Mysore/Mysuru: Raaga Vaibhava Charitable Trust, Mysuru, has organised a grand Karnatak vocal concert by renowned vocalist Vid. Abhishek Raghuram at Sri Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha on JLB Road in city on Feb. 8 at 6 pm.

He will be accompanied by Vidu. H.M. Smitha on  violin, Vid. Kishore Ramesh on mridanga and Vid. Sumukh Karanth on kanjira.

Vid. Abhishek started out as a mridanga player under the tutelage of his grandfather Palghat R. Raghu but later, on his grandmother’s insistence, he went for vocal training. Initially he trained under his mother Usha. From 1994, he began taking lessons from P.S. Narayanaswamy. After completing his B.Sc in mathematics he joined for his Master’s in Computer Science but later abandoned it to pursue music.

Vidu. Smitha trained under violinists H.K. Narasimha Murthy, Vidu. H.N. Rajalakshmi and Vid. H.N. Bhaskar. Smitha is an ‘A’ grade artiste of AIR and her sister Sindhu Suchetan is also a prominent Karnatak musician.

Vid. Kishore Ramesh is an AIR ‘A Grade’ artiste trained under his father R. Ramesh.

Vid. Sumukh is a dedicated kanjira and mridanga artiste trained in traditional techniques with modern touch.