Music
The St. Louis Orchestra comprising students from the VI section, deserves special mention.
The hostel students are trained from 8-9.15 every day.
Many of our alumni are now working in TV, Radio etc.
The St. Louis Music group has been bring pleasure and joy to listeners for almost 50 years.
Students from the VI section are traine from 6th std onwards in classical carnatic music and light music.
In Indian music our students have secured state level first rank in +2 Govt. Exam in the years 1999 to 2003
The training is in both vocal and instruments like violin, harmonium, flute, drums, tabla, keyboard, rhythm pads and guitar
they are very much in demand at special occasions in and around the city, e.g., Kalpakkam Nuclear reactor facility
Flextronics, Aeon, HCL and other corporates, Loyola College, Stella Maris, Vivekananda College and other such premier institutions.
Various homes for less privileged children and senior citizens also call for our Orchestra to perform for..??
The Orchestra has also performed at special occasions at religious places like Besant Nagar Velankanni Church, Santhome Church
Schools like St. Lourdes Annai school at Kanakankuppam, Gingee and NGOs like Spinal Injury Foundation .
invite our orchestra to perform at their special occasions.
Millenium Music Programme in 2000 - 6.2.2000 was performed at the campus to raise funds and was a huge success.
Film celebreties like music director Shyam, PBS, Deva, Revathi ect. graced the occasion.
The St. Louis Orchestra regularly participates in music competitions at various levels and wins awards.
including from Shakthi Foundation, Lions Club and Nethrodaya organisation.
Many of our alumni have achieved name and fame in the cine field.
KP Karthiban has composed music for the tamil movie Maa and also for the documentary film on ??? By ???
Ramu - keyboard, Kannan- keyboard, Mylappan - keyboard, Hidayathullah - keyboard, Bilal - music director, James- singer
James - singer, Alex - keyboard, Pal - violin, Jayaraj - violin, David Ramachandran - timings, Dhandapani - timings+nadaswaram
KC krishnan - drums, Rathnam joseph - guitar, Karthik - tabla, Senthil - tabla, (late) Sivaraj - singer & player, Prof. Sasidharan - flutist
at Kalakshetra, Swaminathan - singer, Robert - rhythm, Arockiasamy - singer, Murugan - guitar, Sunil - guitar
Murugesan - singer and music director (released 10 albums), Suresh - guitar, Englebert - drums, Udayakumar - drums
Albert - singer, Sivasankar - singer, Ganesh - singer, Prof. Jalal Ali - singer, Prof. Gulam Dastagir - violin, (late) Pounraj - table
(late) Srinivasulu - tabla, (late) SaiKrishna - keyboard, Perumal - flautist, Ooty Shanmugam - keyboard, Kathiravan - keyboard,
Chandru - rhythm pad, Diwan - singer, Ilango - singer, Poongavanam - singer and troupe organiser, T Patrick - flautist,
Ravichandran - keyboard, Sathyanarayanan - singer, Sakthikumaran - troupe organiser, Jaishankar - singer and teacher
Mariswaran - tabla, (late) R Subramaniam - music teacher at St. Louis from 1964 to 1998, (late) Navarathinam - singer
Thulasi - flautist, Herman - mouth organ, C Andrew - music teacher at St. Louis since 1999, Michael PS - guitar, Prabhakar - rhythm pad
and sound engineer, Vivekandan - drums and sound engineer, N Manoj - singer, P V Nagaraj - singers,
Rajan - keyboard & music teacher, (late) Balaji - guitar, Raja - keyboard,