– Rajendra Prasanna Sitar 1958 – Yusuf Ali 1960 – Wahid Khan 1962 – Pt. Ravi Shankar 1968 – Mushtaq Ali Khan 1974 – Nikhil Banerjee 1987 – Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, Imrat Khan (also Surbahar) 1989 – Balaram Pathak 1992 – Uma Shankar Mishra 1994 – Shamim Ahmed Khan 1996 – Debu Chaudhuri 2001 – Manilal Nag 2003 – Arvind Parikh 2006 – Shahid Parvez 2010 – Budhaditya Mukherjee 2015 – Karthick Kumar 2019 – Manju Mehta 2020 – Kushal Das Surbahar 1991 – Annapurna Devi 2011 – Pushparaj Koshti Tabla 1954 – Ustad Ahmed Jan Thirakwa 1959 – Ustad Jahangir Khan 1961 – Pt. Kanthe Maharaj 1970 – Masit Khan 1976 – Karamatulla Khan 1979 – Pt. Samta Prasad 1982 – Ustad Alla Rakha 1984 – Pt. Kishan Maharaj 1990 – Ustad Zakir Hussain 1991 – Shaikh Dawood 1997 – Swapan Chaudhuri, Lalji Gokhale 1998 – Pandharinath Gangadhar Nageshkar 1999–2000 – Shankar Ghosh 2001 – Ishwar Lal Mishra 2002 – Suresh B. Gaitonde, Anindo Chatterjee 2004 – Pt. Suresh Talwalkar 2006 – Kumar Bose 2007 – Nandan Mehta 2009 – Lachman Singh Seen 2012 – Sabir Khan (Tabla) 2013 – Hashmat Ali Khan 2014 – Pt. Nayan Ghosh 2016 – Arvind Mulgaonkar 2017 – Pt. Yogesh Samsi 2021 – Ravindra Yavagal Violin 1972 – Gajananrao Joshi 1980 – V. G. Jog 1990 – N. Rajam 1995 – D. K. Datar 1996 – Annavarapu Rama Swamy 1997 – Sisir Kana Dhar Chowdhury 2007 – Ramoo Prasad Shastri 2016 – Kala Ramnath 2021 – Sangeeta Shankar Carnatic music Vocal 1952 – Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar 1953 – Semmangudi R. Srinivasa Iyer 1954 – Mysore K. Vasudevacharya 1955 – Maharajapuram Vishwanatha Iyer 1956 – M. S. Subbulakshmi 1957 – Musiri Subramania Iyer 1958 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar 1959 – G. N. Balasubramaniam 1960 – Madurai Mani Iyer 1961 – Mudikondan C. Venkatarama Iyer 1962 – D. K. Pattammal 1963 – B. Devendrappa 1964 – Chittoor S. Subramanyam 1965 – T. Brinda 1966 – Madurai Srirangam Iyengar 1967 – C. Venkata Rao 1968 – Alathur Srinivasa Iyer 1969 – Dandapani Desikar 1970 – M. L. Vasanthakumari 1971 – N. Channakeshaviah 1972 – T. Muktha 1973 – B.S. Raja Iyengar 1974 – M. D. Ramanathan 1975 – M. Balamurali Krishna 1976 – K.V.Narayanaswamy 1977 – Sripada Pinakapani 1978 – Madurai S. Somasundaram 1979 – R K Srikanthan 1980 – Seerkhazhi S. Govindarajan 1981 –