Friday, April 26, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Gitanjali Anthology & The Elegance of Carnatic Music
Dear Students,
'Gitanjali Anthology & The Elegance of Carnatic Music' is offering you a "Golden Opportunity" to be part of this interesting and informative lecture demonstration!
SEATS FOR THE FIRST 35 RESERVATIONS on the following sessions;
'The Elegance of Carnatic Music'
ALL SIFAS MEMBERS/STUDENTS/SIFAS ALUMNI
Friday 26th April 2013, 8.00pm
'Gitanjali Anology' - ONLY FOR Year 5 to Year 8(students) & SIFAS Alumni
Saturday, 27th April 2013, 3.00pm and 8.00pm
(sessions are repetitive, at respective timings)
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(sessions are repetitive, at respective timings)
Regards,
Ms Maha
Corporate Communication Executive
Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society
2A Starlight Road,Singapore 217755
Tel :62995929(107),Fax :62951238
Friday, April 19, 2013
Invitation: Veena Recital by Vidhushi Shanthi Rao
Dear Members
The High Commission of India, Singapore and Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society (SIFAS) are jointly organizing an innovative veena recital on Saturday, May 11th 2013 at the Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel, starting at 7:00 p.m. Attached is a short description of the artiste and the recital.
The seats will be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis. There are only 200 seats (not -ticketed, purely by invitation).
Please RSVP to admin@sifas.org; Ph: 6299-5929 (extension 107: Ms Maha) by Tuesday 30th April, 2013.
Yours sincerely
A Sachithananthan
Vice President
Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society
An
Innovative Veena Recital by Vidhushi Shanthi Rao
Saturday,
May 11 at 7:00 p.m. at Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel
Vidhushi Shanti Rao is a highly accomplished and innovative exponent
of the veena. She has learnt under veena
maestros such as the late Chitti Babu and R K Suryanarayana as well as vocal
stalwarts such as the veteran R K Srikantan. She has given numerous
performances all over India, including most of the highly prestigious
organizers in major cities, as well as in several countries across the world.
She has been decorated with many titles and awards, has released many recordings,
and has trained many cohorts of veena students at her institution in Bengaluru,
Veenavani Centre for music.
The program for SIFAS is planned in two parts. The first part will be a classical Carnatic
veena concert with items from the traditional repertoire accompanied by a
veteran mridangam artiste, T A S Mani of Bengaluru and ghatam/kanjira by local
artistes. The second part will be an innovative East-West collaboration with local
musicians playing western instruments such as the bass guitar, saxophone and
keyboard.
The program is planned to last 90 minutes
without an intermission.
Excerpts
from reviews:
Shanti Rao from Bangalore is one of the
pioneers in this field as she maintains the speed, the glides 'sruti' with
extraordinary care. The Hindu, Chennai
Her brevity of expression and subtle ideas
had a special appeal to the initiated. Her recital greatly transcended the
usual levels of a Veena concert. The New
Indian Express, Chennai
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
GSS: moments, memories & motivation
Dear all,
For your reading pleasure, we have compiled a collection of interviews with some of our performers and well-wishers. There are more interviews and videos to follow.
Do Stay tuned at www.sifasalumniorchestra.blogspot.com
For your reading pleasure, we have compiled a collection of interviews with some of our performers and well-wishers. There are more interviews and videos to follow.
Do Stay tuned at www.sifasalumniorchestra.blogspot.com
Organisers
Production Team
SIFAS
Performers
Choir
Percussion
- Viknash Balakirshnan- Percussion & Publicity IC
- Thulasidas Vasudevan
- Saravanan-Tabla
- G Lakshmanan- Tabla
- Sai Akileshwar-member based in chennai
Violin
Veena
Flute
Alumni & Well-wishers
- Thakshyanee Bhuvanakrishna- Alumni Vocalist based in London
Friday, April 5, 2013
SIFAS Alumni: Krishna Bharatham
Memories from Krishna Bharatham, our last Dance production which took stage at the Esplanade, Singapore on 8 April 2012.
Parasparam is very important to me. Even in relation to trees. In observing the child ( I believe he was referring to the dancers) their faces bloom a different way when we melt their hearts. (wow!)
Sometimes you forget why you are an artist. What is your duty as an artist? And it’s a journey. Just need to remind you not to hurt anyone. That will remain in your dance-- Sheejith Krishna
Living outside India and having that connection to your culture is a satisfying experience. I feel fulfilled. And it goes beyond learning and this experience with Krishna BhAratham. I now can’t see my life without dance. It has gone beyond being a hobby to now becoming a serious part of my life.
Sifas is like home to many of us.
We have been learning at this institute since a young age and have seen many great teachers come and go. However, life-long friendships are fostered in SIFAS and such productions are a way for us to catch up and grow as artistes--Jivanaah
- Krishna in Mahabharatha: note by Choreographer
Unlike the human actors in the scene, Krishna can see beyond temporal and material realms, but in no way does this vision allow him to step back, or to be a mere spectator. Vyasa's Sri Krishna is one whose participation is integral to the action. He is a vital presence whose intervention allows Dharma to ultimately prevail.--Sheejith Krishna
Monday, April 1, 2013
Archiving Memories
The hype is slowly building up and we are very excited about our upcoming production. A good time to be archiving memories as this busy period slowly leads up to the GSS production itself.
As we believe that you too may enjoy hearing more news from behind the scenes, we have compiled a series of interviews with some of our members and well wishers. Please visit our production blog at SIFAS Alumni Orchestra for more stories. You may like to subscribe to its mailing list should you wish to receive these updates directly into your Inbox.
As the first in a series of short email interviews, it was a pleasure to chat with Deneshwari, whose recent video interview is now available on the GSS Facebook Event page.
Our Members
Deneshwari is one of our SIFAS Alumni Orchestra's Strings section in-charge persons ("IC") & is presently involved in our upcoming production, GSS. She is also a member of the SIFAS Alumni Music Sub-Committee. Together with Shreya Gopi, Deneshwari has shared some details about her scope of work as IC in their joint video interview. Let's get to know the individual behind the role.
"Spending so much time together has really brought us together such that these days if rehearsal is set to start at 7 I usually try my best to come in way earlier than that like at 6 perhaps..it doesn't feel like I am making a great effort for that..it's really something I want to do. that's all. :)"
To read the rest of Denesh's interview, please visit our production blog at SIFAS Alumni Orchestra.
GSS Website
We are pleased to introduce our Production Website at www.sifasalumni.org.
Thank you to the wonderful team who has made this possible. Special mention to Lakshmanan, Vignesh and Nandhitha!
Details about our upcoming GSS Alumni Orchestra production, pictures and trailers have all been made available. Do check it out! We would love to hear from you!
Details about our upcoming GSS Alumni Orchestra production, pictures and trailers have all been made available. Do check it out! We would love to hear from you!
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