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Bhubaneswar Mishra memorial award for violinist

BHUBANESWAR: Versatile violinist Dayanidhi Behera would be the recipient of the Pandit Bhubaneswar Mishra Memorial Award for 2007. The award has been instituted by city-based music institution ’Shruti’ as homage to the late legendary music composer of the State.

Announcing the award, ’Sruti’ founder-secretary and popular Odissi vocalist Bijay Kumar Jena informed the media that the institution would host a three-day festival of Odissi music and dance at Jayadev Bhawan here from January 3 to 5 when the award would be presented. Into its third annual edition, the festival aims at popularising Odissi music that is still struggling for a classical status at the national level, Jena explained. It would also showcase some well-known instrumentalists and a few Odissi dancers of Orissa, he added.

The first two evenings of the event would have Odissi music recital by eminent composer and singer Ramahari Das, Rabindra Nath Mishra, Mitali Chinara and Sangeeta Gosain while flute maestro Mohini Mohan Patnaik and Mardal player Kalandi Charan Parida would be featured as soloists. Besides, there would be group presentation of mardal by Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya and Sruti’s chorus. Odissi guru Naba Kishore Mishra and young dancer Pabitra Kumar Pradhan would perform as well.

Pradhan would be presented the Sanjukta Prativa Samman on the occasion. The award has been instituted by US-based Odissi dancer Chitra Krishnamurty to recognise the talent of a budding dancer, Mr.Jena explained.

The concluding evening of the festival has been earmarked for light Oriya music, the host informed. Ramahari Das, Keshab Rout, Laxmikant Palit, Minati Bhanja, Mitali Chinara, Sangeeta Gosain, Lata Ghose, Suchitra Mohapatra, Sourav Nayak, Haripriya Swain, Bijay Kumar Jena and Arun Kumar Panda, a senior IAS officer, are scheduled to perform in it.

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