The Music Academy will be conferring the title Sangita Kalanidhi on the senior vocalist T. N. Seshagopalan this year. He will be presiding over the Academy's 80th annual conference to be held from December 15 to January 1.

The other awards that will be conferred during the 80th conference are: Sangita Kala Acharya on senior dancer C. V. Chandrasekhar and vocalist Seetha Rajan. TTK awards on A. Kanyakumari (violin) and Padmavathy Ananthagopalan (veena); Vaggeyakara award on vocalist - guru Suguna Purushothaman.

The above awards will be conferred at the 'Sadhas' on conclusion of the conference on January 1, 2007.