Tirumale Srinivasan

The music direction for Anubhava Mantapa is by Tirumale Srinivasan (popularly known as Chami ). Chami is the elder son of Tirumale Sri Rangachar, who is the leading proponent of Kannada style of performing arts. Chami obtained carnatic music training from his mother T Vaidehi. He obtained Master's degree with a Gold medal from Bangalore University in Carnatic Music. 

Chami is one of the main sought after music directore for Soorya Dance Company. In the recent history, he has scored music for Anubhava Mantapa, Jnana, Shrungara Nayakaru, Nireeksha, Bahulya.
Tirumale Srinivas is an approved artiste of AIR and has served in Kendriya Vidyalaya for 20 years. He has performed at many eminent organisations like Bangalore Gayana Samaja, Krishna Sangeetha Sabha, Gana Kala Parishat, Percussive Art Centre, ISKCON, Tirumala TTD, and many other places like Chennai, Bombay, Bhopal, Delhi, etc.
 
Tirumale Srinivas has accompanied on Mridangam with many senior vocalists like Vid. R K Srikantan, Doreswamy Iyengar, Anoor Ramakrishna, A Veerabhadriah, Sri Vidya Bhushana, Jamboo Kannan, T Sisters, etc. An active artiste member of Laya Lahari, a percussion ensemble of Ayyanar College of Music, Bangalore.
 
Apart from being a well known vocalist and Mridangist, he is also a sought-after music composer. Many eminent singers like S Janaki, S P Balasubramaniam, Rajkumar Bharati, P B Srinivas, Vani Jayaram, B R Chaya, B K Sumitra, Kasturi Shankar and others have rendered their voice to his compositions.

Chami, as he known, has scored music to more than 200 music CDs Cassettees and his compositions to Bharathanatyam are very popular. He initially worked in Central school teaching music for more than 20 years. He took volunteer retirement so he can serve the music field better. He was invited by ICCR as faculty to Mauritius to teach NRIs and Foreign students of the Isalnd. He has taken teams of musicians to different parts of India. He was specially invited to direct music in 2014 AKKA. He has created a melodious group of singers presenting Karnataka's treasure of music such as Devaranaama vachanas. Being a creative person, he has created innumerable compositions.