Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for Music - 2015

Q.  Which of the following are among the recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskars) for the Year-2015 for music?

1) Brij Narayan
2) Mashkoor Ali Khan
3) Hridyanath Mangeshkar

- Published on 07 Oct 16

a. 1, 3
b. 2, 3
c. 1, 2
d. All of the above

ANSWER: All of the above
 
  • The General Council of the Akademi also selected forty-three (43) artists from the field of Music, Dance, Theatre, Traditional/Folk/Tribal Music/Dance/Theatre and Puppetry and Overall contribution/scholarship in Performing Arts for the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the year 2015. These forty-three (43) artists include two joint awards.

  • In the field of Music, eleven eminent artists were selected

  • Krishna Bisht and Mashkoor Ali Khan for Hindustani Vocal Music,
  • Kartik Kumar for Hindustani Instrumental Music–Sitar,
  • Brij Narayan for Hindustani Instrumental Music–Sarod,
  • R N Thyagarajan and R N Tharanathan (joint award) for Carnatic Vocal Music,
  • Suguna Varadhachari for Carnatic Vocal Music,
  • Lalgudi G J R Krishnan for Carnatic Instrumental Music–Violin,
  • Mambalam M K S Siva for Carnatic Instrumental Music-Nagaswaram,
  • Bhupinder Singh, Hridyanath Mangeshkar and Prafulla Kar for Other Major Traditions of Music–Sugam Sangeet

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