Music Academy Madras
About
The Music Academy Madras, founded in 1928, is one of India's most prestigious and influential institutions for Carnatic classical music. Headquartered in Chennai, it is internationally renowned for hosting the annual December Music Season—one of the world's largest classical music festivals—which features hundreds of concerts, lecture-demonstrations, and competitions over several weeks each December. The Academy confers the coveted Sangeetha Kalanidhi award, the highest honour in Carnatic music, and has been instrumental in documenting, archiving, and promoting the classical tradition for nearly a century.
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