- National Indian Music Competition
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The National Indian Music Competition (NIMC) is one of the three national music competitions organised by the National Arts Council in Singapore. First organised in 1998, the Competition has the following main aims:
- Develop the performing skills of musicians in Singapore
- Improve musical standards
- Identify potential music talents
In addition, the Competition aims to be a platform for musical excellence, providing young musicians with opportunities to perform in a competitive situation in front of an international jury. The competition is open to all Singapore citizens and permanent residents.
National Indian Music Competition 2011
The 2011 NIMC will be held from 13 – 19 June 2011 at the Esplanade Recital Studio. The competition will include an Ensemble Section, and a Solo Section. For the Solo Section, participants may take part in seven different categories – Carnatic Vocal, Veena, Violin, Flute, Mridangam, Sitar and Tabla.
Each solo instrument category is divided into three age categories:
- Open (30 years and below)
- Intermediate (18 years and below)
- Junior (12 years and below)
Past Competition Winners
2011
Category Prize Junior Intermediate Open Carnatic Vocal 1st Meenakshy Jyothish Nishanth Thiagarajan n/a 2nd Gayathri Krishnakumar Ganesh Balasubramanian n/a 3rd Sandhya R Sriram Balasubramanian & Aarthi Devarajan n/a Violin 1st n/a Sharanya n/a 2nd Surup Sowmithri Thathachar Ramesh Priyadharshini n/a 3rd Vimalapugazhan Purushothaman Jyothilakshmy Kavitha n/a HM* n/a Ashwin Venkatram n/a Veena 1st n/a G Visveswari n/a 2nd Anjana Giridhar Nishtha Anand n/a 3rd Swathi Nachiar Manivannan n/a n/a Flute 1st n/a Prajwal Srikanth Raghavendran s/o Rajasekaran 2nd Saikrishna Vibhu Bulusu Prabu s/o Ramachandran 3rd n/a P Niranjan Xu Kai Xiang Rit Mridangam 1st n/a Sriram Sivakumar n/a 2nd Prasanna Venkateshwar Shyama Pushpa Sadashiv n/a 3rd Thilak Pandian Jaiganesh Charan n/a Sitar 1st n/a Anantya Bhatnagar n/a 2nd n/a Sarthak Bhatnagar n/a 3rd n/a n/a n/a Tabla 1st Vignesh Sankar Iyer Thinagar s/o Nanoo Siva Das Lalit Kumar Ganesh 2nd Vaishnav Muralidharan Sivakumar Balakrishnan n/a 3rd n/a Hemanth Hariharan n/a HM* n/a Abishek Srivastava n/a - HM - Honourable Mention. Awarded to deserving finalists.
2008
Category Prize Intermediate Open Carnatic Vocal 1st G S Divya Rashmi Balasubramanian 2nd R Shwethambari Sandhya Ramaswamy 3rd n/a Kavitha Jayaraman HM* Nandhitha Gurunath Hari & Poonguzhali Purushothaman Darshini d/o Yoganathan Violin 1st Sriram Sami Srikanth Radhakrishnan 2nd K Sowndarya n/a 3rd n/a n/a Veena 1st n/a Aparna Mahadevan 2nd n/a Gautham Viswanadam Abhirami 3rd n/a n/a Flute 1st n/a n/a 2nd Vibhu Bulusu n/a 3rd n/a n/a Mridangam 1st n/a n/a 2nd Akshay Alauddin Lenin n/a 3rd n/a n/a Tabla 1st Pradeep Adhokshaja Tan Guo Jun Radha Govinda Dasa 2nd Thinagar s/o Nanoo Siva Das K Jegatheessh 3rd n/a n/a - HM - Honourable Mention. Awarded to deserving finalists.
2006
Category Prize Intermediate Open Carnatic Vocal 1st Radhakrishnan Srikanth P B Madhavan 2nd Rashmi Balasubramanian Sindhu Sundar 3rd Kadayam Suresh Kaushik Sudarshan Narasimhan Violin 1st Radhakrishnan Srikanth n/a 2nd Sriram Sami n/a 3rd Shreya Gopi Nandita Krishnaswamy HM* n/a Murali Bharatram Veena 1st Gautham Viswanadam Abhirami Ramaswamy Sandhya 2nd Aiswarya Mahadevan n/a 3rd n/a n/a Flute 1st n/a n/a 2nd n/a n/a 3rd n/a Deepthi Prabhakar Sitar 1st n/a n/a 2nd n/a n/a 3rd Rhea Chatterjea Periya d/o Sundaram Mridangam 1st Sanjay Vanen Sista Satish Chandra 2nd Ganesh Jayabal Sudarshan Narasimhan 3rd Jayagowtham s/o K Annadurai n/a Tabla 1st Tan Guo Jun Radha Govinda Dasa n/a 2nd Jayanth Ganapathy Shouri Veluri 3rd n/a Sivanathan Jheevanesh & Varun Ramesh Mani - HM - Honourable Mention. Awarded to deserving finalists.
2004
Category Prize Intermediate Open Carnatic Vocal 1st Trishala Raj Shankar Janani Ganesh 2nd Kadayam Suresh Kaushik Sushma Somasekharan 3rd S. Avanthika Padmanabhan Bindu Madhavan & Radhika Ramakrishnan Violin 1st Sandeep Ramachandran Raghuraman Lavanya & Sneha Ramesh Mani 2nd Aishwarya Ramesh n/a 3rd Praphulla Chandra n/a Veena 1st Shenbagavalli Raman Neela Sitaram 2nd n/a n/a 3rd n/a n/a Sitar 1st n/a n/a 2nd Rhea Chatterjea Sri Vijayakumar Naidu s/o Govinda Rajoo 3rd Keerthigar Perumal Ong Ban Yong Mridangam 1st Sudarshan Narasimhan Viknash s/o Balakirshnan 2nd Jayagowtham s/o K. Annadurai Pathmanathan s/o Jaganathan 3rd Ganesh Jayabal n/a Tabla 1st Kumaran s/o Sinniah N. Sathis Kumar & Kamal s/o Sarwan Singh 2nd Veluri Shouri n/a 3rd Jayanth G Hari Sivakumar 2002
Category Prize Intermediate Open Carnatic Vocal 1st Janani Ganesh Aravind Ratnam Ganesh 2nd Sushma Somasekharan Padmanabhan Bindu Madhavan 3rd Ganesh Venkataraman Lavanya Balachandran Violin 1st Gangadharan Anirudhan Nandakumar Narasimhan 2nd n/a Kartik Balachandran 3rd Janani Ganesh Sneha Ramesh Mani Veena 1st Ramaswamy Sandhya n/a 2nd Saranya Seetharaman Ramkumar Vasudevan 3rd Saraswathi D/O Lakshmanan Anparasi Thirugnanam Sitar 1st n/a Krsna Dasa Tan Guo Ming 2nd n/a Gayatri D/O T P Subramaniam 3rd n/a Vanitha D/O Buthmanaban Other music competitions organised by the National Arts Council (Singapore) are the National Piano and Violin Competition and the National Chinese Music Competition.
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