About -
Jayalakshmi Sekhar
About
Born on August 12, 1955,
Jayalakshmi learnt the Violin at age 6 and at 10 years of age started the veena .
Veena
Sri Pudukottai Jayarama Iyer, in chennai taught her for 10 years nuances of the instrument and her sincere dedication has made her into a fine veena artiste.
Gurus
Jayalakshmi had the great fortune of having had the great Sangeetha Kalanidhi Padmabhushan Dr Sripada Pinakapani as his guru ( introduced to him by her husband TV Sekhar who is the great Maestro s nephew ) and imbibed his style of music onto her veena playing . Jayalakshmi considers it a great honor that she had the opportunity of learning personally from The violin Maestro Lalgudi Jayaraman ,his varnams and thillanas .
Teaching
Jayalakshmi is well known as a good teacher and has several disciples all over the world. She worked as Associate professor in the Tamil Nadu Music and Fine Arts University for MA Veena for 4 years. She was invited to the Cleveland Festival to teach the Sustaining Sampradaya Children between 2007-2010 and performed solo concerts there too.
Concerts
Jayalakshmi has performed all her life from a young age on the flute, violin and in later years mainly on the veena.. She performs regularly in the famous December Festivals in almost all the well known sabhas in Chennai and is established herself as an artiste of very high calibre. Concerts abroad include Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Mauritius, Estonia, Germany, US. She has accompanied several artistes visiting from India to Malaysia/Australia on the violin and veena .
Dance Music
Jayalakshmi 's knowledge of music , nattuvangam for Bharatnatyam is well known and has made her in demand for consultation and programmes all over. She works closely with several Bharatnatyam artistes in Chennai and abroad.
Gallery
Awards & Recognition
Philanthrophy
Jayalakshmi ‘s generous and caring for the needy is known by her contributions to many charitable organisations, temples and supports the works of Dr S.Sunders Freedom Trust too
Press & Media
