Major Performance Venues

• The Music Academy Madras, Annual Conference & Concerts – Since 1986
• Chennai December Season – All major venues including Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Narada Gana Sabha, Sri Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha, The Mylapore Fine Arts Club, Indian Fine Arts Society, Margazhi Maha Utsavam, Chennaiyil Tiruvayyar – Since 1984
• Theatre’ de la Ville, Paris, France
• Radio Sangeet Sammelan, National Programme & South Zone Hook-up, All India Radio
• National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai
• Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival
• Various performance venues worldwide including USA, UK, Canada, Singapore, Europe, Australia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia & Japan

Academic

• Vice Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Dr J Jayalalithaa Music & Fine Arts University
• Visiting Professor at the Advanced School of Carnatic Music, The Music Academy, Madras
• Visiting Faculty at the Dept. of Indian Music, Univ. of Madras

Advisory

• Member of the Experts Committee, The Music Academy, Madras
• Academic Council Member, Tamil Nadu Dr J Jayalalithaa Music & Fine Arts University (2018 – 2022)
• Member of the Governing Board, Kalakshetra Foundation (2015 – 2017)

Music Promotion & Charity

• Founder Trustee, Sukrtam Foundation
• Chief Mentor at The ARTery
• ‘A-Top’ Artiste, All India Radio and Doordarshan
• Judge & Talent Spotter for various television & radio shows on prominent channels including Doordarshan, Star Vijay, Asianet, Kairali, Raj TV, Times Thyagaraja Fest
• Co-author of Nadanubhava, the world’s first encyclopedic CD-ROM on Carnatic Music
• Co-creator of “Nadopasana – My Own Carnatic Tutor”, the world’s first self-help Carnatic music guru based on Video CD & Karaoke format
• First Carnatic musician to make a Video CD album (Live concert of Mahakavi Bharatiyar songs)
• Lecture-demonstrations and workshops for SPIC-MACAY, The ARTery, YACM, IIT-M and various universities worldwide
• World Tamil Conference, Tanjore, 1995
• Conference Chair, Millennium Conference of the Indian Fine Arts Society, Singapore (Paper: “Triumph of Technology in Traditional Arts”)
• Artiste of Choice – Tamil Isai Nataka Mandram, Chennai, for concerts at selected centres in Tamil Nadu, 1988
• Associated since childhood, with Ramalingar Pani Mandram, Chennai to propagate Ramalingar’s “Arutpa”
• Gandhi Smriti Concert on Martyr’s Day, Dept. of Culture, New Delhi

Collaborations

• Jugalbandis with Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarthy, Vidushi Ashwini Bhide Deshpande
• Concept & Lead in thematic performances such as Rama Natakam, Thyagaraja Ramayanam, Nandanar Charitram featuring young artistes