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Dr. Pavithra greeting with folded hands
Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Award2025
Karnataka

Healing Hearts Through Music.
Serving Society Through Leadership.

Acclaimed Hindustani and Sugama Sangeetha vocalist, philanthropist, founder of Saantvana Music & Charitable Foundation (R), and State Vice President, KPCC. Through music, social initiatives, education, and public leadership, Dr. Pavithra continues to empower communities and inspire positive change across Karnataka.

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Our impact

Creating Change. Enriching Lives.

2016

Foundation established

Building hope since 2016
50,000+

Lives impacted

Empowering communities across Karnataka
500+

Music performances

Classical & Sugama concerts nationwide
100+

Community programmes

Education • Health • Welfare
Karnataka

Public leadership

Serving the people with dedication
Three callings, one purpose

Public life, built on three pillars

Each strand of her work feeds the next: the stage funds the seva, the seva earns the mandate, and the mandate widens the reach.

Music

Hindustani and Sugama Sangeetha performance, Kannada playback singing, and compositions set to the poems and folk songs of Karnataka, performed at Dasara, Hampi Utsav and state festivals.

Explore the music
Dr. Pavithra singing a duet on a concert stage

Public service

State Vice President of the KPCC Other Backward Classes Department since 2023, and previously Young INTUC President for Bengaluru South, organising and strengthening the party at the district level.

Political journey
Dr. Pavithra receiving a Congress party appointment letter

Seva

Free music education, school kits for children, Anna Dasoha, disaster relief during COVID, floods and landslides, and skill training and financial assistance for women in need.

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Dr. Pavithra presenting baagina to women at a Foundation programme
Being a person with the deepest concern for music, she founded Saantvana, intending to preserve and propagate all forms of Arts & Musical traditions of India.
Saantvana Music and Charitable Foundation (R) · Reg. BNG(U)/JNR-386/2016-17
Glimpses

Moments from the journey

Meetings, stages and honours from a decade of public life. Select any photograph to view it larger.

Dr. Pavithra greeting Shri Mallikarjun Kharge
Congratulating Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, AICC President and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, on his 81st birthday, 21 July 2023
Dedicating a portrait of Chief Minister Shri Siddaramaiah
Dedicating a portrait of Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri Siddaramaiah
With former Prime Minister Shri H.D. Deve Gowda
In a programme with former Prime Minister Shri H.D. Deve Gowda
Felicitated by senior freedom fighter H.S. Doreswami
Felicitated by the senior freedom fighter Shri H.S. Doreswami. The meeting that began her social work
Receiving the Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Rashtra Prasasthi Puraskara 2025
Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Rashtra Prasasthi Puraskara 2025, for social service
Performing on stage at a Youth Day concert
Performing at the National Youth Day celebrations for Swami Vivekananda Jayantotsava, alongside playback singers Smt. Lata Hamsalekha, Shri Muniraju, Shri Ramesh Chandra and Nagachandrika Bhatt
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Recognition

Honours & awards

Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Rashtra Prasasthi Puraskara
Kannada Society (Regd.), Indian Institute of Science, awarded for social service as part of the 516th birth anniversary celebrations of Nadaprabhu Shri Kempegowda
2025
All India Women's Achievers Award
Conferred in the category "Excellence in Social Service"
2023/24
Honorary Doctorate (Hon. Ph.D)
IOUHHSP, American University, in recognition of her talent, social service and reputation
2018
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Every rupee raised through the Foundation's music programmes goes back into school kits, free music classes and relief work. Partnerships, donations and performance bookings are all welcome.

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