Holiday Special

New Year Eve's Dinner Buffet
with Live Music

Indian Live Music

Date: 12-31-22 |TIMINGS: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

About our artists

Nymisha

From the ripe age of four years old, Nymisha’s life revolved around music, dance, and acting. She began her music journey with Smt. Sudharsana Srinivasan, and continued studying Carnatic music with Smt. Vishala Ekanadham, Sri Rammohan Anadhanam, and Guru Rajeev. Nymisha performed all over the Tri-state, and completed her Carnatic Arangetram in Kerala, India. While singing Carnatic music, she also learned veena from Smt. Varada Iruvanti and piano from Mr. Paul Tryon. Alongside studying Indian classical arts, she learned western classical styles and participated in many competitions in her state. She expanded her knowledge at Berklee College of Music, studying Music Therapy and Performance, where she sang rock, R&B, pop, country, and more. After her graduation in May of 2022, she continues to further her studies in Carnatic music with Dr. Sriram Jonnalagadda.
Nymisha is also a Kuchipudi dancer who finished her Rangapravesham in 2015 with Smt. Kantham Chatlapalli. She received her Kuchipudi dance diploma in 2020 at the University of Silicon Andhra under the tutelage of Dr. P. Rama Devi. She is also a certified yoga teacher and received her certification at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat in the Bahamas.
Currently, Nymisha is teaching yoga and singing lessons. She is very excited to perform at Gymkhana for her first hometown concert as a headliner!

Nitya

Nitya has been involved in music her whole life. Growing up, she took Indian Carnatic voice lessons with Smt. Vishala Ekanadham and Sri Rammohan Anadhanam. She is now continuing Carnatic music with Dr. Sriram Jonnalagadda. In addition to Carnatic singing, she learned Western music through theater and opera. She participated in drama club throughout high school, playing many lead roles. Alongside this, she learned opera singing at school under Ms. Julie Carter and Mr. Holden Maiorana and privately under Mrs. Nancy Auffarth. She was selected for New York State School Music Association All-State select choir and National Association for Music Education All-Eastern select choir, which included thirteen northeast states. Nitya continued to expand her knowledge in music by learning many instruments, including piano under Mr. Paul Tryon and Ms. Elaine Miller, violin and viola at school under Mrs. Gretchen Franca, and veena under Smt. Varadha Iruvanti.

Her primary instrument, other than vocals, however, is the Carnatic flute. Nitya started Carnatic flute lessons when she was 8 with Sri Rammohan Anadhanam, then with Sri Pathanjali Chittor starting from age 13. While performing the Carnatic flute all over the Tri-State Area, she prepared for her flute arangetram, which was scheduled for July 2020, under the guidance of Sri Pathanjali sir. Despite the pandemic interfering with these plans, Nitya still continues to take lessons, improving and expanding her knowledge on the wooden flute. Currently, she is a third year biochemistry major at UCLA.

Tim Burney

Born on September 28th, 1998 the New York native Tim Burney has been a musician for 2 decades playing drums, piano, bass guitar and singing. He started in church being taught to play by ear as a 4 year old by his older brother and Uncle Joseph Burney. Though he is known for his unique mix of jazz, R&B and Gospel sound, he has worked on a wide range of genres from hard rock and regae, to R&B and Hip Hop. He’s played and sang with artists such as Sofia st.jean, Zàire, Issaondatrack, Superjack, and a lead musician in AE Soul.

Tim Burney is a SUNY Dutchess graduate with an Associates Degree in Performing Arts and Music Performing Certificate, and also has a BAS in Music Industry and Technology.

Tim Burney also doubles as both a producer and live sound enginer, and is currently working audio for events in NYC including artists such as Nelly, and Ceelo Green, and notable persons such as WNBA President Lisa Borders, LIV Golf, Dolly Parton and more.

Karthik

As a young child, Karthik often sang bhajans at home and in the temple. He formally started his musical journey learning classical Carnatic music from Smt. Meena Malladi in the Poughkeepsie area. Encouraged by his guru, he was fortunate to perform at the prestigious Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana during his high school years and participated in various Tri-state competitions. Karthik’s interest in music and his native language, Telugu, also brought him opportunities to work with the renowned South Indian stage actor, Sri Gummadi Gopalakrishna. Gummadi Gopalakrishna garu handpicked Karthik to be a part of one of his dream projects, bringing the unique padyanatakam format, similar to a Broadway musical, to the English-speaking audience. Karthik performed as Duryodhana in Sri Krishna Rayabaram at the 2019 TANA World Telugu convention in Washington, DC, in the presence of many prominent politicians and movie stars.
Karthik has furthered his musical interest by participating in South Asian fusion acapella throughout his college years. He played a pivotal role in upscaling his team, RPI Raaga, from performing locally on campus to national competitions. Karthik was awarded best soloist at the 2022 Steel City Sapna Acapella competition and won 2nd place with his team at UC Berkeley Anahat.
Karthik recently graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in May 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Management Engineering and now works for JPMorgan Chase as a data scientist. He continues his musical journey learning Carnatic music from Sri Vyzarsu Balasubramanyam and Smt. Suri Rajyalakshmi and is excited to perform on New Year’s eve at Gymkhana.