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ACHIEVEMENTS
1] PROF .M.SUBRAMONIASARMA JOINED AS ASST. PROFESSOR OF VIOLIN IN SRI SWATHI THIRUNAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC TRIVANDRUM IN THE YEAR 1961 AND RETIRED AS HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VIOLIN IN THE SAME INSTITIUTION IN 1992 WAS AN ACHIEVEMENT. DURING PROFESSORSHIP HE HAS POPULARISED AND NOTATED MANY COMPOSITIONS OF MAHARAJA SWATHI THIRUNAL AND RARE COMPOSITIONS OF SAINT TYAGARAJA, MUTHUSWAMI DEEKSHITHER AND HARIKESANELLORE MUTHAYYA BHAGAVATHER.HE HAS RELEASED A BOOK ON CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE YEAR 1963. 2] AS A REPUTED VIOLINIST IN THE FIELD OF KARNATIC MUSIC, HE HAS PERFORMED VIOLIN CONCERT IN THE B.B.C. HE HAD ALSO GIVEN VIOLIN ACCOMPANIMENT TO PADMABHOOSHAN DR. K.J.YESUDASS AT LONDON IN CONNECTION WITH WORLD TAMIL CONFERENCE IN THE YEAR 1982 & IN THE FIRST WORLD MALAYALEE CONFERENCE WHICH IS THE FIRST AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC TOUR IN 1983. ARCHIVAL CD RELEASE OF ALL INDIA RADIO
AS AN HONOUR, PRASAR BHARATHI [ALL INDIA RADIO]HAS RELEASED A VIOLIN DUET CONCERT OF PROF.M.SUBRAMONIASARMA & HER DAUGHTER SMT.S.R.RAJASREE FROM ALL INDIA RADIO ARCHIVAL RECORDING. HE HAS PERFORMED VIOLIN CONCERTS IN AKASHVANI SANGEETH SAMMELAN AND DOORDARSHAN NATIONAL PROGRAMMES. AWARDS, TITLES, HONOURS
1] IN 2015, HE HAS BEEN HONOURED WITH ‘ACHARYA KALAA BHAARATHI’ AWARD FROM CHENNAI BHARATH KALAACHAR SABHA 2] IN 2015 HE HAS ALSO BEEN HONOURED WITH MAHARAJAPURAM VISWANATHA IYER MEMORIAL AWARD FROM MAHARAJAPURAM VISWANATHA IYER TRUST 3] IN THE YEAR 2014, HE HAS BEEN HONOURED WITH ‘KALAA RETHNA FELLOWSHIP’ [FELLOW] BY KERALA SANGEETHA NATAKA ACADEMY 4] IN THE YEAR 1st JANUARY 2012 HE HAS BEEN HONOURED WITH THE PRESTIGIOUS AWARD "THE PAPA VENKATARAMAIAH SENIOR VIOLINIST" AWARD BY MADRAS MUSIC ACADEMY 5] HE HAS BEEN HONOURED WITH “SRI KRISHNA SANGEETHA RETHNA AWARD” FROM TRIVANDRUM M.S.SUBBULEKSHMY FOUNDATION ON 4TH MAY 2014 6) HE HAS BEEN HONOURED WITH ‘TOP’ GRADE AWARD BY ALL INDIA RADIO & DOORDARSHAN 7) IN 2006, AADI SANKARA VEDA VEDANTHA SAMSKRITHA HAS CONFERRED HIM THE AWARD “SANGEETHA RATHNA” 8) BEST VIOLINIST HONOUR FROM KERALA GOVERNOR P.RAMACHANDRAN IN THE YEAR 1987 9) “MADURA GANA SUDHA AWARD” FROM MADURAI VAIKKATHASHTAMY SABHA IN THE YEAR 2003 10) KERALA SANGEETHA NADAKA ACADEMY AWARD FOR VIOLIN IN 1986 11) IN THE YEAR 2007 HE HAS BEEN HONOURED WITH NATARAJA SANGEETHA SABHA AWARD BY TRIVANDRUM VARKALA SRI NATARAJA GURU CENTRE, SIVAGIRI CHARITABLE SERVICE / SOCIAL SERVICE
In 1960 when there was dearth of competent violinists in Kerala, He did all in his capacity to spot out talents and egg them on to join the music college. "For the needy among them, the master has even footed their tuition bills," recalls many of his disciples. Sarma, a stickler for classicism has also dabbled film music and light music. He has trained many enthusiastic students through his professorship at Thiruvananthapuram Swathi Thirunal Music college during the period of 1961 to 1991.During his leisure time, he revived rare Karnatic kritis and popularised them through his concerts and albums. Sarma plays violin in gayaki ang style (vocal style). Deep Classical values, Melody and he position his violin conveniently between inner ankle of foot and chin, while playing it. Incidentally, he was the first one to popularise this posture in Kerala. Till then the practice in vogue was to rest the bottom belly of the violin on the chest. He has violin trio cassettes & cd to his credit. PERSONAL
He has a good number of Disciples including his daughter S.R.Rajasree & his son S.R.Mahadeva sarma. His wife Smt.K.Renuka is a good music lover and is a retired B.S.N.L.Employee. Prof.M.Subramoniasarma’s daughter S.R.Rajasree is a professional violinist and son-in-law Mr.V.Ganesh is a music lover and working in automobile field.Prof.M.Subramoniasarma’s son S.R.Mahadeva sarma is a professional violinist. ACCOMPANIMENT PERFORMANCES AND CONCERT TOURS IN ABROAD
HE HAS ACCOMPANIED MANY MUSICIANS LIKE PADMABHOOSHAN CHEMBAI VAIDYANATHA BHAGAVATHER, PADMABHOSHAN T.V.SANKARANARAYANAN , PADMASRI PALGHAT K.V.NARAYANASWAMY, PADMABHOOSHAN DR K.J.YESUDAS, PADMASRI MAHARAJAPURAM SANTHANAM, PADMASRI PALGHAT K.V.NARAYANASWAMY, DR.S.RAMANATHAN,D.K.JAYARAMAN, SEERKAZHI GOVINDARAJAN, RAMANAD KRISHNAN, R.K.SRIKANTAN,SRI T.R.SUBRAMONIAM, PADMABHOOSHAN.P.S.NARAYANASWAMY T.N.SESHAGOPALAN, SANGEETHAKALANIDI T.K.GOVINDARAO,VEENA BALACHANDER AND OTHER PROMINENT MUSICIANS. CULTURAL RELATIONS
HE PERFORMED IN THE KUWAIT RADIO TOO. HE HAS VISITED MANY COUNTRIES LIKE UNITED STATES OF AMERICCA, EUROPE, GULF COUNTRIES AND SINGAPORE FOR CONCERT TOURS WITH DR K.J.YESUDAS. CASSETTES AND OTHER POSITIONS
HE HAS MANY AUDIO CASSETTES, LONGPLAY DISCS AND COMPACT DISCS TO HIS CREDIT. HE WAS ONE OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER FROM 1990 TO 1992 AT SRI SWATHI THIRUNAL SANGEETHA SABHA TRIVANDRUM [AN ORGANISATION WHICH PROMOTES MUSIC & DANCE FOR THE PAST 75 YEARS] HE WAS PART OF THE ORCHESTRA FOR MANY FILM MUSIC. |