STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: The Nirvana Academy on Sunday organised a guitar competition for the “Golden Guitar” festival at Government Women College, Parade Auditorium, here.
The fest was held in different categories of guitar music in which more than 70 participants from Jammu region took part.
The participants showcased their talent in the competition by performing regional, Indian as well as popular music on guitar, which drew appreciation from the audience.
Gautam Kotwal lead guitarist of Mythya Band and Golden Guitar Awardee and (retd.) Army officer, P.S Wazir adjudged the contest.
Participants from school, colleges and institutes showed their skills on guitar by playing leads and chords.
Participants from Strings, Aarohi Kala Sangeet Vidyalaya, Banyan International, Heritage Strings– School of Rock, Guitar Head, Rhythm Music Institute, Jodhamal Public School, Heritage School and KC International School were also awarded.
Festival inaugurated with the spellbound performance of Al Hana Babar followed by instrumental guitar solo, duet and group competition.
Prominent among the others were R.C Puri Secretary IRCS, Hemu Karki Teacher AOL, Pradeep Dutta, Vikrant Dogra, Ashutosh Dubey, Vikul Gupta, Naresh Sharma, Kuldeep Kumar, Anish Mattoo, Sahil Sharma, Subhash Dey Golden Guitar Awardee, Sham Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Richard Teji, Anmol Amla, Meenakshi Sharma, Nishant Vaid, Amrit Paul Singh, Avnish Sharma, vikas Bawa and Happy. Tanuja Chehhar Chetteri anchored the programme.
Result in different categories:
Kids Group: Vridhi Mahajan 1st, Ishwin Kour 2nd and Pavit Singh Choudhary 3rd.
Drums Instrumental: Al-Hana Babar 1st, Suvinay Jain 2nd and Varda Chadha 3rd.
Guitar Solo: Upto-10 yrs (Group-A): Navya Gupta 1st and Zorawar Singh Sodhi 2nd. (Group-B): Manya Mahajan 1st, Saksham Verma and Paarth Sharma, joint 2nd and Vyom Garg 3rd. (Group-C): Aanandi Sharma 1st, Vibha Katyal 2nd and Ansh Bakshi and Ariran Mahajan joint 3rd. (Group-D): Arshuman Kapahi 1st, Prithish Dogra 2nd and Anubhav Sharma 3rd. (Group-E) Aryan Sharma 1st and Satendra Sharma 2nd
11–14 yrs: (Group-A) Vasu Gupta 1st, Gun Gun Anand and Dhruv Salathia, joint 2nd and Ayush Mahajan 3rd. (Group-B): Suvinay Jain 1st, Sarrthi and Ojas Jain, joint 2nd and Harsh Mahajan and Shivam Gupta, joint 3rd. (Group-C): Aniran Saraf 1st, Sidaarth Gupta and Vaanya Bhakri 2nd and Arushi Rai 3rd. (Group-D): Saarthak Malhotra 1st and Vandit Bhakri 2nd. (Group-E): Saher Bhatia and Dhananjay Mahajan, joint 1st, Apurv Ghai and Vanamalin Gupta, joint 2nd and Satyam Gupta 3rd. (Group-F): Saksham Kapoor 1st and Navtej Singh 2nd. (Group-G): Soham Amla 1st and Kavya Kochhar 2nd. (Group-H): Kartik Tripathi and Mayank Gupta, joint 1st, Mehak Gupta 2nd and Rehaan Goel 3rd. (Group-I): Anikait Hashia and Ananya Jain, joint 1st, Nandini Katyal 2nd and Chahat 3rd.
15-18 yrs: (Group-A) Aryman Sharma 1st, Davita Gupta 2nd and Ritvik Rakesh 3rd. (Group-B): Bhawanish Rajwal 1st, Rohan Sandhu 2nd, Ritik Jamwal and Sushant Malhotra, joint 3rd. (Group-C): Sumit Bhalla 1st, Anmol Gupta 2nd and Animesh and Tejas Gupta, joint 3rd. (Group-D): Ajit Singh 1st, Aditya Khajuria and Asif Khan 2nd and Adit Qazi 3rd.
19 -22 yrs: (Group-A) Sonam Manhas and Gulshan Kumar 1st and Shammi 2nd.
23 yrs and above: Sourav Sonik 1st and Amit Bakshi 2nd.
Duet Guitar: Soham Amla and Yuvraj Gupta 1st.
Guitar (Junior): The Cresendos 1st.
(Senior): Incredibles Group 1st and HRA Group Strings 2nd.
