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Madurai TNSeshagopalanBold text

It was Kumbakonam Rajamanickam Pillai, the violin maestro, who was instrumental in the tutillage of Seshagopalan with Ramanadhapuram Sankarasivam, the direct disciple of Harikesanallur Muthiah bhagavathar and within three years Seshagopalan was prepared by his guru for a full fledged concert.He was performing with the accompaniments of the leading vidvans from 1970.He is also skilled in playing Harmonium from young age and can also play veena, mrdhangam, ganjira and flute. He was inspired to start on harikatha in 2003 as it was the wish of his guru, then no more, that Seshagopalan should follow the footsteps of Muthiah bhagavathar who was a renowned harikatha exponent as well.Since then Seshagopalan has been giving harikatha performances also. He learnt veena in a very short time of few months when he got a job as a lecturer in veena and became a full fledged veena artiste in that short duration. He is also giving concerts on keyboard bringing out even the melodious ragas like thodi with all its gamakas on the keyboard.