Bharat Sangeet Utsav

Bharat Sangeet Utsav – 2009

The popular music web publishers www.carnatica.net provide good amount of resource information, recording and album cutting services.
They began hosting a music festival in November 2005 called Bharat Sangeet Utsav.

They host a series of concerts during December too.

Bharat Sangeet Utsav 2009 schedule

Note : Limited free seats for all programmes, on ‘first-come-first-served’ basis. If you want to reserve your seats, you need to buy donor passes (Rs. 500, Rs. 1000 or Rs. 2000 for the entire concert series) from-
Samskriti Culture Shoppe (Jammi Bldng, 60, Royapettah High Rd, Mylapore.
Or through online shopping at Carnatica.

Oct. 30, 2009 – Friday

At Hotel Residency Towers, T. Nagar (For Specially Invited Audience)

• 6.00 pm – 6.25 pm: Inauguration
• 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm: Curtain raiser: Shri. N. Ravikiran (Chitravina), Shri. Anil Srinivasan (Piano), Akkarai Kum. Subhalakshmi (Violin), Patri Shri. Sathishkumar (Mridangam), Shri. B. S. Purushottam (Khanjira)
• 8.30 pm – 9.30 pm: Banquet

Oct. 31, 2009 – Saturday

At Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet.

• 4.45 pm – 5.00 pm: Lighting of Kuttuvilakku
• 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm: Prof. T. N. Krishnan & Smt. Viji Krishnan Natarajan (Violin Duet), Guruvayur Shri. Dorai (Mridangam), Vaikom Shri. Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam), Srirangam Shri. Kannan (Morsing)
• 7.15 pm – 9.15 pm: Pt. Dharwad Venkatesh Kumar (Hindustani Vocal), Shri. Vyasmurtti Katti (Harmonium), Shri. Ravindra Yavagal (Tabla)

Nov. 1, 2009 – Sunday

At Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet.

• 9.45 am – 10.45 am: C. Saraswathi Bai, First Lady Bhagavatar – Talk by Shri. Sriram V.
• 11.00 am – 12.30 pm: Concert – cum – Lecture on rakti ragas in Hindustani & Carnatic Music – Dr. Sriram Parasuram & Party
• 3.00 pm – 4.45 pm: Kum. Savita Narasimhan (Carnatic Vocal), Akkarai Kum. Subhalakshmi (Violin), Shri. B. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Shri. Anirudh Athreya (Khanjira)
• 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm: Smt. Sudha Ragunathan (Carnatic Vocal), Mysore Shri. V. Srikanth (Violin), Neyveli Shri. Skandasubramanian (Mridangam), Shri. R. Raman (Morsing)
• 7.15 pm – 9.15 pm: Kariyavanai Mayavanai: Thematic dance presentation – Concept, Design & Narration: Gowri Ramnarayan, Dance: Sheejith Krishna & Anjana Anand, Vocals: Gayathri Venkataraghavan

Nov. 2, 2009 – Monday

At Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet.

• 3.00 pm – 4.45 pm: Shri. Pattabhiram Pandit (Carnatic Vocal), Mysore Shri. M. Nagaraj (Violin), Mannargudi Shri. A. Easwaran (Mridangam)
• 5.00 pm – 6.45 pm: Smt. Gayathri Girish (Carnatic Vocal), Mysore Shri. V. Srikanth (Violin), Shri. B.Ganapathyraman (Mridangam), Shri. Anirudh Athreya (Khanjira)
• 7.00 pm – 9.15 pm: Shri. N. Vijay Siva (Carnatic Vocal), Lalgudi Smt. J. Vijayalakshmi (Violin), Shri. N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam)

Nov. 3, 2009 – Tuesday

At Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet,

• 3.00 pm – 4.45 pm: Kum. Amrutha Venkatesh (Carnatic Vocal), Shri. V. V. S. Murari (Violin), Shri. S. J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)
• 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm: Sikkil Shri. C. Gurucharan (Carnatic Vocal), Shri. M. A. Sundaresan (Violin), Umayalpuram Shri. K.Sivaraman (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)
• 7.15 pm – 9.15 pm: Smt. Ashwini Bhide Deshpande (Hindustani Vocal), Shri. Vyasmurtti Katti (Harmoniuim), Shri. Viswanath Nakod (Tabla)

Nov. 4, 2009 – Wednesday

At Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet.

• 3.00 pm – 4.45 pm: Shri. S. Saketaraman (Carnatic Vocal), Shri. M. R. Gopinath (Violin), Shri. K. V. Prasad (Mridangam)
• 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm: Smt. Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar (Hindustani Vocal), Shri. Vyasmurtti Katti (Harmoniuim), Shri. Viswanath Nakod (Tabla)
• 7.15 pm – 9.15 pm: Sangita Upanyasam: Gajendra Moksham – Smt. Vishaka Hari, Shri. B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Shri. S. J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)

Nov. 5, 2009 – Thursday

At Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet.

• 3.00 pm – 4.45 pm: Kum. Subhiksha Rangarajan (Carnatic Vocal), Shri. B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Shri. S. J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam), Shri. Chandrajit (Tabla)
• 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm: Smt. Ranjani & Smt. Gayatri (Carnatic Vocal), Kum. Charumathi Raghuraman (Violin), Neyveli Shri. Skandasubramanian (Mridangam), Dr. S. Karthick (Ghatam)
• 7.00 pm – 7.10 pm: Honouring Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
• 7.15 pm – 9.15 pm: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (Sarod), Shri. Mithilesh Kumar Jha (Tabla)

Nov. 6, 2009 – Friday

At Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet.

• 3.00 pm – 4.40 pm: Kum. K. Gayatri (Carnatic Vocal), Shri. S. P. Ananthapadmanabha (Violin), Shri. B. Sivaraman (Mridangam)
• 4.45 pm – 6.30 pm: Shri. S. Shashank (Flute), Mysore Shri. V. Srikanth (Violin), Parupalli Shri. Phalgun (Mridangam)
• 7.00 pm – 9.15 pm: Shri. T. M. Krishna & Smt. Sangeetha Sivakumar (Carnatic Jugalbandi), Akkarai Kum. Subhalakshmi (Violin), Poongulam Shri. S. Subramanian (Mridangam), Shri. B. S. Purushottam (Khanjira)

Nov. 7, 2009 – Saturday

At Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet.

• 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm: Papanasam Shri. Ashok Ramani (Carnatic Vocal), Shri. B. U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Tiruvarur Shri. Bhaktavatsalam (Mridangam), Shri. E. M. Subramaniam (Ghatam)
• 5.30 pm – 7.00 pm: The Madras String Quartet
• 7.15 pm – 9.15 pm: Sangita Kalanidhi Smt. D. K. Pattammal Memorial Concert: Smt. Nithyasree Mahadevan & Kum. S. Lavanya (Carnatic Vocal), Dr. R. Hemalatha (Violin), Neyveli Shri. Skandasubramanian (Mridangam), Trichy Shri. K. Murali (Ghatam)

Nov. 8, 2009 – Sunday

At Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet.

• 10.30 am – 1.00 pm: Ragamalika: Vintage film melodies in classical ragas; Presented by Smt. Subhasree Tanikachalam
• 5.30 pm – 7.00 pm: Vainika-Gayaka: Neyveli Shri. R. Santhanagopalan & Smt. S. Sowmya (Vina Duet), Neyveli Shri. R. Narayanan (Mridangam), Shri. N. Govindarajan (Ghatam)
• 7.15 pm – 9.30 pm: Malladi Brothers (Carnatic Vocal), Nagai Shri. R. Muralidharan (Violin), Mannargudi Shri. A. Easwaran (Mridangam), Shri. T. V. Vasan (Ghatam)

Nov. 9, 2009 – Monday

At Satguru Gnanananda Hall, Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet.

• 3.30 pm – 5.15 pm: Smt. Manasi Prasad (Carnatic Vocal), Shri. V. V. S. Murari (Violin), Trivandrum Shri. V. Balaji (Mridangam), Nerkunam Shri. Sankar (Khanjira)
• 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm: Valedictory Session
• 6.30 pm – 9.00 pm: Smt. Aruna Sairam (Carnatic Vocal), Smt. Padma Sankar (Violin), Shri. N. Ramakrishnan (Mridangam), Shri. S. V. Ramani (Ghatam)

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