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The '''National Indian Music Competition''' (NIMC) is one of the three national music competitions organised by the National Arts Council in [[Singapore]]. First organised in 1998, the Competition has the following main aims:
* Develop the performing skills of musicians in Singapore
* Improve musical standards
* Identify potential music talents

In addition, the Competition aims to be a platform for musical excellence, providing young musicians with opportunities to perform in a competitive situation in front of an international jury. The competition is open to all Singapore citizens and permanent residents.

==National Indian Music Competition 2014==
The 2014 NIMC will be held from 16 to 22 June 2014 at the [http://www.sota.edu.sg/VenueRental/SOTAPerformingArtsVenues/DramaTheatre.aspx SOTA Drama Theatre]. The competition comprises 8 solo categories. Participants may take part in these various solo instrumental categories – Carnatic Vocal, Hindustani Vocal, [[Veena]], [[Violin]], [[Flute]], [[Mridangam]], [[Sitar]] and [[Tabla]].

Each solo instrument category is divided into three age categories:
*'''Open''' (30 years and below)
*'''Intermediate''' (18 years and below)
*'''Junior''' (12 years and below)

==Past Competition Winners==
'''2011'''

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Category
! Prize
! Junior
! Intermediate
! Open
|-
| '''Carnatic Vocal'''
| 1st
| Meenakshy Jyothish
| Nishanth Thiagarajan
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| Gayathri Krishnakumar
| Ganesh Balasubramanian
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| Sandhya R
| Sriram Balasubramanian & Aarthi Devarajan
| n/a
|-
| '''Violin'''
| 1st
| n/a
| Sharanya
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| Surup Sowmithri Thathachar
| Ramesh Priyadharshini
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| Vimalapugazhan Purushothaman
| Jyothilakshmy Kavitha
| n/a
|-
|
| HM*
| n/a
| Ashwin Venkatram
| n/a
|-
| '''Veena'''
| 1st
| n/a
| G Visveswari
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| Anjana Giridhar
| Nishtha Anand
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| Swathi Nachiar Manivannan
| n/a
| n/a
|-
| '''Flute'''
| 1st
| n/a
| Prajwal Srikanth
| Raghavendran s/o Rajasekaran
|-
|
| 2nd
| Saikrishna
| Vibhu Bulusu
| Prabu s/o Ramachandran
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| P Niranjan
| Xu Kai Xiang Rit
|-
| '''Mridangam'''
| 1st
| n/a
| Sriram Sivakumar
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| Prasanna Venkateshwar
| Shyama Pushpa Sadashiv
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| Thilak Pandian
| Jaiganesh Charan
| n/a
|-
| '''Sitar'''
| 1st
| n/a
| Anantya Bhatnagar
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| n/a
| Sarthak Bhatnagar
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| n/a
| n/a
|-
| '''Tabla'''
| 1st
| Vignesh Sankar Iyer
| Thinagar s/o Nanoo Siva Das
| Lalit Kumar Ganesh
|-
|
| 2nd
| Vaishnav Muralidharan
| Sivakumar Balakrishnan
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| Hemanth Hariharan
| n/a
|-
|
| HM*
| n/a
| Abishek Srivastava
| n/a
|-

|}
* HM - Honourable Mention. Awarded to deserving finalists.

'''2008'''

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Category
! Prize
! Intermediate
! Open
|-
| '''Carnatic Vocal'''
| 1st
| G S Divya
| Rashmi Balasubramanian
|-
|
| 2nd
| R Shwethambari
| Sandhya Ramaswamy
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| Kavitha Jayaraman
|-
|
| HM*
| Nandhitha Gurunath Hari & Poonguzhali Purushothaman
| Darshini d/o Yoganathan
|-
| '''Violin'''
| 1st
| Sriram Sami
| Srikanth Radhakrishnan
|-
|
| 2nd
| K Sowndarya
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| n/a
|-
| '''Veena'''
| 1st
| n/a
| Aparna Mahadevan
|-
|
| 2nd
| n/a
| Gautham Viswanadam Abhirami
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| n/a
|-
| '''Flute'''
| 1st
| n/a
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| Vibhu Bulusu
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| n/a
|-
| '''Mridangam'''
| 1st
| n/a
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| Akshay Alauddin Lenin
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| n/a
|-
| '''Tabla'''
| 1st
| Pradeep Adhokshaja
| Tan Guo Jun Radha Govinda Dasa
|-
|
| 2nd
| Thinagar s/o Nanoo Siva Das
| K Jegatheessh
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| n/a
|}
* HM - Honourable Mention. Awarded to deserving finalists.

'''2006'''

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Category
! Prize
! Intermediate
! Open
|-
| '''Carnatic Vocal'''
| 1st
| Radhakrishnan Srikanth
| P B Madhavan
|-
|
| 2nd
| Rashmi Balasubramanian
| Sindhu Sundar
|-
|
| 3rd
| Kadayam Suresh Kaushik
| Sudarshan Narasimhan
|-
| '''Violin'''
| 1st
| Radhakrishnan Srikanth
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| Sriram Sami
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| Shreya Gopi
| Nandita Krishnaswamy
|-
|
| HM*
| n/a
| Murali Bharatram
|-
| '''Veena'''
| 1st
| Gautham Viswanadam Abhirami
| Ramaswamy Sandhya
|-
|
| 2nd
| Aiswarya Mahadevan
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| n/a
|-
| '''Flute'''
| 1st
| n/a
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| n/a
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| Deepthi Prabhakar
|-
| '''Sitar'''
| 1st
| n/a
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| n/a
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| Rhea Chatterjea
| Periya d/o Sundaram
|-
| '''Mridangam'''
| 1st
| Sanjay Vanen
| Sista Satish Chandra
|-
|
| 2nd
| Ganesh Jayabal
| Sudarshan Narasimhan
|-
|
| 3rd
| Jayagowtham s/o K Annadurai
| n/a
|-
| '''Tabla'''
| 1st
| Tan Guo Jun Radha Govinda Dasa
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| Jayanth Ganapathy
| Shouri Veluri
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| Sivanathan Jheevanesh & Varun Ramesh Mani
|}
* HM - Honourable Mention. Awarded to deserving finalists.

'''2004'''

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Category
! Prize
! Intermediate
! Open
|-
| '''Carnatic Vocal'''
| 1st
| Trishala Raj Shankar
| Janani Ganesh
|-
|
| 2nd
| Kadayam Suresh Kaushik
| Sushma Somasekharan
|-
|
| 3rd
| S. Avanthika
| Padmanabhan Bindu Madhavan & Radhika Ramakrishnan
|-
| '''Violin'''
| 1st
| Sandeep Ramachandran
| Raghuraman Lavanya & Sneha Ramesh Mani
|-
|
| 2nd
| Aishwarya Ramesh
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| Praphulla Chandra
| n/a
|-
| '''Veena'''
| 1st
| Shenbagavalli Raman
| Neela Sitaram
|-
|
| 2nd
| n/a
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| n/a
|-
| '''Sitar'''
| 1st
| n/a
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| Rhea Chatterjea
| Sri Vijayakumar Naidu s/o Govinda Rajoo
|-
|
| 3rd
| Keerthigar Perumal
| Ong Ban Yong
|-
| '''Mridangam'''
| 1st
| Sudarshan Narasimhan
| Viknash s/o Balakirshnan
|-
|
| 2nd
| Jayagowtham s/o K. Annadurai
| Pathmanathan s/o Jaganathan
|-
|
| 3rd
| Ganesh Jayabal
| n/a
|-
| '''Tabla'''
| 1st
| Kumaran s/o Sinniah
| N. Sathis Kumar & Kamal s/o Sarwan Singh
|-
|
| 2nd
| Veluri Shouri
| n/a
|-
|
| 3rd
| Jayanth G
| Hari Sivakumar
|}

'''2002'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Category
! Prize
! Intermediate
! Open
|-
| '''Carnatic Vocal'''
| 1st
| Janani Ganesh
| Aravind Ratnam Ganesh
|-
|
| 2nd
| Sushma Somasekharan
| Padmanabhan Bindu Madhavan
|-
|
| 3rd
| Ganesh Venkataraman
| Lavanya Balachandran
|-
| '''Violin'''
| 1st
| Gangadharan Anirudhan
| Nandakumar Narasimhan
|-
|
| 2nd
| n/a
| Kartik Balachandran
|-
|
| 3rd
| Janani Ganesh
| Sneha Ramesh Mani
|-
| '''Veena'''
| 1st
| Ramaswamy Sandhya
| n/a
|-
|
| 2nd
| Saranya Seetharaman
| Ramkumar Vasudevan
|-
|
| 3rd
| Saraswathi D/O Lakshmanan
| Anparasi Thirugnanam
|-
| '''Sitar'''
| 1st
| n/a
| Krsna Dasa Tan Guo Ming
|-
|
| 2nd
| n/a
| Gayatri D/O T P Subramaniam
|-
|
| 3rd
| n/a
| Vanitha D/O Buthmanaban
|}

Other music competitions organised by the [http://www.nac.gov.sg National Arts Council (Singapore)] are the [http://www.nac.gov.sg/npvc National Piano and Violin Competition] and the
[http://www.nac.gov.sg/ncmc National Chinese Music Competition].

==External links==
* [http://www.nac.gov.sg/nimc Link to National Indian Music Competition Website]

[[Category:Indian music]]
[[Category:Indian music awards]]

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