ICC organises music talent search contest

ICC office-bearers with O P Kuthiala (second), Dr Amrohi (third) and Ganesh Srinivasan (fourth)

Staff Reporter Some 150 boys and girls pitted their musical skills against each other in this year’s ICC-VIP music talent search competition which took place yesterday and on Thursday. The competition, organised by Indian Cultural Centre (ICC), was opened on Thursday by Dr Ashok Amrohi, minister at the Indian embassy. Also present were O P Kuthiala, second secretary, Ganesh Srinivasan, general manager of Gulf Incon, the sponsor of the event, and M I Farid, president of ICC.

Two young singers who took part in the classical music competition.

Pictures: Shajahan

According to K M Varghese, the cultural secretary, competitions were conducted in 24 different categories. The contestants were divided into categories: boys and girls among juniors, intermediates, seniors, men and women.
There were contests in classical, light, Western and instrumental music.

Winners of competitions:

Classical music:
Boys: Juniors: 1. Unninarayan 2. Atul K Menon 3. Prasanna Srinivasan.
Intermediate: 1. Anand Krishnan 2. Sidharth Suresh.
Classical (senior boys and girls) 1. Ramya Ramesh 2. S Vandana, 3. Deepika Rajaram.

Light music:
Boys: Juniors: Ralston Fernandes, 2. Unninarayan, 3. Kiron Krishnprasad,
Intermediate: 1. Sangeeth Sudhankar 2. Jayson Thomas,
Senior boys: 1. Midhun Mukundan,

Western
Junior boys 1. Ralston Fernandes 2. Atul K Menon,
Intermediate: 1. Jayson Thomas, 2. Prince George Abraham, 3. Fred Gonsalves,
Senior boys: Tushar Susheel 2. Vinod Venkateshan,

Instrumental
Junior boys: Rohan Philip Varghese, 2. Eswar Gopalakrishna. 3. Nikhilesh,
Interemediate 1. K R Rakesh Milan, 2. Akhil Balakrishnan, 3 Sanjay Sundar,
Instrumental (senior boys and sr girls) 1. Mithun Mukundan 2. Ahmed Sajid 3. Jennifer Prince.

Girls: Classical:
Juniors 1. Gourisree 2. Sneha Balan, 3. Elina Lukose,
Intermediate: 1. Arunima Bera 2. Aiswaraya Murali 3. Shrikala Kahsyap.

Women: 1. Mala Krishnan 2. Chitra Srinivasan,

Light music:
Juniors: 1. Anupama R 2. Gourisree 3. Reshma Elsa Cheriyan and Vaishavi Nair,
Intermediate: 1. Arunima Bera 2. Parvathi Chandran, 3. Neeraja Ramadurai,
Senior girls: 1. Fathima Ashfaq 2. Silpi Nair 3. Rashmi Ramachandran.

Light music (Women) Deepali Mathur,

Western
Juniors: 1. Joanne G Rodrigues 2. Vaishnavi Nair 3. Naintra P Viswanath and Jinsa Mary Koshy,
Intermediate: 1. Lakshmy Ramaswamy,
Seniors: Fathema Asthaq,

Instrumental:
Juniors: 1. Sneha Balan and Risa Ann Chandran, 2. Abeer Islam 3. Joanne G Rodrigues.
Intermediate: 1. Mridula Mukundan, 2. Jolin P Rodrigues, 3. Nikitha Sarathy.

AS PUBLISHED IN THE GULF TIMES, SEP 28, 2002