January 01, 2018

Sadas at The Music Academy, awards and prizes

The curtains of the 'season' at The Music Academy came down with the sadas on Jan. 1, 2018

The evening began with the nadaswaram recital by Nachiarkoil N.R.P.Ravichandran and team.
Chief Justice of Madras High Court Indira Banerjee presented the Sangita Kalanidhi award to Chitravina N Ravikiran.

Senior mridangam vidwan V. Kamalakar Rao and musician Radha Namboodiri were presented with the title Sangita Kala Acharya. Sukanya Ramgopal, leading ghatam vidwan and Muthu Kandasamy Desikar, oduvar received the TTK Award. The Musicologist Award was presented to vidushi T.S. Sathyavathi.The Papa Venkatramiah Award was given to violinistThiruvallur Parthasarathy.




Chitravina Ravikiran presented a cheque for Rs. 2 lakhs for an endowment he wishes to set up in the name of mridangam exponent Palghat Ramchandra Iyer.

The other awards and prizes presented at the sadas are:

Senior best vocalist of the season - Yogam Nagasamy award: K Gayathri

Senior Outstanding Vocalist prize (Gottuvadyam Narayana Ayyangar prize endowed by The Ravikiran Foundation, Dr Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar Memorial prize endowed by Smt. CT Unnamulai Achi, ML Vasanthakumari Memorial Prize Endowed by T S Parthasarathy and Sharada Krishayyar memorial prize endowed by Justice V R Krishnaiyer): Ranjani & Gayathri

Senior Outstanding Vocalist Prize (The Padmashree Rajam Ramaswamy prize endowed by Rajam Ramaswamy, N Sivaswamy Prize endowed by S Vaidyanathan,Palghat Rama Bhagavathar Prize endowed by M R Venkatraman T S Rajagopala Iyer Prize endowed by Smy Kamakshi Ramachandran  and Smt Rajalakshmi Swaminathan Dr S Ramanathan Memorial Prize endowed by Savithri Satyamurthy and disciples of Dr S Ramanathan, Sangita Kalanidhi Musiri Subramanya Iyer Prize endowed by Sangita Kalanidhi Smt.Mani Krishnaswamy, Obul Reddy Kalpana Swara Prize endowed by Sri P Obul Reddy, T S Sabesa Iyer and Tanjavur K Ponniah Pillai Prize endowed by C S Krishnaiyer, Padmashri Srirangam Gopalaratnam Prize endowed by Dr Renuka, Semmangudi Narayanswamy Iyer Award endowed by Sangita Kalanidhi Seamngudi Srinivasier, Sangita Kalanidhi Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer Prize endowed by Smt Padmini Diwakar and B V Lakshmanan Prize endowed by Meera Seshadri ):  Amrutha Venkatesh
  • Senior Vocal Prize for best Pallavi Singing: Manda Sudharani
  • Senior Vocal Prize for outstanding Pallavi singing: Sandeep Narayan
  • Senior Best Vocal concert Prize: Abhishek Raghuram, B U Ganesh Prasad (Violin), Allapuzha Krishnan (Mridangam), Vazhapalli R Krishnakumar (Ghatam)
  • Senior Outstanding Vocal Concert Prize: Ramakrishnan Murthy, Charumathu Raghuraman (Violin), N C Bharadwaj (Mridangam), N Guruprasad (Ghatam)
  • Senior Best Instrumentalist Prize: Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi
  • Senior Veena Artiste Prize: Jayanthi Kumaresh
  • Senior Best Accompanying Violinist Prize: M Rajeev 
  • Senior Best Mridangam Artiste Prize: Poongulam Subramanyam
  • Senior Best Upa pakkavadyam:  H Prasanna (Ghatam), Bhagyalakshmi M Krishna (Morsing) 
  • Sub-senior Best Vocalist: T S Pattabhirama Pandit
  • Sub-senior Outstanding vocalist:  R Ashwath Narayan
  • Sub-senior Outstanding lady vocalist: Sangeetha Swaminathan
  • Sub senior Best vocal concert: Trichur Brother Srikrishnamohan & Ramkumar Mohan, S P Ananthapadmanabha (Violin), Vijay B Natesan (Mridangam), Udupi Srikanth (Kanjira)
  • Sub-senior Best Pallavi Singing award:  A S Murali
  • Sub-senior Veena Artiste Prize: Vishaal Sapuram (Chitravina)
  • Sub-senior Best Accompanying Violinist: S P Ananthapadmanabha
  • Sub-senior Best Mridangam Artiste: Vijay B Natesan
  • Sub-senior Flautist: J A Jayanth
  • Junior best Vocalist: Kalyanapuram S Aravind
  • Junior Outstanding Vocalist: Sushma Somasekaran
  • Junior Best Male Vocalist: Venkata Nagarajan
  • Junior Best Vocal Concert Prize: Anahita & Apoorva, Nagercoil K Anand (Violin), Gomathisankar (Mridangam)
  • Junior Best instrumentalist: - Lakshmi Ramasubramanyam (Veena)
  • Junior best accompanying Violinist: Kamalakiran Vinjamuri
  • Junior Best Mridangam Artiste Prize: G S Nagaraj
  • Best Lecture Demonstration: Hemamalini Arni
  • Best Lecture Prize: Praveena Thodge
  • HCL Concert series Best individual Performance: Vivek Moozhikulam
  • HCL Best Concert Prize:  N Jayakrishnan, S Sai Rakshit (Violin), Gopal Ravindran (Mridangam)
  • Spirit of Youth Prizes
    Best female vocalist - Dharini Veeraraghan
    Best Male Vocalist - R P Shravan
    Best Accompanying Violinist - Shiva Ramamurthy
    Best Mridangam Artiste - Vadavalli R Sriram
    Best Instrumentalist - V Sreeraman (Flute)
  • Devotional Music
    Vaidyanathan School
    CRV School of Music
  • Radel Mid Year Music
    Best Individual Performance prize - Yoga Kirtana

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