Ustad Amir Hussain Khan Award - Tabla Solo Competition 2008 Results


Bandish Tabla Art Promotion Trust conducted Tabla Solo Competition for Ustad Amir Hussain Khan Award for candidates from Maharashtra and Goa. This year the competition was held in 2 groups. Total eleven candidates were short-listed for finals and the final auditions were held on Tuesday 9th December 2008 at P. L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy (Ravindra Natya Mandir), Sayani Road, Prabhadevi, Near Siddhivinayaka Temple, Mumbai 400025.
 

Junior Group (upto 16 years age) Senior Group (17-35 years age)

1. Pulakit Pankaj Kakkad
2.
Vinayak Anant Gavas

3.  Mandar Atul Prabhune

4. Madhura Sachindra Lotalikar

5. Aditya Shrikrishna Gosavi

6. Shruti Rajesh Naik

7. Sujay Redkar

8. Bhargavram Shridhar Gadre

9. Ashay Sanjay Kulkarni (absent)

10. Sandeep Bajarang Pawar

11. Mihir Vaierarkar

1. Amit Shivram Katkar
2. Devang Sumant Shinde
3. Arvind Mahesh Sukhatanakar
4. Shripal Rajendra Raul
5. Charvak Ranjan Jagtap

6
. Vinayak Dnyeshwar Kudalkar
7. Vivek Arvind Mandrekar
8. Siddhesh Vasantrao Patil (absent)

9
. Shnehalkumar Ganesh Dhamapurkar
10. Chintamani Dilip Joshi
11. Pranav Narendra Koranne
12. Akshaykumar Sahastrabuddhe
13. Mandar Ashok Pilavalkar
14.
Prasad Vilas Padhye

 

Though only single award was declared for each group, due to equally good performances, in junior group two candidates, Kumar Vinayak Anant Gavas and Kumar Sandeep Bajarang Pawar were declared winners. In senior group Shri Prasad Padhye was declared as winner. Ustad Amir Hussain Khan trophy and cash prize of Rupees 5000/- (Rupees Five thousand) will be awarded to the each winner in the Barsi program of Ustad Amir Hussain Khan to be held on 4th January 2009.

Bandish is grateful to the following people for their generous donations.
Shri Satish Tare, USA - Rs. 25,000/- in memory of his father late Shri. Madhav Tare.
Shri Harsh Bajpai, USA - Rs. 5000/-

Shri. Rajesh Kaikini, Mumbai Rs. 5000/-
Shri. Vijay Petkar, Secunderabad - Rs. 5000/- (Because of this spontaneous donation announcement at the competition hall,  Bandish could offer first prize to 2 equally good candidates and resolve tie situation)


 

Kumar Vinayak Gavas (Junior Group)

 

Kumar Sandeep Pawar (Junior Group)

 

Shri. Prasad Padhye (Senior Group)


 

Judges

Candidates were judged by renowned tabla maestro
(from right) Shri Shridhar Padhye, Shri Bapu Patwardhan and Shri Sadanand Naimpalli

 


Next year Bandish plans to hold the competition for candidates from all over India!