British Council announces Aishwarya Natarajan as the winner of the YCE Music award 2011.

Aishwarya Natarajan
Owner, Indianuance

Indianuance is an artist management and concert programming outfit that is dedicated to Indian classical music and its allied forms. Under the realm of artist management it acts as representatives to musicians for live performances, new media channels, recording contracts and are ever alert to unconventional, new avenues and formats. Aishwarya considers herself to be a creative person; an artist and believes that there is always that ‘other’ idea that nobody has explored.

As a winner, Aishwarya travelled to UK to be a part of the 8 day programme organised by the British Council. This programme included meetings with professionals from the UK music sector, participating in various trade events and networking meetings. She was among the 7 other winners from different parts of the world. To get a glimpse of the trip please visit the below link:

www.elparlanteamarillo.com/v/Creatividad-de-Exportacion
www.elparlanteamarillo.com/v/el-gran-escape-2011

OTHER SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS

Harigovindan Njeralathu
Owner, Njeralathu Kalashramam

Hailing from a traditional temple music family in Kerala, Harigovindan comes with traditional experience and opportunities to preserve and propagate the art form Sopana Sangeetham for the last 4 years in and out of India. With a realisation that there is lot of social problems related to this art form, he started the video documentation of entire Sopanam singers of Kerala followed by video documentation of the manufacturing secrets of Kerala drums and others.  

Sanju Nair
Owner, Rock Robe

Rock Robe is the first and only official music merchandising outfit in India. Since the launch of the web-store, Rock Robe has got around 100 odd international bands on its roster for their merchandise and has partnered with a few international artists like Porcupine Tree and Lamb of God for their tour in India. Rock Robe has also been appointed as the official tour merchandise partners for the UK based artists like Meshuggah and Katatonia in India.

Sahil Makhija
Owner, Demonstealer Records – Demonic Studios

Founder of 3 bands: Demonic Resurrection, Workshop and Reptilian Death; Sahil writes solo under the moniker of Demonstealer. His company Demonstealer Records remains one of the only Indian record labels dedicated to supporting extreme metal music. He also co-owns the Resurrection festival which has been running since 2004 and runs a home studio where he records and produces bands apart from his own music.

Gaurav Dobhal
Onwer and Co-founder, Tempostand Online Music Pvt Ltd

Tempostand.com is an online community of independent artists in India with 5000 musicians and 200 poets. The aim is to build an interconnected community of artists from diverse fields like music, poetry , design and push for a ‘natural’ collaboration amongst artists. Gaurav’s  recent work include Tempostand Mobile Applications that involves building custom Android based mobile phone applications for organizations, bands, artists, independent labels etc.

Sohail Arora
Owner, Krunk

Founded in 2009, Krunk is an all-India artist-booking agency specializing in the finest local and international talent within the music industry. Krunk aims at representing a mixture of leading + break through bands / musicians & cutting edge + alternative electronic DJ's / producers. It also offers tailored consultancy services in music programming. He runs India’s first and only Drum N Bass / Dubstep Festival called BASS CAMP.

JUDGES

Atul Churamani
VP, Saregama

Collette Weston
Head of UK Trade & Investment for Western India
British Deputy High Commission

Tasneem Vahanvaty
Head of music, film and interactive, India & Sri Lanka
British Council

For any queries please contact,

Jily Joseph
British Council (West India)
901, 9th Floor, Tower 1
One Indiabulls Centre,
841, Senapati Bapat Marg
Elphinstone Road (West)
Mumbai 400 013

or email to yce.india@in.britishcouncil.org.