The Music Academy Madras hosts an annual event called Spirit of Youth to encourage young talent in music and dance.

The ten-day event will be held from Sep. 17 to 27 this year. (No concert is scheduled on Sep. 19)

Music concerts will be held from 6 pm to 7.15 pm and dance recitals will be held from 7.30 pm 9 pm everyday at the Kasturi Srinivasan Hall at the Music academy premises.

Schedule of concerts:

Sep. 17 - M. Kanthi Swarup - (Vocal), S. Devanathan - (Violin), G Krithivasan - (Mridangam) Smitha Madhav, disciple of Rajeswari Sainath (Bharatanatyam)

Sep. 18 - Ramakrishnan Murthy - (Vocal), Raghul Srinivasan -(Violin), V. Vignesh - (Mridangam) Prasanthi Ganeshram, disciple of Sailaja – Kuchipudi

Sep. 20 - J. B. Sruthi Sagar - (Flute), Sri Vidya R. S. Iyer - (Violin), S. Harishkumar – Mridangam) Kirti Ramgopal P, disciple of Padmini Ramachandran – Bharatanatyam

Sep. 21 - Vivek Sadasivam - (Vocal), Vittal Rangan - (Violin), R. Adamya - (Mridangam) Shwetha Prachande, disciple of Priyadarshini Govind – Bharatanatyam

Sep. 22 - Cuddalore S. J. Jananiy - (Vocal), V. Giridhari - (Violin), Vijay B. Natesan - (Mridangam) P. Chandana Upadhya, disciple of A Lakshman – Bharatanatyam

Sep. 23 - Niranjana Srinivasan - (Vocal), M Rajeev - (Violin), Srivanchiam R Sriram – (Mridangam) T. M. Sridevi, disciple of Prof. Sudharani Raghupathy – Bharatanatyam

Sep. 24 - Revathy Kumar - (Vocal), H V Raghuram - (Violin), K. S. Harishankar - (Mridangam) M. Amirtha Varshini, disciple of Urmila Satyanarayana – Bharatanatyam

Sep. 25 - Akshay Padmanabhan - (Vocal), K. P. Nandini - (Violin), S. C. Venkatesh - (Mridangam) Priyanka Chandrasekar, disciple of Revathy Narasimhan – Bharatanatyam

Sep. 26 - S. Girijashankar - (Vocal), K. P. Haricharan - (Violin), S. Hariharan - (Mridangam) V. Soundarya, disciple of J Suryanarayanamurthy – Bharatanatyam

Sep. 27 - Supprajha - (Vocal), U. N. Niranjan - (Violin), Sumesh S. Narayanan - (Mridangam) Arupa Lahiry, disciple of Chitra Visweswaran - Bharatanatyam