Our Mission

• To preserve the rich heritage of Indian classical music .
• To give a permanent, standardized, fundamental, complete raga roop to the traditional and modern ragas in face of the changing times.
• To hunt for talent in remote areas and encourage and showcase this talent.
• To give recognition and incentives to the Gurus who have nurtured such talent.

We have been organizing classical vocal competitions since 2011, graduating to all India level since 2013. We introduced Tabla as a topic for competition since 2015.

1. Target is to reach out to maximum number of participants in the cities and seek out contestants from small towns and cities to showcase their talent.
2. Reach out to participants through coordinators, news items, contacts in schools, colleges, music institutions, music-gurus
3. Audition round- target participants would be 45-65 in each centre.
4. Age & Registration of Participants: Junior : 9+ to 13+ years . Middle : 14+ to 18+years. Senior : 19+ to 23+ years Introduction of a Special Group : Yuva Kalakaar : 24+ to 28+ years
5. Topics covered in the competition: A. Khyal/dhrupad B. Tabla Publicity: We are planning to publicize the event in multiple ways:
   • Through local Coordinators in each of the cities mentioned above.
   • Through classical music groups in these cities and contact through social networking sites like Facebook.
   • With help of print and electronic media who have been supportive over the last couple of years; Request leading newspapers for support in various cities.
   • Interested marketing agencies / event managers.
6. Incentive to Participants :As a part of the programme for rekindling interest of students in classical music, the organization wishes to provide incentive to the participants in the form of :
   • Providing incentives to the students in the form of attractive cash prizes to be shared between Gurus and their talented Shishyas.
   • In case the contestant desires so, to provide liason with an eminent music institution.
   • Providing platform to them for public performances,
7. Expectations and Outcome:
   • This pan-India event will in due course create a country-wide movement for re-igniting interest in Indian classical music.
   • The movement will help to preserve and nurture our cultural heritage with a great respect towards originality and excellence.
   • By promoting young talent we would be representing the future of our country young India with the target age group of 10-24 years.
   • Coverage by electronic and print media will provide the publicity to the event.
   • Website: www.wordpress-738695-2722341.cloudwaysapps.com

Audition Routine

Classical Voice of India 2016

Tentative Audition Schedule for the Coming Months

S.No.	Date	City	Venue	Coordinator	Phone No.
1	24-4-16	Dehradun**	The Doon School	Sangeeta Sharma Naina Shrivastava	9027506001 9675897878
2	8-5-16	Jammu	KL Saigal Hall	Roshi Shaminotra
3	24-7-16	Patna	Magadh Mahila College	Neera Choudhury	9471863642
4	3-6-16	Siliguri	HMA Auditorium	Bipendra Bannerjee	9474030680
5	5-6-16	Guwahati	Karmashree Hiteshwar Saikia Auditorium	Sunirmal Tuktuk Bhattacharya	8011634205 8724067605
6	7-6-16	Agartala**	Sachin Deb Memorial Govt Music College	Kalipada Bhattacharya Sudipta S Mishra	9436463238
7	10-6-16 / 11-6-16	Kolkata**	Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad	Arpita Chatterjee Koushik Bhattacharjee TapasiGhose	9830185519 9831179499 9432952242
8	12-6-16	Burdwan	Burdwan Town Hall	Tapasi Ghose	9432952242
9	25-6-16	Pune**	SM Joshi Auditorium	Govind Gosavi	7755923967
10	26-6-16	Mumbai	Shree Vallabh Shikshan Sangeet Sansthan	Hemant Jain A Choudhuri	7042353715
11	17-7-16	Chandigarh	Pracheen Kala Kendra
12	29/30-7-16	Bhubaneshwar**	Bhanja Kala Mandap	Tapash Paul	9437090616
13	26-8-16	Jaipur**	SSG Pareek PG Girls College	Ghulam Fareed	9784607586
14	28-8-16	Ahmedabad**	Samutkarsh Academy	Devangshi Nayak Sri Haresh Nayak	9824650244
15	18-9-16	Jalandhar	Apeejay College of Fine Arts	Dr Arun Mishra	9815468094
16	25-9-16	Lucknow**	Valmiki Ranshala, UPSNA, Gomtinagar	Milon Debnath Sharmila Gupta Madhur Bhatnagar	9335466388 8960901293 9415419524
17	16-10-16	Goa		Prachala Amonkar	8408015070
18	5/6-11-16	Delhi-NCR**		Arundhati C Subrata Das	7042353715 9810502396
19	13-11-16	Bengaluru		Abhijith Shenoy	9880277490
20	19/20-11-16	Allahabad** Varanasi**	Sunbeam School, Bhagwanpur	Madhu Shukla Sukalpa Mukherjee Jagdish Rao	9838970251 9389510253
21	Date To be fixed	Agra
22	Date To be fixed	Raipur

**— Vocal & Tabla Audition / Competition

GRAND FINALS—— 16-17-18 DECEMBER 2016

For auditions after mid August, dates are tentative and may change. For queries please mail at classicalvoiceofindia@gmail.com