December 14, 2017

Awards galore at Narada Gana Sabha

The annual Isai Natya Nataka Vizha of Narada Gana Sabha begins today. His Holiness Paramahamsetyadi Srirangam Srimad Andavan Sri Rangaramanuja Mahadesikan swamigal inaugurates the festival.

There are loads of awards to be conferred today. Apart from senior musicians many young artists, dancers, musicologists and organisers are also receiving awards today.

Senior Musician Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan will receive the title Nadhabrahmam and vocalist K.R. Saranathan will receive Senior Musician Award.


Madurai T N Seshagopalan
K R Saranathan

The other awards are:

  • Triplicane K. Sekar - Tirunelveli P. Subramania Iyer Nadaswaram / Tavil award
  • Chinmaya Sisters Uma & Radhika - MLV Endowment - CMANA Award
  • Rithvik Raja - MSS Talent Promotion Award
  • Rama Vaidyanathan (Bharatanatyam) - Binfield Trust (Ms. Gopika Varma) Endowment
  • Prof. Mysore V.Subramanya - Organiser of Fine Arts - NVS Endowment award
  • Ambujam Vedantham - Rajalakshmi Suri Endowment Musicologist / Music Teacher award
  • Srivani Yella - P Obul Reddy award for Veena (Senior)
  • S. Venkatramanan - P Obul Reddy award for Upa pakka Vadyam
  • Salai V Lakshana - Smt. Lalitha Padmanabhan Award for Veena (Junior)
  • Vasudha Ravi - Prof. Mahalingam Padmanabhan Award for Vocal (Junior)
  • Kumbakonam K Swaminathan - Prof. Mahalingam Padmanabhan award for Instrumental music
  • Vishnudev Namboothiri - Maharajapuram Santhanam Award
  • S.P. Ananthapadmanabha - K.S.Mahadevan Award for Carnatic Music in Foreign Instrument


Felicitation to artistes will be by Kalyanapuram R. Aaravamudhachariar

The inauguration will be at 6 p.m. at Narada Gana Sabha Mini Hall. This will be followed by Saxophone concert by Kadri Gopalnath with A. Kanyakumari on the violin, Aridwaramangalam A.K. Palanivel on the tavil, Rajendra Nakod on the tabla and Bangalore N Rajasekar on the morsing. 

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