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Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Akademi is a key branch of the Uttar Pradesh state government's Department of Culture. Each year the Academy Awards for excellence in performance of music, art and literature are awarded at the Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Akademi. Academy Award The award trophy, shawl and including Rs 10,000 are given in this award. The list of awardees 2003 #Afzal Hossain Khan: Classical music (Kanpur) #Gulshan Bharti, light music (Lucknow) #Iqbal Ahmed Siddiqui, light music (Lucknow) #Pandit Krishna Mohan Mishra, Kathak (Lucknow) #Pandit Kumar Lal Mishra, tabla playing (Varanasi) #Pandit Avdesh Kumar Dwivedi pakhawaj recital (Banda) #Padma Gidwani, folk singing (Lucknow) #Atamjit Singh, acting (Lucknow) #Anil Singh Bhowmick, theater directing (Allahabad) #Pandit Arjun Mishra, Kathak (Lucknow) #Amarnath Mishra, sitar (Varanasi) 2004 #Pandit Shivnath Mishra, sitar (Varanasi) #Pandit Ram Mohan Maharaj Kathak (Delhi) #Girish Chandra Srivastava, tabla playing (Allahab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shivnath Mishra
Pandit Shivnath Mishra (born 12 October 1943) is an Indian sitarist. He is an exponent of the Benares Gharana school of Indian classical music. He was formerly a lecturer and the Head of the Music Department at the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi. Early life Shivnath Mishra was born in 1943 in Benares, United Provinces, British India into a family of professional musicians. He is the 10th generation of the prominent Benares Gharana lineage. He studied under his father, Badri Prasad Mishra and uncle Mahadev Prasad Mishra. However, when he was eight his musical inclination led him to study the sitar. Musical career In 1967, Mishra won the prestigious All India Radio competition held at Allahabad. This was followed by a gold medal at the All India Music Conference in Calcutta in 1967. Mishra has played at several prestigious music festivals including Sangeet Natak Academy in 1993. He has played many times in Ganga Mahotsav Cultural Program organized by the Governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
