The Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the years 2022 and 2023 will be conferred to 82 young artists in a special ceremony on Friday at Dr Ambedkar International Centre in the national capital.
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Minister of Tourism and Culture will felicitate the Ustad Bismilliah Khan Yuva Puraskar on these young artists representing the diverse and rich cultural traditions of India across various performing arts, from classical music and dance to folk, theatre, and puppetry.
The ceremony will be presided over by Dr. Sandhya Purecha, Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, and Uma Nanduri, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
The event will be followed by a Festival of Performing Arts, which will feature the award recipients performing at various venues across the city from 22nd to 26th November 2024.
The Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar was established by the Sangeet Natak Akademi in 2006 in honor of the legendary musician Ustad Bismillah Khan. The award recognizes outstanding young artists, up to the age of 40, in the fields of music, dance, drama, folk & tribal arts, and puppetry. Recipients receive a cash prize of Rs. 25,000, a plaque, and an angavastram.
Recipients of the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar 2022:
Music (10 Awardees):
Samit Mallick – Hindustani Vocal
Samarth Janve – Hindustani Vocal
Sangeet Mishra – Hindustani Instrumental (Sarangi)
Partho Roy Choudhury – Hindustani Instrumental (Santoor)
K. Gayatri – Carnatic Vocal
I. Sweta Prasad – Carnatic Vocal
B. Anantha Krishnan – Carnatic Instrumental (Violin)
Sahana S.V – Carnatic Instrumental (Veena)
Manoj Rai – Creative & Experimental Music
Nandini Rao Gujar – Sugam Sangeet
Dance (10 Awardees):
Mandakranta Roy – Bharatanatyam
Kadam Parikh – Kathak
Urmika Maibam – Manipuri
T. Reddi Lakshmi – Kuchipudi
Arupa Gayatri Panda – Odissi
Dimpee Baishya – Sattriya
Akshara M Das – Mohiniattam
Pradyumna Kumar Mohanta – Chhau
Mingma D. Lepcha – Creative & Experimental Dance
Aparna Nangiar – Nangiarkoothu
Theatre (8 Awardees):
Beluru Raghunandan – Playwriting
Ifra Mushtaq Kak – Direction
Harishankar Ravi – Direction
Harwinder Singh – Acting
Kumar Ravikant – Acting
Siddhi Upadhye – Acting
Mukunda Nath – Mime
Sangeet Shrivastava – Lighting
Folk/Tribal Music/Dance/Puppetry (11 Awardees):
Lata Tiwari & Sanjay Datt Panday – Folk Music & Dance, Uttarakhand
Chow Saratham Namchoom – Folk Music, Arunachal Pradesh
Sampriya Pooja – Folk Music & Dance, Chhattisgarh
Suryawanshi Pramila Kautikrao – Lavani, Maharashtra
Kumar Uday Singh – Folk Dance, Bihar
Nasarullah EPI – Folk Dance, Lakshadweep
Binita Devi – Puppetry, Assam
Mahesh Aba Satarkar – Folk Dance, Goa
Vasava Mukeshbhai M. – Folk Dance, Gujarat
Gulzar Ahmad Bhat – Folk Dance, Jammu & Kashmir
Moirangthem Kendra Singh – Nata Sankirtan, Manipur
Overall Contribution in Performing Arts:
Anuthama Murali – Overall Contribution
Recipients of the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar 2023:
Music (10 Awardees):
Anuja Zokarkar – Hindustani Vocal
Monika Soni – Hindustani Vocal
Rishi Shankar Upadhyay – Hindustani Instrumental (Pakhawaj)
Sarang Rajan Kulkarni – Hindustani Instrumental (Sarod)
S. R. Vinay Sharva – Carnatic Vocal
Ramakrishnan Murthy – Carnatic Vocal
Akshay Anantapadmanabhan – Carnatic Instrumental (Mridangam)
Saikhom Pinky Devi – Creative & Experimental Music
Satyavathi Mudavath – Creative & Experimental Music
Nagesh Shankarrao Adgaonkar – Other Major Traditions of Music (Abhang)
Dance (10 Awardees):
Apoorva Jayaraman – Bharatanatyam
Meghranjani Medhi – Kathak
Kalamandalam Vipin Sankar – Kathakali
Pukhrambam Reepa Devi – Manipuri
Muramalla Surendra Nadh – Kuchipudi
Debasis Pattnaik – Odissi
Mukunda Saikia Barbayan – Sattriya
Vidya Pradeep – Mohiniattam
Sunita Mahato – Chhau
Venkateshwaran Kuppuswamy – Music for Dance
Theatre (8 Awardees):
Priyadarshini Mishra – Playwriting
Bendang Walling – Direction
Suvojit Bandyopadhyay – Direction
Rutuja Rajan Bagwe – Acting
Vipan Kumar – Acting
Shruti Singh – Acting
Mallikarjuna Rao Bachala – Make-up
Puneet Dimari & Amit Khanduri – Other Major Traditions of Theatre (Ramleela, Uttarakhand)
Folk/Tribal Music/Dance/Puppetry (11 Awardees):
Angadi Bhaskar – Folk Music (Dappalu), Telangana
Alok Bishoyi – Folk Dance & Music, Odisha
M. Prakash – Folk Dance, Puducherry
Padma Dolker – Folk Music & Dance, Ladakh
Sukhram Pahan – Folk Music, Jharkhand
Yusuf Khan Mewati Jogi – Folk Music, Rajasthan
Kalamandalam Ravisankar T S – Folk Instrument (Chenda), Kerala
Dixit Kushal Manvantray – Folk Dance, Gujarat
Priyanka Shakti Thakur – Traditional Music, Maharashtra
Anureet Pal Kaur – Folk Music, Punjab
Charu Sharma – Folk Music, Himachal Pradesh
Overall Contribution in Performing Arts:
Laxminarayan Jena – Overall Contribution