Ananya honours various musicians and dancers with annual awards.
Ananya Puraskara
To felicitate veteran artists in recognition of their contribution to music and dance
Shastrakaustubha
To felicitate veteran classical musicologists in recognition of their contribution to music
Ananya Yuvapuraskara
To encourage young and promising artists. The award includes a memento, certificate and purse
Ananya Purasakara – Dance
Smt. Usha Datar (Dance, 2018), Neela Ramanuja (Dance Music, 2018)
Revathi Narasimhan (Bharatanatyam, 2017), Mantap Prabhakar Upadhaya (Yakshaghana, 2017), Mahesh Swamy (Flute, 2017)
Bragha Bessel (Bharatanatyam, 2016), Lalitha Srinivasan (Bharatanatya, 2016), Radha Sridhar (Bharatanatya, 2016), Dwarki Krishnaswamy (2016)
Gayathri Sriram (Bharatanatya, 2015), Nandhini (2015), Rama P (Music, 2015)
Sathyanarayana Raju (Bharatanatyam, 2014), Sanjay Shantharam (Bharatanatyam, 2014), Sridhar & Anuradha Sridhar (Bharatanatyam, 2014), Prasanna Kumar D.V. (Music, 2014)
Venu (2013), Debur Srivatsa (Music, 2013), Gurumurthy (Mrudhanga, 2013), Bhanumathi B (Bharatanatyam, 2013)
Ananya Purasakara – Music
Veena Doreswamy Iyengar, Rajanarayan, Srikantan R.K, Sathyavathi T.S, Sheela M.S, Seshagiri Rao, Bheemachar L, Anand A.V, Saraswathi M.K, Narayana H.K, Narasimha Murthy H.K, Mani T.A.S, Bellary M.Venkateshachar, Parthasarathy R, Selvanarayana M.T, Vijayaraghavan B.S, Neela Ramgopal, Thyagarajan & Tharanathan R.N Dr, Sukanya Ramgopal, Chandramouli B.K, Padmanabha R.K, Rudrapatnam S Ramakanth, Ramaa T.S, Ramamani R.A, Balakrishna D, Shankar S