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Umayalpuram Mali
(Mridangam)
He is a popular mridangam player who learnt from Kumbakonam Rajappa Iyer and Umayalpuram Sivaraman. Apart from being a Copeland Fellow, Fulbright Fellow and faculty at Harvard University, he is acknowledged as one of the most accommodative accompanists in the classical music scene and has played with stalwarts like Veena S. Balachandar, Thanjavur S. Kalyanaraman, Flute T. Viswanathan, T. Muktha, Thanjavur Sankara Iyer, Prof. T.N. Seshagopalan Neyveli Santhagopalan. Prof. T.N. Krishnan & M. Chandrasekaran and other reputed names. He is generous in sharing his knowledge with his students and has taught many popular mridangam players. The tiny village Umayalpuram (Tamil Nadu, India) on the banks of the sacred river Cauvery, in between the holy towns Kumbakonam and Thiruvayaru, has produced many musicians of repute.
| Artist | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|
 U. P. Raju & Nagamani...(Mandolin ) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Manjoor Unnikrishnan-Ghatam | Music Academy Main Hall (T.T.K. Aud | 01/01/2025 |
 Viji Krishnan Natarajan...(Violin) Sriram Krishnan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Vaikom R. Gopalakrishnan-Ghatam | Sasthri Hall (Srinivasa Sastri Hall | 24/12/2024 |
| Viji Krishnan Natarajan... (Violin) Sriram Krishnan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Vaikom R. Gopalakrishnan-Ghatam | Arkay Convention Center | 19/12/2024 |
 B. V. Ganesh...(Vocal - Carnatic) Gayathri Vibhavari. V-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Sasthri Hall (Srinivasa Sastri Hall | 11/12/2024 |
 Srirangam Venkatanagarajan...(Vocal - Carnatic) Gyandev Pappu-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam K. R. Sivaramakrishna-Kanjira | Vani Mahal - Kanchi Jagadguru Sri C | 10/10/2024 |
 Vijay Arun...(Guitar - Carnatic) M. S. G. Sureshkumar-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Sai Bharath-Kanjira | Sri Sankara Kendra (Matam) | 27/09/2024 |
 Srikanth Gopalakrishnan...(Vocal - Carnatic) M. Vijay-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Music Academy Mini Hall (Kasthuri S | 06/06/2024 |
 Pathangi-Brothers-Dathre-Dhruv...(Vocal - Carnatic) Madurai M. Vijayaganesh-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Samyuktha Sreeram -Ghatam | Arkay Convention Center | 29/12/2023 |
 S. R. Mahadeva Sarma...(Violin) S. Rajashree-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Hariharasubramaniam -Ghatam Udupi. S. Srikanth-Kanjira | Music Academy Main Hall (T.T.K. Aud | 25/12/2023 |
 Ashok Subramniam...(Vocal - Carnatic) Dr. Usha Rajagopalan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Arkay Convention Center | 24/12/2023 |
 Madurai N Sivaganesh...(Vocal - Carnatic) Madurai M. Vijayaganesh-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Arkay Convention Center | 21/11/2023 |
 Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli...(Violin) Ravi Srinivasan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Venkataramanan -Kanjira | Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan - Mini Hall | 13/10/2023 |
| Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli... (Violin) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Sri Thiagaraja Sangeetha Vidwath Sa | 07/10/2023 |
 M. Chandrasekaran...(Violin) G. Bharathi-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Sukanya Ramgopal-Ghatam | Music Academy Main Hall (T.T.K. Aud | 01/01/2023 |
| Viji Krishnan Natarajan... (Violin) Sriram Krishnan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Vaikom R. Gopalakrishnan-Ghatam | Arkay Convention Center | 24/12/2022 |
 Dr. Mrs. R. S. Jayalakshmi...(Veena) Charulatha Chandrasekar-Veena Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Alathur T. Rajaganesh-Kanjira | Arkay Convention Center | 20/05/2022 |
 Vishaal R Sapuram...(Chitra veena) Raghul Ravichandran-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Venkataramanan -Kanjira | Sri Thiagaraja Sangeetha Vidwath Sa | 26/03/2022 |
| Dr. Mrs. R. S. Jayalakshmi... (Veena) Charulatha Chandrasekar-Veena Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam N. Rajaraman -Ghatam | Arkay Convention Center | 12/03/2022 |
 Srirangam Kannan...(Others) Shyamala Venkateswaran-Others Gopinath M. R-Others Umayalpuram Mali-Others Srirangam Venkatanagarajan-Others M. Vijay-Others Tanjore Praveen Kumar (Praveen Sparsh)-Others Dr. Udayalur Kalyanaraman-Others S. Mahathi-Others N. Manoj Siva-Others | Vani Mahal - Sri P. Obul Reddy Hall | 09/03/2022 |
| Pathangi-Brothers-Dathre-Dhruv... (Vocal - Carnatic) Vijay Ganesh-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Venkataramanan -Kanjira | Webcast - www.facebook.com>arkayco | 28/12/2021 |
 Thanjavur V. Sankara Iyer ...(Vocal - Carnatic) S. Varadarajan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | 18/06/2021 | |
 Ragavan Manian...(Vocal - Carnatic) Shraddha Ravindran-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Venkataramanan -Kanjira | Webcast-Music Academy Chennai | 02/09/2020 |
| Srirangam Venkatanagarajan... (Vocal - Carnatic) Madurai M. Vijayaganesh-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Webcast-Music Academy Chennai | 29/08/2020 |
 Jayaraj Krishnan & Jayashree Jayaraj...(Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Hariharasubramaniam -Ghatam | Sri Krishna Mandiram | 29/01/2020 |
 T. N. Krishnan...(Violin) Viji Krishnan Natarajan-Violin Sriram Krishnan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Vaikom R. Gopalakrishnan-Ghatam | Sasthri Hall (Srinivasa Sastri Hall | 27/12/2019 |
 Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan...(Vocal - Carnatic) V. V. Ravi -Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam A. S. Krishnan -Moorsing | Music Academy Main Hall (T.T.K. Aud | 27/12/2019 |
| T. N. Krishnan... (Violin) Viji Krishnan Natarajan-Violin Sriram Krishnan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Dr. S. Karthick-Ghatam | P.K.Mahal | 26/12/2019 |
 Salem R Shriram...(Vocal - Carnatic) Kalyani shankar-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Mylapore Fine Arts Club Hall - TAG | 20/12/2019 |
 Alamelu Mani...(Vocal - Carnatic) V. V. Ravi -Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam H. Sivaramakrishnan-Ghatam | RR Sabha-Kamakoti Triveni Sri Chand | 18/12/2019 |
 Vaikom T. V. Jayachandran...(Vocal - Carnatic) Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Ragasudha Hall | 15/12/2019 |
| Vishaal R Sapuram... (Chitra veena) Sruti Sarathy-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Alathur T. Rajaganesh-Kanjira | The Kalyan Nagar Association Hall | 10/12/2019 |
 Vivek Sadasivam...(Vocal - Carnatic) Chidambaram G. Badrinath-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Venkataramanan -Kanjira | Sri Thiagaraja Sangeetha Vidwath Sa | 19/11/2019 |
 T. T. Narendran...(Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam D.V. Venkatasubramaniyam-Ghatam | Sri Thiagaraja Sangeetha Vidwath Sa | 22/10/2019 |
 Revathi Sadasivam...(Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. SunilKumar-Kanjira | Music Academy Mini Hall (Kasthuri S | 20/09/2019 |
 V. Venkatanagarajan. ...(Vocal - Carnatic) Madurai M. Vijayaganesh-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Venkataramanan -Kanjira | Ragasudha Hall | 18/09/2019 |
| V. Venkatanagarajan. ... (Vocal - Carnatic) Madurai M. Vijayaganesh-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam K. R. Sivaramakrishna-Kanjira | Vani Mahal - Sri P. Obul Reddy Hall | 20/08/2019 |
 Saranya B Mangal...(Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam N. Rajaraman -Ghatam | Narada Gana Sabha - Swami Haridhos | 12/08/2019 |
 P. Vasanthkumar...(Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam N. Rajaraman -Ghatam | Narada Gana Sabha - Swami Haridhos | 12/08/2019 |
 Srivani Yalla...(Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam N. Rajaraman -Ghatam | Narada Gana Sabha - Swami Haridhos | 12/08/2019 |
 Vasantha Krishnamurthy...(Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam N. Rajaraman -Ghatam | Narada Gana Sabha - Swami Haridhos | 12/08/2019 |
 Dr. R. Ganesh...(Vocal - Carnatic) Kalpana Venkat-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Venkataramanan -Kanjira | Arkay Convention Center | 08/06/2019 |
| Jayaraj Krishnan & Jayashree Jayaraj... (Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam H. Prasanna-Ghatam | Narada Gana Sabha - Swami Haridhos | 08/04/2019 |
 D. Balakrishna...(Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Trichy Dr. Murali-Ghatam | Arkay Convention Center | 16/03/2019 |
| Dr. R. Ganesh... (Vocal - Carnatic) Madurai. S. Balasubramaniam-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Trichy Dr. Murali-Ghatam | Vidya Bharathi Kalyana Mandapam | 03/01/2019 |
| T. N. Krishnan... (Violin) Viji Krishnan Natarajan-Violin Sriram Krishnan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam G. Chandrasekar Sharma-Ghatam | P.K.Mahal | 01/01/2019 |
| Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan... (Vocal - Carnatic) Vittal Ramamurthy-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam N. Rajaraman -Ghatam | Vidya Bharathi Kalyana Mandapam | 31/12/2018 |
| Jayaraj Krishnan & Jayashree Jayaraj... (Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam N. Rajaraman -Ghatam | The Kalyan Nagar Association Hall | 23/12/2018 |
| V. Venkatanagarajan. ... (Vocal - Carnatic) R. Samyuktha -Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Arkay Convention Center | 18/12/2018 |
| Vishaal R Sapuram... (Chitra veena) Sruti Sarathy-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Hariharasubramaniam -Ghatam | Arkay Convention Center | 10/12/2018 |
 Aravind Bhargav. S...(Mandolin ) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Hariharasubramaniam -Ghatam | Arkay Convention Center | 23/09/2018 |
| Dr. R. Ganesh... (Vocal - Carnatic) Dr. M. Narmadha-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Sai Subramaniam-Moorsing | Amarabharathi Kalyanamandapam | 21/09/2018 |
 Dr. Tadepally Lokanadha Sharma...(Vocal - Carnatic) Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan. S-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Arkay Convention Center | 16/09/2018 |
 Santhosh Subramanian...(Vocal - Carnatic) Anayampatti G. Venkatasubramanian-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Arkay Convention Center | 02/08/2018 |
| Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan... (Vocal - Carnatic) Vittal Ramamurthy-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam B. Shree Sundarkumar-Kanjira | Amarabharathi Kalyanamandapam | 09/07/2018 |
| Jayaraj Krishnan & Jayashree Jayaraj... (Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Arkay Convention Center | 29/04/2018 |
 O. S. Thiagarajan...(Vocal - Carnatic) Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Venkataramanan -Kanjira | Sri Thiagaraja Sangeetha Vidwath Sa | 25/04/2018 |
| M. Chandrasekaran... (Violin) G. Bharathi-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Vaikom R. Gopalakrishnan-Ghatam | Arkay Convention Center | 14/04/2018 |
| Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan... (Vocal - Carnatic) M. A. Krishnaswamy-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam N. Rajaraman -Ghatam B. S. Purushotham-Kanjira | The Kalyan Nagar Association Hall | 16/03/2018 |
| Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan... (Vocal - Carnatic) M. A. Sundareswaran-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Venkataramanan -Kanjira | Sitadevi Garodia Hindu Vidyalaya | 18/02/2018 |
| T. N. Krishnan... (Violin) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Dr. S. Karthick-Ghatam | Ragasudha Hall | 17/02/2018 |
 Palghat Dr. R. Ramprasad ...(Vocal - Carnatic) L. Ramakrishnan-Violin-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Siva Vishnu Temple - Virgambakkam | 10/02/2018 |
| T. N. Krishnan... (Violin) Viji Krishnan Natarajan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam G. Chandrasekar Sharma-Ghatam | Youth Hostel Auditorium | 14/01/2018 |
| Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan... (Vocal - Carnatic) Delhi P. Sunder Rajan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam H. Sivaramakrishnan-Ghatam | Sringeri Jagadguru Pravachana Mandi | 08/01/2018 |
 J. B. Sruthi Sagar...(Flute - Carnatic) B. Ananthakrishnan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Nerkunam Dr. S. Sankar-Kanjira | Ragasudha Hall | 28/12/2017 |
 Dr. Padma Sugavanam...(Vocal - Carnatic) V. V. Ravi -Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | P.S. Dakshinamurthy Hall | 27/12/2017 |
| S. R. Mahadeva Sarma... (Violin) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Alathur T. Rajaganesh-Kanjira | Sasthri Hall (Srinivasa Sastri Hall | 25/12/2017 |
 S. Srinivasan...(Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam H. Sivaramakrishnan-Ghatam | Music Academy Main Hall (T.T.K. Aud | 18/12/2017 |
| T. N. Krishnan... (Violin) Viji Krishnan Natarajan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam G. Chandrasekar Sharma-Ghatam | P.K.Mahal | 17/12/2017 |
 Madurai M. Vijayaganesh...(Violin) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam N. Rajaraman -Ghatam | P.S.B. Mini Hall | 03/12/2017 |
| Ragavan Manian... (Vocal - Carnatic) Shyam Ravishankar-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Arkay Convention Center | 11/07/2017 |
| Dr. R. Ganesh... (Vocal - Carnatic) Dr. M. Narmadha-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Arkay Convention Center | 06/07/2017 |
| M. Chandrasekaran... (Violin) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Hariharasubramaniam -Ghatam | Sree Seetharama Baktha Samajam (Reg | 03/05/2017 |
| Jayaraj Krishnan & Jayashree Jayaraj... (Veena) Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Arkay Convention Center | 30/04/2017 |
| Ragavan Manian... (Vocal - Carnatic) Deepika Venkataraman-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam | Sri Anjaneyar Temple | 05/04/2017 |
 Gayathri Venkataraghavan...(Vocal - Carnatic) Charumathi Raghuraman-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam N. Guruprasad-Ghatam | Amarabharathi Kalyanamandapam | 13/01/2017 |
 Dr. R. Suryaprakash...(Vocal - Carnatic) Vijay Ganesh-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Madipakkam A. Murali-Ghatam | Sitadevi Garodia Hindu Vidyalaya | 12/01/2017 |
| T. N. Krishnan... (Violin) Viji Krishnan Natarajan-Violin Sriram Krishnan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Dr. S. Karthick-Ghatam | P.K.Mahal | 29/12/2016 |
| Alamelu Mani... (Vocal - Carnatic) Dr. Usha Rajagopalan-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam Madipakkam A. Murali-Ghatam | Arkay Convention Center | 22/12/2016 |
| Dr. R. Ganesh... (Vocal - Carnatic) Madurai. S. Balasubramaniam-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam A. S. Krishnan -Moorsing | Mylapore Fine Arts Club Hall - TAG | 19/12/2016 |
 OthersShertalai R. Sivakumar-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam K. V. Gopalakrishnan-Kanjira | Sri Krishna Gana Sabha (Dr.Nalli G | 21/08/2016 |
| Others Dr. R. Ganesh-Vocal - Ca V.V. Srinivasarao-Violin Umayalpuram Mali-Mridangam S. Hariharasubramaniam -Ghatam | Ragasudha Hall | 08/08/2016 |