Keerthana Music School

Keerthana Music School is an Indian Carnatic Music School in Melbourne, the director of which is Mrs Uthra Vijayaraghavan. She founded the school in 2003 and has since been teaching vocal music to many students of different age groups, ranging from 5 years to 60 years.

Annual School Concert 2024

DEAR ARTISTS, RASIKAS, WELLWISHERS, FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS

We are much delighted to invite you to our Student Annual Concert, Part 2. Your Presence, Wishes and Blessings are very important and valuable to us.

The concert will feature captivating performances by our students from different age groups, accompanied by the rhythmic beats of percussion by Chirag Mani and students of Sri Sridhar Chari, combined with the melodic strings of Violin accompaniments by the students of Sri Murali Kumar and Kumari Chaitra.

Please come and encourage all our young and budding artists, from Melbourne.

We eagerly await your gracious company.

Uthra Vijayaraghavan

School Concert Flyer Program Schedule - 3 Aug 2024

Musical Journey

Apr 2003

Mrs Uthra Vijay founded Keerthana Music School

With a modest number of 6 students and a few mums, Uthra founded Keerthana Music School, imparting Carnatic music to kids and adults with a deep sense of passion.

May 2010

5 th Annual Concert 2010

Having started Annual school concerts, that gives an opportunity to perform in a stage environment to a large audiences improves each students ability to perform and excel as a group, thus gaining confidence and experience.

Sep 2022

Contemporary Performances - Durga Chronicles

Uthra collaborated and performed with Dr. Priya Srinivasan in contemporary performances at the Treasury Building for Mapping Melbourne Festival, Jaipur Literary Festival in Melbourne, Immigration Museum for the Triennial International Asian Festival AsiaTOPA which included intercultural experimentation with Iranian singer Tabassom Ostad as well as performances at the Showroom Gallery in London, Royal Central School of Drama.

About Durga Chronicles

Two worlds simultaneously bleed: one where gendered violence is endemic and another where Goddesses destroy demons.

Durga is the Goddess of protection, motherhood, and war. Also known as Mariamman and Korravai, Durga is a primordial being of complex multiplicities, recognised as the carrier of feminine strength.

The Durga Chronicles evokes a metaverse in which the Goddess is ruler and destroyer of demons in one world, whilst in another, her kin are assaulted and murdered.

At once a rite of collective mourning and a call to action, The Durga Chronicles remembers the stories of women who have been harmed and harnesses the force of Durga to provoke empowered resistance against gendered violence.