Guru Poornima 2019

This year the Guru Poornima event was celebrated on August 3, 2019.  It was hosted by the students of Purva Fountain Square in their Celebration Hall.

With the lighting of the ceremonial lamp,  the day was declared open. 

Usually,  Guru Poornima means a Contest time for SwaraShraddhians. But this time, we went ahead with a simple Bhajan Program.  Here is the schedule

1. Veena vadini - Pradyumna and Pratham on keyboards and Vivaan, Maanya and Arsh on vocals
2. Nammamma Sharade - a Carnatic bhajan by advik and dipta
3. Achyutam keshavam - Abhinav, Bharat and Sameek
4. Tunga teeradi - a Dasvani by Gowri,
5. Shri Ramchandra - a Tulsidas bhajan by Unni and Radha
6. Bolo bolo sab mil bolo - shankar bhajan by Pooja, Saanvi, Sarika
7.  MahadishwarA - Ishanee, Vainavi, Varun and Diksha

Refreshment Break

8. Swami Krupa - Shraddha
9. Bhakta jana vatsale - Pratham
10. Majhe maher pandhari - reya
11. Deva shriganesha by samarth
12 Swagatam krishna - Devika
13. Hari Mhana - vocals by Shraddha and keyboards by Devika , Reya and Samarth

Guru Poornima 2017

This time Guru Poornima came on the 9th of July, 2017 and a Sunday that too.

We celebrated in two centres - Marathalli and Adarsh.

The morning half was dedicated by the Marathalli centres and celebrated in the ITTINA ABHA Hall. Students decorated the hall themselves. After Mrs. Shraddha Prabhu Lit the Ceremonial lamp, Santhi and Harshita, presented the Ganesha Invocation ' Maha Ganapati'

This was followed by a brief felicitation of Mrs Prabhu by Ittina Students.

The ever jovial students from Govindam centre presented a small tableau on Guru Poornima and felicitated their teacher again.

And then, We held our first contest for this year - Bhajans.

The Students were asked to choose new bhajans, ones they had not performed in the past. Totally, there were 3 categories.

All the keyboard attempts were really thorough. the bhajans were varied and blissful.


In the afternoon half, the Adarsh Centre had its Bhajan contest. Here we had Keyboard contests as well as Singing Contests with totally 4 categories


The Winner list is as below

Marathalli Centre

Junior Keyboard
1: Ishanee - (Chik Motyachi Maal) and Varun - (Payoji Maine)
2: Advik - (Guru Mata Pita)
3: Vainavi - (Guru Om)

Senior Keyboard
1: Devika - (Swagatam Krishna)
2: Samarth - (Ganeshaay Dhimahi)
3: Dipta - (Humko Manki Shakti)and Radha - (Majhe Maher Pandhari)

Adults
1: Varsha - Raag Bhoop
2: Suman - Raag Kaafi
3: Shanti - Raag Durga


Adarsh Centre

Junior Singing
1: Pratham - (He Sharade Maa)
2: Shivani - (Brahma Vishnu )

Senior Singing
1: Ruhin - (Raghupati Raghav)
2: Saisha - (Ekam Kar - Shabadh)

Junior Keyboard
1: Swami - (Dehachi Tijori)
2: Shweta - (Payoji Maine)
3: Vansh -  (Itni Shakti)

Senior Keyoard
1: Pratham - (O Sherawali)
2: Akshata - (Bhagyada Lakshmi)

Congrats to all the students for their Wholehearted Performances.

Here are some videos

Guru Poornima Celebrations 2016

The Guru Poornima Celebrations for 2016 were held on July 31, 2016 at GOVINDAM Community Hall. The decorations and logistics were arranged by GOVINDAM Centre and they did a very good job at it!! Many Thanks to them.

The Highlight of the program was the Felicitation of  Mrs. Shraddha Prabhu. The GOVINDAM students Varsha and Shanthi planned it well and took the teacher by surprise. Varsha  Presented the Shawl , Shanthi garlanded her while Vainavi and Advik gave their teacher mementos and a bouquet of fresh red roses.  All this to a huge round of applause.


Pratham Prabhu was the official compere of the program.

The program list with their videos is as below.

1: Ganeshaay Dhimahi - The Official anthem of our academy was presented  by Shanti and her daughter Harshita.  WIth the melodious song as the background, Shraddha lit the traditional lamp.

2:ADVIK AND VAINAVI  -  presented a medley of bhajans Achyutam Keshavam and Om Jai Jagadish Hare.

3:ISHANI,ADVAIDH, VARUN AND ADITYAVEER  - presented VAISHNAV JANATO

4:VARSHA, SHANTI - played  JAY JAY HE JAGADAMBE MAATA with Shraddha on the Manjira

5: JAMUNA presented Lingashtakam

6: Mother son Pair, Suman and Samarth presented Thumak Chalat Ram Chandra.

7: PRATHAM gave a Harmonium Recital in Raag MALKAUNS

8: REYA presented  SAWAR LOON from Lootera 2013

9: DIYA  gave a Harmonium Recital in Raag RAAG DES

10: DEVIKA  presented   GORI TERA GAAV BADA PYARA from Chitchor

11:ARJUN played  MATARGASHTI from Tamasha

12: Sarah and Deepta  played  MAUSAM KE SARGAM KO SUN from  KHAMOSHI

13: Lastly, the teacher (Shraddha )  ended the program with Raag Bhairavi based improvisation of 'Laaga Chunari Mein Daag'

Here is the Playlist of videos. 

Guru Poornima Celebrations 2015

The Academy celebrated Guru Poornima this year on 1st August 2015.

The programs included a variety from Shlokas to Bhajans to  Raaga Presentations to Bollywood Songs.

Students of all ages presented their peices with full confidence and very effectively. The youngest being 3 years , all the way to adults.

The whole event was compered by 8 year old Pratham Prabhu.

The list of programs is as below.

No	Item
1	Invocation – Was presented all vocal students. They sang the Official Invocation 'Shree Ganeshaay Dheemahi' based on Ajay Atul's Composition.
2	Saraswati Vandana -  Veena Vadini Varde - Was presented by the Students from the Vocal Juniors batch - Stars
3	Ram Bhajan - Payoji Maine - Presented by Students from the Vocal Tiny Tots Batch -  Angels
4	Dasvani - 'Bhagyada Lakshmi' - Vocal Solo by Pratham Prabhu
5	Bhajan - 'Thumak Chalat' - Keyboard Solo by Medha Sanjay
6	Classical Presentation - Raag Bhimpalas - Alaap, Bandish and Taane - Harmonium Solo by Dhruti Hegde
7	Classical Presentation - Raag Bhairav - Alaap, Bandish and Taane - Harmonium Solo by Diya Anand
8	Classical Presentation - Raag Durga - Alaap, Bandish and Taane - Harmonium Solo by Pratham Prabhu
9	Taal Teentaal – Tabla Solo by our Tabla Teacher Sri. Vishwas Saagar
10	Bollywood Song - 'Kajra Mohabbatwala - Kismet' by Mrs Neeta Verma and Mrs. Prachi Tayal
11	Raag Bhairavi -  Harmonium Solo by Music Teacher Mrs. Shraddha Prabhu -  She played the compositions 'Mile Sur' and 'Jyot Se Jyot'

Here is the play list .