Sangeetha Kalasikhamani or Sangita Kalasikhamani (Sanskrit: ; from sangeetha = music, kala = art, sikhamaṇi = gem of a diadem or crest) is the title awarded yearly to an expert Carnatic musician by the Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai.
List of Sangeetha Kalasikhamanis Year Inaugurated by Recipient 1933 S. Rm. M. Annamalai Chettiar Doreswamy Iyengar 1934 V. V. Srinivasa Iyengar V. V. Srinivasa Iyengar 1935 K. V. Reddy Naidu Keerthanacharya C. R. Sreenivasa Iyengar 1936 Lady M. Venkata Subbarao Prof. P. Sambamurthi 1937 B.Gopala Reddy S. Satyamurti 1938 The Yuvaraja of Mysore Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar 1939 Rukmini Devi Arundale M. S. Ramaswamy Iyer 1940 Maharaja of Travancore Kallidaikurichi Vedanta Bhagavathar 1941 The Maharaja of Pithapuram Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu 1942 M. Venkatasubba Rao Mazhavarayanendal Subbarama Bhavathar 1943 Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Palladam Sanjiva Rao 1944 S. Rm. M. Chidambaram Chettiar M. S. Ramaswamy Iyer 1945 P. V. Rajamannar Ananthanarayana Iyer 1946 Dr. A. Lakshmanaswamy Mudaliar Dr. T. Srinvasaraghavan 1947 Dr. P. Subbaroyan T. Lakshmana Pillai 1948 Justice A. S. P. Iyer Prof. R. Srinivasan 1949 C. P. Ramaswami Iyer K. Vasudeva Sastry 1950 Rukmini Devi Arundale Papanasam Sivan 1951 T. L. Venkatarama Iyer Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar 1952 U. Krishna Rao Tirupampuram N. Swaminatha Pillai 1953 Sri Prakasa Kalki Krishnamurthy 1954 C. Rajagopalachari C. Saraswathi Bai 1955 Mrinalini Sarabhai M. M. Dandapani Desikar 1956 Maharaja of Travancore Prof. Sambamurthi, B.A., B.L., 1957 Justice P. Rajagopalan E. Krishna Iyer 1958 P. V. Cherian T. Chowdiah 1959 C. P. Ramaswami Iyer K.S. Ramaswamy Sastrigal 1960 Bishnuram Medhi V.C. Gopalarathnam 1961 Vyjayanthimala Sermadevi L. Subramania Sastrigal 1962 Justice R Sadasivam R. Rangaramanuja Iyyangar 1963 M. Bhaktavatsalam S. Y. Krishnaswamy, I.C.S. (Retd) 1964 P. Chandra Reddy Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar 1965 Nallasenapathy Sarkarai Mandradiar Chittoor Subramaniam Pillai 1966 Damodaram Sanjeevaiah Musiri Subramania Iyer 1967 Ujjal Singh Thyagaraja Bicentenary – No President 1968 Justice K. Veeraswamy Budalur Krishnamurthi Sastri 1969 S. Madhavan Papanasam Sivan 1970 Dharam Veera Sripada Pinakapani 1971 M. Karunanidhi Mudicondan C. Venkatarama Iyer 1972 K. K. Shah Thiruveezhimizhalai S. Subramanya Pillai 1973 V. R. Nedunchezhiyan T. Brinda 1974 The Hon’ble Mr. Justice P.R Gokulkrishnan Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer 1975 Malcolm Adiseshiah M. S. Subbulakshmi 1976 C. V. Narasimhan M. D. Ramanathan 1977 P. Ramachandran Embar S. Vijayaraghavachariar 1978 Tayi Ramaprasada Rao D. K. Pattammal 1979 Prabhudas Patwari Vazhuvoor Ramaiah Pillai 1980 M. M. Ismail S. V. Sahasranamam 1981 Sadiq Ali Balasaraswati 1982 S. L. Khurana S. Balachander 1983 K. Rajaram S. Somasundaram 1984 Dr.V. K. Narayanan Menon Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman 1985 N. Mahalingam B. Rajam Iyer 1986 Dr.G. Subrahmanyam Guru Gopinath 1987 R. Soundararajan M. L. Vasanthakumari 1988 G. V. Ramakrishna T. S. Balakrishna Sastrigal 1989 S. Obul Reddy K. V. Narayanaswamy 1990 Lalgudi Jayaraman S. K. Rajarathnam 1991 S. Viswanathan Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer & M. Balamuralikrishna 1992 T. C. A. Ramanujam Chidambaram Dr.V. V. Swarnavenkatesa Deekshitar 1993 R. Ramakrishnan T. N. Krishnan 1994 Ramaswamy Venkataraman Mysore V. Doraiswamy Iyengar 1995 Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti R. Vedavalli 1996 G. K. Moopanar Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan 1997 Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer Sikkil Sisters 1998 N. Ram Vellore G.Ramabadran 1999 Shanmughasundaram Mohan T. N. Krishnan 2000 S. M. Krishna Madurai T. N. Seshagopalan 2001 M. Balamuralikrishna E. Gayathri 2002 T. N. Seshan K. J. Yesudas 2003 S. Obul Reddy Guruvayur Dorai 2004 Sri. B. Rajam Iyer Kalyanpuram R. Aaaraavamudhachariar 2005 T. N. Krishnan T. V. Sankaranarayanan 2006 Sri B.K.Krishnaraj Vanavarar Bombay Sisters C. Saroja, C. Lalitha 2007 V. Sethuram N. Ramani 2008 M. R. Sivaraman S. Rajam 2009 Mrs. Prabha Sridevan Prapancham Sitaram 2010 T. N. Krishnan Manakkal S.Rangarajan 2011 N. Gopalaswami Nedunuri Krishnamurthy 2012 V. Sethuram M. S. Gopalakrishnan 2013 Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti Kadri Gopalnath 2014 Chitra Visweswaran A. Kanyakumari 2015 Gouri Parvathi Bayee Tadepalli Lokanadha Sarma 2016 Padma Subrahmanyam Sudha Ragunathan
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