• Sangeet Natak Academy National Awards, 2008

The Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards, the highest national honour conferred on practicing artistes, were presented by the President of India, Hon'ble Smt. Pratibha Patil on 26th February 2008 in New Delhi.  Pt. Vidyadhar Vyas, Executive Director ITC-Sangeet Research Academy receives the Akademi Puraskar for Hindustani Music, as the Chairman of the Akademi, Ram Niwas Mirdha looks on.

  • Western Region Awards, 2007

    The ITC SRA Western Region Awards for 2007, were distributed by Professor R.C.Mehta, Honorary General Secretary, Indian Musicological Society.

    Senior musicians Pandit Manohar Chimote and Pandit Shrikrishna (Babbanrao) Haldankar were presented the awards for their dedicated service to music. The credit of elevating the harmonium to the level of a solo concert instrument and its transformation into samvadini, a new instrument, goes to Pandit Chimote. He has re-engineered the instrument by replacing the tempered scale tuning to Gandhar tuning and introducing strings near the sound box to sustain the tone. He has also revolutionized the style and technique of playing samvadini by adapting sitar-ang repertoire and facilitating continuity between two notes. Pandit Haldankar is an ‘A’ grade vocalist of All India Radio whose style is basically Agra with a delightful moulding of Jaipur. Trained by such greats as Ganatapaswini Mogubai Kurdikar and Ustad Khadim Hussain Khan, he has several commercial albums to his credit and is a prolific composer, musicologist and teacher.

    The awards for promising artistes went to selected prize winners of the 2007 Music competition organized by All India Radio. The winner for Hindustani Music (Dhrupad) was Shri Nishant Kumar Mallick of Darbhanga. Shri Javed Khan, a sarangi player from Bhopal won the award for Hindustani classical instrumental music. The award for Carnatic vocal classical music went to Shri Kottakkal Ranjith Varier. Kumari K.P.Nandini, a violinist, was the winner for Carnatic classical instrumental music.

Pandit Manohar Chimote

 

Pandit Babban Rao Haldankar

 

Nishant Kumar Mallick

 

Javed Khan

 

Kottakkal Ranjith Varier

 

K.P.Nandini

 
Recipients of the ITC Award, Delhi  
Recipients of the ITC Award, Kolkata  
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