Chicago Tyagaraja Utsavam received entries from a total of 67 contestants this year.
The first round of judging was conducted by Ganesh Rajagopalan after which 31 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.
- Sri Viju Anand and Sri R.Sankaranarayanan
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.
Meenakshi Ganesan Foundation has been sponsoring the CTU competition for many years now. This year, the competition was sponsored by the Meenakshi Ganesan Foundation as well as another anonymous sponsor. This anonymous sponsorship was made in memory of Sri Krishna Bhatta Govinday.
Thanks to these generous sponsorhips, the winners were given cash prizes as detailed below:
1st Prize: $250, 2nd Prize: $100 and 3rd Prize: $50.
Sri Sherthalai Ranganatha Sharma distributed the prizes and certificates to the contestants.
The results for the various levels and categories are listed below:
| Level | Category | Prize | Contestant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three | Vocal | 1st Prize | Sruthi Sridhar from Illinois |
| Two | Vocal | 1st Prize | Sruthi Jayanti from Illinois |
| Two | Vocal | 2nd Prize | Shruti Govindarajan from Illinois |
| Two | Vocal | 3rd Prize | Kavin Lavari from Illinois |
| Two | Instrument | 1st Prize | Rishabh Ranganathan from Illinois |
| Two | Instrument | 2nd Prize | Shraddha Ramnath from Indiana |
| Two | Percussion | 1st Prize | Akhil Sai Avasarala from Illinois |
The following contestants were selected to perform in the Live Competition but could not attend. These contestants will be given a Certificate of Selection:
- Vaibhav Iyer from Illinois
- Vishnu Kumar from California
- Shreya Narayan from Minnesota
- Laya Raghav from Ohio
- Varshini Ramanathan from Illinois
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:
- Sravya Jayanti
- Mahathi Kambham
- Deepa Kumar
- Shreyah Prasad
- Dwaritha Ramesh
- Nikhil Sathyanathan
- Nethra Senthilkumar
- Sudharsh Sriraman
- Sree Manasvini Subbaraman
- Shweta Subramanian
- Sumedha Sundaram
- Pranav Upadhyayula
- Amritha Venkatesh
CTU will be mailing the Special Recognition certificates to those contestants who did not pick them up at the competition.