Sangeetha Choodamani () is an award bestowed on selected carnatic musicians by Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai (India) every year. The Sabha conducts a music festival called Gokulashtami Sangeetha Utsavam for 60 days during August - October.
On the inaugural day of the festival, a Carnatic Musician of merit and popularity is honoured with this award that carries a cash award, a gold medallion, a scroll and a shawl.Annual Cultural Festivals at SKGS
Recipients of the Award Source:
+ Year Recipient 1971 Lalgudi Jayaraman + N. Ramani 1974 T. M. Thiagarajan 1975 Vellore G. Ramabhadran 1976 Nedunuri Krishnamurthy 1977 Maharajapuram Santhanam 1978 Palghat R. Raghu 1979 Mani Krishnaswami 1980 D. K. Jayaraman 1981 M. Chandrasekaran 1982 Voleti Venkatesvarulu 1983 T. N. Seshagopalan 1984 Trichy Sankaran 1985 U. Srinivas + R. Vedavalli 1986 Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman 1987 Thanjavur K. P. Sivanandam 1988 T. K. Govinda Rao 1989 T. R. Subramaniam 1990 R. Chitti Babu 1991 Bombay Sisters 1992 Thanjavur S. Kalyanaraman 1993 T. K. Murthy 1994 Sikkil Sisters 1995 Chitravina N. Ravikiran 1996 T. V. Sankaranarayanan 1997 Sudha Ragunathan 1998 Lalgudi G. J. R. Krishnan 1999 D. Rukmini + M. P. N. Ponnusamy + M. P. N. Sethuraman 2000 Prof. R. Visweswaran 2001 Trichur V. Ramachandran 2002 P. S. Narayanaswamy 2003 O. S. Thiagarajan 2004 Suguna Purushothaman 2005 Bombay Jayashree 2006 Aruna Sairam 2007 Maharajapuram S. Ramachandran 2008 Hyderabad Sisters Lalitha & Haripriya 2009 Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi 2010 S. Sowmya 2011 Srimushnam V. Raja Rao56th Gokulashtami Sangeetha Utsavam 2012 A. Kanyakumari57th Gokulashtami Sangeetha Utsavam 2013 T. V. Gopalakrishnan 2014 Jayanthi KumareshAwards for Jayanthi Kumaresh,... + Mannargudi A. Easwaran 2015 Neyveli Santhanagopalan 2016 Thiruvarur Bakthavatsalam 2018 Dr Kadri Gopalnath 2019 P. Unnikrishnan2022Abhishek Raghuram2023Mysore Nagaraj & Manjunath2024Ranjani & Gayatri2025K. V. Prasad
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