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Isaiyarangam Performers

• Giritharan Sachithananthan (Picture)

• Started his musical career at a young age from miruthanga vidwan Mylvaganam Kandasamy. Accompanied many artists. He became the disciple miruthanga maestro Thiruchi Shankaran and staged an arangetram under his tutelage. He has played for many artists such as Madurai Sundar, Bhushany Kalyanaraman. He is currently teaching miruthangam and computers at the Tamil Arts Technical Institute.

• Gowrishankar Balachandran (Picture)

• Starting his music career at the young age of 8 from Radio Ceylon artist Arumugam Pillai, he relieved further training from Tiruvaroor Bakthavathsalam for 10 years in Thanjavoor Style in gurukula manner. He has played for very well-known artists such as Pathmasri Jesudas, Dr. Ramani, Mathura T. N. Shesagopalan, and Saxophone Kathiri Gopalnath. He has founded Laya Mathura Percussion Arts Center, in which he is Artistic Director and teacher. He has within himself the passion for music, and to explore and experiment with different approaches to music.

• Fays Zavahir (Picture)

• The son of K.M. Zavahir, the first composer of Sri Lankan Tamil films, Fiyas started learning classical music, keyboard, mandolin and percussive instruments under the tutelage of his father at a young age. He received advanced training in classical music from Arunthathi Sriranganathan. At 14 he played keyboard for his father’s music group, and started his own band SuperSons at the age of 18. By the age of 24 while working as a composer for Radio Ceylon, he traveled all over the world with B. H. Abdul Hameed, establishing his talent abroad. He has contributed to the music industry with numerous CD releases currently in Toronto, he has a mini-studio where he records his compositions.