Carnatic Singer Selected For Sangita Kalanidhi Award For 2015

Music Academy:

• Founded in 1928 as an outcome of the music conference that was held in conjunction with the All India Congress Session in Madras city the previous year, it was conceived to be the institution that would set the standard for Carnatic music.

Sangita Kalanidhi Award:

• Sangeetha Kalanidhi or Sangita Kalanidhi  is the title awarded yearly to an expert Carnatic Musician by the Madras Music Academy from 1929. This honour is considered one of the highest awards in Carnatic music.
• The award comprises of a Gold medal and a ‘birudu patra’.Not only singers, but instrumentalists of Carnatic music also receive the award.

About News 

• The Music Academy meeting held at 21^st june,2015 at Chennai,the Executive Committee of the Music Academy has  chosen the outstanding & acclaimed Carnatic musician Shri Sanjay Subrahmanyan for the prestigious award “SANGITA KALANIDHI” .
• He will be conferred the “SANGITA KALANIDHI” award at the 89^th  annual conference of the Music Academy-“SADAS” on 1^st January 2016.
• The committee also decided  to confer the following awards.

1.Sangita Kala Acharya

Smt.Mysore G.N.Nagamani Srinath(Vocalist).

Shri T.H.Subash Chandran(Percussion).

2.T.T.K.Awards:

Shri.Seshampatti Sivalingam(Nagaswaram).

Smt.Kamala Aswathama(Veena).

3.Musicologist Award:

Pappa Venkataramiah Award-Shri.M.S.Mani.

4.Dance-Natya Kala Acharya Award:

Smt.Alarmel Valli.