A. K. C. Natarajan

A. K. C. Natarajan
A. K. C. Natarajan
Background information
Born	30 March 1931 (age 94); Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, British India; (now Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India)
Genres	Carnatic music
Instruments	clarinet

Born30 March 1931 (age 94)
Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, British India
(now Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India)

GenresCarnatic music

Instrumentsclarinet

A. K. C. Natarajan (born 30 March 1931) is a carnatic music clarinet player. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2008. He received a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1994.^[1] He was bestowed with the title Nadha Dweepa Kalanidhi by Nadhadweepam Trust, Tiruchirappalli.^[2] He learnt vocal music from Alathur Venkatesa Iyer and his nagaswaram teacher was Iluppur Natesa Pillai, brother of the thavil maestro Iluppur Panchami.^[3] In 2022, Natarajan was awarded a Padma Shri, the fourth-highest honour that can be bestowed upon a civilian in India, for contribution in the arts.^[4]

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v t e Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
1954–1960	Allauddin Khan (1954) Hafiz Ali Khan (1954) Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar (1954) Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer (1954) Prithviraj Kapoor (1954) Anjanibai Malpekar (1958)
1961–1980	Gopeshwar Banerjee (1962) D. Annaswami Bhagavathar (1962) Uday Shankar (1962) Papanasam Sivan (1962) Swami Prajnanananda (1963) Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar (1963) Pichu Sambamoorthi (1963) Mama Warerkar (1963) T. L. Venkatarama Aiyar (1964) C. Saraswathi Bai (1964) Birendra Kishore Roy Choudhury (1964) B. R. Deodhar (1964) V. Raghavan (1964) P. V. Rajamannar (1964) Vinayakrao Patwardhan (1965) Ganesh Hari Ranade (1965) Dilipkumar Roy (1965) Jaideva Singh (1965) D. G. Vyas (1965) Ashutosh Bhattacharya (1966) E. Krishna Iyer (1966) Sombhu Mitra (1966) Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1966) Ebrahim Alkazi (1967) Rukmini Devi Arundale (1967) Musiri Subramania Iyer (1967) Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1967) P. K. Kunju Kurup (1967) Shambhu Maharaj (1967) V. Satyanarayana Sarma (1967) Adya Rangacharya (1967) Kali Charan Patnaik (1968) K. C. D. Brahaspati (1970) Kapila Vatsyayan (1970) Dilip Chandra Vedi (1970) Tarapada Chakraborty (1972) Krishnarao Phulambrikar (1972) Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma (1972) Shivaram Karanth (1973) Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1974) Jnan Prakash Ghosh (1974) M. S. Subbulakshmi (1974) T. Balasaraswati (1975) Zubin Mehta (1975) Rasiklal Parikh (1975) Ravi Shankar (1975) Embar S. Vijayaraghavachariar (1975) Santidev Ghosh (1976) Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer (1976) Hirjibhai Rustomji Doctor (1977) Tinuvengadu Subramania Pillai (1978) B. Puttaswamayya (1978) Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (1979) D. T. Joshi (1979) Sumati Mutatkar (1979) T. P. Kuppiah Pillai (1979) V. K. Narayana Menon (1980)
1981–2000	Mani Madhava Chakyar (1982) Mallikarjun Mansur (1982) M. Kirupanandawari (1984) Chandravadan Mehta (1984) Siyaram Tiwari (1984) V. V. Swarna Venkatesa Deekshithar (1986) Komal Kothari (1986) S. Ramanathan (1986) Satyajit Ray (1986) Shivaputra Siddaramayya Komkali ‘Kumar Gandharva’ (1988) Lata Mangeshkar (1989) Utpal Dutt (1990) Ram Gopal (1990) Alain Daniélou (1991) Kelucharan Mohapatra (1991) T. S. Parthasarathy (1991) Ali Akbar Khan (1992) D. K. Pattammal (1992) Prem Lata Sharma (1992) Girish Karnad (1993) Mrinalini Sarabhai (1993) Bismillah Khan (1994) Yehudi Menuhin (1994) Maheswar Neog (1994) Vilayat Khan (1995) Ammannur Madhava Chakyar (1996) Gangubai Hangal (1996) Habib Tanvir (1996) Badal Sarkar (1997) Bhimsen Joshi (1998) Birju Maharaj (1998) K. P. Kittappa Pillai (1998) Vijay Tendulkar (1998)
2001–2021	M. Balamuralikrishna (2001) B. V. Karanth (2001) Vempati Chinna Satyam (2001) Shanno Khurana (2002) Kavalam Narayana Panicker (2002) Chandralekha (2004) Annapurna Devi (2004) Bindhyabasini Devi (2004) Ramankutty Nair (2004) Zohra Sehgal (2004) Tapas Sen (2004) Rohini Bhate (2006) T. N. Krishnan (2006) Kishan Maharaj (2006) Gursharan Singh (2006) Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra (2006) Sushil Kumar Saxena (2007) Khaled Choudhury (2008) Sitara Devi (2008) Bhupen Hazarika (2008) R. C. Mehta (2008) Kishori Amonkar (2009) Jasraj (2009) Lalgudi Jayaraman (2009) Yamini Krishnamurthy (2009) Shriram Lagoo (2009) Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi (2009) Girija Devi (2010) T. K. Murthy (2010) Nataraja Ramakrishna (2010) Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar (2010) M. Chandrasekaran (2011) Hariprasad Chaurasia (2011) Kalamandalam Gopi (2011) Chandrashekhara Kambara (2011) Heisnam Kanhailal (2011) Mukund Lath (2011) Shivkumar Sharma (2011) Rajkumar Singhajit Singh (2011) Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (2011) Padma Subrahmanyam (2011) Amjad Ali Khan (2011) N. Rajam (2012) Ratan Thiyam (2012) T. H. Vinayakram (2012) Mahesh Elkunchwar (2013) Kanak Rele (2013) R. Sathyanarayana (2013) Tulsidas Borkar (2014) S. R. Janakiraman (2014) Vijay Kumar Kichlu (2014) M. S. Sathyu (2014) C. V. Chandrasekhar (2015) Arvind Parikh (2016) R. Vedavalli (2016) Ram Gopal Bajaj (2016) Sunil Kothari (2016) Zakir Hussain (2018) Jatin Goswami (2018) Sonal Mansingh (2018) T. K. Kalyanasundaram (2018) Saroja Vaidyanathan (2019–2021) Sadanam Krishnankutty (2019–2021) Darshana Jhaveri (2019–2021) Chhannulal Mishra (2019–2021) A. K. C. Natarajan (2019–2021) Swapan Chaudhuri (2019–2021) Malini Rajurkar (2019–2021) T. V. Gopalakrishnan (2019–2021) Teejan Bai (2019–2021) Bharat Gupt (2019–2021)
2022–2023	Vinayak Khedekar (2022–2023) R. Visweswaran (2022–2023) Sunayana Hazarilal (2022–2023) Raja and Radha Reddy (2022–2023) Dulal Roy (2022–2023) Daya Prakash Sinha (2022–2023)

A. K. C. Natarajan

Background information
Born	(1931-03-30) 30 March 1931 (age 94) Trichinopoly, Madras Presidency, British India (now Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India)
Genres	Carnatic music
Instruments	clarinet

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