The Music Academy Madras - Season 2010

The major sabha which NRIs and the localites look up to during the December Season in Madras is The Music Academy.

The concert hop-ons between sabhas depend on the Music Academy schedule for many of the music season buffs.

Here is this year's schedule:

Dec. 15, 2010 - Wednesday

4.00 pm - Mangala Isai - A. Vijay Karthikeyan and Party
5.15 pm - Inauguration
7.00 pm - T.V. Sankaranarayanan - Vocal, T.K.V. Ramanujacharlu (V), B. Harikumar (M), Coimbatore V. Mohan Ram (G)

Dec. 16, 2010 - Thursday

9.15 am - Vyasarpadi G. Kothandaraman & Vada eluppai Anandhan - Nadaswaram, Tiruvalaputhur A. Kaliamurthy (T), Veliyambakkam V.M. Palanivel (T)
12.00 noon - Vignesh Ishwar - Vocal, V. Giridhari (V), Ranjani Venkatesh (M)
1.45 pm - K. Hariprasad - Vocal, Trivandrum S.R. Rajasree(V), Madurai B. Sundar (M)
4.15 pm - A. Kanyakumari and Embar S. Kannan - Violin duet, Mannargudi A. Easwaran (M), Bangalore N. Amrit (K), Bhagyalakshmi M. Krishna (M)
7.00 pm - Manda Sudharani - Vocal, Padma Shankar (V), Neyveli R. Narayanan (M), Nanganallur S. Swaminathan (G)

Dec. 17, 2010 - Friday

9.15 am - B. Kannan - Veena, C. Chaluvaraju (M), Udipi Balakrishnan (G)
12.00 no0n - K. Dharini - Vocal, Sudha R.S. Iyer (V), K.H. Vineeth (m),
1.45 pm - Savita Narasimhan - Vocal, Dr. Jyotsna Srikanth (V), Nellai A. Balaji (M), Phanindra Bhaskara (G)
4.15 pm - Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal, B.U. Ganesh Prasad (V), B. Ganapathiraman (M), V. Umashankar (G)
7.00 pm - Kunnakudy M. Balamuralikrishna - Vocal, Vittal Ramamurthy (V), Umayalpuram Sivaraman (M), B. Sreesundarkumar (K)

Dec. 18, 2010 - Saturday

9.15 am - Bombay Sisters C. Saroja and C. Lalitha - Vocal, Usha Rajagopalan (V), K.R. Ganesh (M), Madipakkam A. Murali (G)
12.00 noon - K. Bharat Sundar - Vocal, Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (V), N.C. Bharadway (M)
1.45 pm - Prasanna Venkataraman - Vocal, Nishant Chandran (V), Kottayam G. Santosh Kumar (M)
4.15 pm - O.S. Thiagarajan - Vocal, Mysore M. Nagaraj (V), Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (M), N. Govindarajan (G)
7.00 pm - Dr. Pantula Rama - Vocal, M.S.N. Murthy (V), V.V. Ramana Murthy (M), N. Somayajulu (G)

Dec. 19, 2010 - Sunday

9.15 am - R.K. Srikantan - Vocal, Rudrapatnam S. Ramakant - Vocal support, Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan (V), H.S. Sudhindra (M), M.A. Krishnamurthy (G)
12.00 noon - Amrutha Venkatesh - Vocal, H.M. Smitha (V), S. Arvind (M)
1.45 pm - Sumitra Nitin - Vocal, T.H. Vasantha (V), A.V. Manikandan (M)
4.15 pm - Malladi Brothers Sreerama Prasad and Ravikumar - Vocal, B.V. Raghavendra Rao (B), M.L.N. Raju (M), Dr. S. Karthick (G)
7.00 pm - Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan - Vocal, Delhi P. Sunderrajan (V), Vellore G. Ramabhadran (M), M. Guruprasad (G)

Dec. 20, 2010 - Monday

9.15 am - Neela Ramgopal - Vocal, Pakala Ramadas (V), Nanjil A.R. Arul (M), Sukkanya Ramgopal (G)
12.00 noon - B.Umashankar - Vocal, K.J. Dilip (V), S.R. Ethirajan (M)
1.45 pm - Sankari Krishnan - Vocal, R. Ambika Prasad (V), Erode Nagarajan (M), Balaji Chandran (G)
4.15 pm - N. Vijay Siva - Vocal, Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (V), Prof. Trichy Sankaran (M), Giridhar Udupa (G)
7.00 pm - Prema Rangarajan - Vocal, Charulatha Ramanujam (V), Melakaveri K. Balaji (M), Adambakkam K. Shankar (G)

Dec. 21, 2010 - Tuesday

9.15 am - Trichur V. Ramachandran - Vocal, M.A. Sundaresan (V), Thanjavur K.Murugaboopathy (M), E.M. Subramanian (G)
12.00 noon - Kotapalli Vandana - Vocal, K.V. Krishna (V), K. Ramesh (M)
1.45 pm - Shertalai K.N. Renganatha Sharma - Vocal, Idapally Ajith Kumar (V), Trivandrum V. Balaji (M), V. Sai Subramanian (M)
4.15 pm - S. Sowmya - Vocal, Dr. M. Narmada (V), J. Vaidyanathan (M), B. Sree Sundarkumar (K)
7.00 pm - N. Ravikiran - Chitraveena, Mysore Dr. M. Manjunath (V), K.V. Prasad (M), Tripunithura N. Radhakrishnan (G), B.S. Purushothaman (K)

Dec. 22, 2010 - Wednesday

9.15 am - Dr. K. Omanakutty - Vocal, G. Bharathi (V), Trivandrum R. Vaidyanathan (M), G. Ravichandran (G)
12.00 noon - Kottakkal Ranjith Varier - Vocal, Aditi Krishnaprakash (V), TrivandrumN. Hariharan (M)
1.45 pm - Prapancham S. Balachandran - Flute, V. Suresh Babu (V), Konerirajapuram V. Varadarajan (M), T.A. Ramanujan (M)
4.15 pm - Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan - Vocal, V.V. Ravi (V), Mannargudi A. Easwaran (M), Udipi S. Sridhar (G)
7.00 pm - Sikkil C. Gurucharan - Vocal, H.K. Venkataraman (V), K.V. Prasad (M), V. Suresh (G), Tirukannapuram J. Sowrirajan (M)

Dec. 23, 2010 - Thursday

9.15 am - Kalyanapuram Aravamudha Chariar - Harikatha : Bhakta Prahalada), Vittal Ramamurthy (V), Thanjavur Ramadas (M)
12.00 noon - Ashwin Anand - Veena, S.J. Arjun Ganesh (M), G. Hari Hara Sarma (K)
1.45 pm - R. Suryaprakash - Vocal, K.P. Nandini (V), Karukurichi Mohanram (M)
4.15 pm - Sanjay Subramaniam - Vocal, S. Varadarajan (V), Guruvayur Dorai (M), Trichy K. Murali (G)
7.00 pm - U. Shrnivas - Mandolin, V.V. Srinivasa Rao (V), BangaloreV. Praveen (M), V. Selvaganesh (K), Srirangam S. Kannan (M)

Dec. 24, 2010, Friday

9.15 am - Geetha Rajashekar - Vocal, V.V.S. Murari (V), Thanjavur S. Subramanian (M), H. Sivaramakrishnan (G), Bangalore B. Rajasekhar (M)
12.00 noon - Swati Srikrishna - Vocal, K. Gokul (V), B. Guru Raghavendra (M)
1.45 pm - K. Gayathri - Vocal, S.P. Anantha Padmanaba (V), R. Sankaranarayan (M), S. Krishna (G)
4.15 pm - Nithyasree Mahadevan - Vocal, M.A. Krishnaswamy (V), Neyveli S. Skanda Subramanian (M), A.S. Krishnan (M)
7.00 pm - Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan & Vijayalakshmi - Violin Duet, Prof. Trichy Sankaran (M), V. Suresh (G)

Dec. 25, 2010, Saturday

9.15 am - T.N. Krishnan and Viji Krishnan - Violin Duet, Thiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam (M), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (G)
12.00 noon - Vidya Kalyanaraman - Vocal, BombayV. Anand (V), B. Srivatsan (M)
1.45 pm - Madurai T.N.S. Krishna - Vocal, Shertalai R. Sivakumar (V), M.S. Varadan (M), Alathur T. Rajaganesh (K)
4.15 pm - Ranjani and Gayathri - Vocal, Charumathi Raghuraman (V), N. Manoj Siva (M), N. Guruprasad (G)
7.00 pm - E. Gayathri - Veena, Trichur C. Narendran (M), Pudukottai N. Ramachandran (G)

Dec. 26, 2010 - Sunday

9.15 am - R. Vedavalli - Vocal, R.K. Shriramkumar (V), K. Arun Prakash (M), Trichy K. Murali (G)
12.00 noon - D.B. Asvin - Vocal, R. Raghul (V), Palghat A.M. Hari Narayanan (M)
1.45 pm - Nisha P. Rajagopal - Vocal, Nishant Chandran (V), B. Sivaraman (M), H. Prasanna (G)
4.15 pm - Aruna Sairam - Vocal, H.N. Bhaskar (V), J. Vaidhyanathan (M), Dr. S. Karthick (G)
7.00 pm - B.V. Balasai - Flute, S.R. Mahadeva Sarma (V), Palladam R. Ravi (M), A.S. Shankar (G)

Dec. 27, 2010 - Monday

9.15 am - T.S. Sankaran and J.A. Jayant - Flute Duet, M. Chandrasekaran (V), Madirimangalam S. Swaminathan (M), Trivandrum D. Rajagopal (K)
12.00 noon - S. Malavika - Vocal, M. Rajeev (V), Rajna Swaminathan (M)
1.45 pm - Sumithra Vasudev - Vocal, Amritha Murali (V), B. Sivaraman (M), Chandrasekhara Sarma (G)
4.15 pm - P. Unnikrishnan - Vocal, S. Varadarajan (V), Kallidaikurichi S. Sivakumar (M), S.V. Ramani (G)
7.00 pm - Jayanthi Kumaresh - Veena, Bangalore Arjun Kumar (M), C.P. Vyasa Vittala (K)

Dec. 28, 2010 - Tuesday

9.15 am - Parassala Ponnammal - Vocal, Akkarai S. Subhalakshmi (V), Poongulam S. Subramanian (M), D.V. Venkatasubramanian (G)
12.00 noon - Sandeep Narayan - Vocal, B. Ananthakrishnan (V), Nirmal Narayan (M)
1.45 pm - Iyer Brothers Ramnath and Gopinath - Veena Duet, Madipakkam P. Suresh (M), G. Guruprasanna (K)
4.15 pm - Sudha Raghunathan - Vocal, M.R. Gopinath (V), Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (M), R. Raman (M)
7.00 pm - S. Saketharaman - Vocal, Nagai R. Sriram (V), Umalyapuram K. Sivaraman (M), Giridhar Udupa (G)

Dec. 29, 2010 - Wednesday

9.15 am - Maharajapuram S. Ramachandran - Vocal, Nagai Muralidharan (V), R. Ramesh (M), E.M. Subramaniam (G)
12.00 noon - N. Bhairavi and N. Malavi - Vocal, Arun Ramamurthi (V), Karra Srinivas Rao (M)
1.45 pm - Amritha Murali - Vocal, Ranjani Ramakrishnan (V), Trivandrum V. Balaji (M), Nerkunam Shankar (K)
4.15 pm - Bombay Jayashri - Vocal, Embar S. Kannan (V), Patri Satishkumar (M), V. Anirudh Athreya (K)
7.00 pm - Sreevalsan J. Menon - Vocal, V. Sanjeev (V), Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma (M), N. Narasimhan (G)

Dec. 30, 2010 - Thursday

9.15 am - Suguna Purushothaman - Vocal, Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli (V), Thanjavur Kumar (M), K.S. Rangachary (K)
12.00 noon - Bharathi Ramasubban - Vocal, Sivakumar Anatharaman (V), Kumbakonam K. Swaminathan (M)
1.45 pm - Calcutta K. Vijayaraghavan - Vocal, Anayampatti G. Venkatasubramanian (V), DelhiS. Sairam (M)
4.15 pm - Vijayalakshmi Subramaniam - Vocal, Dr. R. Hemalatha (V), Mannarkoil J. Balaji (M), Payyanur Govindaprasad (M)
7.00 pm - Abhishek Raghuram - Vocal, MysoreV. Srikanth (V), Anantha R. Krishnan (M), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (K)

Dec. 31, 2010 - Friday

9.15 am - Palai C.K. Ramachandran - Vocal, T.H. Subramaniam (V), Umayalpuram Mali (M), Thrikakkara Y.N. Shantharam (K)
12.00 noon - Swarna Rethas - Vocal, Akkarai S. Sornalatha (V), Thanjavur K. Praveen Kumar (M)
1.45 pm - Dr. R. Ganesh - Vocal, A.G.A. Gnanasundaram (V), Chidambaram S. Balashankar (M)
4.15 pm - Gayathri Girish - Vocal, Anuradha Sridhar (V), A.S. Ranganathan (M), Papanasam S. Sethuraman (K)
7.00 pm - Ustad Alam Khan - Sarod, (Son & Disciple of Ustad Ali Akbhar Khan), Subhankar Banerjee (T)

Jan. 1, 2011, Saturday

9.15 am - T.M. Krishna - Vocal, R.K. Shriramkumar (V), K. Arun Prakash (M), B.S. Purushothaman (K)
3.45 pm - Mangala Isai - P.K.M. Ravi & C.K.Raghuram
5.00 pm - Sadas
7.00 pm - Special programme - S. Shashank - Flute, Akkarai S. Subhalakshmi (V), Bangalore Arjun Kumar (M), Patri Satishkumar (M)

Check the official website of The Music Academy, Madras here -

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Morning Academic Sessions at the Music Academy

This year's lec dem sessions at the Academy begin on Dec. 16, 2010 and go on till Jan. 1, 2011

The venue is Kasturi Srinivasan Hall, The Music Academy campus.

Discussions open to audience after comments from the Experts Committee members.

The schedule:

Dec. 16, 2010 - Thursday

8.00 am - Jyothi Kamath Group - Devotional music

8.35 am - 9.10 am - Prof. Kannikeswaran : The kritis of Muthuswami Dikshitar and the Dhrupad compositional form - a comparitive study

9.15 am - 10.00 am Smt. Bhairavi : Pathantaras in the Sri Krisna-lila-tarangini of Narayana Tirtha

Dec. 17, 2010 - Friday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - Sumathi Krishnan : Variety in Varnams

9.00 am - 10.00 am - Ms. Deepthi Bhalla : Dundubhi Natyam (compositions based on rare talas of Kerala)

Dec. 18, 2010 - Saturday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - Prof. David Nelson : Structure of Tani Avartanam

9.00 am - 10.00 am - N. Vijay Siva : Raga-s: Devakriya, Devamrtavarsini, Manjari & Kharaharapriya – A comparative study

Dec. 19, 2010 - Sunday

8.05 am - 9.05 am - Dr. B.M. Sundaram with Injikkudi Sri. E.M. Subramaniam : Mallari

9.10 am - 10.00 am - V. S. Narasimhan and the Madras string quartet : My way of taking Carnatic Music to globalization

Dec. 20, 2010 - Monday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - Dr. Premeela Gurumurthy : A comparative analysis of Harikatha of the four southern states

9.00 am - 10.00 am - T.K. Govinda Rao : Varnam in Six Kala-s

Dec. 21, 2010 - Tuesday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - Mala Chandrasekhar : Flute - the technique and the stalwarts

9.00 am - 10.00 am - Padma Subrahmanyam : Brhadisvara Temple: Its influence on Music and Dance

Dec.22, 2010 - Wednesday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - Priyasri Rao : Textual Traditions in Indian Classical Dances.

9.00 am - 10.00 am - R.S. Jayalakshmi : Raga Begada

Dec. 23, 2010 - Thursday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - Gayathri Girish : Compositions of Margadarsi Sesayyangar

9.00 am - 10.00 am - Premalatha V : Music Manuscripts and Manavalli Ramakrsna Kavi

Dec. 24, 2010 - Friday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - Madhu Mohan : Svara as an abstraction

9.00 am - 10.00 am - Somali Panda : Rabindra Sangita

Dec. 25, 2010 - Saturday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - Suguna Varadachari : Niraval singing for Pallavi and Krti-s

9.00 am - 10.00 am - S. Sowmya : Ghanta and allied Raga-s

Dec. 26, 2010 - Sunday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - M.S. Gopalakrishnan and Dr. Narmada : Gamaka-s in Hindusthani and Carnatic Music

9.00 am - 10.00 am - Bombay Sisters C. Lalitha and C. Saroja : Tyagaraja’s popular krti-s in rare raga-s and rare krti-s in popular raga-s.

Dec. 27, 2010 - Monday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - Umamaheswari : Music in Divyaprabandham

9.00 am - 10.00 am - Sadanam Harikumar: Sopanam Music

Dec. 28, 2010 - Tuesday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - Aneesh Pradhan with Sri. V. Sudheer Nayak : Tabla Gharana-s

9.00 am - 10.00 am - Subha Mudgal with Sri. Aneesh Pradhan & Sri. V. Sudheer Nayak : Khayala and Guru Pandita Ramasraya Jha's work as a composer

Dec. 29, 2010 - Wednesday

8.05 am - 8.50 am - Prof. Tim Hoffman : Authentic Indian music on traditional Japanese instruments - koto & shakuhachi

9.00 am - 10.15 am - Arvind Parikh : Gharana-s of Sitara with specific focus on the gharana of Ustad Vilayat Khan - his contribution and personality

Dec. 30, 2010 - Thursday

8.05 am - 9.35 am - Nedunuri Krishnamurthy : Raga - Concept, Scope and Establishment

Dec.31, 2010 - Friday

8.00 am - 8.30 am - Kavita Devarajan Group : Devotional music

8.35 am - 9.20 am - Rajkumar Bharathi : Original tunes in the songs of Subrahmanya Bharati

9.30 am - 10.15 am - R. Satyanarayana : Sangita Samayasara

Jan. 1, 2011 - Saturday

8.00 am - 8.30 am - Advanced School of Carnatic Music, The Music Academy : Devotional music

8.35 am - 9.30 am - Open House

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Ideas and presentations invited for the Naatya Kala Conference of Sri Krishna Gana Sabha

Sri Krishna Gana Sabha's Naatya Kala Conference(NKC) is a very important event during the Chennai Art festival season in December.

The 30th annual NKC will be held between Dec. 26 and 31, 2010.
Senior dancer and guru Shanta Dhananjayan will be the convener for the 30th & 31st NKC.(for two years).

This year's conference will focus on the Abhyaasa-Sampradaaya (evolutionary developments in the last century ) culminating in today's repertoire and presentation of the five major system of traditional Naatya namely Bharatanaatyam, Kathakali, Kuchipudi-naatya, Odissi-naatya and Kathak-naatya. A living legendary Achaarya will lead each deliberation.

Each day is devoted to one style which will focus on educating and enlightening the commoner and connoisseur to appreciate these performing art forms in greater in-depth. Particularly the critics , reviewers and students could enhance their understanding and appreciation level.

On the concluding day (Dec 31st) whole session will focus on FUNDING CLASSICAL ARTS and how to go about getting funds. Representatives from Government Funding Bodies, Corporate Bodies, Sabhas, will talk and answer questions on the availability and procedure to get funds and opportunities to perform and foreign tours etc.

This is envisaged to help various Artistes, Art Institutions, schools, Cultural Organisations etc.

Individuals, organized groups, Institutions are required to register themselves as Conference delegates to facilitate designated seat allotments and participate in the discussions and get free refreshments.

The Sabha and the convenor of NKC also invite relevant articles /suggestions/fresh ideas/opinions concerning the performing arts , to publish in the souvenir to be released on 31st Dec.
Restrict the articles/suggestions etc to ONE page (a4 size page) and a passport size photo and four lines Bio-data must be accompanied. A special Editors, Jury will select the best journalistic written materials for publication. The jury will also select the best among them for a surprise award.

Contact: Smt: Shanta Dhananjayan (Phone: 044+24911125)
C/o Bharatakalanjali, 6, Jeevaratnam Nagar, Adyar, Chennai. 600020
Email: bkalanjali@gmail.com

with a copy to:
Sri. Y.R.Prabhu , Secretary, Sri Krishna Gana Sabha
Maharajapuram Santhanam Road ( Old Griffth Rd, T.Nagar, Chennai.600017.
Phone; 044+28140806
Email:krishnaganasabha@gmail.com

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Swagatham Margazhi Vizha of Bharat Kalachar

As a prelude to the Margazhi Mahotsav, Bharat Kalachar hosts during December - January every year, a short festival welcoming Margazhi is also hosted by them in November.
This series encourages the young talents.

The concerts are open to all.

Venue: Bharat Kalachar, Sri. YGP Auditorium, 17, Thirumalai Pillai Road, T. Nagar.
Phone: 2834 3045, 2834 1164

The schedule of Swagatham Margazhi Vizha, 2010 is here:

Nov. 28, 2010 - Sunday

5.00 pm - Mandolin Sisters Shreesha and Sreeusha - Delhi Sairam (M), B. Subba Rao (G)
6.30 pm - Inauguartion - chief guests : S. Sowmya and Alarmelvalli
7.30 pm - Rithvika Ghosh (Dis. of Ambali Praharaj) - Bharathanatyam

Nov. 29, 2010 - Monday

5.00 pm - M.R. Subramaniam (Dis. of P.S. Narayanaswamy) - Vocal, B. Ananthakrishnan (V), A.M. Harinarayanan (M)
7.15 pm - Disciples of Sheela Unnikrishnan - Thematic Bharathanatyam : Thirukkural

Nov. 30, 2010 - Tuesday

5.00 pm - Chaitraa Sairam (Dis. of Bombay Jayashri) - Vocal, S.P. Ananthapadmanabha (V), R. Sankaranarayanan (M)
7.15 pm - Preeti Hariharan (Dis, of Rhadha and PSBB Alumnus) - Bharathanatyam

Dec. 1, 2010 - Wednesday

5.00 pm - Shreya Devnath (Dis. of Lalgudi Jayaraman) - Violin, N.C. Bharadwaj (M), Chandrasekhara Sarma (G)
7.15 pm - Smitha Madhav (Dis. of Rajeswari Sainath) - Bharathanatyam

Dec. 2, 2010 - Thursday

5.00 pm - K. Satyanarayanan - Keyboard, Karaikkal Venkatasubramanian (V), Trivandrum V. Balaji (M), Valangaiman Hariharasubramaniam (G), T. Krishna Babu (Thalam)
7.15 pm - Dr. Jyothsna Jagannathan - Bharathanatyam

Dec. 3, 2010 - Friday

5.00 pm - Cuddalore S. Jananey - Vocal, Melakaveri Thyagarajan (V), Mannargudi N. Subramanian (M), C.S. venkataramanan (K)
7.15 pm - Disciples of Himaja Ramsharan - Thematic Bharathanatyam : Shakthi Prabhavam

Dec. 4, 2010 - Saturday

10.00 am - Saindhavi and Vinaya - Vocal duet, K.J. Dhilip (V), Srivanchiyam Sriram (M)
5.00 pm - G. Madhavan (Dis. of P.S. Narayanaswamy) - Vocal, Ambika Prasad (V), Vijay Natesan (M)
7.15 pm - Padma Rasiah Cantu of Canada (Dis. of the Dhananjayans) - Bharathanatyam

Dec. 5, 2010 - Sunday

10.00 am - Bharath Sundar (Dis. of P.S. Narayanaswamy) - Vocal, H.N. Bhaskar (V), Trichur C. Narendran (M), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (K)
4.00 pm - Mahadevan Sankaranarayanan (Son & Dis. of T.V. Sankaranarayanan) - Vocal, Nagai R. Sriram (V), Neyveli Skandasubramaniam (M), Alathur Rajaganesh (K)
6.45 pm - Raminder Khurana (Dis. of Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra) - Odissi

Dec. 6, 2010 - Monday

5.00 pm - V.K. Raman (Dis. of N. Ramani) - Flute, Mysore V. Srikanth (V), Neyveli Narayanan (M), G. Guruprasanna (K)
7.15 pm - Aishwarya Narayanaswami (Dis. of Anitha Guha) - Bharathanatyam

Dec. 7, 2010 - Tuesday

5.00 pm - G. Ravikiran (Dis. of T.M. Krishna) - Vocal, B.U. Ganesh Prasad (V), B. Sivaraman (M), B.S. Purushotham (K)

7.15 pm - Navia Natarajan (Dis. of Padmini Ramachandran of Bangalore) - Bharathanatyam

The official website can be read here.

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Bharat Kalachar - Season 2010

The December Music season at Bharat Kalachar known as Bharat Kalachar Margazhi Mahotsav begins on Dec. 12, 2010 this year and continues till Jan. 9, 2011

Venue: Sri YGP Auditorium, Off: 16 Thirumalai Road, T.Nagar, Chennai 17
Phone: 28343045, 28173596

Schedule:

Dec. 10, 2010 - Friday

4.30 pm - Krishnamurthy - Nadaswaram
5.30 pm - Inauguration and award distribution
7.00 pm - Meenakshi Srinivasan - Bharatanatyam

Dec. 11, 2010 - Saturday

10.30 am - Mohan Santhanam - Vocal
4.00 pm -T. V. Sankaranarayanan - Vocal
6.45 pm - Bijoyani Satpathy and Surupa Sen (Nrityagram, Bangalore) - Odissi

Dec. 12, 2010 - Sunday

10.30 am - Sirkazhi Jayaraman - Vocal
4.00 pm - Aruna Sairam - Vocal
6.45 pm - Madhuvanthi Arun - Bharatanrithyam, Anil Srinivasan - Piano, Navin Iyer - Flute

Dec. 13, 2010 - Monday

6.00 pm - Sikkil C. Gurucharan - Vocal

Dec. 14, 2010 - Tuesday

6.00 pm - U. Srnivas - Mandolin

Dec. 15, 2010 - Wednesday

6.00 pm - Anil Bajbai & Neelima Gokhale - Ragas & Rafi ( An evening of delightful immortal light classical flim songs of the Legendary Mohammed Rafi )

Dec. 16, 2010 - Thursday

6.00 pm - Nithyashri Mahadevan - Vocal

Dec. 17, 2010 - Friday

6.00 pm - Sanjay Subrahmanyan - Vocal

Dec. 18. 2010 - Saturday

10.30 am - Kuldeep M. Pai - Vocal
4.00 pm - Gayathri Girish - Vocal
6.45 pm - Dhananjayan and Shanta Dhananjayan - Bharatanatyam

Dec. 19, 2010 - Sunday

10.30 am - Dr. Vyjayantimala Bali - LecDem on D.K. Pattammal
4.00 pm - P. Unnikrishnan - Vocal
6.45 pm - Sonal Mansingh - Odissi

Dec. 20, 2010 - Monday

6.00 pm - Malladi Brothers - Vocal

Dec. 21, 2010 - Tuesday

6.00 pm - Vishaka hari - Sangeetha Upanyasam

Dec. 22, 1010 - Wednesday

6.00 pm - Bombay Jayashri - Vocal

Dec. 23, 2010 - Thursday

6.00 pm- Shashank - Jugal Bandhi with sitar

Dec. 24, 2010 - Friday

4.00 pm - Rajesh Vaidhya, karukurichi Mohanram & Group - Instrumental music
7.00 pm - Deepika Potarazu (USA) - Kuchipudi

Dec. 25, 2010 - Saturday

10.30 am - Bombay Sisters C. Saroja and C. Lalitha - Vocal
4.00 pm - Lalgidi G.J.R. Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi - Violin Duet

Dec. 26, 2010 - Sunday

6.45 pm - Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam - Bharathanrithyam

Dec. 27, 2010 - Monday

4.00 pm - Priya Sisters - Vocal
6.45 pm - Revathi Ramachandran & Manasvini Ramachandran - Bharathanatyam

Dec. 28, 2010 - Tuesday

4.00 pm - A. Kanyakumari - Violin
6.45 pm - Disciples of Chitra Visweswaran - Bharathanatyam

Dec. 29, 2010 - Wednesday

4.00 pm - Gayathri Venkataraghavan - Vocal

6.45 pm - To be finalised

Dec. 30, 2010 - Thursday

10.30 am - 'Mahanadi' Shobana Vignesh - Vocal
6.30 pm - Dr. K. J. Yesudas - Vocal

Dec. 31, 2010 - Friday

10.30 am - Umayal Shivaraja (Toronto) - Vocal
4.00 pm - Madurai. T. N. Seshagopalan - Vocal
6.45 pm - Krishnakumari Narendran - Bharathanatyam

Jan. 1, 2011 - Saturday

10.30 am - Jayalakshmi Santhanam - Vocal
4.00 pm - Ganesh & Kumaresh - Violin Duet
6.45 pm - Padmini Krishnamurthy (Muscat) - Bharathanatyam

Jan. 2, 2011 - Sunday

10.30 am - Mala Ramadurai - Hindustani Vocal
4.00 pm - Sriram Parthasarathy - Vocal , Sanjeev Abhyankar - Hindustani Vocal
6.45 pm - Disciples of Anitha Guha - Mahadevam Mahassenam Bhaje' - Bharathanatyam

Jan. 3, 2011 - Monday

6.00 pm - Sheejith Nambiar - Bharathanatyam
7.30 pm - Meenakshi Chittaranjan - Bharathanatyam

Jan. 4, 2011 - Tuesday

6.00 p.m - Revathy Kumar - Bharathanatyam
7.30 pm - Madurai Muralidharan - Silappadikaram - Bharathanatyam

Jan. 5, 2011 - Wednesday

6.00 pm - Archana Krishnamurthy - Bharathanatyam
7.30 pm - Zakir Hussain's thematic Bharathanatyam on Sri Ranga Nayangam – (Srirangam Temple )

Jan. 6, 2011 - Thursday

6.00 pm To be finalised
7.30 pm - Shila Mehta (Mumbai) - Bharathanatyam

Jan. 7, 2011 - Friday

6.00 pm - Sudharma Vaidyanathan - Bharathanatyam
7.30 pm - Rama Vaidyanathan - Bharathanatyam

Jan. 8, 2011 - Saturday

10.30 am - K. R. Saranathan - Vocal
4.00 pm - S. Sowmya - Vocal
6.45 pm - J. Suriyanarayanamurthy and disciples - Bharathanatyam

Jan. 9, 2011 - Sunday

10.30 am - Trichur Brothers - Vocal
4.00 pm - B. Kannan - Veena
7.15 pm - Anita Ratnam - Bharathanatyam

For updates on events go to Bharat Kalachar's website - http://www.bharatkalachar.com/

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Carnatica's Bharat Sangeet Utsav sets the music season on!

Carnatica, a website and organisation comes up with Bharat Sangeet Utsav every year in November. This year the fest is happening at Chennai and Bangalore.

The Chennai events will be held from Oct. 29 to Nov. 9.
The venue is Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet, Chennai – 18

Here is the schedule:
‘Bru’ Bharat Sangeet Utsav 2010 @ Chennai
Presented by Lancor Holdings, RmKV Silks, L&T Finance, The Residency Hotels

An event by Carnatica in association with Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha

Friday, Oct. 29, 2010

6.00 pm at Hotel Residency Towers: Inauguration followed by special performance by YODHAKA
(Invited audience only)

Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010

4.30 pm – Swaralaya by Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel & Party
6.00 pm – Conferring Lifetime Achievement award on Dr. Mangalampally Balamuralikrishna
7.15 pm – Aruna Sairam, Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, B. Ganapathyraman, Madipakkam Murali

Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010

10.00 am: Sangita Kalanidhi R. K. Srikantan & Party
2.30 pm: Kunnakkudi M. Balamuralikrishna & Party
4.45 pm: S. Sowmya, Embar S. Kannan, Poongulam Subramanian, K. V. Gopalakrishnan
7.00 pm: Hindustani Vocal: Prabha Atre, Vyasmurthi Katti, Ravindra Yavagal

Monday, Nov. 1. 2010

3.00 pm: Yuva Pratibha: Bharat Sundar & Vidya Kalyanaraman
5.00 pm: Jugalbandi: Abhishek Raghuram & Jaytirth Meyundi with Anantha R. Krishnan, Vyasmurthi Katti, Ravindra Yavagal
7.00 pm: Carnatic Fantasy: Isai Natakam – Sri. Sikkil C. Gurucharan & S. Ve. Shekher, Neyveli Narayanan

Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010

3.00 pm: Trichur Brothers, Mullaivasal Chandramouli, Trichur Mohan, D. V. Venkatasubramanian
5.00 pm: Nithyasree Mahadevan, B. Raghavendra Rao, Shertalai Ananthakrishnan, Trichy K. Murali
7.00 pm: Sangeeta Upanyasam: Vishaka Hari and Party

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010

3.00 pm: Emerging Styles: Students of Neyveli Santhanagopalan
5.00 pm: Ellame Sangeetham: Anooradha Sriram & Dr. Sriram Parasuram
7.00 pm: Tamil Isai: Sanjay Subrahmanyan, S. Varadarajan, Neyveli Venkatesh, Alathur Rajaganesh

Nov. 4th & 5th – BREAK FOR DIWALI

Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010

10.00 am: Namasankeertanam: Udayalur Kalyanaraman & Thanjavur Thyagarajan
2.30 pm: Unique Duet: Gayatri Venkatraghavan & Nisha P. Rajagopal with V. V. S. Murari, J. Vaidyanathan, S. Karthick
4.45 pm: Ghazals: Anup Jalota and Party
7.00 pm: Compositional forms in the Carnatic Classical Idiom: T. M. Krishna with Dr. R. Hemalatha, K. Arunprakash, B. S. Purushotham

Sunday, Nov. 7. 2010

10.00 am: Ragamalika (Subhasree Tanikachalam)
2.00 pm: Nabaneeta Chaudhari
3.30 pm: P. Unnikrishnan with Embar Kannan, K. V. Prasad
5.15 pm: O. S. Arun & Party
7.00 pm: Hindustani Vocal: Gundecha Brothers and Party

Monday, Nov. 8, 2010

3.00 pm: Emerging Styles: Students of Sanjay Subrahmanyan (Swarna Rethas & Sandeep Narayanan with V. Sanjeev, Melakaveri K. Balaji, N. Guruprasad)
5.00 pm: Vijay Siva, R. K. Shriramkumar, J. Vaidyanathan, B. S. Purushotham
7:00 pm: Rajasthani Folk music by Manganiyar Group

Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010

3.00 pm: Emerging Styles: Students of T. M. Krishna
4.30 pm: Ranjani & Gayatri, H. N. Bhaskar, K. Arunprakash
7.00 pm: Grand Finale: Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. Mangalampally Balamuralikrishna with Sudha Ragunathan & Chitravina N. Ravikiran

DONOR PASSES WILL BE AVBL FROM OCT. 20th at www.carnatica.com, www.carnaticamusic.com, www.kalakendra.com & www.indianstage.in

For updates and Bharat Sangeet Utsav, Bangalore please see - http://carnatica.net/bsu/

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Sri Rama Bhaktha Jana Samaj - Season 2010

One of the first sabhas to release the concert schedule for the upcoming December Season is Sri Rama Bhaktha Jana Samaj.
The sabha functions from S/17-B, Ponnambalam Salai, K.K.Nagar, Cennai – 600078. (Ph: 23661529/9444417729)

The concerts are held at PADMA SESHADRI SCHOOL AUDIORIUM, Alagirisami Salai, KK Nagar, Chennai-78.

The festival begins on Dec. 18, 2010 and ends on Jan. 4, 2011

Dec. 18, 2010:

6 pm: Inauguration and presentation of Awards

7 pm: C.SAROJA and C. LALITHA - Vocal

Mysore Srikanth - Violin, K.R.Ganesh - Mridangam, Madipakkam Murali - Ghatam

Dec. 19, 2010:

5 pm : KANAKA DURGA VENKATESH - Vocal

Jayanthi Keshav - Violin, Mannargudi N.Subramanian - Mridangam

7 pm: Prof. MAVAELIKARA SUBRAMANIAM - Vocal

Palakad R. Swaminathan - Violin, Kaviyoor V. Sanalkumar - Mridangam, Thirupanithura Kannan - Ghatam

Dec. 20, 2010

7 pm: C.G.R KRISHNAN & PADMA SHANKAR - Violin Duet

Tiruvarur Vaidhyanathan - Mridangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjeera

Dec. 21, 2010

5 pm: GEETHA NAVLE - Veena

Thanjavur Subramaniam - Mridangam

7 pm: R. PRSANNA - Guitar

Prapanjam Ravindran - Mridangam, Dr. S. Karthick - Ghatam

Dec. 22, 2010

5 pm: VARAHI VIJAYARAJ - Vocal

Jayanthi Keshav - Violin, Suchindram Giridhar - Mridangam

7 pm: SRIRAM PARASURAM & ANURADHA SRIRAM – Jugalbandhi

Dec. 23, 2010

5 pm: SUSHMA SOMASEAKARAN – Vocal

Parur Ananthakrishnan - Violin, Srivanchiyam Sriram - Mridangam

7 pm: INJIKUDI SUBRAMANYAN – Nadhaswaream

V.V. Ravi - Violin, Neyveli Skantha Subramanian - Mridangam, Trichy Murali - Ghatam

Dec. 24, 2010

5 pm: DR. USHA LAKSHMI KRISHNAMURTHI - Vocal

G. Bharathi - Violin, Thiruvidamarudhur Radhakrishnan - Mridangam

7 pm: KADRI GOPALNATH - Saxaphone

A. Kanyakiumari - Violin, A.K. Palanivel - Special Thavil, Madipakkam Murali - Ghatam, Bangalore Rajasekar - Morsing

Dec. 25, 2010

5 pm : SUBHA GANESAN - Vocal

S.P.Ananthapadmanabha- Violin, Karailudi Ganesan - Mridangam

7 pm: RAJESH VAIDHYA - Veena

Mohanram - Mrudangam, Tenkasi H. Paramasisvan - Kanjeera, Chandrasekar Sarma - Ghatam, Malaikottai R.M.Deenadayalan - Morsing, Subramanian - Special Effects, Nivas Prasanna - Keyboard

Dec. 26, 2010

5 pm: MOHAN SANTHANAM - Vocal

S.P.Ananthapadmanabha - Violin, B. Sivaraman - Mridangam

7 pm: NEYVELI R. SANTHANAGOPALAN - Vocal

Vittal Ramamurthi - Viloin, Chennai Thyagarajan - Mridangam, Trichi Murali - Ghatam

Dec. 27, 2010

7 pm: SIKKIL C. GURUCHARAN - Vocal

V. Sanjeev - Violin, Neyveli Venkatesh - Mridangam, Aathur Raja Ganesh - Kanjeera

Dec. 28, 2010

5 pm: S.R. VEERARAGHAVAN - Vocal

Karaikal Venkatasubramaniyan - Violin, K.S.Sudhaman - Mridangam, K.S. Vikram - Kanjeera

7 pm: MADURAI T.N.SESHAGAOPALAN - Vocal

Delhi Sundararajan - Violin, Trichur Narendran - Mridangam

Dec. 29, 2010

7 pm: T.V. SANKARANARAYANAN - Vocal

Nagai Sriram - Violin, Thanjavur Murugaboopathi - Mridangam

Dec. 30, 2010

5 pm: Ashwin Ramnath - Violin solo, Thiruvidamarudhur Radhakrishnan - Mridangam

7 pm: DR. R. GANESH - Vocal

Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan - Violin, K.R. Ganesh - Mrudangam, A.S. Krishnan - Morsing

Dec. 31, 2010

5 pm: MAMBALAM SISTERS - Vocal

Dr.R. Hemalatha - Violin, Nellai Balaji - Mridangam, K.S. Rengachari - Kanjeera

7 pm: HeArtbeat Ensemble

DR.S. KARTHICK - Ghatam/Konnakkol, Embar Kannan - Silent Violin, K. Sathyanarayanan - Keyboard, Poongulaam Subramanyam - Mridangam, K.V. Gopalakrishnan - Kanjeera, R. Raman - Morsing

Jan. 1, 2011

5 pm: CHANDRIKA SRINIVAS - Vocal

K.J. Dilip - Violin, Mannargudi N. Subramanian - Mrudangam

7 pm: MAHATHI - Vocal

Melakaveri Thgygarajan - Violin, M.S.Varadhan - Mridangam, Anirudh Athreya - Kanjeera

Jan. 2, 2011

5 pm: Prapanjam Shyendran - Guitar

Prapanjam Surendran - Mridangam, Papanasam Sethuraman - Kanjeera

7 pm: K.R. SARANATHAN - Vocal

V.L.Kumar - Violin, Prapanjam Ravindran - Mridangam, Papanasam Sethuraman - Kanjeera

Jan. 3, 2011

7 pm: NITHYASRI MAHADEVAN - Vocal

Usha Rajagopalan - Violin, I. Sivakumar - Mridangam

Jan.4, 2011

7 pm: Y.Gee. Mahendra in VENKATA 3 - Drama

Season Donor Pass: Rs. 750/-

Daily admission by Donor Pass Rs.100/ Rs. 50/- and Rs.30

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Narada Gana Sabha awards 2010

The annual Music festival of Narada Gana Sabha will be held from December 15, 2010 to January 2, 2011 at Sathguru Gnanananda Hall, TTK Road, Alwarpet.

This year's awards go to:

Nadabrahmam - Vellore Ramabhadran (Mridangam)
Senior musician award - Sirkazhi Jayaraman

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Indian Fine Arts Society awards 2010

The 78th annual music festival, The Indian Fine Arts Society are scheduled to begin from December 18, 2010

The titles go to:

Sangeetha Kalasikhamani - Manakkal Rangarajan (Vocalist)

Natya Kalasikhamani -Vyjayantimala Bali (Bharata natyam)

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The Mylapore Fine Arts Club awards 2010

The Mylapore Fine Arts Club has announced its prestigious annual awards for 2010.
The following are the recipients:

Sangeetha Kala Nipuna - M.S. Gopalakrishnan (Violinist)
Nrithya Kala Nipuna - Rhadha (Bharata natyam)

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Nungambakkam Cultural Academy awards 2010

Nungambakkam Cultural Academy hosts the longest ’season’ every year. The events are held at Ramarao Kala Mantap, Habibullah Road, T. Nagar.

This year's 'season starts from Dec. 5, 2010

The awards for this year are:

Lifetime Achievement Award - Padma Subrahmanyam – Bharata nrityam. (The award carries a gold medallion, a citation and a purse of Rs. 25,000).

Sangeetha Kala Sironmani - T.V. Gopalakrishnan

Nrithya Kala Sironmani - Revathi Ramachandran

Nataka Kala Sironmani - Kudanthai Mali

NCA Excellence Award:

Rajani Hariharan (Music),
Nagai Mukundan (devotional discourse),
K.S.N. Sundar (Tamil theatre)
Sujatha Mohan (Bharatanatyam)
Sembanarkoil Rajanna (nagaswaram)
R. Krishnasamy (contribution to fine arts).
Each award carries a citation, a gold medallion and a purse of Rs. 5,000.

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Kartik Fine Arts Awards 2010

Kartik Fine Arts Society is yet to have its own auditorium to hold its events. During the season, they host the concerts in Narada Gana sabha, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and later as a Tamil music festival at Valliammal College for Women in Anna Nagar.

The awards announced for 2009 are :

Isai Peroli – J. Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam artiste)
Nadana Mamani – Lavanya Sankar (Bharatanatyam)
Tamil Isai Vendar – Guru Karaikudi R. Mani (Mridangam vidwan)
Isai Chudar – Bharat Sundar (Vocalist)
Natya Chudar - Anuroopitha Sampath (Bharatanatyam)
Kartik Rajagopal award - 'Mudhra' Bhaskar (Publisher, organiser, mridangam artiste)
Sirkazhi Govindarajan award - SRG Rajanna (Nadaswaram)
Guru Karaikudi Mani award - Kallidaikurichi S. Sivakumar (Mridangam artiste)
D.K. Pattammal award - Amrutha Venkatesh (Vocalist)

The official website of Kartik Fine Arts is here

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