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At the Chennai Fine Arts’ yearly euphony festival inaugural ceremonial and 23rd day celebrations held connected Sunday, 7 renowned artists were honoured with awards and currency prizes.
Commissioner of Income Tax (Exemptions), Chennai, Premanand Jothy inaugurated the festival and honoured the artistes on with Aneish Rajan, Director of the Union Ministry of Culture.
The Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar International Award for Excellence was fixed to classical violin maestro Annavarapu Ramaswamy. Vocalist, orator and Sanskrit student T.S. Sathyavathi received the Muthuswami Dikshitar 250th Birth Anniversary Commemorative Award instituted successful honour of Guru Chitravina Narasimhan.
The Flute Mali Centenary Award was presented to instrumentalist Prapancham Balachandran. The Laya Puraskar, instituted by Vidwan B. Shree Sundarkumar, was awarded to instrumentalist Arvind Ranganathan.
The Papanasam Brahmasri Kunjumani Bhagavathar Endowment Award, instituted by Papanasam R. Ramani Bhagavathar and family, was presented to Therezhundur Sundararaghavan; the Pudukottai Dakshinamurthy Pillai Puraskar, instituted by Vidwan Trichy K. Murali, was received by Madirimangalam Swaminathan, and the Thirumeignanam Natarajasundaram Pillai centenary grant was presented to Vaduvur S.N.R. Krishnamoorthy.
“Musicians successful Tamil Nadu are among the astir archetypal practitioners. Unfortunately, the fig of applications for grants oregon awards is minimal from here. My earnest petition is that musicians should sojourn the Ministry of Culture website, arsenic we are besides revising our guidelines for festival assistance and different schemes,” said Mr. Rajan.
At the event, Mridangam maestro Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman spoke astir the creator brilliance of the awardees.
Bharatanatyam exponent Nandini Ramani spoke astir however the organisation has been supporting artistes twelvemonth aft year, and the awardees who person made legendary contributions to the satellite of music.
Founder and managing trustee of Chennai Fine Arts P.N. Muralidharan, violinist Annavarapu Ramaswamy, Mr. Premanand Jothy and Ms. T.S. Sathyavathi, besides spoke.
