SaMaPa (Sopori Academy of Music And Performing Arts) has announced the names of the recipients of this year’s SaMaPa awards.According to a statement, the prestigious ‘SaMaPa Vitasta Award’ carries cash honour of Rs 50,000 each. The award is being conferred upon Vidushi Zarin Sharma and Begum Parween Sultana.
The prestigious ‘SaMaPa Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Award’ which carries cash honour of Rs 25,000 is being conferred upon the veteran Kashmiri folk musician Ghulam Nabi Bulbul. Prof. C.L. Das is being honoured with the ‘SaMaPaAcharya Abhinavgupt Samman’ which carries honour of Rs. 5,000. While Vidushi Zarin Sharma is being honoured for her lifetime contribution in the field of Indian Classical Instrumental Music - Sarod (Mumbai) and Begum Parween Sultana is being honoured for her lifetime contribution in the field of Indian Classical Music – Vocal (Mumbai) with the prestigious ‘SaMaPa Vitasta Award’, Ghulam Nabi Bulbul (Kashmir) is being awarded the ‘SaMaPa Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Award’ for his lifetime dedication and contribution in the field of Kashmiri folk music as a singer and Sarangi player.
Prof. C.L. Das (Patna) receives the ‘SaMaPa Acharya Abhinavgupt Samman’ for his lifetime contribution to Indian music as a musicologist and critic. This year SaMaPa has introduced another award for those individuals who go beyond the conventional areas of working promoting the art and culture of the country. The first ‘’SaMaPa Kala Vardhan Samman’ is being conferred upon Nawang Rigzin Jora, Minister for Tourism and Culture, for promoting the art and culture of Jammu and Kashmir State.
The award announcement was made by the internationally acclaimed Santoor maestro and composer Abhay Rustum Sopori in New Delhi declaring that the name was selected by the great music legend Pandit Bhajan Sopori, Chairman SaMaPa, and the award selection committee headed by Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New and Renewable Energy and Padmashri Shameem Azad, Pt. Vijay Shankar Mishra, VP SaMaPa and senior musicologist and critic, and other committee members.
The award will be presented on the occasion of 7th Annual ‘SaMaPa Sangeet Sammelan 2011’ in New Delhi at Kamani Auditorium on the November 19. The two day festival, acclaimed as the top most music festival of Delhi and one of the most prestigious festivals of the country, SaMaPa Sangeet Sammelan will be held on the 19th and 20th of November 2011 featuring Begum Parween Sultana and Vidushi Shubha Mudgal (vocal), Vidushi Zarin Sharma (Sarod), Ragini Rainu (Sufi), Abhay Rustum Sopori (Santoor), amongst others.
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