Teaching

Jayalakshmi is well known as a good teacher and has several disciples all over the world. She worked as Associate professor in the Tamil Nadu Music and Fine Arts University for MA Veena for 4 years. She is also occasionally invited as guest lecturer in Adyar Music College. She was invited to the Cleveland Festival to teach the Sustaining Sampradaya Children between 2007-2010 and performed solo concerts there too.

Concerts

Jayalakshmi has performed all her life from a young age on the flute, violin and chose the Veena as her profession. She is featured regularly in the famous Chennai December Music Festivals in almost all the well-known sabhas establishing herself as an artiste of very high calibre, and also has done lecture demonstrations, thematic programmes all over India, abroad too.

She has given many lecture demonstrations and thematic concerts such as Pancalinga kritis of Muthuswamy Dikshitar, the Navagraha kritis and Kovur Pancaratnams of Tyagaraja, Abhayamba and Neelothphalamba kritis of Muthuswamy Dikshitar etc. Her lec dems include techniques of Veena play, and Tanam on the Veena.

Listening and attending concerts of music of the great stalwarts of yesteryears, like Sri Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Semmangudi Srinivasaiyer, KV Narayanaswamy, Madurai Mani Iyer, Ramnad Krishnan in her formative years helped shape her into a serious Carnatic musician without any gimmicks in her performances. Concerts abroad include Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Mauritius, Estonia, Germany, US. She has accompanied several artistes visiting from India to Malaysia/Australia on the violin and veena.