The Music Academy

The 85th annual conference and music concerts of the Music Academy will be held from Dec. 15, 2011 to Jan. 01, 2012

The concerts will be held at the TTK Auditorium in the Music Academy campus.

For tickets / season tickets enquiry, contact The Music Academy, Madras, New No. 168 (Old No. 306), T.T.K. Road, Chennai - 600 014

Phone : +91-44-2811 2231 , +91-44-2811 5162

email : music@musicacademymadras.com

The schedule:

Dec. 15, 2011 - Thursday

4.00 p.m. - Mangala Isai - Injikudy E.M. Mariappam - Nadaswaram, D. Manimaran – Tavil

5.15 p.m. - Inauguration

7.00 p.m. - R. Vedavalli (Vocal), R. K. Shriramkumar (Violin), K. Arunprakash (Mridangam), N. Guruprasad (Ghatam)

Dec. 16, 2011 - Friday

9.15 a.m. - Sheik Mahaboob Subhani & Kalisha Bi Mahaboob - (Nadaswaram), T.R. Govindarajan (Tavil), M. R. Vasudevan (Tavil)

12.00 noon - Jyotsna Krishnamurthy (Vocal), M. Vijay (Violin), Guru Raghavendra (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - D. Srinivas (Veena), Mannargudi N. Subramanian (Mridangam), Trichy Krishnaswamy (Ghatam)

4.15 p.m. - Sikkil C. Gurucharan (Vocal), H.K. Venkatram (Violin), Bangalore Arjunkumar (Mridangam), Bangalore N. Amrit (Kanjira)

7.00 p.m. - Kunnakkudy M.Balamuralikrishna (Vocal), M.R. Gopinath (Violin), Tanjore K. Murugabhoopathy (Mridangam), Adambakkam Shankar (Ghatam)

Dec. 17, 2011 - Saturday

9.15 a.m. - Bombay Sisters C. Saroja & C. Lalitha(Vocal), Usha Rajagopalan (Violin), K.R.Ganesh (Mridangam), Madipakkam A.Murali (Ghatam)

12 noon - T.S. Pattabhirama Pandit (Vocal), H.M. Smita (Violin), S. Arvind (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Aruna Ranganathan (Vocal), A.G.A. Gnanasundaram (Violin), Kottayam G. Santoshkumar (Mridangam)

4.15 p.m. - Pantula Rama (Vocal), M. Narmadha (Violin), H.S. Sudhindra (Mridangam), Thrikakkara Y. N. Shantharam (Kanjira)

7.00 p.m. - Padmavathy Ananthagopalan & Jayanthi Kumaresh (Veena Duet), R. Ramesh (Mridangam) , H. Sivaramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 18, 2011 - Sunday

9.15 a.m. - T.N. Seshagopalan (Vocal), V.V. Ravi (Violin), T.K. Murthy (Mridangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

12 noon - Kotapalli Vandana (Vocal), Bombay V. Anand (Violin), M. Sridhar (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Prasanna Venkatraman (Vocal), Idappally Ajithkumar (Violin), A.V. Manikandan (Mridangam), Alathur T. Rajaganesh (Kanjira)

4.15 p.m. - Malladi Brothers Sriram Prasad & Ravikumar (Vocal), S. Varadarajan (Violin), Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam), B. Sreesundarkumar (Kanjira)

7.00 p.m. - N. Ravikiran (Chitraveena), Peri Sriramamurthy (Violin),

Prof.Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

Dec. 19, 2011 - Monday

9.15 a.m. - Geetha Bennett (Veena), Tanjore Subramanyam (Mridangam), V. Umashankar (Ghatam), Papanasam S. Sethuraman (Kanjira)

12 noon - R. Kalpalathika(Vocal), V. Girighari (Violin), Sai Gridhar (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Vechoor C. Shankar (Vocal), Arunachala Kartik (Violin), Konerirajapuram V. Varadarajan (Mridangam), Vazhappally R. Krishnakumar (Ghatam)

4.15 p.m. - A. Kanyakumari & Embar S. Kannan (Violin Duet), Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam), E.M. Subramanyam (Ghatam)

7.00 p.m. - S. Saketharaman (Vocal), Mysore V. Srikanth (Violin), Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam)

Dec. 20, 2011 - Tuesday

9.15 a.m. - Rama Ravi (Vocal), Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli (Violin), Prapancham Ravindran (Mridangam), G. Ravichandran (Ghatam)

12 noon - Trichur Brothers Srikrishna Mohan & Ramkumar Mohan (Vocal), K.J. Dileep (Violin), Karra Srinivasa Rao (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Jeyaraj Krishnan & Jayasri Krishnan (Veena Duet), Erode Nagarajan (Mridangam), H. Prasanna (Ghatam)

4.15 p.m. - N. Vijay Siva (Vocal), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), Mannargudi A. Easwaran (Mridangam), Anirudh Atreya (Kanjira)

7.00 p.m. - Sangeetha Sivakumar (Vocal), V.V.S Murari (Voilin), Shertalai R. Ananthakrishnan (Mridangam), Bangalore B. Rajasekhar (Moharsing)

Dec. 21, 2011 - Wednesday

9.15 a.m. - Trichur V. Ramachandran (Vocal), M.A. Sundareswaran (Violin), Umayalpuram Mali (Mridangam), E.M. Subramanyam (Ghatam)

12.00 noon - B. Muthukumar (Flute), S. Karthik (Violin), Kumbakonam Swaminathan (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Sumitra Vasudev (Vocal), Balu Raghuraman (Voilin), M.S. Varadan (Mridangam), Nerkunam Manikandan (Moharsing)

4.15 p.m. - S. Sowmya (Vocal), Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Violin), Poongulam Subramanyam (Mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira)

7.00 p.m. - T.M. Krishna (Vocal), Dr. R. Hemalatha (Violin), Melakaveri K. Balaji (Mridangam), N. Govindarajan (Ghatam)

Dec. 22, 2011 - Thursday

9.15 a.m. - Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan (Vocal), Vittal Ramamurthy (Violin), Neyveli B. Venkatesh (Mridangam), Trichy K. Murali (Ghatam)

12.00 noon - Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath (Vocal), Aditi Krishna Prakash (Violin), Ranjani Venketesh (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Trichy K. Ramesh (Vocal), N.C. Madhav (Violin), Salem K. Srinivasan (Mridangam)

4.15 p.m. - Mambalam Sisters Vijayalakshmi & Chithra (Vocal), Sertalai R. Sivakumar (Violin), Tumkur B. Ravishankar (Mridangam), Vyasa Vittala (Kanjira)

7.00 p.m. - Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Vocal), S. Varadarajan (Violin), Trichy B. Harikumar (Mridangam), Coimbatore V. Mohanram (Ghatam)

Dec. 23, 2011 - Friday

9.15 a.m. - B. Suchithra (Harikatha), Pakala Ramadas (Violin), Tanjore Ramesh (Mridangam), Pudukottai N. Ramachandran (Ghatam)

12.00 noon - Vidya Kalyanaraman (Vocal), Sivakumar Anantharaman (Violin), K. Ramesh (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Tiruvarur S. Swaminathan (Flute), B. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), Madurai B. Sundar (Mridangam), T.A. Ramanujam (Moharsing)

4.15 p.m. - U. Shrinivas (Mandolin), V.V. Srinivasa Rao (Violin), Madirimangalam Swaminathan (Mridangam), S.V. Ramani (Ghatam), V. Selvaganesh (Kanjira), Srirangam R. Kannan (Moharsing)

7.00 p.m. - Gayathri Girish (Vocal), V. Sanjeev (Violin), Bangalore M.T. Rajakesari (Mridangam), B.N. Chandramouli (Kanjira)

Dec. 24, 2011 - Saturday

9.15 a.m. - R.K. Srikantan (Vocal), Sriram Parasuram (Violin), Dr.Yella Venkateswara Rao (Mridangam), M. A.Krishnamurthy (Ghatam)

12.00 noon - K. Bharat Sundar (Vocal), Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan (Violin), B. Srivatsan (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - K. Gayathri (Vocal), Nishant Chandran (Violin), Delhi S. Sairam (Mridangam), S. Krishna (Ghatam)

4.15 p.m. - Nithyasree Mahadevan (Vocal), M.A. Krishnaswamy (Violin), Neyveli Skanda Subramanian (Mridangam), A.S.Krishnan (Moharsing)

7.00 p.m. - Shertalai K.N.Renganatha Sharma (Vocal), Amritha Murali (Violin), Nanjil A.R. Arul (Mridangam), Payyanur Govindaprasad (Moharsing)

Dec. 25, 2011 - Sunday

9.15 a.m. - T.N . Krishnan, Viji Natarajan & Sreeram Krishnan (Violin Trio), Tiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam (Mridangam), Vaikom Gopalakrishnan (Ghatam)

12.00 noon - Sandeep Narayan (Vocal), Akkarai Sornalatha (Violin), N.C. Bharadwaj (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Amritha Murali (Vocal), Ranjani Ramakrishnan (Violin), R. Sankaranarayanan (Mridangam), Chandrasekhara Sarma (Ghatam)

4.15 p.m. - Ranjani & Gayathri (Vocal), H.N. Bhaskar (Violin), K.V. Prasad (Mridangam), B.S. Purushothaman (Kanjira)

7.00 p.m. - Madurai T.N.S. Krishna (Vocal), M. Chandrasekaran (Violin), Trichur C. Narendran (Mridangam), Trivandrum D. Rajagopal (Kanjira)

Dec. 26, 2011 - Monday

9.15 a.m. - O.S. Thyagarajan (Vocal), T.K.V. Ramanujacharlu (Violin), Prof.Trichy Sankaran (Mridangam), B.S. Purushothaman (Kanjira)

12.00 noon - R. Sriram (Veena), K.S. Ramana (Mridangam), Nerkunam Sankar (Kanjira)

1.45 p.m. - M.K. Sankaran namboodiri (Vocal), S.P. Anantha Padmanabha (Violin), Madipakkam P. Suresh (Mridangam)

4.15 p.m. - Manda Sudharani (Vocal), M.S.N. Murthy (Violin), B. Ganapathyraman (Mridangam), Bhagyalakshmi Krishna (Moharsing)

7.00 p.m. - Abhishek Raghuram (Vocal), Akkarai Subhalakshmi (Violin), Neyveli Narayanan (Mridangam), G. Guruprasanna (Kanjira)

Dec. 27, 2011 - Tuesday

9.00 a.m. - Seetha Narayanan (Vocal), Meera Sivaramakrishnan (Violin), Tanjore R. Kumar (Mridangam), K.S.Rangachari (Kanjira)

12.00 noon - Ramakrishnan Murthy (Vocal), M. Rajeev (Violin), Palghat A.M. Harinarayanan (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Serugudi Sisters Rema & Geetha (Vocal), Melakaveri K.Thiagarajan(Violin), Chidambaram S. Balashankar (Mridangam), Gottumukkala Venkatesh (Moharsing)

4.15 p.m. - Bombay Jayashri (Vocal), Embar S.Kannan (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), Udipi Sridhar (Ghatam)

7.00 p.m. - Hyderabad Brothers D. Raghavachari & D. Seshachari (Vocal), H.K. Venkatram (Violin), Bangalore V. Praveen (Mridangam), Ernakulam S. Ramakrishnan (Ghatam)

Dec. 28, 2011 - Wednesday

9.00 a.m. - Lalgudi Srimathi Brahmanandam & Anuradha Sridhar (Violin Duet), Sriram Brahmanandam (Mridangam), Udipi Balakrishnan (Ghatam)

12.00 noon - Vignesh Ishwar (Vocal), K. Gokul (Violin), Nirmal Narayan (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Sangeetha Swaminathan (Vocal), K.P. Nandini (Violin), Nellai A. Balaji (Mridangam)

4.15 p.m. - Aruna Sairam (Vocal), B. Raghavendra Rao (Violin), J. Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam), S. Karthick (Ghatam)

7.00 p.m. - Savitha Narasimhan (Vocal), Charulatha Ramanujam (Violin), B. Sivaraman (Mridangam), Tirukannapuram Sowrirajan (Moharsing)

Dec. 29, 2011 - Thursday

9.00 a.m. - T.V. Sankaranarayanan (Vocal), Nagai Muralidharan (Violin), Trichy B. Harikumar (Mridangam), S.V. Ramani (Ghatam)

12.00 noon - Sriranjani Santhanagopalan (Vocal), K.V. Krishna (Violin), Tanjore K. Praveenkumar (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Dr. B. Balasubramanian (Vocal), B.K. Raghu (Violin), K.U. Jayachandra Rao (Mridangam), Tumkur Shashisankar(Ghatam)

4.15 p.m. - P. Unnikrishnan (Vocal), Nagai R. Sriram (Violin), Anantha R. Krishna (Mridangam), V. Suresh (Ghatam)

7.00 p.m. - Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal), Padma Shankar (Violin), N. Manoj Siva (Mridangam), D.V. Venkatasubramaniam (Ghatam)

Dec. 30, 2011 - Friday

9.00 a.m. - N. Ramani, R. Thyagarajan & R. Atulkumar (Flute Trio), S.D. Sridhar (Violin), R. Ramesh (Mridangam), A.S. Shankar (Ghatam)

12.00 noon - S.R. Maruti Prasad (Vocal), Karaikal S. Venkatasubramanian (Violin), Rajna Swaminathan (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - Nisha Rajagopal (Vocal), Dr. Jyotsna Srikanth (Violin), Trivandrum V. Balaji (Mridangam)

4.15 p.m. - Sudha Ragunathan (Vocal), R.K. Shriramkumar (Violin), Tiruvarur Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam)

7.00 p.m. - R. anesh & R. Kumaresh (Violin Duet), V.V. Ramanamurthy (Mridangam), Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam)

Dec. 31, 2011 - Saturday

9.00 a.m. - Sukanya Prabhakar (Vocal), Nalina Mohan (Violin), C. Chaluvaraju (Mridangam), Malaikottai R.M. Deenadayalu (Moharsing)

12.00 noon - Revathy Kumar (Vocal), H.V. Raghuram (Violin), Akshay Anantapadmanabhan (Mridangam)

1.45 p.m. - G. Srikanth (Vocal), Anayampatti G. Venkatasubramaniam (Violin), S.J. Arjun Ganesh (Mridangam)

4.15 p.m. - Mala Chandrasekhar (Flute), C.N. Chandrasekharan (Violin), Palladam R. Ravi (Mridangam), Sukkanya Ramgopal (Ghatam)

7.00 p.m. - Hindustani Music - Uday Bhawalkar - Dhrupad (Vocal), Sukhad Munde (Pakhawaj)

Jan. 01, 2012 - Sunday

9.15 a.m. - S. Shashank (Flute), B.U. Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Patri Satishkumar (Mridangam), Tripunithura N. Radhakrishnan (Ghatam)

3.45 p.m. - Mangala Isai Nadaswaram - Kancheepuram M.K. Pazhani & G. Vinodkumar, Chennai V.K. Narasimhan & Nandambakkam H. Dakshinamurthy (Tavil)

5.00 p.m. - Sadas

Followed by a special programme - Ghatam Dr. S Karthick's SUMS(K)RHYTHM

Dr.S.Karthick (Ghatam, Konnakkol and Vocal), Prapancham Ravindran (Mridangam), K.V.Gopalakrishnan (Kanjira), R. Raman (Moharsing), N. Sundar (Tabla and Dolki), Rajagopalan (Percussion effects)

Brahma Gana Sabha awards 2011

The following awards will be presented to artistes by Brahma Gana Sabha this year:

Gaana Padhmam - Nagai Muralidharan (violinist)

Naatya Padhmam - Lakshmi Viswanathan

Naataka Padhmam - K. Balachander

The Madras music season blossoms with Bhavan's festival

The December music and dance season in Chennai a.k.a Madras has just got launched with Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan opening its annual cultural festival today.

Senior nadaswaram vidwan Seshampatti Sivalingam played the invocation mangala isai.

As we publish this post, popular vocalist Nithyasree Mahadevan is performing the opening concert of this year's festival.

The Bhavan has pulled out its publications into the corridor and opened its doors to the rasikas. The concerts and recitals at the Bhavan are open to all and are not ticketed.

The festival will be on till Dec. 14, 2011. The Bhavan's hall will be used by other sabhas - Kartik Fine Arts and others after this fest.

Check the full schedule of BVB's festival here.

The Indian Fine Arts Society awards 2011

Senior vocalist Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy will be honoured with the title Sangeetha Kala Sikhamani and the Bharathanatyam Exponents Narasimhachari & Vasanthalakshmi Narasimhachari will be conferred with the title Natya Kala Sikhamani this year.

The awards will be presented at the inauguration of the sabha's 79th year of the festival on Dec. 17, 2011.

Lec-dem mela by Music Forum

The Music Forum in association with The Sruti Magazine presents a Lec-Dem Mela during this season. The theme for the lec-dems is Manodharma in Carnatic music

Dates: Dec. 10, 11 and 12, 2011

Venue: Arkay Convention Center, Luz, Chennai-4.

Programme Schedule:

Dec. 10, 2011- Saturday

9 a.m. to 10 a.m. – Raga Karaharapriya & its janya ragas by O.S.Thyagarajan

10.15 a.m. to 11.15 a.m. – The differences in approach to neraval & swara singing by Chitraveena N.Ravikiran

11.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Manodharma excellence in yester year musicians by Radha Bhaskar

Dec. 11, 2011 - Sunday

9 a.m. to 9.45 a.m. – Verbal & aesthetic excellence in the lyrics of Sri Thyagaraja and Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar’s compositions by S.R.Janakiraman

10 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. - Bhakti poets & Indian Music by Gowri Ramnarayan

11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. – Scope of Manodharma in music for dance by Padma Subramaniam &

Gayathri Kannan

12.40 p.m. to 1.40 p.m. - The raga Harikamboji and its janya ragas by Dr.Sunder

Dec. 12, 2011 - Monday

9 a.m. to 10 a.m. – Raga Kalyani & its janya ragas by P. S. Narayanaswamy

10.15 a.m. to 11.15 a.m. - Manodharma aspects in a thani avarthanam by Kaaraikudi R. Mani

11.30 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. – Various aspects of Tanam by P. Vasanthkumar - Veena

12.30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. – Panel Discussion – Is manodharma really manodharma?

Admission to the lec-dems is free. However, prior registration is required.

For registrations contact phone nos. 9381023173, 9444123645

For online registrations contact: musicforum.chennai@gmail.com

Kalakshetra December Festival

A music & dance festival is held at Kalakshetra campus every year during December. There are varieties of Carnatic, Hindustani music and classical dance recitals.

The schedule is below:

Dec. 21, 2011 - Wednesday

6 p.m. - 8.30 p.m. - Aruna Sairam - Carnatic Vocal

Dec. 22, 2011 - Thursday

6 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. - Jayanthi Kumaresh - Veena recital

7.45 p.m. - 9.15 p.m. - Parassala Ponnammal - Carnatic Vocal

Dec. 23, 2011- Friday

6 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. - Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya - Lap Slide guitar (Hindustani)

7.45 p.m. - 9.15 p.m. - Pandit Uday Bhawalkar - Hindustani Vocal

Dec. 24, 2011- Saturday

6 p.m. - Paduka Pattabhishekam - By Kalakshetra Repertory Company

Dec. 25, 2011 - Sunday

6 p.m. - Krishnamari Kuravanji - Kalakshetra Repertory Company

Dec. 26, 2011 - Monday

6 p.m. - Rudrapatnam Brothers - Carnatic Vocal

Dec. 27, 2011- Tuesday

6 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. - M. Venkatesh Kumar - Hindustani Vocal

7.45 p.m. - 9.15 p.m. - Dr. Dhruba Ghosh - Sarangi recital

Dec. 28, 2011- Wednesday

6 p.m. - Aditi Mangaldas - Kathak

Dec. 29, 2011- Thursday

6 p.m. - Kalakshetra Bharatanatyam - Kalakshetra Repertory Company

Dec. 30, 2011- Friday

6 p.m. - Kadri Gopalnath - Saxophone

Dec. 31, 2011- Saturday

6 p.m. - Choodamani and Mahapattabhishekam by Kalakshetra

Tickets available at Kalakshetra from December 5, 2011and are priced at more details contact Kalakshetra at : + 91 44 24520836, 24521169, 24521170

Website: www.kalakshetra.net