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Violin maestro V.V. Subrahmanyam and Harikatha exponent Vishakha Hari were conferred the rubric ‘Sangeetha Kalasarathy’ astatine the inauguration of the 125th year solemnisation of the December Music Festival of Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha present connected Tuesday.
The beingness publication ‘Acharya Sarathy’ Award went to academician, musicologist and guru Rama Ravi and academician, musicologist and guru R.K. Padmanabha.
The different awards presented during the juncture see Palghat Mani Iyer Centenary Award to Thavil exponent T.G. Muthukumaraswamy, Dwaram Venkataswami Naidu Award to violin exponent V.V.S. Murari, Gottuvadyam Narayana Iyengar Award to veena exponent Nirmala Rajasekar, Veena Pichumani Iyer Centenary Award to veena exponent Mudikondan S.N. Ramesh, Kalpagam Swaminathan Award to vocalist Mangalam Shankar, Isai Methai G. Ramanathan Award to vocalist Vidya Kalyanaraman, Dr. MLV Award to vocalist Shruthi Shankar Kumar and Pudukkottai Dakshinamurthy Pillai Award to mridangam exponents M. Manoj Siva and B. Ganapathy Raman.
Sri Madhurakavi Ramanuja Jeeyar Swami of Sri Vanamamalai Mutt, Nanguneri inaugurated and spoke astatine the event. Cleveland V.V. Sundaram, co-founder of the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana said, the Parthasarathy Swami Sabha is an aged accepted sabha and the information that they person organised 350-360 concerts is simply a tremendous achievement.
Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti, president of Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha, Mr. Padmanabha, Ms. Hari, Ms. Rajasekar, and K.N. Shashikiran, laminitis of Carnatica were among those who spoke astatine the event. Nandini Azad, president of the Working Women’s Forum was besides contiguous astatine the event.
