IRAA Committee 2024

Anil Chopra

Anil Chopra - Founder & Chairman of IRAA

Founder of PALM Expo and PALM Conference; AV-ICN Expo and AV-ICN Summit; Music Expo; IRAA; PALM Sound & Light Awards; PALM DJ Championship.

He founded India’s first pro audio magazine Playback & Fast Forward in 1986. In its new avtaar the magazine is now called PALM technology. He was also Publisher and Editor of Studio Systems (1993) - India’s first pro video and broadcast magazine.


KJ Singh

Pramod Chandorkar - IRAA Director

Dr.Pramod Chandorkar - Award Director is an Eminent Recording & Mix Engineer and Founder & Director, Soundideaz Studios & Academy. Pramod Chandorkar has been working as a Sound Engineer in the music industry from 1995 till date. He has worked on numerous mega-hit albums and films as a Chief Sound Engineer. He is one of the few audio engineers who have excelled in all branches of audio ranging from music recording, live sound, film sound design and studio design and audio education.

Currently other than being the Founder & Director of Soundideaz Academy Pvt. Ltd. a premier institute conducting courses on Sound engineering, he also heads an impressive Audio post-production facility. He is also The Program Director for Audio engineering Degree programs with Universal AI university , The First AI university in the country . He has been traveling the world as a FOH Mix engineer since decades. He has mixed live for several artists like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle,Sonu Nigam , Rickey Kej, Vishal Mishra, To name a few . He has also received the Zee cine award for best Song recording in 2005 besides the IRAA & PALM Live Sound awards.