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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1934|07|12}}
| birth_place = India
| origin = [[Chennai]] [[Tamil Nadu]], India
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| genre = [[Carnatic music]]
| occupation = Musician, instrumentalist, [[Saraswati veena|veena]]
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'''Padmavathy Ananthagopalan''' (born 12 July 1934) is a classical musician and [[Saraswati veena|veena]] maestro from [[India]], in the [[Carnatic Music]] genre. She also plays the [[mridangam]] and the [[nagaswaram]].<ref name="her-life">{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/her-life-with-the-veena/article6196979.ece | title=Her life with the Veena | date=10 July 2014 | agency=The Hindu | access-date=14 March 2015 | author=V, Balasubramanian | location=Chennai}}</ref> She has seven decades of experience in playing the veena.<ref name="7-decades">{{cite news | url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Seven-Decades-of-Playing-the-Veena/2014/09/01/article2407848.ece | title=Seven Decades of Playing the Veena | date=1 September 2014 | agency=The New Indian Express | access-date=14 March 2015 | author=S, Subhakeerthana | location=Chennai}}</ref> She hails from a family of accomplished musicians that include maestro [[Lalgudi Jayaraman]] and her ancestors are direct disciples of [[Thyagaraja|Saint Thyagaraja]].

She is known for her own unique "''gayaki''" style. She is huge advocate for the ''guru-shishya'' ([[gurukul]]a) tradition. She has been the guru for numerous artists like [[Jayanthi Kumaresh]] (veena) and Usha Rajagopalan (violin). She is also the founder of the ''Sri Satguru Sangita'' music school and has over 25 years of active teaching service through the institution.

==Early days and personal life==
Padmavathy was initiated into music when she was five by her father Lalgudi Gopala Iyer.<ref name="life-chords">{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/padmavathy-ananthagopalan-a-veteran-veena-vidushi/article6245323.ece | title=A life with chords... | date=24 July 2014 | agency=The Hindu | access-date=15 March 2015 | author=V, Balasubramanian | location=Chennai}}</ref> She learnt the nuances of playing the veena from him. Her first performance was at the age of twelve.<ref name="spicmacay">{{cite web | url=http://spicmacay.tamu.edu/about_artists/padmavathy | title=Lalgudi Padmavathy | publisher=SPICMACAY | access-date=15 March 2015}}</ref> Her ancestors are the direct disciples of one of the greatest composers of Carnatic Music, [[Thyagaraja|Saint Thyagaraja]].

Padmavathy's spouse Ananthagopalan is also a veena and violin exponent. Ananthagopalan teaches playing these instruments to students.
Her elder brother was the late violin maestro, vocalist and composer [[Padma Bhushan]] [[Lalgudi Jayaraman|Lalgudi G. Jayaraman]]. Her younger sisters Lalgudi Rajalakshmi and Lalgudi Srimathi Brahmanandam are also violinists.<ref name="her-life" />

==Career==
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Padmavathy plays the veena in the "''[[gayaki]]''" style wherein she delivers the nuances in the musical instrument like in the vocal rendition. Vidhwan [[Sundaram Balachander|S Balachander]] was a huge influence on her and she considered him to be her "''Manaseeka''" guru (meaning reverentially within one's mind). She observed all the stalwarts and eventually came up with her own unique style wherein every [[swara]] is given its due in a [[raaga]].<ref name="7-decades" />

She is an 'A' grade artist and who features regularly in [[All India Radio]] and popular Television networks. She has set to tune and Sanskrit works such as ''[[Lalita Sahasranamam]]'', ''[[Saundaryalahari]]'', ''Mooka panchasati'' for the benefit of her students.<ref name="sruti">{{cite journal | url=https://www.dhvaniohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/padmavathy-ananthagopalan.pdf | title=My Guru | author=Kumaresh, Jayanthi | journal=Sruti |date=October 2010 | pages=41, 42}}</ref>

She has numerous international performances and tours to her credit. Since 1990 she has toured the [[United Kingdom]], the [[United States]], [[Malaysia]] and [[Singapore]]. In some of these tours she has been accompanied by Jayanthi Kumaresh.

She is currently focused on creating more talented veena artists and working towards greater acceptance of veena performances in ''sabhas'' (performance halls) that other musical instruments and vocal performances currently enjoy.

===Books===
She authored and published two books ''Shadjam'' and ''Rishabam'' in collaboration with the [[Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society]] for students of music. She has also authored a book for the beginners in Carnatic Music titled ''Abhyasa Manjari''.<ref name="spicmacay" />

===Gurukulam===
Padmavathy is a highly respected teacher. Her students are spread across the globe and are successful performers of the veena, the violin and vocal forms. She is a big advocate of the [[gurukul|gurkula]] approach for learning music. She has been teacher to numerous students and many have benefitted from the [[gurukul]] form of residential learning. [[Jayanthi Kumaresh]], her niece and student for over 22 years is a veena exponent.<ref name="her-life" /> Usha Rajagopalan, a violinist is her student.<ref name="gurukulam">{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/theres-no-substitute-for-gurukulam/article46302.ece | title=There's no substitute for gurukulam | date=10 November 2009 | access-date=15 March 2015 | author=Krishnan, Lalithaa}}</ref> Maalavika Sundar, an upcoming classical and light music singer is her student for over 20 years.<ref name="her-life" />

===Design and Maintenance===
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|quote = ''"If you have a keen ear, a good grasp and a heart to put them into practice, you will be a master. Patience, grit, sacrifice and discipline are needed."''
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Padmavathy has over 30 veenas in her possession. She is very conversant with the technical nuances of the construct of the instruments and maintains them on her own. She has also made changes to the traditional methods of fixing string and replacing the frets.<ref name="her-life" />

She has also designed a portable veena that can be dismantled and carried in a knapsack the help of Natesa Achary.<ref name="life-chords" /> This is a helpful innovation as transporting the veena is a huge challenge for artists and is often seen as an impediment for locations where they artists can perform.

===Sri Satguru Sangita Vidyalaya===
Based on the suggestion given by vidhwan S Balachander, she established a school exclusively for music in 1988 known as ''Sri Sadguru Sangita Vidyalaya'' at Anna Nagar. She has trained more than a thousand students over the last 25 years. Students at the school go through a seven-year course that covers music theory as well.<ref name="7-decades" />

==Awards & felicitations==
* "''Vainika Mudhra''" Award at the Mudhra Veenotsav 2014<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-downtown/nonstop-musical-treat/article6345558.ece | title=Non-stop musical treat | date=24 August 2014 | agency=The Hindu | access-date=15 March 2015 | location=Chennai}}</ref>
* "''Veena Thathwagnya''" by the Veena Foundation (New Delhi)
* TTK award by [[Madras Music Academy|Music Academy]], Chennai in 2006<ref>{{cite web | url=http://musicacademymadras.in/fotemplate05.php?temp=ac1c9891-da71-11e2-b2c0-00167688e545&tc=62aace88-0bfb-11e3-aca2-00304891133e&shid=62ab06e6-0bfb-11e3-aca2-00304891133e | title=Recipients of TTK Award | publisher=Music Academy, Chennai | access-date=15 March 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001171145/http://www.musicacademymadras.in/fotemplate05.php?temp=ac1c9891-da71-11e2-b2c0-00167688e545&tc=62aace88-0bfb-11e3-aca2-00304891133e&shid=62ab06e6-0bfb-11e3-aca2-00304891133e | archive-date=1 October 2016 }}</ref>
* "''Gaana Nidhi''" award by Sri Jagadguru Veda Parayana Trust
* "''Acharya Devo Bhava''" - 80 birthday felicitations<ref>{{cite AV media | url=http://www.kutcheribuzz.com/december-gallery-2013/80th-birthday-celebration-padmavathy | title=80th birthday celebration of Veena vidushi Padmavathy Ananthagopalan | publisher=Kutcheri Buzz | medium=Photos | location=Chennai}}</ref>

==References==
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