85TH SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC CONFERENCE & FESTIVAL

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Dear Rasikas, We are delighted to bring out this programme booklet of the 85th South Indian Music Conference & Festival of The Indian Fine Arts Society (Regd.) E-mail: ifas75@rediffmail.com www.theindianfineartssociety.com Chennai at Ethiraja Kalyana Nilayam, #87, TTK Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 600 018. Wishing all Rasikas an enjoyable music season 3A, KG Business Centre, #65, TTK Road, Alwarpet, Chennai - 600018. Ph: +91 44 2498 3672

The Indian Fine Arts Society (Regd) DEVI ARIHANT, Flat No. 16, I Floor, #15, Dr. Nair Road, T.Nagar, Chennai - 600 017. Ph: 044-2815 4360 Email: ifas75@rediffmail.com www.theindianfineartssociety.com requests the pleasure of your esteemed presence on the occasion of the Inauguration of the 85 th SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC CONFERENCE AND FESTIVAL 2017-2018 by Thiru Ela.Ganesan. M.P. At 4.30 p.m. on Saturday, 16th December 2017 at ETHIRAJA KALYANA NILAYAM, #87, TTK Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 600 018. Ph: 044-2499 5563 (M): 78457 55481, 87544 37939 Kalaimamani Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyan Will be honoured with the title and will be presented a Cash Award With Birudu and Insignia of Sangeetha Kala Sikhamani by Thiru Ela. Ganesan & Bharathanatyam Exponent Padmabhushan Awardee, Kalaimamani Dr. PadmaSubrahmanyam Will be presented with the title, cash award with the Birudu and Insignia of Natya Kala Sikhamani by Thiru Ela. Ganesan Cash awards for both are presented by Sri. Obul Reddy & Smt. Gnanambal Trust.

Padmashree Awardee Dr. Nalli Kuppusami Chetty Present Dr.Umayalpuram K Sivaraman award to Mrudanga Vidwan Sri Trivandrum V. Surendran Award instituted by Geetha and Sridhar Chari, Laya Vidya Centre & In Concert Music, Melbourne, Australia. GNB Award Instituted by GNB Foundation is presented to sangeetha nadak academi Puraskar Sri O S Thygarajan by Sri V. Sethuram, President, The Indian Fine Arts Society Nadaka kala sikhamani award to Kalaimamani Sri S.Ve. Shekher Instituted by Narayana Guruviah Chetty s Estate & Charities by Sri V. Badrinarayana - Treasurer, The Indian Fine Arts Society.

PROGRAMME (D.V.) SATURDAY - 16 th DECEMBER 2017. 03.30 p.m. Mangala Isai Nadaswara Vidwan Sri. E. Bakthavatchalam 04.35 p.m. Prayer. 04.40 p.m. Welcome Address Dr. R. Radhakrishnan - Hony. Secretary 04.45 p.m. Presidential Address Sri. V. Sethuram - President 04:50 p.m. Inaugural Address by Thiru Ela.Ganesan 05.00 p.m. Reading of Citation 05.05 p.m. Conferment of the title Sangeetha Kalasikhamani & Presentation of Cash Award by Thiru Ela.Ganesan 05.10 p.m. Felicitations Sri V.Sriram 05.20 p.m. Acceptance & Presidential Address Sangeetha Kala Sikhamani, Sri Sanjay Subramanyan 05.30 p.m. Reading of the Citation 05.35 p.m. Conferment of the title Natya Kala Sikhamani & Presentation of Cash Award by Thiru Ela.Ganesan 05.40 p.m. Felicitations by Smt. Revathy Ramachandran 05.50 p.m. Acceptance & Address by Natya Kala Sikhamani Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam 06.00 p.m. Reading of the Citation 06.05 p.m. Padmashree Awardee Dr. Nalli Kuppusami Chetty Presents Dr. Umayalpuram K Sivaraman Award for the Best Mrudanga Vidwan Trivandrum V. Surendran and address

SATURDAY - 16 th DECEMBER 2017. 06.15 p.m. Acceptance & Address by Trivandrum V. Surendran 06.20 p.m. Reading of the Citation 06.25 p.m. Sri V. Sethuram, President, The Indian Fine Arts Society presents the GNB Award to Sri O. S. Thyagarajan 06.30 p.m. Acceptance & Address by Sri O. S. Thyagarajan 06.35 p.m. Reading of the Citation 06.40 p.m. Sri V. Badrinarayana presents the Nadaka Kala Sikhamani Award to Sri S. Ve. Shekher 06.45 p.m. Acceptance & Address by Nadaka Kala Sikhamani Sri S.Ve. Shekher 06.55 p.m. Felicitations & Vote of Thanks by Sri K. V. Ramachandran - Vice President 07.15 p.m. Crazy Theives in Palavakkm Stage play by Nadaka Kala Sikhamani Sri S. Ve. Shekher

SUNDAY - 17 th DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. Pooja Suresh & Supraja Suresh Vocal K. N. Akarsh Sankararaman 3.00 p.m. DurgaVenkatesh Vocal M. S. G. Sureshkumar Uzhavoor P. K. Babu 4.30 p.m. Ramakrishnamurthy Vocal Nagai R. Sriram Patri Satishkumar Chandrasekara Sharma Ghatam 7.00 p.m. Smt. Sudha Ragunathan & Party

MONDAY - 18 th DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. Anirudh Venkatesh Vocal K. N. Anirudh Aduthurai Guruprasad 3.00 p.m. Sreeranjane. R Vocal Pappu Gyandev Ragunath Rajaram 4.30 p.m. Sriranjani Santhanagopalan Vocal H. M. Smitha Sai Giridhar Harihara Sharma Kanjira 7.00 p.m. N. Harish Vocal Karaikkal S. Venkatasubramanian M. S.Venkatasubramaniam

TUESDAY - 19 th DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. Deepthi Suresh Vocal Bhairavi Raman Sivagangai K Vishvak 3.00 p.m. Varalakshmi Anandakumar Vocal Thirucherai Karthik Thiru cherai Kaushik Rajagopal 4.30 p.m. V.Sankaranarayanan Vocal B. U. Ganesh Prasad B. Sivaraman 7.00 p.m. AmruthaVenkatesh Vocal M.Rajeev S. J. Arjun Ganesh N.Guruprasad Ghatam

WEDNESDAY - 20 th DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. Adityaram Flute Visvesh Chandrasekar Sathyanarayana 3.00 p.m. SrividyaGanesan Vocal S.P.Ananthapadmanabha H. S. Sudhindra 4.30 p.m. Geetha Krishnamurthy Veena Kalakkad R. Srinivasan N. Rajaraman Ghatam 7.00 p.m. Sanjay Subrhamanyan Vocal Avaneeswaram S R Vinu S. J. Arjun Ganesh S. Venkataramanan Kanjira

THURSDAY - 21 st DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. Sakthi Ravitharan Vocal Malini Chandrasekarasharma T. R. Arvindkaushik 3.00 p.m. Subashree Ramachandran Vocal B. Anantha Krishnan Gopal Ravindran 4.30 p.m. Papanasam Ashok Ramani Vocal Nagai Muralidharan Mannargudi A. Easwaran 7.00 p.m. Abishek Raghuram Vocal Mysore V. Srikanth R. Sankaranarayanan

FRIDAY - 22 nd DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. Rohini Shankar Vocal K. Arvind Sunaada Krishna Amai 3.00 p.m. Dr. Duddu Radhikka Vocal H. V. Raghuram Kumbakonam K. Swaminathan 4.30 p.m. Calcutta K. Srividya Vocal B. Raghavendra Rao Delhi Sairam Sunil Kumar Kanjira 7.00 p.m. Trichur Brothers Vocal L. Ramakrishnan Trichur R. Mohan D. V. Venkatasubramaniyam Ghatam

SATURDAY - 23 rd DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. Swetha & Ramya Vocal K. Ganesan R. Raghavan 3.00 p.m. G.Ramanathan Saxophone Parur Harini Srivatsa U. Padmanabhan Mridangam 4.30 p.m. Sherthalai Ranganatha Sharma Vocal V. V. S. Murari Mannargudi A. Easwaran Trichy K. Murali Ghatam 7.00 p.m. Dr. M. Narmadha S. J. Arjun Ganesh H. Prasanna Ghatam

SUNDAY - 24 th DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. S. Jayabargavi Vocal G. Ragavendra Prasad Lakshminarasimhan 3.00 p.m. Venkatraman Ghazal Zakir A. Hussain Tabla Sarwar Hasan Rajendra Prasad Jena Harmonium 4.30 p.m. Vidya Kalyanaraman Vocal Delhi R. Sridhar M. S. Venkatasubramanian Madipakkam A. Murali Ghatam 7.00 p.m. J. A. Jayanth Flute V. V. S Murari Manoj Siva K. V. Gopalakrishnan Kanjira

MONDAY - 25 rd DECEMBER 2017. 8.00 a.m. Devotional Music by AKSHAYAM GROUP 9.00 a.m. Upanyasam on Sikshashtakam (Composition on Lord Krishna by Sri ChaitanyaMahaprabhu) By Dushyanth Sridhar 6.30 p.m. Dr. K. J. Yesudas Vocal Nagai R. Muralidharan Thiruvarur Bhakthavathsalam Tirupunithura S. Radhakrishnan Ghatam

TUESDAY - 26 th DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. Ratipriya Vocal C. S. Chinmayee Pappu Sathya Jayadev 03.00 p.m. Guhan Venkataraman Veena Vignesh Venkatarman Nanganallur S. Swaminathan Ghatam 4.30 p.m. Aishwarya Srinivas Vocal B. Ananthakrishnan S. J. Arjun Ganesh 7.00 p.m. Sriramparasuram Vocal V. Sanjeev Umakant Puranik Harmonium R. Sankaranarayanan Rajendra Nakode Tabla

WEDNESDAY - 27 th DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. Sweta Balasubramaniam Vocal Rajesh Kumbhakode Rohith Ashok 3.00 p.m. J. B. Keerthana Vocal J. B. ShruthiSagar Flute Karaikkal S. Venkatasubramaniam BurraSriram 4.30 p.m. Gayathri Girish Vocal B. U. Ganesh Prasad Poongulam Subramaniam Trichy K. Murali Ghatam 7.00 p.m. N. Vijay Siva Vocal R. K. Shriramkumar Manoj Siva Sunil Kumar Kanjira

THURSDAY - 28 th DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. K. Ameya Vocal M. S. G Sureshkumar Ajith Ashok 3.00 p.m. N. Jaya Krishnan Vocal K. J. Dileep M.S. Venkatasubramanian 4.30 p.m. K BharathSundar Vocal Nagai R. Sriram Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman Giridhar Udupa Ghatam 7.00 p.m. Aruna Prabha Ranganathan Vocal S. P. Anandapadmanabha B. Ganapathyraman

FRIDAY - 29 th DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. Varshini Ramanathan Vocal R.Gokulakrishnan D. V. Sivaraman 3.00 p.m. S. Nithyasree Veena Thillaisthanam R. Suriyanarayanan Ernakulam S. Ramakrishnan Ghatam 4.30 p.m. Sandeep Narayanan Vocal Mysore V. Srikanth Srimushnam V. Raja Rao S. V. Ramani Ghatam 7.00 p.m. Sikkil C. Gurucharan Vocal L. Ramakrishnan B. Sundarkumar G. Guruprasanna Kanjira

SATURDAY - 30 th DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. Raghuveerrangan Vocal Narayan Rangan Vocal Bhargav Tumkur Thanjavur S. Aravindan 3.00 p.m. Stageplay - SIVARATHRI by Smarabh Sriram 4.30 p.m. Jayashree Vaidyanathan Vocal Parur Harini Srivathsa Manikudi S. Chandrasekar S. Harihara Subramaniam Ghatam 7.00 p.m. O. S. Thyagarajan Vocal T. H. Subramanyam Sri mushnam V. Raja Rao S. V. Ramani Ghatam

SUNDAY - 31 st DECEMBER 2017. 2.00 p.m. V. P. Yashvanth Flute S. A. Nandini Ajaygopi 3.00 p.m. D B Ashwin Vocal Mysore C N Srinivasamurthy Atlanta Sriram 4.30 p.m. Akshay Padmanabhan Vocal V. Sanjeev Kallidaikurichi Sivakumar Rajaraman Ghatam 7.00 p.m. Jayalakshmi Shekar Veena B.Sivaraman S. V. Ramani Ghatam

MONDAY - 01 st JANUARY 2018. 8.00 a.m. Devotional Music Subhasruthi by Dr. Mathangi Ramakrishnan, Dr. Kalyani Nityanandan, Subbulakshmi Krishnan, Leela Rani Seshachalam, Vocal Hemavathy Sethuraman, Sudha Sridharan- Shyamala Venkateshwaran R. S. Jayalakshmi Veena Umayalpuram Kalyanaram K V Ramanujam 9.00 a.m. Namasankeerthanam by Shenkottai Hari Bagavathar & Party. 11.00 a.m. Dance Drama BAKTHA SAKA VITTHALA by Dr. Jayashree Rajagopalan & troupe, Nrityodaya, Mumbai. 3.00 p.m. BHAKTI MARGAM - Devotional Path to the Supreme. Natyashala School of Bharatanatyam Pune presents Bhakti Margam - Excerpts from the religious hymns of Vaishnavism, Shaivism, and Shaktism. 4.30 p.m. Bharathanatyam by Shyama Balachandran (Dis of Gayathri Subramanian).

MONDAY - 01 st JANUARY 2018. 6.00 p.m. Bharathanatyam by Sheejith Krishna. 7.30 p.m. Chitra Visweswaran presents her Chidambaram Dance Company in ANUBHUTI - THE ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE Dancers: Vidya Anand, Uma Nambudripad, Sathyanarayanan, Jai Quehaeni, Sharmada viswanath, Sneha Chakrapani & Sanatkumar. TUESDAY - 02 nd JANUARY 2018. 8.00 a.m. Dev. Music by swaraarnava group. 10.00 a.m. Mohinyattam by RashmiMenon. 11.30 a.m. Bharathanatyam by RoopaGuha. 2.00 p.m. Melattur Bhagavathamela Natya Natak Trust presents RUKMINI KALYANAM. 4.30 p.m. Bharathanatyam by Prithivija Balgopalan. 6.00 p.m. Bharathanatyam by Revathy Ramachandran. 7.30 p.m. Padmavani and Jaikishore Mosalakanti s Kuchipudi duet.

WEDNESDAY - 03 rd JANUARY 2018. 8.00 a.m. Devotional Music by kokila Sundararajan (Priya Orthopedic centre of Udumalpet) TALENT PROMOTION PROGRAMME - BHARATHANATYAM. 9.00 a.m. K. Upanisha (Dis of S. Divyasena). 10.10 a.m. Rukshikaa (Dis of Meena Elankumaran). 11.20 a.m. S. Niveditha (Kalaimamani Srekala Bharath). 12.30 p.m. Saumya Hariharan (Dis of Lavanya Sankar). 2.00 p.m. K. Samhita (Dis of P. Saikripa). 3.10 p.m. Shreya Balakrishnan (Dis of Dr. Sujatha Mohan). 4.30 p.m. Bharathanatyam by Radhika Vairavelavan. 6.00 p.m. Bharathanatyam by Sushama Ranganathan. 7.30 p.m. Bharathanrityam by Dr. PadmaSubrahmanyam & Artistes of Nrithyodaya.

THURSDAY - 04 th JANUARY 2018. 8. 00 a.m. Devotional songs by Ragapriya group. TALENT PROMOTION PROGRAMME - BHARATHANATYAM 9.00 a.m. B. Abinaya (Dis of J Surya Narayana Murthy) 10.10 a.m. Deepa Ramanathan (SrithikaKasturirangan) 11.20 a.m. Priyanka Raghuraman (Dis of AnithaGuha) 12.30 p.m. Parur M. S. Ananthashree (Dis of RojaKannan) 2.00 p.m. Kameshweri Ganesan (Dis of SheelaUnnikrishnan) 3.10 p.m. Madhumitha Sridharan (Dis of MaaliniBalaji) 4.30 p.m. Bharathanatyam by Seethalakshmi 6.00 p.m. Bharathanatyam by Srekala Bharath 7.30 p.m. Sridevi Nrithyalaya Presents SHADAKSHARAM Dance Drama Choreoraphy by Sheela Unnikrishnan

Season Donor Passes for the entire season can be had from: The Indian Fine Arts Society, DEVI ARIHANT, Flat no. 16, I Floor, #15, Dr. Nair Road, T.Nagar, Chennai - 600 017. Ph: 044-2815 4360 Mobile: 78457 55481, 87544 37939, 95000 04979 Email: ifas75@rediffmail.com www.theindianfineartssociety.com Season Donor passes can be had from the office from 1.12.2017 to 15.12.2017-10 am to 5 pm (no lunchbreak). From 16.12.2017 onwards daily donor passes can be had from the venue only - 10am to 7pm. (no lunch break). Venue Ethiraja Kalyana Nilayam, #87, TTK Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 600 018. Ph: 044-2499 5563 Mob: 78457 55481, 87544 37939 Season / Donor passes can be booked through internet also. For further details Kindly contact office phone or mobile phone or visit our website www.theindianfineartssociety.com

THE INDIAN FINE ARTS SOCIETY (Regn. No. S-19 of 1931-32) DEVI ARIHANT, Flat No. 16, I Floor, #15, Dr. Nair Road, T.Nagar, Chennai - 600 017. Ph: 044-2815 4360 Mobile: 78457 55481, 87544 37939. Email: ifas75@rediffmail.com www.theindianfineartssociety.com BOARD OF MANAGEMENT President Sri. V. SETHURAM Vice-Presidents Sri. M. MANOHARA CHETTY Sri. K.V. RAMACHANDRAN Hony. Secretary Sri. R. RADHAKRISHNAN Hony. Joint. Secretaries Sri. S. SITARAMAN Sri. A.P. GUPTA Smt. T. NEERAJAKSHI Hony. Treasurer Sri. V. BADRINARAYANA Hony.Asst. Treasurer Sri V. SRIDHAR Committee Members Sri S. SEKAR Dr. M. NARMADHA

Main Sponsors Sri. P. Obul Reddy & Smt. P. Gnanambal Trust Ministry of Culture, Government of India Associate Sponsors Narayana Guruviah Chetty s Estate & Charities Dharmamurthi Rao Bahadur Calavala Cunnan Chetty s Charities Singamsetty Atteendroloo Chetty s Charities Desu Amirthavalli Thayaramma s Estate P. Nalliah Chetty Trust Pappichetty Ragaviah Chetty s Charities Kuchalambal Charities (Regd) Modern General Industry, Sri. K. S. Natarajan Mrs. Mythili Bhuvaneswaran (GNB Foundation), Mr. G. Sampath, Banglore