NATHASWARA ISAIMANI T.V.S.SIVASUBRAMANIYA PILLAI
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Thirucherai T.V.S.Sivasubramaniya pillai
was born on May 16,1927 and belongs to a family of Musicians.He learnt his first lesson in vocal music from his grand father Thirupampuram S.Natarasundram pillai and nagaswaram from his father T.V.Subbaraya pillai.Further he learnt vocal music from his father in law Sangeetha kalanithi Thiruppampuram T.N.Swaminatha pillai at Chidambaram.









A sincere traditionalist, T.V.S.Sivasubramaniyam pillai is very faith on preserving the vocal`bhani' in nagaswaram.His facile playing of his instrument brings out the full range, depth and melody of the music with sahithyam and ragha bavam in a typical Kalapramanam in his own style.

This nagaswaram artist is known for his handling of familiar Carnatic ragas in their pristine form. He has an ability to delineate gana ragas in brief and sweet manner like his `alapana' of the raga kambothi,Bairavi, Banduvarali,Thodi,Natabairavi,sankarabaranam,Shanmugapriya,keeravani,and Kalyani.


Further he has performed several krithis of Thiyagarajar,Dikshitar,and Syamasastrigal with sahidya padantharam. Tamil songs of muthuthandavar, gopla krishnabarathi,periyasamithuran,barathiyar and bharathidasan, are also performed by him in a beautiful style of his own.


His Master pieces are Nee bajanakana in nayaki ,Munuravana in thodi, Evarimatta in kambothi,sethulara in bairavi Dinamani vamsa and Enge thedukindrai in hari kambothi and Himathrisudhe in kalyani and all muthuthandavar compositions.


He is very efficient in performing the ragas,kirthanas,as well as swaraprastharam and pallavi and also mallari,thillana,thirupugalzh.

During his performances Needamangalam Meenakshi sundaram pillai, Thirumullaivoyil Muthu veeru pillai,Nachiyar koil N.P.Raghava pillai, Kumbakonam K.A.Thangavelu pillai,Needamangalam S.Shunmuga vadivel, Thiruvazhundur Ramdoss,Yazhpanam Dhkshanamoorthy,Valangaiman shunmuga sundram pillai,Vadapathi mangalam V.N.G.Dakshinamoorthy,Inivil Chinnaraja ,vaker ganesan,valayapatti A.R.subramaniyam,Harithuvaramanagalam A.K.Palanivel,Thiruvalaputhur T.A.Kaliyamoorthy,Thensittur Sundram, Thirunelveli Nynar swamy,Thirupathy Muniramaiah,Tenkanikottai Munirathinam Thiruvidaimaruthur venkatesan and Thirunageswaram T.R.Subramaniyam were accompanied Thavil.

His performances were appreciated by Thirumuruga Kirubanantha variyar, Dr.V.Ragavan,Sri Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer,Srimathi M.S.Subbulakshmi,T.M.Thiyagarajan,T.V.Namasivayam, Flute T.Viswanathan,N.Ramani,Chidamparam C.S.Jayaraman,Madurai Somu, Sirkazhi Govindarajan,Thiru Vizhi Milazhilai Brothers,Thiruvenkadu Subramaniya pillai,T.N.R.Natraja sundram pillai,Chidambaram Radha krishna pillai,Darmapuram abirama sundram pillai,KulikaraiK.S.Pichiyappa pillai,Karkurichi Arinachalam Vedharanyam G.Vedamoorthy, Thirumaignanam T.P.Nataraja sundram,Namakiripettai krishnan,Shiek chinna moulana,Madurai M.P.N.Sethuraman,Ponnusamy,and A.K.C.Natarajan.

He has trained hundreds of student in Nathaswarm from Andra Pradesh,Sri Lanka,karnataka, Malasiya and Singapore.

Thirucherai T.V.S.Sivasubramaniyam pillai performed his programmes in All India Radio Trichy from 1952 upto 1994,and also his programmes were recorded in AIR in various stations all over india.He has given a recital as Pancha Gathi vinyasam and Mangala isai in AIR and he has performed in Doordharsan Chennai and Delhi.


He has performed in "MUSIC ACADAMY","TAMILISAI SANGAM",MUTHAMILZH PERAVAI", CHENNAI,TRICHY ARUNAGIRINATHAR VIZHA,"THIRUVAIYARU THIYAGARAJA UTSAVAM","DELHI UTHRASWAMY MALAI TEMPLE", "SHANMUGANANTHA SANGEETHA SABHA"," MUMBAI SUBRAMANIYA SAMAJ","CALCUTTA RAMAR TEMPLE",BANGALORE,VARIOUS PLACES OF KERALA, AND ALSO IN SRI LANKA ADIVEL FESTIVAL,MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE.


In the first function of Nadikar Thilagam Sivaji's family at soorakkottai the nagaswaram programme of Thirucherai T.V.S.Sivasubramaniyam pillai was arranged by embar Vijaya Raghava chariyar

In all the marraige functions of film director Iraiarulselver K.Sankar, Sri Siva subramaniyam's nagaswaram had participated and Puratchi Thalaivar M.G.R, listened the nathaswara music of him and praised him.

In 1994 the tittle,nathaswara isai selvam was awarded by muthamil aringer Chief Minister Kalainger M.Karunanithi in Muthamilzh Peravai at chennai.

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saraswathi stores and HMV gramphone records has recorded the Thirucherai T.V.S.Sivasubramaniyam pillai nathaswaramIn the period 1989 to 1991 he was the Executive Member of Tamilnadu Eyal Isai Nadaga Mandram

 

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TheChennai,madurai Goverment music colleges engaged him as visiting proffessor

In sachayi Hindi film Thirucherai T.V.S.Sivasubramaniyam pillai has performed the nathaswaram with famous singer Asha bhonsle in sankar jaikishan music recorded at mumbai film centre and he has also participated in the tamil film Thiruvarul of tevar films.

During his 80 th Birth day Anniversary celebration, his recoerded programmme CD was released on 30-05-2007 in SASTRI HALL,LUZ.CHENNAI.

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         Munuravana - Raga Dhodi
         Avanethevar- Raga Vijayanagari
         Alapana - Bhairavi
         Manasa Sancharare - Raga Sama.
         Oho Kalame - Raga Sahana.