Teachers & Performers of Indian Music & Dance
Name: Vijayalakshmi Balaji
Email: [email protected]
Field: Carnatic music- Vocal
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Telephone:
Misc. Info: Carnatic vocalist, teacher and Harikatha artist. Grand daughter of Kalaimamani Mannargudi Sambasiva Bhagavathar. Rank holder in Master of Music (Carnatic vocal). Has over 10 years of teaching experience in Carnatic vocal. Performed concerts across USA and India. Online classes are conducted for beginners and advanced level students. Interested students can contact through email.
Name: David Whetstone
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Sitar
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota. 55405
Telephone:
Misc. Info: A shagird of Ustad Vilayat Khan. A student of sitar for forty years, David’s first studies were with Dr. Brian Silver, and he has also studied with Ustads Hafeez Ahmed Khan, Shujaat Khan, Shahid Parvez, and Ghulam Hussain Khan. He has collaborated and toured extensively with poets Robert Bly and Coleman Barks since 1974, appearing with them in numerous recordings and films. In 1992 David co-founded Minneapolis’ Ragamala Music and Dance Theater and created the repertoire for this group until 1997, with original text, stories and music. The music utilized both Indian instrumentation, as well as Western orchestration with soloists and chorus, for critically acclaimed full evening programs such as Ragamala, The Puppet Master, Canticle of Mary, and Ashoka, Beloved of the Gods. An American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellow in 1988, David also has had training in Western classical music, having studied privately with Philip Meyers, solo horn of the New York Philharmonic, for five years. David lives in Minneapolis, and teaches sitar for Carleton and Macalester Colleges.
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