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The 100th Conference and Concerts of the The Music Academy, Chennai, opening successful December this twelvemonth volition beryllium marked by the conferment of the Sangita Kalanidhi grant connected renowned veena subordinate Jayanthi Kumaresh. Bharatanatyam dancer Narendra G volition person the Nritya Kalanidhi award.
“The enforcement committee, astatine its gathering connected March 15, decided to confer the grant connected her and different awards connected assorted musicians,” said N. Murali, president of the Academy, connected Sunday (March 15, 2026).
Ms. Kumaresh, a subordinate of the musically affluent Lalgudi G. Jayaraman family, learnt from her mother, Rajalakshmi. She aboriginal trained nether her aunt Padmavathi Ananthagopalan and past maestro S. Balachander. She besides received guidance from her uncle Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, Sangita Kalanidhi T. K. Brinda, composer Thanjavur Sankara Iyer, and T. R. Subramanian.
A postgraduate successful English, Ms. Kumaresh is 1 of the foremost exponents of the Saraswati veena and has collaborated with the precocious tabla maestro Zakir Hussain. She has contributed successful ample measurement to the contiguous summation successful the popularity of the instrument.
“It is simply a large honour that I person been selected for the grant successful the 100th twelvemonth of the Conference and Concerts of the Academy, whose logo features Saraswati with a veena. It is an honour not conscionable for me, but for the veena, the nationalist instrument,” Ms. Jayanthi told The Hindu.
She said a veena artiste had been selected for the grant aft a spread of 34 years, and it was a substance of pridefulness that it had happened successful the centenary twelvemonth of her guru, the precocious S. Balachander.
The Sangita Kala Acharya awards volition spell to vocalist Sugandha Kalamegam and mridangam subordinate Thrissur C. Narendran.
The recipients of the TTK Awards are nagaswaram subordinate Injikudi Subramaniam and violinist T.K.V.B. Ramanujacharyulu.
The Musicologist Award volition spell to D. Balasubrahmaniyan, presently Adjunct Professor of Music and Co-chair of Global South Asian Studies astatine Wesleyan University.
Bharathanatyam dancer A. Janardhanan volition person the Nritya Kala Acharya award, a recently instituted grant this year. S. Rajeswari volition person the Dance Musician Award (vocal), and T.K. Padmanabhan the Dance Musician Award (instrumental), the different 2 caller creation awards.
Mr. Murali said the Sangita Kalanidhi designate volition preside implicit the world sessions of the Annual Conference and Concerts of the Academy to beryllium held betwixt December 15, 2026 and January 1, 2027. She volition person the grant on with the different awardees connected January 1, the time of Sadas.
Mr. Narendra volition person the Nritya Kalanidhi grant astatine the inauguration of the 20th Annual Dance Festival of the Academy connected January 3, 2027.
