Classical Voice of Uttar Pradesh, a state level classical music competition, was held on November 3, 2012 at Sant Gadge Auditorium, Gomtinagar, Lucknow.It was the dedication, effort and enthusiasm of a small group of music lovers which made it possible to hold a programme of such scale.The competition covered 9 main cities of Uttar Pradesh, covering over 165 schools and nearly 400 participants over a period of 5 months.A team of dedicated music lovers and experts went to the various cities and took audition of bright youngsters. In our auditions to the various cities we were amply helped by a panel of outstation judges: Dr Madhu Shukla from Allahabad, Prof. Ram Shankar Singh from Varanasi, Mrs Aastha Goswami from Vrindavan and Dr Nishtha Sharma from Kanpur. We are grateful to our hosts at the various cities for having kindly hosted our programme and provided us the facilities:

Venue	Our Coordinator for the City	City
Bhatkhande Sangeet Mahavidyalaya	Pt. Haridutt Sharma	Ghaziabad
Sunbeam Annapurna	Mr Deepak Madhok	Varanasi
Rampus School	Mr Premchand Srivastava	Gorakhpur
Saraswati Shishu Mandir	Mr Raman Singh Dhakar	Agra
Bharat Bhavan Instt of Visual & Performing Arts	Mr Rajendra Agarwal	Mathura
Bal Vidya Mandir	Dr Madhu Shukla	Allahabad
Phoenix Mall	Mr Vijay Sharma	Bareilly
United Public School	Dr Nishtha Sharma	Kanpur

Selected candidates were invited for Semi Finals held in Lucknow on October 28, 2012 and November 2, 2012.Finalists were judged by a panel of eminent judges both outstation and local.

Grand Final was held on November 3, 2012.Mrs Dimple Yadav, Member of Parliament, kindly consented to be the Chief Guest on the occasion. Programme concluded with a tabla recital by Ustad Arif Khan from Mumbai.

Prize Distribution and Felicitation ceremony was held on November 4, 2012. His Excellency, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Shri BL Joshi kindly consented to be the Chief Guest for the occasion and gave away the prizes.
The programme concluded with a vocal recital by Ustad Arshad Ali of ITCSRA, Kolkata

Classical Voice of Uttar Pradesh Year 2012:

Sponsors of the programme:State Bank of India, UP Tourism, Sahara India Parivar

Classical Voice of Uttar Pradesh, covering 12 districts of UP:

District	School/College	Participants	For Semi Finals
Agra	8	15	3
Allahabad	16	56	9
Bareilly/ Rampur/ Moradabad	16	25	3
Ghaziabad	14	25	6
Agra	8	15	3
Gorakhpur	9	15	4
Kanpur	23	60	14
Lucknow	50	90	15
Mathura/ Vrindavan	7	11	3
Varanasi	19	58	16

Members of the organization went to these centres to take audition of participants.
Judges were : Sri Milon Debnath, Dr Manisha Saxena, Mrs Manjula Roye and outstation judges like Sri RamShanker Singh ( to Allahabad), Dr Madhu Shukla ( to Varanasi), Mrs Aastha Goswami ( to Mathura), Dr Nishtha Sharma( to Lucknow).

Auditions in these centres took place between 22nd July to 14th October, 2012.

October 28, 2012 at Gurukul Academy from 9.30 am onwards	Participants from Lucknow, Allahabad and Kanpur participated.
November 2, 2012 at Rai Umanath Bali Auditorium from 9.30 am onwards.	Participants from Gorakhpur, Agra, Mathura, Varanasi, Ghaziabad & Bareilly Contestants were provided with to and fro sleeper class fare.
GRAND FINALS–November 3, 2012 ( Saturday ) Venue: Sant Gadgeji Maharaj Sangeet Natak Academy Auditorium , Gomtinagar, Lucknow	Chief Guest : Mrs Dimple Yadav, Member of Parliament Performance by Tabla maestro Ustad Arif Khan, Mumbai.

Prize Disstribution and Felicitation Ceremony – November 4, 2012 (Sunday) Venue: Sant Gadgeji Maharaj Sangeet Natak Academy Auditorium, Gomtinagar, Lucknow

Chief Guest:His Excellency, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Sri B.L. Joshi

Prize Distribution Ceremony

Felicitation ceremony—Late Padmashri Ustad Niyaz Ahmed- Fayyaz Ahmed Khan Late Mrs Susheela Mishra

Vocal performance by Ustad Arshad Ali Khan of ITC SRA, Kolkata

Classical Voice of UP

• Devangshu Ghose
  ( Varanasi )

Senior Group :

• B Bhairavi
  ( Varanasi )
  First
• Sheetal Chauhan
  ( Agra )
  Second
• Devika Roy
  ( Lucknow )
  Third

Middle Group :

• Apoorva Tiwari
  ( Varanasi )
  First
• Purnesh Bhagwat
  ( Varanasi )
  Second
• Vilina Patra
  ( Varanasi )
  Third

Junior Group :

• Pooja Tiwari
  ( Lucknow )
  First
• Bharat Ankit
  ( Varanasi )
  Second
• Chahat Malhotra
  ( Lucknow )
  Third

TROPHIES :

Classical Voice of Agra  »	Sheetal Chauhan
Classical Voice of Lucknow  »	Pooja Tiwari
Classical Voice of Varanasi  »	Apoorva Tiwari
Classical Voice of Ghaziabad  »	Arul Seth
Classical Voice of Kanpur  »	Sita Yadav
Classical Voice of Allahabad  »	Vineet Srivastava
Classical Voice of Bareilly  »	Jayshri Mukherji
Classical Voice of Gorakhpur  »	Kritika Pandey

 

SPECIAL PRIZES :

Winning Shield for the Most Promising Institution in Lucknow :  »	La Martiniere Girls College
Trophy for the Best Organised Institution in our Audition Rounds :  »	Sunbeam Annapurna, Varanasi

Classical Voice of Uttar Pradesh:

Pays homage to the memories of Late Padmashri Ustad Niyaz Ahmed-Fayyaz Ahmed Khan.

Felicitation being received by Ustad Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan, son of Ustad Fayyaz Ahmed Khan, from His Excellency, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Sri BL Joshi & Late Mrs Susheela Mishra

Felicitation being received by Mr & Mrs Shukla, nephew of Mrs Susheela Mishra, from His Excellency, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Sri B.L. Joshi

Preliminary Round in Various Cities of Uttar Pradesh

• Milon Debnath
• Manjula Roye
• Manisha Saxena
• Ram Shanker Singh from Varanasi
• Madhu Rani Shukla from Allahabad
• Aastha Agarwal from Vrindavan
• Nishtha Sharma from Kanpur
• Pradip Narain

Semi Final Rounds on 28-10-12 & 02-11-12

• Gulshan Bharati
• Ilmas Hussain Khan
• Kamala Srivastava
• Manjula Roye
• Meera Mathur
• Milon Debnath
• Partho Pratim Das
• P.N. Mathur
• Ravi Raj Shanker
• Sheetal Prasad Mishra

Final Round on 03-11-12

• Gulshan Bharati
• Ilmas Hussain Khan
• Milon Debnath
• Partho Pratim Das
• Runa De
• Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan
• Sheetal Prasad Mishra
• Srishti Mathur
• Ustad Arif Khan
• Ustad Arshad Ali

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