Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam received entries from a total of 62 contestants this year.
The first round of judging was conducted by Kumaresh and Jayanthi Kumaresh after which 29 contestants were selected to perform in the Live Competition.
The following musicians judged the contestants who were selected to perform in the Live Music Competition.
- Jayanthi and Kumaresh
- Pantula Rama and MSN Murthy
All the contestants who performed in the Live Music Competition were given 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: $50.
Kumaresh and Jayanthi Kumaresh distributed the prizes and certificates to the contestants.
The results for the various levels and categories are listed below:
| Level | Category | Prize | Contestant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two | Vocal | 1st Prize | Aparijtha Adiraju from Illinois |
| Two | Vocal | 2nd Prize | Karthik Padmanabhan Iyer from Illinois |
| Two | Vocal | 3rd Prize | Nandini Sridhar from Minnesota and Sita Vakkalanka from Illinois |
| Two | Instrument | 1st Prize | Aditya Krishnan (Violin) from Georgia |
| Two | Instrument | 2nd Prize | Sathvik Gurupalli (Veena) and Anvita Hariharan (Saxophone) from Illinois |
| Two | Instrument | 3rd Prize | Akshay Ravi (Flute) from Illinois |
The following contestants were selected to perform in the Live Competition but could not could not attend. These contestants will be mailed a Certificate of Selection:
- Ranjani Parthasarathy from Virginia
- Kalyani Pillai from Virginia
- Ramya Radhakrishnan from Virginia
The competition was held only for those categories with at least two submissions. Categories with Contestants who had the only submission in their category were offered an opportunity to perform after the competition without being judged.
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:
- Divya Balaji
- Deepa Kumar
- Kayal Muthuraman
- Pranav Ramesh
- Subhakeertana Sivakumar
CTU will be mailing the Special Recognition certificates to those contestants who did not pick them up at the competition.