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Welcome to the SIFAS Festival of Arts 2021

The first season of SIFAS Festival of Arts 2021, will be held from Friday, 19th March – Sunday, 28th March 2021.

Held mainly at the SIFAS Stage, the SIFAS Festival of Arts 2021, presents 15 programmes, organised over 10 days featuring over 40 upcoming and professional graded local artistes. Now in its 18th year, the festival has garnered the reputation of high-quality showcases, making it a coveted platform. Unique to this year, our visual arts exhibition will be launched virtually.  
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The highlights of the SIFAS Festival of Arts 2021 include 2 original SIFAS productions in collaboration with The Esplanade: ‘Vaadhya Samhita - A Confluence of Strings’, an instrumental Jugalbandi (Hindustani & Carnatic) at the Esplanade Recital Studio on Friday, 26th March 2021 and ‘Prakriti Vikriti – Nature’s Nature Revisited’, a multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary dance musical, at The Esplanade Theatre on Saturday 27th March 2021. 

FESTIVAL CALENDAR

19th March 2021 - 28th March 2021
All programmes are held at the SIFAS STAGE, 2A Starlight Avenue, unless otherwise mentioned.
19th March - Friday

​6.30 pm
Inauguration of Festival and launch of
SIFAS Black Box "Dhwani"


7.00 pm
Lighting of Lamp and
Welcome address


7.15 pm - 8:15 pm
Carnatic Veena
Manjula Surendra (Veena) 
​Tripunithura Sreekanth (Mridangam)
Mahesh Parameswaran (Ghatam)

20th March - ​Saturday

9.00 am - 10.15 am
Carnatic Violin
Kishan Hebbar
Srinivasan (Mridangam)
Sivakumar Gopalan (Ghatam)

11.00 am - 12.15 pm
Carnatic Vocal
Sharadh Rajaraman
Pavan Sughosh (Violin)
Bombay R Subramaniam (Mridangam)

​5.00 pm - 6.30 pm
Carnatic Vocal
Nishanth Thiagarajan
Nellai Ravindran (Violin)
Muthusubramanian (Mridangam)
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7.15 pm - 8.30 pm
SIFAS Alumni Dance Ensemble
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21st March - Sunday
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9.00 am - 9.30 am
Tabla Trio
Advaith Srinivasan, Anirudha Srinivasan
Abhinav Bheema Suresh

9.35 am - 10.10 am
Tabla Solo
G. Lakshmanan
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11.00 am - 12.15 pm
Hindustani Vocal
Pratima Bellave
Debasish Adhikary (Harmonium)
Mihir Kundu (Tabla)

5.00 pm - 6.30 pm
Carnatic Vocal
Vaishnavi Anand
Bombay Anand (Violin)
Bombay R Subramaniam (Mridangam)
Mahesh Parameswaran (Ghatam)
 
7.15 pm - 8.45 pm
Carnatic Vocal
Srividya Sriram
N N Ganesh Kumar (Violin)
Satish Chandra Sista (Mridangam)
Muthusubramanian (Kanjira)
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22nd March - ​Monday
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7.00 pm - 8.15 pm
Hindustani Vocal
Tanuja Sane
Debasish Adhikary
(Harmonium)
Supriyo Banerjee (Tabla)

​23rd March - Tuesday
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7.00 pm - 8.15 pm
Carnatic Vocal
Shruthi Raj​
Ganesh Kumar (Violin)
Balasubramanian (Mridangam)
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24th March - Wednesday
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​7.00 pm - 8.30 pm
Carnatic Vocal
Rasika Viswanath
Nellai Ravindran (Violin)
Mahesh Parameswaran (Mridangam)


​​25th March ​Thursday 
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​7.00 pm - 8.15 pm
Carnatic Vocal
Sreeranjani Muthusubramanian
Srinath Iyer (Violin)
Muthusubramanian (Mridangam)


​​26th March ​Friday
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7.30 pm - 9.30 pm​
"Vaadhya Samhita - A Confluence of Strings"
Instrumental Jugalbandhi
@ Esplanade Recital Studio

Sanjay Chakrabarty (Sarod)
Susanta Chowdhury (Sitar)
Nellai Ravindran (Violin)
Ganesh Kumar (Violin)
Mihir Kundu (Tabla)
Tripunithura Sreekanth (Mridangam)


​27th March - ​Saturday
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7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
"Prakriti Vikriti - Nature's Nature Revisited"
Bharathanatyam - Kathak Ensemble
@ Esplanade Theatre

A SIFAS Production
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28th March - ​Sunday
​9.00 am - 11.00 am
Mummoorthigal Vizha

6.30 pm - 8.00 pm

Abir Gulal
An evening celebrating
the colours of Holi,
with Hindustani Semi-Classical Music
and Kathak dances

Festival Highlights

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Vaadhya Samhita - A Confluence of Strings

Date: Friday, 26th March 2021
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Venue: The Esplande Recital Studio - 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore 038981
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Prakriti Vikriti - Nature's Nature Revisited

Date: Saturday, 27th March 2021
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Venue: The Esplande Theater - 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore 038981
Book Tickets
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