Violin
Venkatesh Padmanabhan trained for over 10 years under Late Shri. RK Venkatrama Shastri, the renowned violinist from the Chowdiah school and Shri. RK Shriramkumar, one of the leading violinsts today. Venkatesh offers lessons to beginners all the way up to advanced students. His style of playing tries to mimic the human voice as closely as possible.
Vocal
Jayashree Venkatesh is a senior management professional and has a master's in business management. She has been teaching vocal music in the chicago area. She has students all over the U.S and Chicago area. She started her training from her mother Smt. Shantha Visvanathan, also furthered her training from Smt.Savithri Sathyamoorthy and then took advanced training on raga and manodharma rendition under Dr. Nithyasree Mahadevan. Jayashree teaches vocal music to beginners all the way to advanced students. She has students all over the US and Canada who learn carnatic music via online skype lessons. Jayahree emphasizes the bhava aspect in her teaching style. She has performed concerts in India and USA and accompanies for Bharathanatyam and Kuchipudi dances. She has released a carnatic album 'Amruthavarshini' in 2009 released by the Consulate General of India, USA.