National Indian Music Competition

The National Indian Music Competition (NIMC) is one of the 3 biennial 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.

National Indian Music Competition 2008

The 2008 NIMC will be held at the Drama Centre from 1 - 6 September. The 2008 Rules and Regulations and Registration Forms are available from the Competition website

Registration closes on 6 June 2008, 5pm.

Past Competition Winners

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):
National Piano and Violin Competition
National Chinese Music Competition

External links

• Link to National Indian Music Competition Website