Tansen Samaroh

{{short description|Classical music festival}}

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Tansen Samaroh or Tansen Sangeet Samaroh ({{Langx|hi| तानसेन समारोह}}) is celebrated every year in the month of December in Behat village of Gwalior district, Madhya Pradesh.{{cite web|url=http://www.festivalsofindia.in/tansen_samaroh/ |title=Tansen Sangeet Samaroh, Tansen Music Festival, Tansen Sangeet Samaroh 2012 |publisher=Festivalsofindia.in |date=2012-12-03 |accessdate=2013-10-07}} It is a 4-day musical extravaganza. Artists and music lovers from all over the world gather here to pay tribute to the Great Indian Musical Maestro Tansen. The event is organized near the tomb of Tansen by Ustad Alauddin Khan Kala Evam Sangeet Academy, under the department of culture, Government of Madhya Pradesh.is being organised by the Academy of the department of culture in MP Artists from all over India are invited to deliver vocal and instrumental performances.

National Music festival

Tansen Samaroh was originally a local festival but it was at the initiative of BV Keskar, who was Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting between 1952 and 1962, that Tansen Samaroh was turned into a popular national music festival.Anant Maral Shastri#Saluting the Legends

Tansen Samman

The 'National Tansen Samman' is a musical award conferred to the exponents{{cite web | url=http://mpculture.in/html/Tansen%20Samman.pdf | title=Tansen Award winners | publisher=Madhya Pradesh Government | accessdate=12 October 2014 | author=Madhya Pradesh Government}}

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! Year

! Name

! Field

1985

|Asgari Bai{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1046252 |title=Dhrupad singer Asgari Bai dead |publisher=DNA Newspaper |access-date=2020-01-16}}

|Dhrupad singer

2000

|Ustad Abdul Haleem Jafar Khan{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/2000/11/26/stories/1426212a.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030511123933/http://www.thehindu.com/2000/11/26/stories/1426212a.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=11 May 2003 | title='Tansen Samman' for sitar maestro | date=25 Nov 2000 | accessdate=12 October 2014 | author=Staff Correspondent | work=The Hindu | location=Bhopal}}

|Sitar maestro

2001

|Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

|Sarod maestro

2002

|Niyaz Ahmad Khan

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2003

| Pandit Dinkar Kaykini

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2004

| Pandit Shivkumar Sharma

| Santoor maestro

2005

|Maqbool Ahmed Sabri
Malini Rajurkar

|one of the leading members and music composer of legendary Classical Qawwali group Sabri Brothers
Hindustani vocalist of the Gwalior gharana and acknowledged master of Tappa and Tarana

2006

| Sulochana Brahaspati

| Hindustani vocalist and exponent of the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana

2007

| Pandit Gokulotsav Maharaj

|Hindustani vocalist

2008

|Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan

| Hindustani vocalist and exponent of the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana

2009

| Ajay Pohankar

| Hindustani vocalist and exponent of the Kirana gharana

2010

|Savita Devi

| Hindustani vocalist from the Benaras Gharana

2011

| Rajan and Sajan Mishra

| Vocalist duo.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/rajansajan-mishra-to-get-national-tansen-samman/90913/ |title=Rajan and Sajan Mishra to get 'National Tansen Samman' |publisher=Business Standard |date=2012-12-09 |accessdate=2013-10-07}}

2013

| Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

| Hindustani classical music instrumentalist{{cite web|author= |url=http://soulsteer.com/Gwalior/mohan-veena-player-pandit-vishwa-mohan-bhatt-awarded-national-tansen-samman-2015 |title=Mohan Veena player Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt |publisher=SouLSteer |date=2015-12-24 |accessdate=2015-12-24}}

2014

| Pandit Prabhakar Karekar

|Indian Classical vocalist.{{cite web|author= |url=http://soulsteer.com/tansen-samaroh-2014-prabhakar-karekar-awarded-with-national-tansen-samman/ |title=Tansen Samaroh 2014: Prabhakar Karekar awarded with National Tansen Samman |publisher=SouLSteer |date=2014-12-12 |accessdate=2014-12-12}}

rowspan='2'|2015

|Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty

| Indian Hindustani classical vocalist of the Patiala-Kasur gharana{{cite web|author= |url=http://soulsteer.com/Gwalior/hindustani-classical-vocalist-pandit-ajoy-chakrabarty-awarded-201415-national-tansen-samman/ |title=Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty |publisher=SouLSteer |date=2015-12-25 |accessdate=2015-12-25}}

Pt. Laxman Krishnarao Pandit

| Vocalist (Son of Krishnarao Shankar Pandit)

2016

| Pt. Dalchand Sharma

| Pakhawaj Player

2017

| Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar

| Classical Vocalist (Jaipur gharana)

2018

| Manju Mehta

| Indian classical sitar player{{cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/sitarist-manju-mehta-gets-tansen-samman-118122600321_1.html|title=Sitarist Manju Mehta gets 'Tansen Samman'|work=business-standard.com|accessdate=22 January 2018}}

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2019

| Pandit Vidyadhar Vyas

| Indian Hindustani vocalist (Gwalior gharana)

2020

| Satish Vyas

| Santoor player

2021

| Pt. Nityanand Haldipur

| Flute maestro

2022

| Pt. Ganapati Bhat Hasanagi

| Indian Hindustani classical vocalist

See also

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