Sri. Ravindra Bharathy Sridharan began his formal Mridangam training in 1980. He got training from Sri. M A Krishnamurthy in Mysore, India. and has been a performing artist since 1982. He has also studied under Sri Sriram Brahmanandam and Sri Neyveli Narayanan. Ravindra has been teaching students in the United States since 1999. He founded the Nadhopasana Academy of Fine Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2007. He is an active performing artist. He is a current master artist in ACTA’s Apprenticeship Program. Ravindra is working with apprentice Shreyas Ramaswami.