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Born in a family where music runs in the blood. Jayanthi, niece of the Violin Legend Lalgudi. G. Jayaraman , is the disciple of her aunt Smt. Padmavathy Ananthagopalan, who is a very senior and distinguished veena player. She followed the traditional "Gurukula " system of learning music and flowered into a concert artist at the age of sixteen. There was no stopping after that. The "Sruthi" (an international monthly exclusively for classical music) called her "An artiste mature beyond her years".
Laurels and accolades kept pouring in right from her school and college days. Later, several awards from reputed organizations made their way.
Jayanthi had the rare privilege of being one of the select few disciples of Veena Virtuoso Dr. S. Balachander. Being one of his favorite disciples, Jayanthi was indeed blessed to receive his full attention, which enabled her to imbibe the innovative technicalities of his style of playing. She was also fortunate to accompany him during some of his concerts and Lecture - Demonstrations.
Career :
Jayanthi started her concert career playing with
her guru Smt. Padmavathy Ananthagopalan . The duo performed widely all
over India and abroad. They got rave reviews and acclamation
wherever they went. The "Hindustan Times raved...?Even a most
hostile and conceited critic would not have found a single flaw in this
stunning show of sublime conception and perfect execution throughout!?
Jayanthi also performed a great number of concerts in the famous 'Violin-Veena -Venu? trio along with Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi and Sikkil Mala under the guidance of her Uncle Sri. Lalgudi G. Jayaraman.
Jayanthi soon took over and started performing solo concerts all over the globe. She is right now one of the leading veena players of the world. She has established herself as an artiste with 'rare insight, classicism and technical sophistication'.
K.S. Mahadevan , one of the leading Music critics said: - "After listening to Jayanthi's veena concert , one came back with the strong conviction that, we MUST believe in the Veena and its immense potentialities of revealing the 'shoots of everlastingness' in Carnatic music".
Jayanthi has many cassettes and CD recordings to her credit. She has also to her credit North South Jugalbandhi concerts.
She is an 'A' grade artiste of the AIR and TV. She has played for the South zone hook up programmes, the Radio Sangeeth Sammelan and has also recorded for the National channel.
Jayanthi has traveled extensively and her virtuosity
has been acclaimed worldwide.
Other interests:
Apart from being a concert performer, Jayanthi
has presented many an original program like the much-acclaimed musical
"OM SHARAVANA BHAVA".
Being a postgraduate in English Literature, Jayanthi has many poems and literary articles to her credit.
" Fascinatingly profound
...clearly brought out the intricacies and radiance of Veena music"
- The Hindu
" A concert with character,
exquisitely refined, undeviatingly traditional and of unflagging interest
and pleasure" - Statesman
" Her recital outshone
in many aspects...One felt as though one was listening to a philharmonic
orchestra" - Subbudu
" Packed with short
phrases and occasionally long passages of a perfect amalgam to exquisite
gamakas, and exceptional conception, replete with bhava and manodharma."
- Indian Express
"... Haunting music..."
- Indian Express
"...Jayanthi's fertile
imagination and raga elaboration stands out for clarity..."
- The Hindu.
?.... For Jayanthi,
it seems like everything musical fuses into a mesh of polished veena art..."
- Indian Express
"You name the best
in music, it was there in right proportion - the choice of kritis, stately
and dignified rendering, kalapramanam, punctilious, refined gamakas, sahityabhava
etc. Above all, it was a downpour of appealing and moving ragas, one after
the other. At a time when Veena players, as a tribe, are vanishing, it
is a moment of great gratification that young Jayanthi is filling up the
gap." - Mahathi on her Ravindra Bharathi concert.
"The alap was soaked
in honeyed softness and as she was on the instrument, it looked as though
she was actually singing" - Trinity mirror.
?. Impeccable performance..."
- Statesman
?.... Rare mastery
...moving melodies ...melodic subtlety " - News Today.
"...It was a continuous
satiating feast of impregnated classical music...?
- Hindustan times
?.... Veena duet without
gimmicks...? - Deccan chronicle
?.... Laced with charm
and tempo...? - R.V.
".....unlike many instrumentalists
who do not master the vocal aspect of great compositions, Jayanthi seems
to have learnt this also as was evident from the illusion that she created
in the audience of hearing the lyrics also.... I hear Jayanthi is from
Lalgudi hierarchy. That explains everything." - Subbudu
on one of her 1993 season concerts.
"The gifted young
Vainika (Jayanthi) evoked an aura of traditional serenity... Originality
and obedience to the canons of taste distinguish her playing from the others'.
To her, a slip-shod second best is anethma...Divinity must indeed be at
the bottom of such gifted, impeccable playing with such depth and creativity."
- K.S.Mahadevan on her Narada Gana Sabha concert
"Jayanthi's kalyani
lent distinction to the Carnatic gamaka school of Veena display and thereby
invited rapt attention from the listeners. It was heritage music in as
much as she helped the listeners get in touch with the sensitive sentiments
of nada emanating from her Veena" - SVK in The Hindu Jan 95
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