Tansen  Academy  of  Music (R)

STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS (Four State Awardee)

1. "PADMA SHRI”, 2022 India's Fourth-Highest civilian award conferred by the President of India

2. Pandit Vasantrao Deshpande National Award 2022 from SouthCentreZone CulturalCentre,Nagpur

3. 1st Nuli Chandayya  National Award 2022 conferred by Karnataka State Chief Minister Shri. Basavaraj Bommai

4. Sanskriti Samman Samagam Award 2021 (Joint Award along with his son Krishna Ballesh) from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India

5. Ustad Bismillah Khan KalaRatna Samman 2021 Award (Joint Award along with his son) in Benaras by India Tourism Varanasi, Government of India

6. Kalaimamani 2020 (Joint Award) with Dr. Krishna BalleshTamilnadu State’s Highest Civilian Award Eyal Isai NatakaManaram

7. Karnataka Kalashree 2019 called (KarnatakaState SangeetNatakAkademi Award), was given by Karnataka State Government,

8. SriKalahastiAasthanaVidwan Title 2006 (Joint Award) Srikalahasti Temple, Andhra Pradesh Government

9. UgadiPuraskaram 2006 Andhra Pradesh Government

 

KEYNOTE CONTRIBUTION OF PT BALLESH:

• Sung and played shehnai for All Music Composers in India, with more than 10,000 film background scores and 65,000 film songs in all languages, and more than 1,00,000 devotional songs in all religions and languages.

• Sung Hindustani music Alaaps for films and also collaborated with Shehnai with International musicians and composers in recordings. He had collaborated with Shehnai with Hungarian musicians in several recordings

 

THE HONORARY DOCTORATE:

1. In 2022, Karnataka State Governor & Chancellor Shri. Thawar Chand Gelhot conferred "The Honorary Doctorate" D.Litt., Award (Honoris Causa) on Pt. Ballesh from Bangalore North University, Kolar.

2. He also received the “Honorary Doctorate" award from Mother Theresa University in 2022 and from International Tamil University in 2018.

 

WORLD RECORD:

1. Pandit Ballesh has NOBLE WORLD RECORDS for WORLD'S MAXIMUM FILM SONGS PLAYING IN SHEHNAI.

2. In 2022, he was conferred INTERNATIONAL REPUTED SHEHNAI PLAYER AWARD by the International Award Forum (NOBLE WORLD RECORDS).