the iyer brothers have been performing together since 1994 in melbourne. they are disciples of veena maestros, "vidhwans" (translated as "scholars") r. pichumani and trivandrum r venkataraman. they are a-graded artists of all india radio, chennai. in 1990, they established the pichumani school of carnatic music in melbourne. the school teaches students the art of veena playing and vocal music. their performance though with two instruments almost sounds like one as they have almost matching tonal quality. their style is sober, traditional and substantive.