S. Babu (Violin) 1998 – Trivandrum V. Surendran (Mridangam) 1999 – K. S. Gopalakrishnan (Pullamkuzhal) 1999 – Tripunithura Lalitha (Vocal) 2000 – Sukumari Narendra Menon (Vocal) 2000 – Parassala Ravi (Mridangam) 2000 – Nedumangad Sivanandan (Violin) 2000 – Ambilikuttan (Vocal) 2001 – Gopalan Nair (Ganjira) 2001 – Vettikavala K. N. Sasikumar (Nadaswaram) 2002 – Ananthalakshmi Venkitaraman (Vocal) 2002 – Aryanad G. Sadasivan (Vocal) 2002 – V. Balakrishnan Potty (Veena) 2003 – N. P. Ramaswami (Vocal) 2003 – Mathangi Sathyamoorthy (Vocal) 2003 – T. V. Ramani (Violin) 2004 – Leelamani Radhakrishnan (Vocal) 2004 – Thiruvizha Sivanandan (Violin) 2004 – S. Sai Babu (Violin) 2004 – K. R. Anto (Flute) 2004 – Cherthala N. Sreekumar Varma (Mridangam) 2005 – Malini Hariharan (Vocal) 2005 – A. Ananthapadmanabhan (Veena) 2005 – Guruvayur Dwari (Mridangam) 2005 – Trichur P. Govindankutty (Nadaswaram) 2006 – G. Seethalakshmi Ammal (Vocal) 2006 – Pazhayannur K. G. Krishnankutty (Nadaswaram) 2006 – Trichur C. Rajendran (Violin) 2006 – Alappuzha Chandrasekharan Nair (Thalavadyam) 2007 – Chalakudy N. S. Balakrishnan 2007 – Varkala C. S. Jayaram 2007 – Thuravoor R. Narayana Panicker (Nadaswaram) 2007 – N. Hari (Mridangam) 2008 – Mukhathala Sivaji 2008 – T. M. Abdul Azeez (Violin) 2008 – Neyyattinkara Krishnan (Mukharsangh) 2008 – Kalyani Menon 2009 – Ayamkudi Mani 2009 – T. H. Subramaniam (Violin) 2009 – R. Karuna Moorthy (Thakil) 2009 – Palakkad K. Jayakrishnan (Mridangam) 2010 – Shertallay K. N. Renganatha Sharma (Vocal) 2010 – K. V. Prasad (Mridangam) 2010 – T. H. Lalitha (Violin) 2011 – Kavalam Sreekumar 2011 – Ramesh Narayan 2011 – Orumanayoor O. K. Gopi (Nadaswaram) 2012 – Trivandrum Krishnakumar 2012 – Binni Krishnakumar 2012 – Vanaja Sankar 2013 – Sreevalsan J. Menon 2013 – M. K. Sankaran Namboothiri 2013 – Kuzhalmannam G. Ramakrishnan (Mridangam) 2013 – Adichanallur Anilkumar (Ghatam) 2014 – P. Unnikrishnan (Carnatic Music) 2014 – Paul Poovathingal (Carnatic Music) 2014 – Attukal Balasubramaniam (Violin) 2014 – G. Babu (Mridangam) 2015 – Mavelikkara P. Subramaniam 2015 – S. R. Mahadeva Sarma (Violin) 2015 – S. R. Rajasree (Violin) 2015 – Nanjil A. R. Arul (Mridangam) 2016 – V. V. Ravi (Violin) 2016 – Trivandrum R. Vaidhyanathan (Mridangam) 2016 – Adoor P. Sudarsanan (Carnatic Music) 2017 – M. Narmadha (Violin) 2017 – Cherthala R Jayadevan (Mridangam) 2017 – Thamarakkad Govindan Namboothiri (Carnatic Music) 2018 – Arakkal Nandakumar (Music) 2018 – Retnasree Iyer (Tabla) 2019 – Nemmara N. R. Kannan (Nadaswaram) 2019 – Anayadi