In the Annual General meeting held on 21st November, 2022, Sri K. N. Anantharamaiah, who nourised the Academy for nearly three decades, growing it to its current stature, announced his decision to relinquish his position in the Management Committee. While he will continue to provide guidance and advice as required, he requested other members to come forward and actively engage to carry on the mission of the Academy.

We have also informed our members regarding this in a recent letter.

Many leading artists, patrons and connoisseurs of art have sent us messages thanking Sri Anantharamaiah for his yeoman service to music, and extended their best wishes.

We have reproduced some of these messages below. [Click here to view the messages] If you would like to send your own personal message, you may email the same to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will publish selected messages in these pages.

-BTM Cultural Academy.

Read more: Sri Anantharamaiah Retires from the Management Committee

BTM Cultural Academy recently celebrated its 25th Anniversary - a glorious journey that began in 1992.

The Academy was founded with a vision to promote Indian Classical Music and Dance. Located in South Bangalore, the academy is one of the prime organisations in Bangalore's cultural scene. Since April 1992, the Academy has been organising monthly music concerts by leading and upcoming artists. Having started with one concert a month, it is now organising nearly Twenty five concerts a year. These also include a few Classical Dance programmes and also Hindustani Music concerts. The Academy had held over 500 concerts by January 2017!

Read more: About BTM Cultural Academy