National Indian Music Competition

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:

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 2014

The 2014 NIMC will be held from 16 to 22 June 2014 at the SOTA Drama Theatre. The competition comprises 8 solo categories. Participants may take part in these various solo instrumental categories – Carnatic Vocal, Hindustani Vocal, Veena, Violin, Flute, Mridangam, Sitar and Tabla.

Each solo instrument category is divided into three age categories:

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


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


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

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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