A. V. Anand (born 16 April 1936) is a Carnatic musician and mridangam player.
 Anand was taught to play mridangam by ghatam player K. S. Manjunath from a young age and has worked as an accompanist for Carnatic musicians, including Chowdiah, Chembai, T. R. Mahalingam, Sundaram Balachander.
 and Doraiswamy Iyengar, since the 1950s.
Sangeetha Kalasikhamani or Sangita Kalasikhamani (Sanskrit: saṅgītakalāśikhāmaṇi) (sangeetha = music, kala = art, sikhamaṇi = A gem of a diadem or crest) is the title awarded yearly to an expert Carnatic Musician by the Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai.
Lalitha Sivakumar is a prominent Carnatic music teacher and composer.
 She was known for vocally accompanying her mother-in-law and leading Carnatic vocalist, the late D. K. Pattammal, in concerts.
 Lalitha Sivakumar is also prominently known as the mother and guru of Dr. Nithyashree Mahadevan, a prominent vocalist in Indian music.
 She is a very well known eminent and veteran guru(teacher) of the D.K.P's school of Carnatic Music.
Dr. Annavarapu Ramaswamy (born 23 March 1926) is an Indian Classical Carnatic Violin Vidwan and Guru, whose musical journey entered into 9th decade.
 He is in the fourth line of direct disciples in Guru Shishya parampara of the Great Musician Saint Thyagaraja and is a disciple of Sri Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu.
 Both, Dr.M.Balamuralikrishna and him are very close friends, companions, classmates, learned carnatic music under the same guru Sri Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu.
 They performed many concerts together throughout the world.
 Many stalwarts in carnatic music, wanted and appreciated him as an accompaniment in their concerts in yesteryears.
 He accompanied top ranked legendary stalwart musicians of India, carnatic musicians such as his guru, Sri Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu,  Dr. Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna, Sri Arayakudi Ramanuja Iyyengar, Sri Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Sri G. N. Balasubramaniam, Sri Semmamgudi Srinivasa Iyyer, T. R. Maralingam, Sri S.Balachandar etc..
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; and Hindustani Musicians - Pandit Vinayakarao Pathvardhan, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj, etc., on many Prestigious National and International venues.
 He came up with his own style of performing solo concerts on Violin & Viola.
 He invented new Ragas & Talams such as Vandana Ragam, SriDurga Ragam and Tinetradi Tala and Vedadi Tala.
 He had written and composed many Varnams and Kritis.
 He is a notable guru, taught many students, who are in successful positions such as Violin Vasu, Flute Phani, V.L.Tulasi Viswanath (carnatic vocalist), Peravali Nanda Kumar (Violinist), etc., For the past 7 to 8 decades, he has been doing free service to the society such as teaching students at free of cost.
 He propagated the magnificence of his performances, teachings, demonstrations and Lectures on Music in countries such as U. S. A, Canada, European Countries (U. K, France etc.) and Asian Countries (Muscat, Bahrain, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Doha, Srilanka, etc.,)
Sangeetha Kalanidhi or Sangita Kalanidhi (Sanskrit: saṅgītakalānidhi ) ("sangeetha" = music, "kala" = art, "nidhi" = treasure) is the title awarded yearly to an expert Carnatic Musician by the Madras Music Academy.
 It is often considered to be the most prestigious award in the field of Carnatic Music.
The Gordon E. Moore Medal is an award given yearly by the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI America) to someone who has displayed early career success involving innovation in chemical industries.
 Success is judged in terms of both market impact and effects on quality of life of their work.
Dr. Annavarapu Ramaswamy (born 23 March 1926) is an Indian Classical Carnatic Violin Vidwan and Guru, whose musical journey entered into 9th decade.
 He is in the fourth line of direct disciples in guru shishya parampara of the Saint Thyagaraja and is a disciple of Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu.
 M.Balamuralikrishna and Annavarapu learned carnatic music under Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu.
 He accompanied carnatic musicians such as, Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu, M.Balamuralikrishna, Arayakudi Ramanuja Iyyengar, Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, G.N.Balasubramaniam, Semmamgudi Srinivasa Iyer, T.R.Mahalingam, S.Balachandar and Hindustani Musicians - Vinayakrao Patwardhan, Bhimsen Joshi, Jasraj on national and international venues.
 He invented new Ragas & Talams such as Vandana Ragam, SriDurga Ragam and Tinetradi Tala and Vedadi Tala.
 He is teaching students at free of charge.
 He gave lectures on music in countries such as USA, Canada, European Countries (UK, France, etc.) and Asian Countries (Muscat, Bahrain, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Doha, SriLanka, etc.,)
D. K. Jayaraman (popularly known as DKJ), the renowned brother of D. K. Pattammal, was a professional Carnatic music singer.
 He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 1990.
Martha Greenblatt, a chemist, researcher, and faculty member at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, is the only female chair of a science department in the School of Arts and Science to date (Jan 2008).
 Greenblatt took the position of Chair of the Chemistry Department at Rutgers while pursuing research interests in solid state inorganic chemistry.
 She was also the recipient of the 2003 American Chemical Society’s Garvan-Olin Medal – a national award given yearly to an outstanding woman chemist.
 In 2004, she became Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers.
Madras Lalitangi Vasanthakumari (Tamil: மெட்ராஸ் லலிதாங்கி வசந்தகுமாரி ) (popularly referred to as MLV) (3 July 1928 – 31 October 1990) was a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages.
 MLV and her contemporaries D. K. Pattammal and M. S. Subbulakshmi were popularly referred to as the "female trinity of Carnatic Music.
 A prime disciple of the G. N. Balasubramaniam, she was the youngest among the established musicians of that era, and was the youngest female awardee of the "Sangita Kalanidhi" award.

Question: What award given yearly to expert Carnatic Musicians did D. K. Pattammal receive?
Answer: Sangeetha Kalanidhi