{"id":171363,"date":"2025-03-25T14:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T08:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=171363"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T08:57:31","slug":"violinist-r-k-shriramkumar-honored-with-sangita-kalanidhi-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/violinist-r-k-shriramkumar-honored-with-sangita-kalanidhi-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Violinist R.K. Shriramkumar Honored with Sangita Kalanidhi Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Violinist R K Shriramkumar has received the esteemed Sangita Kalanidhi award from the Music Academy for 2025. Meanwhile, the talented Carnatic singer Shyamala Venkateswaran and the highly respected tavil artist Thanjavur R Govindarajan have been honored with the Sangita Kala Acharya award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shriramkumar is a prominent name in the world of Carnatic music, hailing from the esteemed Rudrapatnam lineage. He had the privilege of training under his grandfather, R K Venkatarama Sastry, as well as the legendary Sangita Kalanidhi D K Jayaraman. Throughout his career, he has had the honor of accompanying musical icons like Semmangudi R Srinivasa Iyer, T Brinda, M S Subbulakshmi, and D K Pattammal. He is especially celebrated for his deep understanding of the Sangita Sampradaya Pradarsini by Subbarama Dikshitar, which is a significant collection of Muthuswami Dikshitar&#8217;s works. This recognition is particularly timely, as 2025 will mark the 250th anniversary of Muthuswami Dikshitar&#8217;s birth, as noted by the Music Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>R.K. Shriramkumar is widely recognized for his expertise in violin accompaniment, having performed with legendary artists from different generations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yesteryear stalwarts: Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, M.S. Subbulakshmi, D.K. Pattammal, D.K. Jayaraman, T. Brinda, T. Mukta, M. Balamuralikrishna, and K.V. Narayanasamy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contemporary musicians: Sudha Raghunathan, Vijay Siva, Bombay Jayashree, Sowmya, and T.M. Krishna.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>His deep knowledge of Sangita Sampradaya Pradarsani, a compilation of Muthuswami Dikshitar\u2019s compositions by Subbarama Dikshitar, has made him an authority in the field.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violinist R K Shriramkumar has received the esteemed Sangita Kalanidhi award from the Music Academy for 2025. Meanwhile, the talented Carnatic singer Shyamala Venkateswaran and the highly respected tavil artist Thanjavur R Govindarajan have been honored with the Sangita Kala Acharya award. Shriramkumar is a prominent name in the world of Carnatic music, hailing from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":171364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5364],"tags":[4925],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-171363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2025","tag-awards-honours-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171365,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171363\/revisions\/171365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171363"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=171363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}