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Details of 1980-1997 events

2023

March 12 Lec. Dem - KHAYAL An Overview by Dr Pooja Pavan & Co

February 25 Aradhana (Community Event)

2022

October 14 IMSOM'S 40th Anniversary Commemoration Special Concert
October 09 Sitar Bansuri Jugalbandi (Purbayan Chatterjee & Rakesh Chaurasia)	September 25 Chitravina Ganesh (Chitravina)
September 24 Appreciating Carnatic Music	September 10 Abhisek Lahiri (Sarod)
March 27 Mysore Manjunath & Sumanth (Carnatic Violin Quartet)	March 06 N Rajam, Sangeeta Shankar, Ragini Shankar & Nandini Shankar  (Hindustani Violin Quartet)
February 20 Gayathri Girish (Carnatic Vocal)	January 16 Sikkil Mala Chandrashekhar (Carnatic Flute)

2021

2021 - Although the vaccine for COVID 19 was approved and released towards the end of 2020,  IMSOM continued to organize virtual concerts due to prevailing unertainity
December 12 Vijay Koparkar (Hindustani Vocal)	November 21 Milind Tulankar (Hindustani Jaltarang)
October 30 Apoorva Gokhale & Pallavi Joshi (Hindustani Vocal - Morning Ragas)	October 10 A Kanyakumari (Carnatic Violin)
October 3 Abhisek Lahiri (Hindustani Sarod)	September 26 TVS Mahadevan (Carnatic Vocal)
September 12 Hindustani Vocal by Pt. Shounak Abhisheki	August 29 Nagaswaram Duet Recital by Vijay Karthikeyan and Prakash Ilayaraja
August 22 Violin by Yadnesh Raikar Ramdas Palsule (Tabla)	August 15 Mandolin Duet - UP Raju and Nagamani
August 01 Abhishek Mallick (Sitar), Subrata Bhattacharya (Tabla)	July 11 Vasudha Ravi (Carnatic Vocal)
April 24 Ramakant Gaikwad (Hindustani Vocal)	March 20 Venkatesh Kumar (Hindustani Vocal)
December 19 Alam Durgaprasad (Gottu Vadyam)l	January 02 Raghunandan Panshikar (Hindustani Vocal)

2020

2020 - 40th Year of IMSOM's existence. It was also the year of dreadful COVID 19 Pandemic.  Concert cancellations did not deter IMSOM's spirit. Virtual classical concerts were organized collaborating  with various organizations.
December 19 A S Murali (Carnatic Vocal)	December 05 Abhishek Borkar (Sarod)
November 21 Gayatri Venkataraghavan (Carnatic Vocal)	September 12 Dr Prancham Balachandran (Carnatic Flute)
September 26 Kaushiki Chakraborty (Hindustani Vocal) & Kalyanjit Das (Sitar)	September 12 Jayateerth Mevundi (Hindustani Vocal)
June 27 V V S Murari (Carnatic Violin)	June 20 Uday Bhawalkar (Dhrupad)
June 14 Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena)	June 06 Ishaan Ghosh (Tabla Solo)
May 30 Pooja Goswami Pavan (Hindustani Vocal)	May 22 Purbayan Chatterjee (Sitar)

2019

November 23 The 24th Annual Aradhana Festival	October 20 Heartbeat - Carnatic Rhythm Ensemble
October 13 Sandeep Narayan (Carnatic Vocal)	September 22 Confluence - Unique Concert of Hindustani Music (Saxophone, Sarod, Tabla)
September 15 Sandip Chatterjee - Santoor	June 12 Omkar Dadarkar - Hindustani Vocal
May 19 Shashwati Mandal - Hindustani Vocal	May 12 Shertalai KN Renganatha Sharma - Carnatic Vocal
April 21 Ritesh Mishra & Rajnish Mishra  - Hindustani Vocal	April 14 Vikku's 3G - Generations of Music  - Carnatic Percussion Ensemble

2018

November 17 The 23rd Annual Aradhana Festival	October 14 Manjiri Asnare Kelkar (Hindustani Vocal)
October 07 Bharat Sundar (Carnatic Vocal)	September 23 Mita Nag & Hassan Haider (Sitar & Shehnai)
September 16 Lalgudi Meets VVS  - Carnatic Violin Viola Duet Vittal Ramamurthy & VVS Murari	June 24 Sandeep Chatterjee (Santoor) This concert was cancelled due to reasons beyond IMSOM's control.
June 03 Nayan Ghosh (Sitar)	May 20 Palghat Ramprasad (Carnatic Vocal)
May 6 Gundecha Brothers	April 29 Ramakrishnan Murthy (Carnatic Vocal)

2017

November 11 The 22nd Annual Aradhana Festival	October 29 E R Janardhan (Carnatic Saxophone)
October 08 Apratim Majumdar (Sarod)	September 23 - IMSOM SPECIAL CONCERT Alka Deo Marulkar (Hindustani Vocal)
September 10 Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi (Carnatic Violin)	August 20 Purbayan Chatterjee (Sitar)
May 14 Kaivalyakumar Gurav (Hindustani Vocal)	April 30 Carnatic Double Header: Anahita & Apoorva Ravindran (Carnatic Vocal) Vishnudev Namboodiri (Carnatic Vocal)
April 23 Jayanti Sahasrabuddhe (Hindustani Vocal)	March 19 Kunnakudi Balamurali Krishna (Carnatic Vocal)

2016

	November 12 The 21st Annual Aradhana Festival
November 06 Pankaj Mishra (Sarangi) & Subhajyoti Guha (Tabla Solo)	October 30 Rakesh Chaurasia (Hindustani Flute)
October 09 Strings Attached - Thematic Concert Jayanti Kumaresh (Veena) & Kumaresh (Violin)	September 11 Harsh Narayan (Sarangi) This concert was cancelled due to reasons beyond IMSOM's control.
June 12 Jugalbandi - Shahid Parvez (Sitar) & Lalgudi GJR Krishnan (Carnatic Violin)	May 15 Sanhita Nandi - (Hindustani Vocal)
April 17 V Shankaranarayanan (Carnatic Vocal)	April 03 Sikkil Gurucharan  - (Carnatic Vocal)

2015

	November 11 Indrajit Banerjee (Sitar)
October 18 The Ravikiran (Chitravina)	October 03 The 20th Annual Aradhana
September 13 Jugalbandi (Hindustani/Carnatic) Ronu Majumdar (Flute) & Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena)	August 23 Nayan Ghosh (Sitar) This concert was cancelled due to reasons beyond  IMSOM's control.
May 31 Abhishek Lahiri (Hindustani Sarod)	May 03 Nagai Muralidharan & Nagai Sriram (Carnatic Violin Duet)
April 12 Uday Bhawalkar (Dhrupad Vocal)	March 29 Carnatica Brothers - K N Shashi Kiran & P Ganesh (Carnatic Vocal)

2014

	November 15 The 19th Annual Aradhana
November 09 Kaushiki Chakraborty (Hindustani Vocal)	October 19 Anupama Bhagwat (Sitar)
October 5 Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Carnatic Vocal)	September 21 Naadha Rasa - V V Subrahmanyam & V V S Murari  (Carnatic Violin)
May 18 Trichur Brothers (Carnatic Vocal)	May 11 Kala Ramnath (Hindustani Violin) Shubhankar Bannerjee (Tabla Solo)
April 27 Shashank (Carnatic Flute)	March 23 Rajan and Sajan Misra (Hindustani Vocal)

2013

	November 16 The 18th Annual Aradhana
October 27 V K Manimaran (Carnatic Vocal)	October 13 Sugato Nag (Sitar)
September 29  Akkarai Sisters (Carnatic Violin Duet)	September 15 Sandipan Samajpati (Hindustani Vocal)
June 09 Tejendra Narayan Majundar (Sarod)	May 12 Shashwati Mandal Paul (Hindustani Vocal)
April 24 Shrikanth Chary (Carnatic Veena)	March 10 Shantala Subramanyam (Carnatic Flute)

2012

	November  17 The 17th Annual Aradhanaa
November 10 Shujaat Khan (Sitar)	October 28 Mysore Brothers (Carnatic Violin)
October 7 Pantula Rama (Carnatic Vocal)	September  23 Kalapini Komkali (Hindustani Vocal)
May 20 Jayanthi/Kumaresh (Carnatic Veena/Violin Duet)	May 6 Alam Khan (Sarod)
April 29 Unnikrishnan (Carnatic Vocal)	April 15 Jayateerth Mevundi (Hindustani Vocal) This concert was cancelled due to reasons beyond  IMSOM's control.

2011

	November 12 The 16th Annual Aradhana
November 6 Geetha Bennett (Veena)	October 23 Abhishekh Raghuram (Carnatic Vocal)
September 18 Ritesh and Rajnish Mishra (Hindustani Vocal)	August 28 Partha Bose (Sitar)
June 12 Flute Raman (Carnatic)	May22 Priya Sisters (Carnatic Vocal)
April 24 Ken Zuckerman (Sarod)	April 10 Manjiri Asanare-Kelkar (Hindustani Vocal)

2010

November 13 The 15th Annual Aradhana	November 7 Uday Bhawalkar (Hindustani Vocal)
October 17 Malladi Brothers (Carnatic Vocal)	September 26 Tarun Bhattacharya (Santoor)
September 12 Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena)	June 13 Ashwini Bhide Deshpande (Hindustani Vocal)
May 23 Vijay Siva (Carnatic Vocal)	May 2 Joydeep Ghosh (Surshringar)
April 11 Pandit Kushal Das (Sitar)	March 21 Kunnakudi Balamuralikrishna (Carnatic Vocal)

2009

	November 14 The 14th Annual Aradhana
November 1 Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik (Hindustani Vocal)	October 11 R. Suryaprakash (Carnatic Vocal)
September 13 Pravin Godkhindi (Hindustani Bansuri)	August 9 Anuradha Sridhar (Carnatic Violin)
May 31 S. Gurucharan (Carnatic Vocal)	May 8 Aarti Anklikar-Tikekar (Hindustani Vocal)
April 26 Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan (Hindustani Shehnai)	March 29 Neyveli Santhanagopalan (Carnatic Vocal)

2008

	November 15 The 13th Annual Aradhana
November 2 N. Ravikiran (Chitravina)	October 5 Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam (Carnatic Vocal)
September 14 Shahid Parvez Khan (Sitar)	August 17 Rajan and Sajan Misra (Hindustani Vocal Duet)
May 31 Purbayan Chatterjee's Legacy Tour Concert (Hindustani four-member Sitar/Tabla ensemble)	April 27 Gundecha Brothers (Hindustani Vocal, Dhrupad)
April 13 Shashank (Carnatic Flute)	March 30 Lalgudi Krishnan & Vijayalakshmi (Carnatic Violin Duet)

2007

November 17 The 12th Annual Aradhana (Twin Cities Arists)	November 16 Kinsmen/Svajanam (Kadri Gopalnath and Rudresh Mahanthappa)
October 21 Kala Ramnath (Hindustani Violin)	September 16 T.N. Seshagopalan (Carnatic Vocal)
August 26 Veena Sahasrabuddhe (Hindustani Vocal)	August 25 Veena Sahasrabuddhe (Hindustani Vocal) Lecture-Demo
May 13 Sanjeev Abhyankar (Hindustani Vocal)	April 29 Ganga - Kaveri Swara Laya Sammelana
April 1 Veenai Jayanthi (Carnatic Veena)	March 10 Pooja Goswami (Hindustani classical and semi-classical Vocal)

2006

	November 18 Kiranavali Vidyasankar (Carnatic Vocal)
November 18 The 11th Annual Aradhana	October 14 Sawani Shende (Hindustani Vocal)
September 22 Debashish Bhattacharya (Hindustani Slide Guitar)	August 26 Prasanna (Carnatic Electric Guitar)
June 24 Mysore Brothers (Carnatic Violin Duet)	June 10 Pandit Nayan Ghosh (Sitar and Tabla Solo)
May 15 Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion	April 28 U. Shrinivas (Carnatic Mandolin)
April 15 Subhra Guha (Hindustani Vocal)	March 25 Tejendra Majumdar (Hindustani Sarod)

2005

November 19 Maharajapuram Srinivasan (Carnatic Vocal)	November 19 The 10th Annual Aradhana
October 22 Rajeev Taranath (Sarod)	October 9 IMSOM's 25th Anniversary Gala
Seprtember 18 Jugalbandi - V.K.Raman (Carnatic Flute) and Nandkishor Muley (Santoor)	August 27 Ustad Shabbir Nisar (Tabla Solo) and Sri Arun Bagal (Harmonium and Violin)
July 17 Rashid Khan (Hindustani Vocal)	June 3 N. Shashikiran and P. Ganesh (Carnatic Vocal Duet) and Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena)
May 13 T.M. Krishna (Carnatic Vocal)	April 30 Padma Talwalkar (Hindustani Vocal)
April 15 Purbayan Chatterjee (Sitar)	April 10 N. Ramani (Carnatic Flute) and A.K.C. Natarajan (Carnatic Clarinet)

2004

	October 31 Shubhendra Rao (Sitar)
October 23 Ulhas Kashalkar (Hindustani Vocal)	October 2 Umayalpuram Sivaraman (Instrumental Ensemble) - "A Musical Odyssey in Rhythm Fantasies"
September 10 Snehasish Mozumder (Hindustani Mandolin) and Partho Sarothy (Sarod)	August 7 (Baithak) Shubhangi Sakhalkar (Hindustani Vocal)
July 24 The IX Annual Aradhana (Community Festival)	June 27 (Baithak) Papanasam Ashok Ramani (Carnatic Vocal)
May 8 Ali Ahmed Hussain (Shehnai) and Ramesh Mishra (Sarangi) - Duet	April 18 Vijay Siva (Carnatic Vocal)
March 20 Shashank's (Instrumental Ensemble) "Nadalaya"

2003

	September 29 John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, U. Shrinivas and V. Selvaganesh (Fusion Ensemble) - "Remember Shakti"
September 19 Kadri Gopalnath (Saxophone) and Kanyakumari (Violin) - Duet	September 6 Kushal Das (Sitar) with Swapan Chaudhuri (Tabla)
August 23 The VIII Annual Aradhana (Community Festival)	June 28 Malladi Brothers (Carnatic Vocal Duet)
June 15 Ganesh and Kumaresh (Carnatic Violin Duet)	May 24 Aruna Sayeeram (Carnatic Vocal)
May 2 Shivkumar Sharma (Santoor) with Zakir Hussain (Tabla)	April 6 Vinayak Torvi (Hindustani Vocal)

2002

October 26 Uday Bhawalkar (Hindustani Vocal (Dhrupad))	October 20 (Baithak) Anupama Bhagwat (Sitar)
September 27 Purbayan Chatterjee (Sitar)	September 22 (Baithak) Mowna Ramachandra (Hindustani Vocal)
September 15 (Baithak) Mowna Ramachandra (Hindustani Vocal)	September 7 S. Soumya (Carnatic Vocal)
August 3 K. R. Subramanian (Carnatic Flute)	June 1 The VII Annual Aradhana (Community Festival)
May 2 Zakir Hussain (Percussion Ensemble) - "Masters of Percussion"	March 22 Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Carnatic Vocal)

2001

November 17 Mowna Ramachandra (Hindustani Vocal)	October 28 Shishirkana Dhar Choudhury (Hindustani Violin)
September 7 Hyderabad Brothers (Carnatic Vocal Duet)	June 17 Sudha Ragunathan (Carnatic Vocal)
April 1 Tejendra Majumdar (Sarod)

"Rang-Tarang" (Moods & Melodies of India) Series:

May 5 Anupama Bhagwat (Sitar)	April 22 Aparna Ramaswamy (Bharatanatyam)
February 25 Shoba Natarajan (Kuchipudi)	February 4 Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena)

2000

October 21 Satish Vyas (Santoor)	October 7 Debojyoti Bose (Sarod) and Debasish Sarkar (Semi-Classical Vocal)
September 30 Budhaditya Mukherjee (Sitar)	August 5 Praful Kelkar (Sarod), Nancy Lesh (Cello) and A. Pavan (Tabla) - Music Appreciation Workshop and Concert
July 15 Mandolin Raju and Mandolin Nagmani (Carnatic Mandolin Duet)	June 17 Srikanth Chary (Veena)
June 3 The VI Annual Aradhana (Community Festival)	May 21 Rudrapatnam Brothers (Carnatic Vocal Duet)
May 13 Rajan and Sajan Misra (Hindustani Vocal Duet)	April 7 Ashwini Bhide Deshpande (Hindustani Vocal)

1999

November 12 (Baithak) Debasish Sarkar (Semi-Classical Vocal) - "Shaam-e-Ghazal"	October 23 Ronu Majumdar (Hindustani Flute)
September 24 Shubha Mudgal (Hindustani Vocal)	August 21 Ananda Balasubramaniam (Carnatic Vocal)
June 25 Birju Maharaj (Semi-Classical Vocal)	May 21 Shahid Parvez Khan (Sitar)
May 9 Prasanna (Carnatic Guitar)	April 25 The V Annual Aradhana (Community Festival)
April 9 Ranganayaki Rajagopalan (Veena)

1998

November 8 (Baithak) Debasish Sarkar (Semi-Classical Vocal) and Sontosh Kumar (Semi-Classical Vocal) - "Shaam-e-Ghazal"	November 7 Debasish Sarkar (Semi-Classical Vocal), Gopal Mishra (Tabla Solo), Swapnamoy Banerjee (Sarod) and Sontosh Kumar (Semi-Classical Vocal) - "Shaam-e-Ghazal"
October 30 Shubhendra Rao (Sitar) and Partho Sarothy (Sarod) - Duet	October 2 Ulhas Kashalkar (Hindustani Vocal)
July The IV Annual Aradhana (Community Festival)	April 24 Irshad Khan (Sitar)
March 21 S.P. Ramh (Carnatic Vocal)	March 1 Nirmala Rajasekar (Veena)

Details of events held between 1981 - 1997 coming soon ...

1980

May 20
M.L. Vasanthakumari (Carnatic Vocal)

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