President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu conferred Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (AkademiPuraskar) for the years 2022 and 2023 to 91 eminent artists (two joint award) in the field of performing arts in the special investiture ceremony held today, i.e., 6th March 2024 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Out of 94 artists selected for the Akademi Awards, three (3) artists could not attend the award ceremony due to ailing health. However, Akademi will arrange to deliver their plaque and other award material to them in the coming days. The Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards 2023 winners are:
Kalapini Komkali - Hindustani Vocal
Vinod Kumar Dwivedi - Hindustani Vocal
Harvinder Kumar Sharma - Hindustani Instrumental (Sitar)
Moinuddin Khan - Hindustani Instrumental (Sarangi)
Bombay Jayashri Ramnath - Carnatic Vocal
Shankar Sastry - Carnatic Vocal
Neyveli R. Narayanan - Carnatic Instrumental (Mridangam)
H. K. Venkataram - Carnatic Instrumental (Violin)
S. Sekhar - Creative & Experimental Music
Niladri Kumar - Creative & Experimental Music
L. V. Gangadhara Sastry - Other Major Traditions of Music (Sugam Sangeet)
Sangita Gosain - Other Major Traditions of Music (Odissi Music)
Urmila Sathyanarayanan - Bharatanatyam
Jagdish Sundarlal Gangani - Kathak
Margi Vijayakumar Nair - Kathakali
Latasana Devi - Manipuri
Maddali Usha Gayatri - Kuchipudi
Snehaprava Samantray - Odissi
Bhaben Borbayan - Sattriya
Pallavi Krishnan - Mohiniattam
Parikshit Mahato - Chhau
Nirupama Rajendra and T. D. Rajendra - Creative & Experimental Dance
Perini Prakash - Other Major Traditions of Dance and Dance Theatre (Periniattam)
Kalinath Mishra - Music for Dance
Asif Ali Haider Khan - Playwriting
Pali Bhupinder Singh - Playwriting
Surinder Sharma - Direction
Zahoor Alam - Direction
Anil Rastogi - Acting
Rajiv Verma - Acting
Anoop Joshi - Allied Theatre Arts (Lighting)
Sandeep Dutta - Allied Theatre Arts(Lighting)
Piyal Bhattacharya - Other Major Traditions of Theatre (Sanskrit Theatre)
Kanta Kashinath Gaude - Folk Music, Goa
Swapan Mukhopadhyay - Folk Music, West Bengal
Rakesh Bhatt - Folk Theatre/Music, Uttarakhand
Krishan Lal Sehgal - Folk Song, Himachal Pradesh
Bharat Sharma Vyas - Folk Music, Bihar
Helen Giri - Folk & Traditional Music, Meghalaya
Cheruthazham Kunhirama Marar - Traditional Music(Chenda), Kerala
Abdul Gaffar Dar Kanihami - Folk Music, Jammu & Kashmir
Jayantibhai Maganbhai Sharma - Instrument Making, Gujarat
K. Pajanivel - Martial Arts, Puducherry
Gurpreet Singh Khalsa - Martial Arts, Punjab
Gopalan Nair Venu (Venu. G) - Overall contribution in performing arts
Jagdish Trivedi - Scholarship in performing arts