24 Days. Daily. 75 concerts. 100 artistes. KALAVAIBHAVAM & KALADARPANAM. SIFAS FESTIVAL OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC DANCE & ARTS 2018 All the performances are with free admission at The SIFAS Stage at 2A Starlight Road, Singapore 217755, except for the Esplanade shows unless otherwise mentioned.*
KALPANAA: An Art Exhibition by SIFAS Visual Arts Students 16March – 8 April. 30 March: Art Workshops 10am-1pm
DAY 1 DAY 6 DAY 10 K Srinivasan (Mridangam) 8.15-9.30 pm FRIDAY 16 MAR 2018 WEDNESDAY 21 MAR 2018 SUNDAY 25 MAR 2018 Sreenivasan R (Morsing) Bharatanatyam 5.15-5.45 pm 6.30-8.00 pm 9.00-10.30 am 5.45-7.45 pm Sreeliji Sreedharan Mangala Isai Hindustani Vocal Hindustani Vocal Carnatic Vocal Sushanth P (Vocal) Nadaswaram & Thavil Vidwans Shibani Roy Sonali Sinha Biswas Vivek Sadasivam PK Geethanadhan (Nattuvangam) 5.45-6.15 pm Nabendu Bhattacharya Nabendu Bhattacharya Nellai Ravindran (Violin), Tripunithura Sreekanth (Mridangam) Inauguration of Festival (Harmonium) (Harmonium) T.R.Sundaresan (Mridangam), Nellai Ravindran (Violin) Guest of Honour: Vaishnav Muralidharan (Tabla) Mihir Kundu (Tabla) 8.00-9.15 pm VK Sivakumar (Flute) Ms Rosa Daniel 8.15-9.30 pm 10.45-12.15 pm Bharatanatyam DAY 20 Director, National Arts Council Kathak Quartet Carnatic Vocal Mohanapriyan Thavarajah WEDNESDAY 4 APR 2018 6.30-8.30 pm Krishnan Unni/Os Agarwal/Swathi Shruthi Raj Sushanth P (Vocal) 6.30-8.00 pm Carnatic Vocal Madhavan/Vinitah Venugopal Pavan Sughosh (Violin) PN Vikas (Nattuvangam) Carnatic Vocal Vignesh Ishwar DAY 7 T Ramanan (Mridangam) Tripunithura Sreekanth (Mridangam) Sushma Somasekharan VK Sivakumar (Flute) Bombay Anand (Violin), THURSDAY 22 MAR 2018 12.30-1.45 pm Nellai Ravindran (Violin), Naveen Kumar Pandilapalli (Violin) VM Sai Akileshwar (Mridangam) 6.30-8.00 pm Kathak Tripunithura Sreekanth DAY 16 8.45-10.00 pm Carnatic Violin Ketaki Dravid (Mridanagam) Bharatanatyam Ramakrishnan M 4.00-5.15 pm SATURDAY 31 MAR 2018 8.15-9.30 pm Divya Ravi Viknash (Mridangam) Odissi 9.00-10.30 am Bharatanatyam DAY 2 8.15-9.30 pm Reeti Rajguru Carnatic Vocal Meera Balasubramanian & SATURDAY 17 MAR 2018 Bharatanatyam 5.25-6.10 pm Yoga Advaith Veturi Sruti Rao 9.00-10.30 am Kalpana Sivan Tabla Solo Surup Sowmithri Thathachar (Violin) Lavanya Balachandran (Vocal) Hindustani Vocal DAY 8 Lakshmanan Senthil N Balasubramanian (Mridangam) PN Vikas (Nattuvangam) Shankar Rajan (Kanjira) Narendra Suhas Jagannathan FRIDAY 23 MAR 2018 Susanta Chowdhury (Harmonium) VM Sai Akhileshwar (Mridangam) 6.25-7.55 pm 10.45-12.15 pm Nabendu Bhattacharya 6.30-8.00 pm Nellai Ravindran (Violin) Carnatic Vocal Hindustani Vocal (Harmonium) Carnatic Vocal VK Sivakumar (Flute) VM Sai Vigneshwar Tanuja Sane Chiradip Bannerjee (Tabla) Sharadh Rajaraman DAY 21 Naveen Kumar Pandilapalli (Violin) Akshay Awadhani (Harmonium), 10.45-12.15 pm Surup Sowmithri Thathachar (Violin) THURSDAY 5 APR 2018 VM Sai Akileshwar (Mridangam) Pradiyumna Mahajan (Tabla) Carnatic Vocal S Krishnan (Mridangam) 6.30-8.00 pm 8.10-9.25 pm 11-12.30 pm Chitra Poornima Sathish 8.15-9.30 pm Hindustani Vocal Bharatanatyam Violin Workshop Hariraam Tingyuan Lam (Violin), Kathak Sohini Bhattacharya Christopher Gurusamy Kala Ramnath Shivanesh Somasundaram Pooja Sinha Nabendu Bhattacharya DAY 11 (SIFAS Rehearsal Room) (Mridangam) DAY 9 (Harmonium), 12.30-1.45 pm MONDAY 26 MAR 2018 12.20-12.50 pm Mihir Kundu (Tabla) SATURDAY 24 MAR 2018 6.30-8.00 pm Bharatanatyam 8.15-9.30 pm Bharatanatyam 9.00-9.35 am Mridula Anand Carnatic Vocal Bhuvan Anantham Bharatanatyam Carnatic Vocal 8.00-9.30 pm, 17 Mar Nishanth Thiagarajan 1.30-3.30 pm Kshirja Govind Srisha Swaminathan PRAKRITI VIKRITI Naveen Kumar Pandilapalli (Violin) Mridangam Workshop 2 DAY 22 Shruthi Kumar (Violin), Sunthara Nature’s Nature Satish Chandra Sista (Mridangam) T.R.Sundaresan FRIDAY 6 APR 2018 Ramanan Niranjan (Mridangam) 8.15 - 9.45 pm (SIFAS Rehearsal Room) 8.00 pm A SIFAS Production 9.40-10.15 am Esplanade Theatre Studio Carnatic Vocal 4.30-6.00 pm Ekamatra: Carnatic Violin *Ticket Prices for Esplanade Shows Ashwini Satish Hindustani Vocal The Carnatic Guitarist Archita Giridhar DAY 3 Nellai Ravindran (Violin) Anjana Nath R. Prasanna Shyama Sadashiv (Mridangam) Nabendu Bhattacharya SUNDAY 18 MAR 2018 VM Sai Akileshwar (Mridangam) Esplanade Recital Studio 10.20-10.55 am (Harmonium), Mihir Kundu (Tabla) 9.00-10.30 am DAY 12 Prapancham Ravindran Carnatic Violin 6.15-7.45 pm Hindustani Vocal TUESDAY 27 MAR 2018 (Mridangam), S.Karthick (Ghatam) Kishan Hebbar Carnatic Vocal Ganesh Srinivasan Anand 6.30-8.00 pm *Ticket Prices for Esplanade Shows Tony Makarome (Mridangam) Srividya Sriram Nabendu Bhattacharya Carnatic Vocal 11.00-11.35 am Nellai Ravindran (Violin) (Harmonium) Rasika Viswanath Carnatic Veena Subramanian Radhakrishnan Chiradip Bannerjee (Tabla) Srividya Sriram (Violin), Dharminy Vedamoorthy/ (Mridangam) 10.45-12.15 pm Mahesh Parameswaran (Mridangam) Uma Gowri Mahesh Parameswaran (Ghatam) Carnatic Violin 8.15-9.30 pm Sivakumar Gopalan (Mridangam) 8.00-9.15 pm Surup Sowmithri Thathachar Mohiniattam 11.40-12.15 pm Bharatanatyam V Devarajan (Mridangam), Haritha Haridas Carnatic Veena Maanasa Sri Ganesh S Paskaran (Ghatam) Recorded Music Anjana Giridhar DAY 17 4.00-5.30 pm, 8.00-9.30 pm Shyama Sadashiv (Mridangam) DAY 13 SUNDAY 1 APR 2018 PRAKRITI VIKRITI 12.20-12.55 pm WEDNESDAY 28 MAR 2018 9.30-11.00 am Nature’s Nature Bharatanatyam 6.30-8.00 pm Hindustani Sitar A SIFAS Production Anumitaa Murali / Janani Carnatic Vocal Susanta Chowdhury Esplanade Theatre Studio Sivakumar / Smrithi Shankar Chadrasekhar Viswanathan Mihir Kundu (Tabla) *Ticket Prices for Esplanade Shows 4.00-4.45 pm Srinath Iyer (Violin), 11.15-12.30 pm DAY 4 Tabla Solo Muthu Subramanian (Mridangam) Chat session DAY 23 MONDAY 19 MAR 2018 Vaishnav Muralidharan 8.15-9.30 pm Kala Ramnath & Sanjeev Abhyankar SATURDAY 7 APR 2018 6.30-8.00 pm Nabendu Bhattacharya Bharatanatyam SIFAS AUDITORIUM 9.00-10.30 am Hindustani Vocal (Harmonium) Janaki Hema Nair 7.30 pm Hindustani Vocal Sucheta Bhattacharya 4.50-5.25 pm DAY 14 YUKTA: Seema Jayesh Ovalekar Vishnu Veluri (Flute), Hindustani Vocal THURSDAY 29 MAR 2018 A Hindustani Jugalbandi Nabendu Bhattacharya Lakshmanan Senthil (Tabla), Afreen Palagiri/Naomi/ 6.30-8.00 pm Kala Ramnath & Sanjeev Abhyankar (Harmonium) Nabendu Bhattacharya Ranjani Panda Carnatic Mandolin Esplanade Concert Hall Mihir Kundu (Tabla) (Harmonium) Shibani Roy (Harmonium), Vishnu Venkatesh *Ticket Prices for Esplanade Shows 10.45-12.15 pm 8.15-9.30 pm Anirudh Shrinivason (Tabla) Naveen Kumar Pandilapalli (Violin) Hindustani Vocal Bharatanatyam 5.30-6.05 pm Tripunithura Sreekanth (Mridangam) Pratima Bellave Preethi Devarajan Bharatanatyam V Devarajan (Morsing) Shibani Roy (Harmonium), Sneha Murali DAY 5 8.15-9.30 pm Lakshmanan Senthil (Tabla) TUESDAY 20 MAR 2018 6.10-6.45 pm Bharatanatyam 7.30 pm 6.30-8.00 pm Carnatic Vocal Madhumitha Venkatesan MITHUNAM: Sreeranjani Muthu Subramanian Carnatic Vocal DAY 15 A duet in Carnatic vocal Swathi Kumar (Violin), Bharathi Jayaraman FRIDAY 30 MAR 2018 Ranjani - Gayatri Srinath Iyer (Violin), Sivakumar Muthu Subramanian (Mridangam) 9.00-10.30 am Esplanade Concert Hall 6.50-7.25 pm Gopalan (Mridangam), Tony Carnatic Vocal L Ramakrishnan (Violi n), Makarome (Morsing) Kathak Rachana Murali Narayanan Sai Giridhar (Mridangam), Amara Rama 8.15-9.30 pm Pavan Sughosh (Violin), S Krishna (Ghatam) 7.40-9.40 pm Bharatanatyam Subramanian Radhakrishnan *Ticket Prices for Esplanade Shows Carnatic Vocal DAY 18 Pooja Satish (Mridangam) Sreyas Narayanun 10.45-12.15 pm MONDAY 2 APR 2018 Nellai Ravindran (Violin), Carnatic Vocal 6.30-8.00 pm Tripunithura Sreekanth Sudharshan Narasimhan Carnatic Flute (Mridangam), Muthu Subramanian Naveen Kumar Pandilapalli (Violin) Trichy Saravanan (Kanjira) K Srinivasan (Mridangam) Nellai Ravindran (Violin) 11.30-1 pm T.R.Sundaresan (Mridangam) Hindustani Vocal Workshop Mahesh Parameswaran (Ghatam) Anjana Nath V Devarajan (Morsing) (SIFAS Rehearsal Room) 8.15-9.30 pm 12.30-1.10 pm Bharatanatyam Bihu Dance Satvikaa Shankar Assamese Association DAY 19 DAY 24 1.45-3.45 pm TUESDAY 3 APR 2018 SUNDAY 8 APR 2018 Mridangam Workshop 1 6.30-8.00 pm 8.30 am T.R Sundaresan Carnatic Violin Mangala Isai (SIFAS Rehearsal Room) Naveen Kumar Pandilapalli Nadaswaram & Thavil Vidwans 4.00-5.30 pm Tripunithura Sreekanth (Mridangam) 9.00 am Carnatic Veena Sreenivasan R (Morsing) Mummoorthigal Vizha KR Reshmi
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Ganesh Jayabal Ganesh Production Manager: Production
SIFAS Music & Dance Faculty Dance & Music SIFAS V.Hariharan, Rajalakshmi Nageswaran Rajalakshmi V.Hariharan, Choreography & Orchestra: & Choreography
Krishnan Venkatesh Krishnan
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Dr. Pappu Venugopala Rao Venugopala Pappu Dr. Concept, Script & Translation: & Script Concept,
Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society (SIFAS) Society Arts Fine Indian Singapore Sivakumar: Carnatic flute, Tripunithura Sreekanth: Sreekanth: Tripunithura flute, Carnatic Sivakumar: regions, art and craft stalls and demonstrations demonstrations and stalls craft and art regions, Produced by: Produced
Carnatic violin, Susanta Chowdhury: Sitar, V K K V Sitar, Chowdhury: Susanta violin, Carnatic an atmosphere of a Mela with food from different different from food with Mela a of atmosphere an
vocal and nattuvangam. Nellai Ravindran: Ravindran: Nellai nattuvangam. and vocal production. This year SIFAS grounds will create create will grounds SIFAS year This production.
Hindustani vocal, Arathi Ajaykumar: Carnatic Carnatic Ajaykumar: Arathi vocal, Hindustani the topic of Nature to complement the dance dance the complement to Nature of topic the
Sushanth: Hindustani Vocal, Shibani Roy: Roy: Shibani Vocal, Hindustani Sushanth: and the Esplanade during the festival, based on on based festival, the during Esplanade the and
T P Nishant: Carnatic vocal, P P vocal, Carnatic Nishant: P T SIFAS will present an art exhibition at SIFAS SIFAS at exhibition art an present will SIFAS MUSICIANS:
Sanalkumar Krishnan Unni, Nikhil Raman. Raman. Nikhil Unni, Krishnan Sanalkumar In another first, the Visual Arts Students of of Students Arts Visual the first, another In
Amrita Lahiri, Ambikakumari Ambikakumari Lahiri, Amrita Kaul. The Visual Arts platform Arts Visual The KUCHIPUDI: Kalpanaa: Kalpanaa:
Kesavan, Hetal Chauhan, Os Agarwal, Anisha Anisha Agarwal, Os Chauhan, Hetal Kesavan,
Khan, Jyotika Joshi, Nivedita Khot, Sandhya Nair Nair Sandhya Khot, Nivedita Joshi, Jyotika Khan, Dikshitar and Syama Sastry. Syama and Dikshitar
Mulla Afsar Afsar Mulla Dinesh. Vaishnavi Sriram, the trinity of Carnatic composers – Tyagaraja, Tyagaraja, – composers Carnatic of trinity the KATHAK:
Geethanadhan, Shalini Mohanakannan, Nitya Nitya Mohanakannan, Shalini Geethanadhan, “Mummoorthigal Vizha” – a musical tribute to to tribute musical a – Vizha” “Mummoorthigal
Jeganathan, M Sreeliji Sreedharan, P K K P Sreedharan, Sreeliji M Jeganathan, on April 8th with congregational singing titled titled singing congregational with 8th April on
P N Vikas, Nishanthie Nishanthie Vikas, N P admission for all. Kalavaibhavam will conclude conclude will Kalavaibhavam all. for admission BHARATANATYAM:
DANCE & ARTS 2018 ARTS & DANCE
daily for the 24 days of the Festival with free free with Festival the of days 24 the for daily
offers a range of music and dance programmes programmes dance and music of range a offers OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC, MUSIC, CLASSICAL INDIAN OF PERFORMERS
talent on a common platform. Kalavaibhavam Kalavaibhavam platform. common a on talent
explores nature’s nature. nature. nature’s explores the well-deserved opportunity to present their their present to opportunity well-deserved the
combines dance and music as it invokes and and invokes it as music and dance combines Festival which gives our homegrown artistes artistes homegrown our gives which Festival
styles, depict each season and the production production the and season each depict styles, distinguished artistes from India. It is the only only the is It India. from artistes distinguished
Ragas set in both Hindustani and Carnatic Carnatic and Hindustani both in set Ragas institutes and freelance performers along with with along performers freelance and institutes
literatures as well as lyrics in Hindi and Telugu. Telugu. and Hindi in lyrics as well as literatures from SIFAS, but from all of Singapore’s premiere premiere Singapore’s of all from but SIFAS, from
is set to poetry from ancient Tamil and Sanskrit Sanskrit and Tamil ancient from poetry to set is The festival is a presentation of talent, not just just not talent, of presentation a is festival The
Kathak and Kuchipudi, and the choreography choreography the and Kuchipudi, and Kathak : The SIFAS Stage SIFAS The : Kalavaibham
Indian Classical Dance forms, Bharatanatyam, Bharatanatyam, forms, Dance Classical Indian
PRAKRITI VIKRITI is an amalgamation of three three of amalgamation an is VIKRITI PRAKRITI . Prasanna
feature a rare South Indian Guitar Solo by by Solo Guitar Indian South rare a feature
nature. . The Festival will also also will Festival The . Vidushi Kala Ramnath Kala Vidushi
Vi Kriti, the nurturing and destructive nature of of nature destructive and nurturing the Kriti, Vi Ranjani-Gayatri, Pt. Sanjeev Abhyankar and and Abhyankar Sanjeev Pt. Ranjani-Gayatri,
and misused, which is reflected in the title Pra | | Pra title the in reflected is which misused, and will showcase the highly accomplished artistes artistes accomplished highly the showcase will
and how life on earth suffers when it is destroyed destroyed is it when suffers earth on life how and The Festival’s offering from the Indian shores shores Indian the from offering Festival’s The
nature helps us when it is enjoyed and worshipped worshipped and enjoyed is it when us helps nature the Esplanade Studio on 17 & 18 March 2018. 2018. March 18 & 17 on Studio Esplanade the
the universe. The dance repertoire explores how how explores repertoire dance The universe. the from SIFAS & India and will be performed at at performed be will and India & SIFAS from
A SIFAS DANCE PRODUCTION DANCE SIFAS A
wind and cosmos, the basic sources of life in in life of sources basic the cosmos, and wind senior students, alumni, musicians and gurus gurus and musicians alumni, students, senior
elements; the pañca bhūta-s; earth, water, fire, fire, water, earth, bhūta-s; pañca the elements; , will bring together together bring will , SIFAS. of PRAKRITI VIKRITI PRAKRITI
saga. Prakriti, nature, is constituted of the five five the of constituted is nature, Prakriti, saga. Parasuram, and choreographed by the Gurus Gurus the by choreographed and Parasuram,
phenomenon of Nature set in a poetical lyric lyric poetical a in set Nature of phenomenon Rao and renowned musician Dr Sriram Sriram Dr musician renowned and Rao
a unique dance production representing the the representing production dance unique a noted Indian arts scholar Dr. Pappu Venugopala Venugopala Pappu Dr. scholar arts Indian noted
SIFAS proudly presents PRAKRITI VIKRITI, VIKRITI, PRAKRITI presents proudly SIFAS professionals under the artistic guidance of of guidance artistic the under professionals
conceived and set to music by a team of of team a by music to set and conceived
A SIFAS Dance Production Dance SIFAS A production dance a present will SIFAS year, This presents
Nature’s Nature Nature’s Shows Esplanade The : PRAKRITI VIKRITI: PRAKRITI Kaladarpanam SINGAPORE INDIAN FINE ARTS SOCIETY SOCIETY ARTS FINE INDIAN SINGAPORE
THE ORGANISER SINGAPORE INDIAN FINE ARTS SOCIETY The Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society (SIFAS) was Sifas Festival presents set up to impart knowledge of Indian traditional OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC, and classical music, dance and arts in Singapore. DANCE & ARTS 2018 Founded in 1949, SIFAS courses are characterised by a high level of artistic excellence across all its disciplines. With a pan-Indian curriculum, SIFAS reflects the cultural diversity of a vast nation with KALAVAIBHAVAM a rich and ancient heritage. Academic excellence 16 March - 8 April underlies SIFAS’ approach with a structured 24 DAYS. DAILY. 75 CONCERTS. OVER 100 ARTISTES curriculum, classes and examinations, along with THE SIFAS STAGE FREE ADMISSION. ALL ARE WELCOME in-depth teaching and artistic guidance. KALPANAA SIFAS has played a vital role in the transformation SIFAS Visual Artists’ Showcase of Singapore into a global city for the arts, and It offers the vast repertoire of Indian artistic KALADARPANAM traditions to Singapore students and nurtures The Esplanade Shows local talent. With over 2000 students, 28 Tutors’ and 14 disciplines, SIFAS embodies its motto of PRAKRITI VIKRITI “Kala Samskrithi Lakshanam – Art Characterises Nature’s Nature A SIFAS Dance Production Civilisation” comprehensively. 17 Mar 2018, Sat, 8pm 18 Mar 2018, Sun, 4pm & 8pm OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC, THE FESTIVAL Esplanade Theatre Studio. Tickets: *30.00 The Festival was launched in 2003 with the DANCE & ARTS 2018 objective of promoting regional excellence in the SANJEEV ABHYANKAR & KALA RAMNATH Kalavaibhavam | Kaladarpanam | Kalpanaa Indian performing arts and to give a platform to Yukta: A Hindustani Jugalbandi the best Indian and local talent. It collaborated 1 April 2018. 7.30pm with Esplanade in 2005, and since then, the SIFAS Esplanade Concert Hall. Tickets: *35.00 Festival of Indian Classical Music and Dance R. PRASANNA 16 March – 8 April 2018 has presented many internationally renowned Ekamatra: The Carnatic Guitarist Esplanade & SIFAS Auditorium Singapore Indian artistes, along with a comprehensive local 6 April 2018. 8pm programme to encourage and foster talent in Esplanade Recital Studio. Tickets: *30.00 Singapore. RANJANI-GAYATRI In Collaboration with FESTIVAL 2018 Mithunam: A duet in Carnatic vocal Renamed as the SIFAS Festival of Indian Classical 7 April 2018. 7.30pm Music, Dance & Arts 2018, the festival will be held Esplanade Concert Hall. Tickets: *35.00 concurrently at the Esplanade and the SIFAS With the Support of Auditorium from 16 March to 8 April 2018. This TICKETS: SISTIC and it’s authorised agents, High Commission of India year, the much awaited festival on the Singapore Esplanade Box Office & SIFAS. Singapore calendar has it’s longest run of 24 days. Offering THE LEE FOUNDATION daily programmes, the festival brings together 75 www.sifasfestival.com | www.sifas.org concerts, over 100 artistes along with SIFAS visual www.sistic.com.sg | www.esplanade.com arts under Kaladarpanam, Kalavaibhavam and SIFAS: 2A Starlight Road, Singapore 217755 Official Print Partner Supporting TV Channel Kalpanaa. t: 62995929. e: [email protected]