Nartaka - Dance festival from Nov. 8

Natyanjali Trust is presenting its 7th year of Nartaka Dance Festival, a series of performances by male dancers, from Nov. 9, 2013.

Venue: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, East mada Street, Mylapore, Chennai.

Leela Samson (Chairperson Sangeet Natak Akademi) will be the chief guest on the inaugural evening. Nartaka Award 2013 will be presented to Guru K. Kalyanasundaram Pillai (Director, Sri Rajarajeswari Bharatha Natya Kala Mandir, Mumbai)

The schedule:

November 8, 2013
5.30 pm: Dance by Tandava -The Vibrance (Bangalore)
6:15 pm: Inauguration & presentation of  Nartaka Award
Bharatanatyam by Aniruddha Knight (Chennai)

November 9, 2013
5.00 pm: Bharatanatyam by Sibi Sudarsan (Chennai)
6.00 pm: Bharatanatyam by Ajith Bhaskaran Dass (Malaysia)
7.00 pm: Kathak by Sweekruth B.P. (Bangalore)

November 10, 2013
10 am to 12 pm: Lec-dem by S. Jayachandran & Kiran Rajagopalan
5.00 pm: Kuchipudi by Avijit Das (Bangalore)
6.00 pm: Bharatanatyam by Parshwanath S. Upadhye (Bangalore)
7.00 pm: Bharatanatyam by Vaibhav Arekar (Mumbai)

For more info, contact Prema Satish, Managing Trustee, Natyanjali Trust
Mobile:  +91-9841319695 / email:  nartakafestival@yahoo.com

Bharat Sangeet Utsav 2013 from Nov. 3

Carnatica and Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha jointly organise Bharat Sangeet Utsav from Nov. 3 to 12, 2013.
Venue: Narada Gana Sabha, TTK Road, Alwarpet, Chennai -18
Donor passes will be available at the venue from 11 a.m. onwards everyday.
Admission is free for the rear rows and balcony.

The schedule:

November 3, 2013
3.15 pm: Carnatic Symphony presented by TKG Gurukulam Radha Ramji, conceptualized by K.N. Shashikiran
4.30 pm: Grand Inaugural concert "Balamurali Gaanam"- Dr. Balamuralikrishna,
Sri Nagai Muralidharan, Sri Tiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam, Sri Vaikom Gopalakrishnan
6.30 pm: Award function:
Bharat Seva Puraskar to Sudha Ragunathan

7.00 pm: Murali Gaanam- Sudha Raghunathan and S.Shashank (Special Vocal - Venu concert), Pathri Sathish Kumar, B.S. Purushothaman

November 4, 2013
2.45 pm: Nisha Rajagopal, V. Sanjeev,  Trivandrum V. Balaji,  K.V. Gopalakrishnan
4.45 pm: Pandit Venkatesh Kumar (Hindusthani), Ajay Joglekar, Ravindra Yavagal
7.00 pm: T.M.Krishna, Vittal Ramamurthy, Manoj Siva, Anirudh Athreya

November 5, 2013
2.45 pm: V. Shankaranarayanan, V. Sanjeev, Neyveli Skandasubramaniam
4.45 pm: Priya Sisters (Shanmugapriya & Haripriya), M.A. Krishnaswamy, Pathri Sathish Kumar, B.S. Purushotham
7.00 pm: Suchismita Das & Anooradha Sriram (Musical forms of India), Ajay Joglekar, Ravindra Yavagal

November 6, 2013
2.45 pm: Bharat Sundar, Nagai Sriram, B.Ganapathyraman, K.V.Gopalakrishnan
4.45 pm: Neyveli Santhanagopalan, Nagai Muralidharan, Mannargudi Eashwaran, K V Gopalakrishnan
7.00 pm: The Blue Divine- A special collaboration featuring Rakesh Chaurasia, Anil Srinivasan & Sikkil Gurucharan, Pathri Sathish Kumar, Ravindra Yavagal

November 7, 2013
2.45 pm: Amritha Murali, Dr. R. Hemalatha, K. Arun Prakash, Chandrasekhara Sharma
4.45 pm: N. Vijay Siva, Chandramouli, Manoj Siva
7.00 pm: VV Subramaniam & VVS Murari – Violin Duet, Trichur Narendran, Thirupunithura Radhakrishnan

November 8. 2013
2.45 pm: Ramakrishna Murthy, Charumathi Raghuraman, K.V. Prasad, B.S. Purushothaman
4.45 pm: S. Sowmya, Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan, Poongulam Subramaniam, Chandrasekhara Sharma
7.00 pm: Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Nagai Sriram, Arjun Ganesh, Trichy Murali

November 9, 2013
2.45 pm: Trichur Brothers (Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan), Kandadevi S Vijayaraghavan, Trichur R Mohan, Nerkunam Sankar
4.45 pm: Ranjani & Gayatri, Charumathi Raghuraman, K. Arun Prakash, Anirudh Athreya
7.00 pm: Vishaka Hari (Surdas), Padma Shankar, Krishnan, Ganapathyraman, Chandrajith

November 10, 2013
9.00 am: Jayashree, Villivakkam Raghuraman, Manikudi Chandrasekhar, Narasimhan
11.00 am:  Suchitra & Saindhavi,
6.15 pm: Nithyasree Mahadevan, M.A. Krishnaswami, Poongulam Subramaniam, Trichy Murali

November 11, 2013
2.45 pm: Sandeep Narayanan, B Ananthakrishnan, SJ Arjun Ganesh, KV Gopalakrishnan
4.45 pm: Gayathri Venkatraghavan,Mysore V Srikanth, J Vaidyanathan, Papanasam Sethuraman
7.00 pm: Malladi Brothers (Sriramprasad & Ravikumar), Embar Kannan, MLN Raju, B S Purushotham

November 12, 2013
2.45 pm: K.Gayathri, Padma Shankar, Shankaranarayanan, H.Prasanna
4.45 pm: Thyagaraja & Ilayaraja- A thematic presentation led by Subhasree Thanikachalam.
6.30 pm: Valedictory Function
7.00 pm: T.V. Sankaranarayanan, M. Chandrasekharan, Srimushnam V. Raja Rao, B.S. Purushothaman

'December Season' from November!

The traditional December Season has become bigger and longer over the years. The season does not extend beyond January, but begins early.
For the past few years, The Hindu, a leading newspaper of south India has been hosting the November Fest. Initially organised in Chennai, now the fest goes to other cities like Coimbatore, Bangalore, Kochi and Hyderabad. This fest includes other genres of music too.
Carnatica, another organisation hosts Bharat Sangeet Utsav in November. This series also includes Hindustani and other classical combinations of jugalbandhis.
The schedule of these fests will also be put up on this website soon. Do come back and enjoy the music.

Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha awards for 2013

Annual Vani Kala Sudhakara awards for musicians and dancers are awarded by Sri Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha during the December music festival every year.

This years awardees include senior musicians R.K.Srikantan for Vocal, V.V.Subramaniam for Violin,  Trichy Sankaran for Mridangam,  senior dancer Lakshmi Viswanathan for Bharathanatyam and  P.S. Sachu for Theatre.

The music festival will be on from Dec. 9, 2013 till Jan. 15, 2014.

Tha Music Academy, Madras. Awards for 2013

Vocalist Smt. Sudha Ragunathan is chosen for the title of 'Sangita Kalanidhi' from the prestigious Music Academy, Madras, this year. She will preside over the 87th Annual Conference of the Music Academy to be held from Dec. 15, 2013 to Jan.1, 2014.She will be conferred the 'Sangita Kalanidhi' title at the Sadas on Jan. 1, 2014.

The awards were announced in July this year.

Sudha Ragunathan (Left) and Chitra Visweswaran

The other awards from the Madras music Academy are:

Sangita Kala Acharya Awards:
Shri D.Pasupathy (Vocalist)
Smt. Kalyani Sharma (Vocalist)

T.T.K. Awards:
Dr.Prapancham Sitaraman (Flautist)
Thanjavur Ramamoorthy (Mridangist)

Musicologist Award:
Dr. R.S.Jayalakshmi

The Pappa Venkataramiah Award for violin is being given to Shri H.K. Narasimhamurthy.

The above awards will also be conferred at the Sadas on Jan. 1, 2014.

Natya Kala Acharya Award:
The Natya Kala Acharya Award for Dance, instituted two years ago, would go to eminent Bharatanatyam exponent Chitra Visweswaran. This award will be given away at the inaugural function of the Dance Festival on Jan. 3, 2014.

Season 2013 is ahead! Welcome!

Yet another December Music Season is ushering in.
A couple of organisers have already released the season's concert schedules.
Some organisations are already on the job of compiling the schedules for print publications.
Concert-goers are also busy shopping for the season. The performers are getting their new gadgets and costumes for their music and dance recitals.
The rasikas are mailing in bunches to query the schedule, season tickets availability.
The team Chennai December Season is getting busy to do their job of sharing all that a rasika would want to know and hear about the season.
Welcome the new season!