CTU 2009 Music Competition Results

Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam is glad to announce the results of the 6th Annual Music Competition held at the Balaji Temple, Aurora, IL on Saturday, 31 Oct 2009.

Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam received entries from a total of 81 contestants this year.

The first round of judging was conducted by Smt. Charumathy Ramachandran from Chennai, India after which 34 contestants were selected to perform in the Live Competition on Saturday, 31 Oct 2009.

List of selected contestants

All the contestants who performed were judged by S. Varadarajan and Neyveli Venkatesh and were given a Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam trophy and a CTU Certificate of Performance.

Each winner was awarded a CTU plaque and a CTU Certificate of Merit. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of a CTU well-wisher, the winners were given cash prizes as detailed below:

1st Prize: $250, 2nd Prize: $100 and Third Prize: $75.

Sanjay Subrahmanyan distributed the prizes and certificates to the contestants.

For this year’s competition, thanks to the sponsorship of the Lakshminarayanan family, CTU acknowledged out-of-state contestants with a travel stipend at the sponsor’s request.

The results for the various levels and categories are listed below:

Level Category Prize Name State
One Vocal 1st Prize Supraja Chittari Virginia
One Vocal 2nd Prize Vedika Iyer California
       
One Instrument 1st  Prize Sahana Shankar Michigan
One Instrument 2nd Prize Sahitya Vishwanath Virginia
       
One Percussion 1st Prize Srikar Chittari Virginia
       
Two Vocal 1st Prize Shrikrishna Shivakumar Michigan
Two Vocal 2nd Prize Hariharan Ravi Illinois
Two Vocal 3rd Prize Anitha Rajaraman Georgia
Two Vocal 3rd Prize Bhavya Kumaran Illinois
       
Two Instrument 1st Prize Sandeep Narayan Bharadwaj Illinois
       
Two Percussion 1st Prize Abhinav Seetharaman Virginia
       
Three Vocal 1st Prize Priyadarshini Rathakrishnan Georgia
Three Vocal 2nd Prize Chitra Iyer Illinois
         
Three Instrument 3rd Prize Sri Nitya Pariti Illinois
       
Three Percussion 1st Prize Subramanian Lakshminarasimhan Florida

The following contestant was selected to perform in the Live Competition but could not could not attend. This contestant will be mailed a Certificate of Selection:

  • Sandhya Balachandar, New Jersey

Special Recognition Certificates were awarded to some contestants among those who were not selected to perform in the Live Competition. The names of these contestants in alphabetical order of their last name are listed below:

  • Aparajitha Adiraju
  • Amulya Aradhyula
  • Sameera Aradhyula
  • ARVIND BADRINARAYANAN
  • Sathvik Gurupalli
  • Vinay Hanasoge
  • Rishikesh Iyer
  • Janani Iyer
  • Sahana Iyer
  • Niranjana Kannan
  • Anand Kapadia
  • Amee Kapadia
  • Shilpa Kolachina
  • Vishvak Kumaran
  • Anagha Mulpur
  • Kayal Muthuraman
  • Meera Nathan
  • Divya Pariti
  • Kalyani Pillai
  • Nivedha Poondi
  • Deepa Raghavan
  • Sruti Raman
  • Anusha Ramaswami
  • Vignesh Ravi
  • Mohini Shanker
  • Shrikanth Shivakumar
  • Shashank Swaminathan
  • Krishnamurthy Thyagarajan
  • Amritha Venkatesh
  • Keerthana Vishwanath
  • Meghana Yadavalli

CTU will be mailing the Special Recognition certificates to those contestants who did not pick them up at the competition. 

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