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, 2020.

The evening began with a Mangala Isai by Adyar D.Balasubramani (Nadaswaram)
G.Vinothkumar (Nadaswaram), Adyar P.V.Dhakchinamoorthi (Tavil) and Adyar D. Senthilkumar (Tavil).

Mr. Suresh Krishna, Chairman, Sundaram Fasteners Ltd., presided over the Sadas and presented the Sangita Kalanidhi award to vidushi Dr. S. Sowmya, Sangita Kala Acharya award to Vidushis Seetha Narayanan and M.S. Sheela, TTK Awards to vidwans Vyasarpadi G. Kothandaraman and Dr. Rajkumar Bharathi and the Musicologist award to Dr. Arati N. Rao.

Vidushi Dr. S. Sowmya - Sangita Kalanidhi Award

Vidushi Seetha Narayanan - Sangita Kala Acharya Award

Vidushi M.S. Sheela - Sangita Kala Acharya Award

Vidwan Vysarpadi Kothandaraman - TTK Award

Vidwan Rajkumar Bharathi - TTK Award

Dr. Arati N. Rao - Musicologist Award

Mr. Suresh Krishna is the son of the illustrious composer Ambujam Krishna spoke passionately about her mother's creations, her love for Tamil language, her connect with the god she worshipped and stressed on the need to include Tamil songs in concerts while performing in the state of Tamil Nadu to relate with the people who understand the language.

The other awards and prizes presented at the sadas are:

• Senior Best vocalist - Yogam Nagaswamy award - Bombay Jayashri
• Senior Outstanding Vocalist prize:  Ranjani & Gayathri
• Senior Outstanding Vocalist Prize : Ramakrishnan Murthy
• Senior Vocal Prize for best Pallavi Singing: K Gayathri
• Senior Vocal Prize for outstanding Pallavi singing: Sumitra Vasudev
• Senior Best Vocal concert Prize: Kunnakudi M. Balamurali Krishna, Akkarai S Subhalakshmi (Violin), B Sivaraman (Mridangam), S V Ramani (Ghatam)
• Senior Outstanding Vocal Concert Prize: K.Bharat Sundar
• Senior Best Instrumentalist Prize: Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi
• Senior Veena Artiste Prize: Jayanthi Kumaresh
• Senior Best Accompanying Violinist Prize: H.N. Bhaskar
• Senior Best Mridangam Artiste Prize: Patri Satish Kumar
• Senior Best Upa pakkavadyam: Bhagyalakshmi M Krishna
• Sub-senior Best Vocalist: Sriranjani Santhanagopalan 
• Sub-senior Outstanding vocalist:  R Ashwath Narayan
• Sub-senior Outstanding lady vocalist: Aishwarya Vidhya Raghunath
• Sub senior Best vocal concert: Vignesh Ishwar, Vittal Rangan (Violin), Akshay Anand (Mridangam), G Ananthakrishnan (Kanjira)
• Sub-senior Best Pallavi Singing award: Sunil R Gargyan
• Sub-senior Veena Artiste Prize: N. Ananthanarayanan
• Sub-senior Flautist: J.B. Sruthisagar
• Sub-senior Best Accompanying Violinist: Parur M.S. Ananthakrishnan
• Sub-senior Best Mridangam Artiste: Chidambaram S Balashankar
• Junior best Vocalist: V. Venkatanagarajan
• Junior Outstanding Vocalist: Aishwarya Shankar
• Junior Best Male Vocalist: Vishnudev Namboothiri
• Junior Best Vocal Concert Prize: Vivek Sadasivam, Sindhu Suchetan, B.S. Prashanth
• Junior Best accompanying Violinist: Shruthi Sarathy
• Junior Best Mridangam Artiste Prize: T. Nikshith
• Junior Best Veena Artiste: Lakshmi Ramasubramanyam

Lec-dems:

• Best Lecture Demonstration: Amrita Murali & L. Ramakrishnan
• Best Lecture Prize: K.V.S. Vinay & Purnima Jayashree

Special Prize: Gopalakrishna Bharathi's Nandanar Charitram (Special prize to the director S. Sowmya and students of Advance College of Music Academy)

HCL Concert series

• HCL Concert series Best individual Performance: Kripaa Lakshmi
• HCL Best Concert Prize: R. Sai Vignesh, Thirucherai Karthik, Sivagangai Vishvak Kumaran

Spirit of Youth

• Best  female vocalist - Deepti Suresh 
• Best Male Vocalist - Prithvi Harish
• Best Accompanying Violinist - Madan Mohan N
• Best Mridangam Artiste - Shankara Prasad Santhanagopalan
• Best Instrumentalist - Ishwarya Manikarnike - Veena
• Best Musician prize - Deepti Suresh

Devotional Music

• I Prize - DAV School, Adambakkam
• II Prize - Skanda Gana Vidyalaya

Radel Mid Year Music

• Best Individual Performance prize - S. Girijashankar