Sri. A. V. Anand is an Indian musician. He was born (83 years old) .  a Carnatic musician and mridangam player. Anand was taught to play mridangam by ghatam player K. S. Manjunath from a young age and has worked as an accompanist for Carnatic musicians including Chowdiah Chembai T. R. Mahalingam Sundaram Balachander. and Doraiswamy Iyengar since the 1950s. Vidwan AV Anand has Presided over the 41st Music conference held by Bangalore Gayana Samaja from October 5 to October 11 2009.