, chitraveena, chitra vina, hanumad vina and mahanataka vina. Today it is played mainly in South India, though its origins can be traced back to Bharata's Natya Shastra (200 BCE-200 CE), where it is mentioned as a seven string fretless instrument.