Ajay Gopi
(Mridangam)
Ajay Gopi started learning Mridangam from his father Sri. Gopi Lakshminarayanan, disciple of late Sri. Kumbakonam NarayanaSwamy Iyer. He also gets additional training from Sri. Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar, disciple of Sri. Palghat Raghu. Ajay had his arangetram on July, 2013 with Sri. Neyveli Santhanagopalan on the vocal and Sri. Hemmige V. Srivatsan on the violin. Ajay played junior level concerts during December Music Season, 2013. Ajay has accompanied senior artists such as Chinmaya Sisters, Sri. Hemmige V. Srivatsan (violin) , Sri. Mohan Rangan (Flute), Sri Hari Devanath and Sri Vivek Sundararaman, Sri Mahidar Tirumala (Veena), Arjun and Narayanan Keyboard (disciple of Ravikiran and U. Srinivas) and Smt. Padmaja Kishore (Daughter of T.K. Govinda Rao). Ajay regularly accompanies younger upcoming artists in bay area in organizations such as Swara Lahari, Carnatic Chamber Concerts, Lotus, SR Fine Arts, Nandhalala and Trivalley music circle. Ajay has won many Mridangam competitions such as Cleveland Aradhana, Tambaram Music Circle (India), Papanasam Sivan competitions, OSAAT, Nada nritya, etc. Ajay is 11th grader and he also learns Carnatic Vocal at Sri Paduka Academy
Artist | Venue | Date |
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Carnatica Brothers... (Vocal - Carnatic) V. V. S. Murari-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam Madipakkam A. Murali-Ghatam | Asthika Samajam - (Naimisaranya Man | 08/01/2024 |
Srividya Vasudevan... (Vocal - Carnatic) M. Vijay-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Asthika Samajam - (Naimisaranya Man | 04/01/2024 |
Sandhya Ramaswamy... (Vocal - Carnatic) Bhargav Tumkur-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Vedanta Desikar Bhavanam | 31/12/2023 |
V. Deepika - Vocal... (Vocal - Carnatic) Delhi R. Sridhar-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam Ram Siva-Kanjira | Vidya Bharathi Kalyana Mandapam | 27/12/2023 |
Hamzini Vytheeshwaran... (Vocal - Carnatic) Ajay Gopi-Mridangam Visesh Uppoor-Violin | Arkay Convention Center | 26/12/2023 |
Vivek Moozhikkulam... (Vocal - Carnatic) Vishal Sowmyan-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam Sai Subramaniam-Moorsing | Srikara Anjaneya Raghavendra Sannid | 24/12/2023 |
Sruthi Ramesh... (Vocal - Carnatic) Vishal Sowmyan-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Ashram | 04/01/2023 |
Manasa Suresh... (Vocal - Carnatic) Rishabh Ranganathan-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Dr. MGR Janaki College | 30/12/2022 |
Kamalakiran Vinjumuri... (Violin) Sruti Sarathy-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Raghavendra Swami Sannidhanam - Sri | 30/12/2022 |
Vaishnavi Anand... (Vocal - Carnatic) Bombay V. Anand-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Dr. MGR Janaki College | 30/12/2022 |
Aryadatha K. R and Priyadatha K. R... (Vocal - Carnatic) Udupi. S. Srijith-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Arkay Convention Center | 26/12/2022 |
Pranathi Ganapuram... (Vocal - Carnatic) Vignesh Thyagarajan (Krishnamurthy)-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Vidya Bharathi Kalyana Mandapam | 20/12/2022 |
Vishruthi Girish... (Vocal - Carnatic) C. S. Chinmayi-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan - Mini Hall | 17/12/2022 |
Vishruthi Girish... (Vocal - Carnatic) Kishore. T-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Music Academy Mini Hall (Kasthuri S | 28/07/2022 |
Ananya Ashok... (Vocal - Carnatic) Sruti Sarathy-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | youtube.com/sriparthasarathyswamisa | 14/10/2021 |
Madhuri Kaushik B. J... (Vocal - Carnatic) Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Music Academy Mini Hall (Kasthuri S | 25/02/2020 |
Sriranjani Santhanagopalan... (Vocal - Carnatic) B. Ananthakrishnan-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam K. V. Gopalakrishnan-Kanjira | Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Ashram | 09/01/2020 |
Vaishnavi Anand... (Vocal - Carnatic) Bombay V. Anand-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Amarabharathi Kalyanamandapam | 02/01/2020 |
Manasa Suresh... (Vocal - Carnatic) Rishabh Ranganathan-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Amarabharathi Kalyanamandapam | 01/01/2020 |
Sikkil. C. Gurucharan... (Vocal - Carnatic) Kamalakiran Vinjumuri-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam Trichy S. Krishnaswamy-Ghatam | Avichi Higher Secondary School | 28/12/2019 |
T. S. Pattabhirama Pandit... (Vocal - Carnatic) Abhishek Balakrishnan-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Arulmigu Karpagambal-Kapaleeswarar | 25/12/2019 |
Bhargav S. Hariharan... (Vocal - Carnatic) Master. Shyam Raghav-Violin Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | Music Academy Mini Hall (Kasthuri S | 05/08/2019 |
Chinmaya Sisters... (Vocal - Carnatic) Dr. Usha Rajagopalan-Violin Kallidaikurichi S. Sivakumar-Mridangam Ajay Gopi-Mridangam | The Kalyan Nagar Association Hall | 25/12/2017 |