Chennai Fine Arts

The 9th year music festival of Chennai Fine Arts will be held at K.N. Shanmugasundaram Hall, Karpagambal Nagar, Mylapore, Chennai - 4

The schedule:

Dec. 21, 2011 - Wednesday

5.00 p.m. - Inauguration. Gottuvadyam Narayana Iyengar Excellency Award to R.K. Srikantan

6.35 p.m. - R.K. Srikantan (Vocal), R.S. Ramakanth - Vocal support, N. Ravikiran - Chitravina, Srimushnam Raja Rao - Mridangam, Trichy Murali - Ghatam

Vaggeyakara Vaibhavam

Dec. 22, 2011 - Thursday

5.00 p.m. - Varalakshmi Anandakumar - Vocal, Melakkaveri Thyagarajan - Violin, B. Ganapathyraman - Mridangam

6.15 p.m. - Compositions of Margadarsi Sesha Iyengar - lecture by Dr. SAK Durga

6.45 p.m. - Prema Rangarajan - Vocal, Usha Rajagopalan - Violin, Melakaveri Balaji - Mridangam

Dec. 23, 2011 - Friday

5.00 p.m. - Nirmala Rajasekar - Veena, B. Sivaraman - Mridangam, Nanganallur Swaminathan - Ghatam

6.15 p.m. - Compositions of Irayimman Thampi - lecture by Prameela Gurumurthy

6.45 p.m. - Madhavan Namboothri - Vocal, M.R. Gopinath - Violin, T.K. Murthy - Mridangam, Udupi Sridhar - Ghatam

Dec. 24, 2011 - Saturday

5.00 p.m. - B. Bhargavi - Vocal, K.P. Nandini - Violin, H.S. Sudhindra - Mridangam

6.15 p.m. - Compositions of N. Ravikiran. Felicitations by Suguna Purushothaman

6.35 p.m. - Kunnakudi M. Balamuralikrishna - Vocal, V.L. Kumar - Violin, Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar - Mridangam

Visesha Vadyanubhava

Dec. 25, 2011 - Sunday

5.00 p.m. - Sikkil Mala Chandrasekar - Flute - lecdem

6.30 p.m. - M.S. Gopalakrishnan, M. Narmada & G. Sureshkumar - Violin trio. Neyveli Narayanan - Mridangam, Adambakkam Shankar - Ghatam

Dec. 26, 2011 - Monday

5.00 p.m. - Mudikondan Ramesh - Veena, A.S. Ranganathan - Mrridangam, Udupi Balakrishnan - Ghatam

6.30 p.m. - Injikudi E.M. Subramaniam & party - Nadaswaram

Dec. 27, 2011 - Tuesday

5.00 p.m. - B. Kannan - Veena

6.30 p.m. - N. Ramani - Flute, Nagai Muralidharan - Violin, Mannargudi Easwaran - Mridangam

Yuvakala Vaibhavam

Dec. 28, 2011 - Wednesday

5.00 p.m. - Nithyasree Srinivasan - Veena, Thillai Sooryanarayanan - Mridangam, Tiruvarur Venkatesh - Ghatam

6.00 p.m. - Manasi Prasad - Vocal, R. Kailasam - Violin, Ashwin Sridharam - Mridangam

7.00 p.m. - U.P. Raju & Nagamani - Mandolin duet, Australia Ravichandra - Mridangam, Trichy Murali - Ghatam, Sai Nivedhan - Kanjira

Dec. 29, 2011 - Thursday

5.00 p.m. - Akkarai Subhasree - Vocal, Villivakkam Raghuraman - Violin, Udupi Balakrishnan - Mridangam

6.00 p.m. - Kishan Jayendran - Mandolin. Srividhya R.S. Iyer - Violin, M.S. Venkatasubramaniam - Mridangam

7.00 p.m. - Vidya Kalyanaraman - Vocal, Sudha R.S. Iyer - Violin, Tanjore K. Praveenkumar - Mridangam

Dec. 30, 2011 - Friday

5.00 p.m. - Anahita & Apoorva - Vocal duet, Jayanthi Keshav - Violin,

6.00 p.m. - Aishwarya Shankar - Vocal, Kalpana Prasad (USA) - Violin, Nellai V. Srikrishnan - Mridangam

7.00 p.m. - Suchitra B - Vocal, C.K. Vijayaraghavan - Violin, N.C. Bharadwaj - Mridangam

Dec. 31, 2011 - Saturday

Dedicated to the birth centenary of Harikatha exponent Smt. Banni Bai

5.00 p.m. - Vallivalan Venkataraman - Vocal, Villivakkam Raghuraman - Violin, Thillai Sooryanarayanan - Mridangam

6.00 p.m. - R. Raghavendra - Vocal, R, Rahul - Violin, R. Parthasarathy - Mridangam

7.00 p.m. - Pushpa Anand & Party - Abhang Bhajan

Jan. 01, 2012 - Sunday

5.00 p.m. - Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna merit scholarship to Kum. Vijayasree and Master Arvind

6.30 p.m. - Carnatica Bros. K.N. sasikiran and P. Ganesh - Vocal duet, M.A. Sundaresan - Violin, Kamalakar Rao - Mridangam, B.S. Purushotham - Kanjira