Mannargudi Easwaran (born April 1, 1947) is a leading contemporary mridangam player and Carnatic

Carnatic music

Carnatic music is a system of music commonly associated with the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, with its area roughly confined to four modern states of India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu...

 musician. He is a staff artiste of All India Radio

All India Radio

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 and has received several awards, including Kalaimamani

Kalaimamani

The Kalaimamani is an award in Tamil Nadu state, India. These awards are given by the Tamil Nadu Iyal Isai Nataka Manram for excellence in the field of art and literature....

 from the Government of Tamil Nadu

Government of Tamil Nadu

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 in 2003 (for the year 2001) and the Palghat Mani Iyer

Palghat Mani Iyer

Palghat T.S. Mani Iyer was one of the leading mridangists in the field of Carnatic music and the first mridangist to win the Sangeetha Kalanidhi andPadmabhushan awards....

 Award in 2006.

Easwaran has played the Mridangam alongside many notable carnatic musicians, including Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer

Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer

Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer is considered to be one of the greatest Carnatic vocalists of the twentieth century...

, M. S. Subbulakshmi

M. S. Subbulakshmi

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, M. L. Vasanthakumari

M. L. Vasanthakumari

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, Maharajapuram Santhanam

Maharajapuram Santhanam

Sangeetha Kalanidhi Maharajapuram Santhanam , was one of the great Carnatic music vocalists of the 20th century. He was born in Sirunangur, a village in the state of Tamil Nadu. He followed the footsteps of his father Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer who was also a Carnatic singer.- Profile :Besides...

, M. Balamuralikrishna

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna is a Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and a playback singer. He is also acclaimed as a poet, composer and respected by all Indian classical musicians for his knowledge of Carnatic Music....

, Veena S Balachander, T. N. Krishnan, Lalgudi Jayaraman

Lalgudi Jayaraman

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, Madurai T. N. Seshagopalan

Madurai T. N. Seshagopalan

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, Flute Mali

T. R. Mahalingam (flautist)

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, Dr N. Ramani

N. Ramani

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. Among the contemporary artists he has played alongside T. V. Sankaranarayanan

T V Sankaranarayanan

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, O. S. Thyagarajan, N. Ravikiran, Maharajapuram S Ramachandran, Sudha Raghunathan

Sudha Raghunathan

Sudha Raghunathan is a Carnatic music singer from South India. She was awarded a Padma Shri for excellence in singing. She was born in Bangalore and went to Good Shepherd Convent. She did higher education at Bangalore, Karnataka and obtained a Masters Degree in Economics.She started singing at...

, Unni Krishnan, Sanjay Subrahmanyan

Sanjay Subrahmanyan

Sanjay Subrahmanyan is a Carnatic music singer from India. He performed in many concerts in India and overseas and has won many awards for his excellence. He believes that listening takes a musician closer to perfection.He is very simple and very open...

, Vijay Siva, Ganesh and Kumaresh

Ganesh and Kumaresh

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 and T.M. Krishna.

External links

• Mannargudi A Easwaran website