1971

Lalgudi Jayaraman and N. Ramani

1974

T.M Thyagarajan

1975

Vellore Ramabhadran

1976

Nedunuri Krishnamoorthy

1977

Maharajapuram Santhanam

1978

Palghat Raghu

1979

Mani Krishnaswamy

1980

D.K. Jayaraman

1981

M Chandrasekharan

1982

Voleti Venkateswaralu

1983

T.N Seshagopalan

1984

Trichy Sankaran

1985

U. Shrinivas

1985

R. Vedavalli

1986

Umayalpuram Sivaraman

1987

Tanjore K.P. Sivanandam

1988

T.K. Govinda Rao

1989

T.R. Subramaniam

1990

Dr. C.Chittibabu

1991

Bombay Sisters

1992

Tanjore S. Kalyanaraman

1993

Dr. T.K. Murthy

1994

Sikkil Sisters

1995

Chitravina N. Ravikiran

1996

T.V.Sankaranarayanan

1997

Sudha Raghunathan

1998

Lalgudi GJR Krishnan

1999

T. Rukmini

1999

M.P.N. Ponnuswamy

1999

M.P.N. Sethuraman

2000

Prof R Visweswaran

2001

Trichur V. Ramachandran

2002

P.S Narayanaswamy

2003

O.S Thiagarajan

2004

Suguna Purushothaman