Legendary Mridangam player U. Sivaraman has been a top performer of Indian Classical music for over half a century now, accompanying all of vocal and instrumental maestros of recent years and past. Sivaraman leads an ensemble of musicians through a journey of the intricate rhythms of the Carnatic system The ensemble features other unique percussion instruments such as the Jalatarang (tuned water bowls), Ghatam, Chenda (wide barrel drum) Thimila and Edakka (folk drums) along with the accompaniment of the violin.

Besides his professional career, he had undertaken the very laudable task of doing original research in the art of mrudangam. This resulted in his highly acclaimed lecture demonstrations done in all important centers in India and abroad, which enabled him to disseminate knowledge of this divine art to art lovers, music conferences, music seminars and the like. He is the only mrudangam vidwan who has explored and placed before the world of art lovers, authentic information on the techniques and nuances of mrudangam for more than two decades. He has introduced the fiber glass mrudangam to Carnatic music for the first time, improvised a mechanical jig to eliminate human error in the molding of skins for both sides of the instrument and has done research work on tanned and untanned skins for the mrudangam. His analysis of the ingredients of the black patch has given much insight on the overtones produced by different strokes on the mrudangam.