Dinesh Rabindran (Vocalist, Public Relations, Percussionist)

Coordinator & lead PR man, Dinesh Rabindran is a doctoral candidate in Mechanical Engineering at UT. Predisposed to music from a young age, he has sung for bands in his school and college. The undergrad band at REC Calicut that he performed for as a vocalist and percussionist, called "Enchanters", won the first prize in 'Saarang' and 'Incident' in 1998 at IIT Madras and REC Surathkal respectively. Apart from singing for the band, in Austin, he has also participated in carnatic group renditions for Thyagaraja Aradhana and Shyama Sastry Day. This dude just cannot get enough of music!

Mayura Ravi (Vocalist)

Mayura Ravi is an electrical engineering major student at UT. She has had several years of training in Carnatic music from various teachers including Rukmini Ramani. She also performs Bharatanatyam. She has a soft mezzo-soprano voice and a shy disposition, which everyone at Om-Kara is working on to change.

Prakash Mohandas (Drummer)

Prakash Mohandas is a trained drummer and a natural percussionist. He is currently a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engieering Department at UT Austin. 'Prax' has played for many bands before. 

Praveen Dongara (Bass Guitarist, Keyboard)

Praveen Dongara, a Purdue grad, works at AMD doing product development engineering.  He's been dabbling with music since he was a teenager. Migrating from piano to guitar & recently bass, he's been hooked on to it. He also learnt basics of Hindustani classical music from Mr. Amjad Rahman based in Austin. A very very dedicated  musician he is.

Sastry Vadlamani (Flutist, Vocalist)

Sastry is a self-taught flutist. He started playing the flute in high school and has played since for university music groups and various cultural associations. He is very actively involved in social work. Sastry is dedication personified. Of late Sastry has begun taking flute lessons. 

Seshatre Natarajan (Violinist, Vocalist)

Soumya N Ashok (Vocalist)

Soumya just moved here from India about 6 months ago, and works with The 401(k) Company as a Communications Manager. She has been trained in vocal Carnatic music from an early age, and has also learnt the Veena. This peppy girl adds life to om-kara practice sessions and pah-ties. Her deep bass voice adds another frequency to the musical spectrum of the band.

Sripriya Gopalakrishnan (Vocalist)

Sripriya Gopalakrishnan is a computer engineer at Intel. She learnt her first music lessons from her mother and later on, from Smt Radha Viswanathan, d/o Sangeethakalanidhi Smt. M.S.Subbalakshmi. Besides excelling in academic competitions, in both classical and light music, Sripriya has also done playback singing in a couple of Tamil movies. She is currently learning music from Sri. Ravi Srinivisan in Austin. This chirpy bubbly vocal ace is affectionately known as "SP".

Sriram Ragunathan (Vocalist, MC)

Sriram is another AMD engineer. He did his Masters Degree at University of Cincinnati where he was also the Cultural Secretary of an organization named SABHA (Society for Appreciation of Bharatiya Heritage and Arts). He has been taking lessons in carnatic music from Smt Revathi Ravi for a year now. Sriram has a natural warm tone to his low tenor voice.

Sriram Raman (Mridangam/Ganjira/Tabla)

Sriram is a junior at UT pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering. He has received professional training to play the mridangam (South Indian drums). He has given many classical concerts in India and Austin & is quite the oriental  percussionist. Lots of power in this boy!! Notwithstanding his musical prowess, 'kutty' is an extremely smart kid and has been recently offered a job at Google.

Vaishnavi Narasimhan (Vocalist)

Vaishnavi Narasimhan is graduated from UT with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and works for Accenture in Austin. She started learning carnatic music at a very young age from her grandmother and mother. She was trained under Vidwan Bellary M. Venkateshachar for a few years. She takes lessons from Smt. Koviladi Kala in India every summer. One really wonders where is this petite girl gets so much vocal energy and focus from!

Mayura Ravi (Vocalist)

Mayura Ravi is an electrical engineering major student at UT. She has had several years of training in Carnatic music from various teachers including Rukmini Ramani. She also performs Bharatanatyam. She has a soft mezzo-soprano voice and a shy disposition, which everyone at Om-Kara is working on to change.

Prakash Mohandas (Drummer)

Prakash Mohandas is a trained drummer and a natural percussionist. He is currently a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engieering Department at UT Austin. 'Prax' has played for many bands before. 

Praveen Dongara (Bass Guitarist, Keyboard)

Praveen Dongara, a Purdue grad, works at AMD doing product development engineering.  He's been dabbling with music since he was a teenager. Migrating from piano to guitar & recently bass, he's been hooked on to it. He also learnt basics of Hindustani classical music from Mr. Amjad Rahman based in Austin. A very very dedicated  musician he is.

Sastry Vadlamani (Flutist, Vocalist)

Sastry is a self-taught flutist. He started playing the flute in high school and has played since for university music groups and various cultural associations. He is very actively involved in social work. Sastry is dedication personified. Of late Sastry has begun taking flute lessons. 

Seshatre Natarajan (Violinist, Vocalist)

Soumya N Ashok (Vocalist)

Soumya just moved here from India about 6 months ago, and works with The 401(k) Company as a Communications Manager. She has been trained in vocal Carnatic music from an early age, and has also learnt the Veena. This peppy girl adds life to om-kara practice sessions and pah-ties. Her deep bass voice adds another frequency to the musical spectrum of the band.

Sripriya Gopalakrishnan (Vocalist)

Sripriya Gopalakrishnan is a computer engineer at Intel. She learnt her first music lessons from her mother and later on, from Smt Radha Viswanathan, d/o Sangeethakalanidhi Smt. M.S.Subbalakshmi. Besides excelling in academic competitions, in both classical and light music, Sripriya has also done playback singing in a couple of Tamil movies. She is currently learning music from Sri. Ravi Srinivisan in Austin. This chirpy bubbly vocal ace is affectionately known as "SP".

Sriram Ragunathan (Vocalist, MC)

Sriram is another AMD engineer. He did his Masters Degree at University of Cincinnati where he was also the Cultural Secretary of an organization named SABHA (Society for Appreciation of Bharatiya Heritage and Arts). He has been taking lessons in carnatic music from Smt Revathi Ravi for a year now. Sriram has a natural warm tone to his low tenor voice.

Sriram Raman (Mridangam/Ganjira/Tabla)

Sriram is a junior at UT pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering. He has received professional training to play the mridangam (South Indian drums). He has given many classical concerts in India and Austin & is quite the oriental  percussionist. Lots of power in this boy!! Notwithstanding his musical prowess, 'kutty' is an extremely smart kid and has been recently offered a job at Google.

Vaishnavi Narasimhan (Vocalist)

Vaishnavi Narasimhan is graduated from UT with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and works for Accenture in Austin. She started learning carnatic music at a very young age from her grandmother and mother. She was trained under Vidwan Bellary M. Venkateshachar for a few years. She takes lessons from Smt. Koviladi Kala in India every summer. One really wonders where is this petite girl gets so much vocal energy and focus from!