R.Okay. Shriramkumar, an authority on Dikshitar’s composition, will get Sangita Kalanidhi award 

R.Okay. Shriramkumar. File
| Photograph Credit score: B. Velankanni Raj

Violinist R.Okay. Shriramkumar has been chosen for this 12 months’s Sangita Kalanidhi award of the Music Academy.

He had accompanied stalwarts of yesteryears together with Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, M.S. Subbulakshmi, D.Okay. Pattammal, D.Okay. Jayaraman, T. Brinda and T. Mukta, M. Balamuralikrishna, Okay.V. Narayanasamy and the current day musicians reminiscent of Sudha Raghunathan, Vijay Siva, Bombay Jayashree, Sowmya and T.M. Krishna.

In a press launch, N. Murali, the president of Music Academy, mentioned the manager committee of the Academy on March 23, determined to confer the award on Mr. Shriramkumar, who belongs to the household of famend musicians from Rudrapatnam. 

“Up to now few many years, he has been acknowledged as an authority on the Sangita Sampradaya Pradarsani of Subbarama Dikshitar, which stays one of many best-known compilations of Muthuswami Dikshitar’s compositions. It’s becoming that he has been chosen for this prestigious award within the 12 months marking the 250th anniversary of the grasp composer,” Mr Murali mentioned.

Shriramkumar belongs to the Rudrapatnam household of musicians. The ‘R’ in his title stands for Rudrapattinam, a village on the banks of river Cauvery in Karnataka.

Grandson of violinist R.Okay. Venkatarama Shastry, who performed the Thiyagaraja Aradhana at Thiruvaiyaru for nearly 40 years because the Nineteen Fifties, he had his preliminary classes in violin taking part in from Savitri Satyamurthy. He was additionally educated in violin taking part in and vocal music by his grandfather Shri R.Okay. Venkatarama Shastri. He later obtained steerage in violin taking part in from V.V. Subrahmanyam and in vocal music from Sangita Kalanidhi Shri D.Okay. Jayaraman.

Sangita Kalanidhi R.Okay. Srikantan is his granduncle (youthful brother of his grandfather) and vocalists Rudrapatnam Brothers R.N. Thyagarajan and R.N. Tharanathan are his uncles.

“It’s God’s grace and blessings of my gurus,” mentioned Mr. Shriramkumar, expressing happiness on being chosen for the coveted award within the carnatic music world. The Sangita Kalanidhi nominee will preside over the educational classes of the 99^th annual convention and live shows of the Music Academy to be held between December 15, 2025 and January 1, 2026.

Mr. Murali mentioned dancer Urmila Satyanarayana had been chosen for the Nritya Kalanidhi award. The Sangita Kala Acharya awards might be offered to vocalist Shymala Venkateswaran and thavil maestro T.R. Govindarajan. The TTK awards will go to Kathakali artiste Madambi Subramania Namboothiri and veena gamers J.T. Jeyaraaj Krishnan and Jayasri Jeyaraaj Krishnan. 

Sangita Kala Acharya awards and TTK awards might be offered with Sangita Kalanidhi award on January 1, 2026, the day of Sadas. Ms. Urmila will obtain the award on the inauguration of the Music Academy’s nineteenth annual dance competition on January 3, 2026.