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Overall competition Guidelines - 2024

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Guruguhaamrta(r) is proud to present the 2024 Global Competition of Muddusvami Dikshitar Kritis for students of vocal music. Year after year, the competition has gained credibility and interest among the student and musicians’ community for its serious, focussed and academic approach to the works of Dikshitar. The prizes comprise the much coveted “Vijayalakshmi Rajasundaram Memorial Tambura Prizes” as well as Cash Prizes.

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  • The competition is open to all students of music between 8 and 25 (age completed as of 1st August 2024).

  • The competition is divided into 3 categories: Sub-Junior (8-10), Junior (11-14), and Senior (15-25).

  • There are two categories of contestants – those participating from WITHIN India and those from OUTSIDE. The Prizes (Tambura and Cash prizes) also would be in these categories.

  • Please ensure you register in the correct category - Guruguhaamrta would be unable to refund or cancel a registration if done against the wrong category

  • Previous-year winners (Tambura/Cash) are not eligible to participate in the same category this year.

  • The competition would have 2 levels – Prelims and Finals

  • All the above levels would be held on Zoom Video/Audio conferencing - the details of which would be shared prior to the event

  • We request you to consider making a minimum donation of INR 350/- (for students participating from WITHIN India) and USD 18 (for students participating from OUTSIDE India). This donation helps in keeping the competition sustainable.

  • Contestants having any financial challenges, can write to us providing more details, at guruguhaganam AT gmail DOT com for a full waiver of any minimum donation

  • The prelims would be held on Aug 26th,27th, and Sep 2nd for participants from India and on Sep 10th and 11th  for global participants.

  • The finals would be held on October 7th and 8th 2024

  • The prize distribution function is on November 5th (at a physical event) as part of the Dikshitar Day celebrations at Raga Sudha Hall, Mylapore, Chennai.

  • Please ensure that Shruti Volume is set to a reasonable level before singing.

  • We STRONGLY recommend that the children be accompanied by an adult during the course of the competition.

  • The competition may be streamed on FaceBook and/or Youtube

  • The judges would be short-listing contestants for the Finals. The exact number of contestants short-listed would be at the discretion of the Judges.

  • There would be two sets of Prizes - one set for contestants based IN India and the other set for those based OUTSIDE India. The number of prizes, as in the past, is based on the discretion of the judges.

  • The participants acknowledge that the decision of the judge(s) and the organisers shall be binding on all participants.​​​

  • Guruguhaamrta, would NOT be able to provide any individual feedback about participants, after the competitions.​

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