Select Awards

  •  Padma Bhushan, Government of India
  •  Padma Shri, Government of India
  •  Creative Music Award Sangeet Natak Akademi
  •  Presidents Award Best Violinist All India Radio
  •  Nada Chakravarthy SGS Swamiji, Trinidad and Tobago
  •  Tantri Nada Mani Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, Kanchipuram
  •  Asthana Vidwan ISKCON, Bangalore
  •  Lifetime Achievement Award Limca Book of Records
  •  Honorary Doctorate, Bangalore University
  •  Honorary Doctorate, Sheffield University
  •  Honourary Doctorate, Madras University
  •  Honourary Doctorate, Rabindra Bharathi University
  •  Special Medal of Honour HH King Birendra of Nepal (After a performance celebration His Majestys 25th Anniversary of accession to the throne)
  •  Best Western Instrumentalist IIT Madras
  •  Sangeeta Sagaram Cultural Centre of Performing Arts
  •  Award for outstanding contribution to Indo-American goodwill
  •  Onida Pinnacle Award for Surabhi Best title track Composer
  •  Sangeeta Ratna Mysore T. Chowdaiah Memorial National Award (Award in recognition of outstanding contributions as a composer & successful efforts to synthesize east and west music)
  •  Best Composer Award/Commission NRK P2, Norway
  •  Lotus Festival Award City of Los Angeles
  •  Manaviyam (Millennium) Award Government of Kerala
  •  Sangeetha Kalaa Shiromani Percussive Arts Centre, Bangalore
  •  Rama Gana Kalacharya Award, Rama Seva Mandali
  •  Sangeetha Kalaratna Bangalore Gayana Samaja
  •  Viswa Kala Bharathi Bharat Kalachar, Chennai
  •  GiMA (Best Fusion Album – Live at Neues Gewandhaus, Leipzig)
  •  Global Indian Music Academy (GiMA) Best Carnatic Instrumental Album – Violin Maestros
  •  Big Star IMA Award
  •  Best Classical Instrumental Album – Violin Maestros (Indian Music Academy)
  •  Uttam Vag Geykar Jialal Vasant Award Ajivasan
  •  GiMA – Global Indian Music Academy Best Carnatic Instrumental Album – Innovations
  •  Personality of the Decade Award” by KG Foundation
  •  Rama Gana Kalachara Award
  •  Munnu Guru Sangeeth Award
  •  Rotary Club of Madras – Vocational Excellence Award
  •  Orpheus of the East Kala Samarpana
  •  Violin Chakravarthy Governor of Madras
  •  Ritz Icon of the Year 2014