Charsur Talent Search


Dear Budding Carnatic vocal artists,
Please find the following exciting NORTH AMERICA CARNATIC TALENT SEARCH announcement from Charsur Arts Foundation (CAF).

Swara Lahari with its reach to the Bay Area upcoming talent pool is helping CAF in processing applications

INTRODUCTION:

CAF is a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote Carnatic music globally. Please read more about their mission here Charsur Website CAF has a tradition of featuring budding Carnatic artists in Chennai on a monthly basis; from these individuals meritoriously selected few also are featured in their Annual December Festival. In continuing with this tradition and due to the increase in passion/talent in North America, they have chosen a few select U.S. cities/areas (Houston, Chicago and Bay Area) to conduct such a search for talent. Please note that this is only a talent search and not a competition.

OBJECTIVE:

CAF would like to feature FOUR budding vocalists who are at the concert performing caliber from the Bay area in the fall for 45 min each under the CAF banner. The performances will be video recorded and uploaded on CAF's website for a year. Based on the talent and reception by the rasikas at large, one or more of these budding vocalists could potentially be featured in their December Festival in Chennai (potentially 2013 or beyond) in the future. CAF decision is final in this regard.

TALENT SEARCH PROCESS:

Charsur Arts Foundation requests you to submit a 10 min recording (mp3 format only) of your talent as someone who is at the concert performing stage.
- Audio submissions with a brief bio-data should be sent to charswartalentsearch@gmail.com

- A non-refundable application fee of $25 should be sent to YuvaBharati, 870 Ames Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94303

- Deadline for submission is Oct 5th 2011

- There is no age limit for this talent search - interested vocalists may apply

- The talent selection is limited to only vocalists at this time.

- From the applicant pool, CAF will select 4 individuals based on talent and will provide a platform in the Bay Area to perform for 45 minutes along with accompaniments during their Fall tour (Oct30th). Venue and logistics will be announced later.

- These performances will be video recorded by CAF and uploaded through their website.

- Chosen individuals have to bear the cost of the web-hosting ($350 USD per year) directly paid to CAF

- CAF will only provide the platform to sing in the US and in Chennai - however all expenses are to be borne by the artiste for example travel form USA to India, stay, local travel etc.

- Based on the online viewership and recognition by rasikas at large, the selected individuals could potentially be featured in India under Charsur banner.

- Individuals have to perform for a minimum of 2 years under the CAF talent search program, USA Following the two year performance, the individuals could potentially be chosen to perform in the chamber concerts conducted by CAF in Chennai and also in the CAF December Season concerts

- A performance in the December season or under CAF banner is not guaranteed and CAF decision is final in this regard.
For additional details write to charswartalentsearch@gmail.com