Toto Award for Music 2021: Long-list

Eighteen musicians/bands have been long-listed for the 2021 Toto Award for Music. Their names are:

1. Aseem (Pune)

2. Dhi Harmony (Ranaghat, West Bengal) 

3. Fakeer and the Arc (Bengaluru)

4. 4lienetic (Mumbai) 

5. Haiku Like Imagination (Bengaluru)

6. Kaali Collective (Mumbai)

7. Kaccheri Boys (Bengaluru)

8. k o k u m (Mumbai)

9. Krameri (Vadodara) 

10. lah (Jaipur) 

11. Rudy Mukta (Bengaluru) 

12. Saby Singh (Jammu)

13. Shantanu Pandit (New Delhi)

14. Shenpa (Pune)

15. SickFlip (Mumbai)

16. The Aahvaan Project (Delhi) 

17. Three Oscillators (Mumbai)  

18. Udbhav (New Delhi) 

TFA congratulates the long-listed applicants for this award. The shortlist, selected by a three-member external jury, will be announced next month, and the winner will be disclosed in February 2021. 

Toto Music Award 2018: Shortlist

Three musicians/bands have been shortlisted for the 2018 Toto Music Award. They are (in alphabetical order):

1. Prabh Deep, New Delhi

2. Rohan Rajadhyaksha, Mumbai

3. The Sine Painter, Bengaluru

TFA congratulates the shortlisted applicants and wishes them best of luck! The winner will be announced at the Toto Awards function in Bengaluru on January 13, 2018.

Toto Award for Music 2018: Long List

Twelve musicians/bands have been long-listed for the Toto Award for Music 2018. They are (in alphabetical order):

1. Blushing Satellite, Bengaluru

2. Deepak Peace, Pune

3. Jamblu, Faridabad, Haryana

4. Krameri, Chennai

5. MALFNKTION (Aditya Alamuru), Bengaluru

6. Prabh Deep, New Delhi

7. RIVU, Kolkata

8. Rohan Rajadhyaksha, Mumbai

9. Short Round, Mumbai

10. Six Flying Whales, Bengaluru

11. The Earth Below, Mumbai

12. The Sine Painter, Bengaluru

TFA congratulates the long-listed musicians/bands and wishes them all the best!

Toto Award for Music 2018: Call for Applications

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THIS AWARD HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO AUGUST 31, 2017

TOTO AWARDS 2018

MUSIC

CALL FOR ENTRIES

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) invites entries for its fourteenth TOTO Music Award from young musicians and bands. The winner, to be decided by an eminent panel, will receive a cash award of Rs 60,000.

Entries should reach TFA by 31st August 2017. 

Contemporary original music from all parts of India, in any genre and language, is welcome. In the past TFA has received entries in genres ranging from rock, jazz, heavy metal and electronic to instrumental and folk. Although it is never easy to compare diverse entries, our experience is that talent and potential have a way of standing out regardless. TFA tends to reward music that explores new territory in the Indian music scene in the hope that the recognition and the cash award can help sustain it. The selected jury comprises individuals with experience as well as an open ear for new sounds.

Only Indian nationals resident in India are eligible for the award. (Overseas Citizen of India card-holders are not eligible.) Since the spirit of the award is to identify and encourage young talent, you can apply if you (and all band members if any) were born on or after 1 January 1988.

Over the past thirteen years, the Toto Music Award has come to be coveted by young musicians because it recognizes excellence. It helps you to see where you stand among the best upcoming musicians in the country, and to get your music heard and appreciated by veterans in the field. The jury will assess musical content as well as the potential of the artist/band. Professional recording quality is not a requirement but applicants are encouraged to make their tracks sound as good as possible.

How To Apply for the Toto Music Award

The application process is fully online.

1.    Go to: https://www.formpl.us/form/5176677850152960

2.    You will see an application form for the 2018 award.

3.    Artist Details: Fill in all the fields as required so that we have your artist details.

4.    Music: We require you to submit 3 of your best tracks for review. In order to do this, they must be up on soundcloud.com (this is a requirement!) and the form will accept a link for each track.

5.    Pictures: 3 print resolution pictures of the artist/band, if possible in performance will need to be uploaded in the appropriate section of the form.

Further queries: totomusicaward@gmail.com.

No queries will be answered on the phone.

Note: The decision of the TFA jury will be final and cannot be contested in any forum.

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) is a not-for-profit public charitable trust set up in memory of Angirus 'Toto' Vellani who was intensely passionate about music, literature and films.

Toto Award for Music 2016: Call for Entries

TOTO AWARDS 2016

 MUSIC

CALL FOR ENTRIES

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) invites entries for its twelfth TOTO Music Award for young musicians and bands. The winner, to be decided by an eminent panel, will receive a cash award of Rs 60,000. Entries should reach TFA by Entries should reach TFA by 25th August 2015.  

Contemporary original music from all parts of India, in any genre and language, is welcome. In the past TFA has received entries in genres ranging from rock, jazz, heavy metal and electronic to instrumental and folk. Although it is never easy to compare diverse entries, our experience is that talent and potential have a way of standing out regardless. TFA tends to reward music that explores new territory in the Indian music scene in the hope that the recognition and the cash award can help sustain it. The selected jury comprises individuals with experience as well as an open ear for new sounds. 

Only Indian nationals resident in India are eligible for the award. Since the spirit of the award is to identify and encourage young talent, you can apply if you (and band members if any) were born on or after 1 January 1986.

Over the past eleven years, the Toto Music Award has come to be coveted by young musicians because it recognizes excellence. It helps you to see where you stand among the best upcoming musicians in the country, and to get your music heard and appreciated by knowledgeable young music writers as well as veterans in the field. The jury will assess musical content as well as the potential of the artist/band. Professional recording quality is not a requirement but applicants are encouraged to make their tracks sound as good as possible.

How To Apply for the Toto Music Award

Your application package may be submitted electronically OR physically. 

Please read the requirements carefully and send a complete package.

Electronic: To be sent via email or wetransfer.com to totomusicaward@gmail.com

1. An application form is downloadable at: 

     
           https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxOV_1hDPcPVRU5BejVOTlBRMkE/view?usp=sharing

1. A signed and scanned copy of the same application form. This will be in the form of an image (jpeg, gif, PDF etc).
2. Music! High-quality MP3s of your music (pick 3 of your best tracks). The file names for the MP3s should be in this format: ArtistName_TrackName.mp3.
3. 3 high res pictures of the artist/band, if possible in performance.

Physical: To be sent by courier or ordinary post (and NOT speedpost or registered post)

1. Music! Make a CD with your 3 best tracks. The track names should be in this format: ArtistName_TrackName.
2. 3 high res pictures of the artist/band, if possible in performance.
3. A completed and signed application form that can be downloaded from: 

       https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxOV_1hDPcPVRU5BejVOTlBRMkE/view?usp=sharing

You can also download it from totofundsthearts.blogspot.com

Send your package to the following address:                     

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS

(Category: Music)

H-301, Adarsh Gardens

47^th Cross, 8^th Block

Jayanagar

Bangalore – 560 082

Phone: 080 26990549 / 09880623357

Further queries: totomusicaward@gmail.com.

No queries will be answered on the phone.

Note: Submitted material will not be returned. The decision of the TFA jury will be final and cannot be contested in any forum. We reserve the right to use excerpts of submitted music to publicise or showcase the awards. Otherwise, the copyright continues to rest with the musicians and submissions will be put to no other use without their express permission.

TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) is a not-for-profit public charitable trust set up in memory of Angirus 'Toto' Vellani who was intensely passionate about music, literature and films