Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam received entries from a total of 81 contestants this year.
The first round of judging was conducted by Smt. Charumathy Ramachandran from Chennai, India after which 34 contestants were selected to perform in the Live Competition on Saturday, 31 Oct 2009.
All the contestants who performed were judged by S. Varadarajan and Neyveli Venkatesh and were given a Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam trophy and a CTU Certificate of Performance.
Each winner was awarded a CTU plaque and a CTU Certificate of Merit. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of a CTU well-wisher, the winners were given cash prizes as detailed below:
1st Prize: $250, 2nd Prize: $100 and Third Prize: $75.
Sanjay Subrahmanyan distributed the prizes and certificates to the contestants.
For this year’s competition, thanks to the sponsorship of the Lakshminarayanan family, CTU acknowledged out-of-state contestants with a travel stipend at the sponsor’s request.
The results for the various levels and categories are listed below:
| Level | Category | Prize | Name | State |
| One | Vocal | 1st Prize | Supraja Chittari | Virginia |
| One | Vocal | 2nd Prize | Vedika Iyer | California |
| One | Instrument | 1st Prize | Sahana Shankar | Michigan |
| One | Instrument | 2nd Prize | Sahitya Vishwanath | Virginia |
| One | Percussion | 1st Prize | Srikar Chittari | Virginia |
| Two | Vocal | 1st Prize | Shrikrishna Shivakumar | Michigan |
| Two | Vocal | 2nd Prize | Hariharan Ravi | Illinois |
| Two | Vocal | 3rd Prize | Anitha Rajaraman | Georgia |
| Two | Vocal | 3rd Prize | Bhavya Kumaran | Illinois |
| Two | Instrument | 1st Prize | Sandeep Narayan Bharadwaj | Illinois |
| Two | Percussion | 1st Prize | Abhinav Seetharaman | Virginia |
| Three | Vocal | 1st Prize | Priyadarshini Rathakrishnan | Georgia |
| Three | Vocal | 2nd Prize | Chitra Iyer | Illinois |
| Three | Instrument | 3rd Prize | Sri Nitya Pariti | Illinois |
| Three | Percussion | 1st Prize | Subramanian Lakshminarasimhan | Florida |
The following contestant was selected to perform in the Live Competition but could not could not attend. This contestant will be mailed a Certificate of Selection:
- Sandhya Balachandar, New Jersey
Special Recognition Certificates were awarded to some contestants among those who were not selected to perform in the Live Competition. The names of these contestants in alphabetical order of their last name are listed below:
- Aparajitha Adiraju
- Amulya Aradhyula
- Sameera Aradhyula
- ARVIND BADRINARAYANAN
- Sathvik Gurupalli
- Vinay Hanasoge
- Rishikesh Iyer
- Janani Iyer
- Sahana Iyer
- Niranjana Kannan
- Anand Kapadia
- Amee Kapadia
- Shilpa Kolachina
- Vishvak Kumaran
- Anagha Mulpur
- Kayal Muthuraman
- Meera Nathan
- Divya Pariti
- Kalyani Pillai
- Nivedha Poondi
- Deepa Raghavan
- Sruti Raman
- Anusha Ramaswami
- Vignesh Ravi
- Mohini Shanker
- Shrikanth Shivakumar
- Shashank Swaminathan
- Krishnamurthy Thyagarajan
- Amritha Venkatesh
- Keerthana Vishwanath
- Meghana Yadavalli
CTU will be mailing the Special Recognition certificates to those contestants who did not pick them up at the competition.