Teachers & Performers of Indian Music & Dance
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Name: Manjari Banerjee
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bollywood Music/Hindi Pop
Location: Brisbane Queensland Australia
Telephone: +61422363816
Misc. Info: Per lesson – $65-80 depending on voice quality. Eminent singer of Indian origin. Diploma in classical music from Prayag Music College Allhabad with distinctions. Sangeet Prabhakar and Bisharadh. Gurus eminent film music directors of India. First playback Sonar Paira in Bengali. Recently performed in Amphan relief and Hemant Mukherjee birth centenary on Zoom. Very popular on social media. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGgZEk1mWXxtGXUSHzFl8tg
Name: Sulagna Basu
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Indian Music (vocal) and Dance (Kathak)
Location: Springfield, Queensland, Australia
Telephone: 0402960168, (07)3288 4519
Misc. Info: Mrs Sulagna Basu is a professional singer and accomplished Kathak dancer who is also a performer, choreographer and teacher. She has completed her Master’s degree in Hindustani vocal and Kathak dance and was an examiner for Indian music and dance for Prayag Sangit Samiti, Allahabad, India. She performs regularly at various community events and festivals. She has been teaching music and dance for more than 20 years and has contributed to a number of CDs. She teaches Indian classical music (Hindustani vocal), semi-classical, voice training, ghazals, bhajans, folk songs and Bengali songs. She also teaches Kathak dance, folk dances and choreographed pieces.
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Name: Namita Debroy
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Kathak
Location: 1 Calais Close Sunnybank Hills Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Telephone: 0401 185 277, (07)3272 6412
Misc. Info: I learnt Kathak dance from Lucknow University, India and completed my Visharad when I was 15 years old. I was trained by Pt. Bihari Lal Sing and Pt. Uma Shankar Chakravorti. I am running a dance school, Nritya Bharati School of Kathak Dance for last 14 years in Brisbane. I teach both adult and children, I take students of various age groups. The lessons are once a week and go for an hour. Lessons are available in the evening on weekdays and during the day on Saturdays.
Name: Harshadkumar Desai
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Dance- Kathak, Tabla
Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Telephone: 04 31711353
Misc. Info: I was trained Kathak dance under Padmashree Smt. Kumudini Lakhia at Kadam Centre for dance and music, Ahmedabad, India for 15 years. Also learned tabla from Late. Shri Ramchandra Khare for 10 years at Bhartiya Sangeet Vidhyalaya in ahmedabad (India). I can give training for Kathak and tabla throughout the week.
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Name: Shen Flindell
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Tabla
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Telephone: 0415-106428
Misc. Info: Shen Flindell first studied tabla in 1994 under Sri Debu Bhattacharya in Melbourne, Australia before heading to the holy city of Varanasi in India to learn from Pandit Kaviraj Ashutosh (“Ashu Babu”) Bhattacharya, a senior disciple of the great Pandit Kanthe Maharaj of the Banaras Gharana. Please see www.ethnosuperlounge.com/
tablaschool for more info.
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Name: Easwari Krishnamurthy
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: South Indian Classical Vocal music, Veena
Location: Camp Hill, QLD
Telephone: 0431928185
Misc. Info: Easwari Krishnamurthy is an accomplished vocalist, hailing from a family of musicians. Her maternal grandfather is Sri. A.S. Panchapakesa Iyer, author of Carnatic music books like Ganamrutha Bodhini and Ganamrutha Varnamalika and her father owned the famous music book shop called Karnatic Music Book center in Mylapore. She is also well versed in veena as well. She is known for her dedication to music, technical expertise and Easwari takes special care in pronunciation while singing and teaching. She trains both adults and children alike in this sacred art form.
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Name: Helena Magisson
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharat Natyam
Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Telephone: +61 (0) 4 78 570 363
Misc. Info: Visit her website for full information about the dance class: http://www.nateshvarkala.com
Name: Mrs. Sudha Manian
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Sitar
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Telephone: 0424091247
Misc. Info: Sudha started her Hindustani classical sitar training at the age of 11. Her initial training was under Sri G.V. Sreeramulu in Hyderabad. India. Sudha has completed Sangeet Visharad (Bachelors) in sitar from Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal, India. Students of all age group are welcome. Lessons in sitar are given once a week.
Name: Sharada Murali
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Karnatic vocal, Bhajans, Slokas, Telugu Padyas
Location: Springfield Lakes
Telephone: 0410291924
Misc. Info: Naturally gifted with sweet voice, Sharada has been teaching and performing for the last two decades. Sharada takes special care in pronunciation while singing and teaching. As a result, her music is marked with “bhava”. Sharada teaches both kids and adults.
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Name: Murali Ramakrishnan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Flute, Hindustani and Karnatic styles
Location: Springfield lakes, Brisane
Telephone: 0403330341
Misc. Info: Murali is one of the senior bansuri players at Australia. He is privileged to be the disciple of Sikkil Sisters Neela, Kunjumani and Pandit Krishnanand. Here is an audio clipping from the CD. https://youtu.be/VeWA4ayN8rw Murali teaches music in both Hindustani and Karnatic styles.
Name: Dr. Mrs. Nisha Rao
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Hindustani Classical and light Music
Location: 5, Mandell Cl, Coopers Plains, Brisbane, Australia, QLD, 4108.
Telephone: 07-32195176
Misc. Info: Dr. Mrs. Nisha Rao is a Kashmiri, born in Srinagar and brought up in Bombay (Mumbai), Nisha loved music since her child hood and won many inter-school and college singing competitions. She had the privilege to sing semi-classical songs in programs where singers of high calibre and repute like Shri. Manade, Usha Mangeshkar and Kavita Krishna Murthy performed. http://www.nishasmusic.com/
Name: Susmitha Ravi
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: South Indian Classical Music (Carnatic Music) – Vocal
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Telephone: 0430 188050
Misc. Info: Susmitha has been a classical music performer for the past 20 years and has done her Advanced Diploma in Music from Mumbai University. She is running a Carnatic music school in Brisbane, where she teaches vocal music and voice culture. She also conducts Bhajan classes for the adults.
Name: Rhythm of India School of Music
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Various subjects and instruments
Location: Oxely, Brisbane
Telephone: 0402746513
Misc. Info: Rhythm of India School of music is based in Oxely, Brisbane Australia. The school specialises in in teaching Indian classical music to all ages and different cultures. From 2012 the acadamy will be having a scholarship program where the high quality student will be able to study with there teacher more intensively to achieve there musical goals. The staff that will be working in the school are Shubash (administation), Ravikesh Singh (head of music faculty and tabla teacher), Rahim Zhulla (vocal teacher), Shudha Kumar (sitar teacher) and Parth Raval (harmonium and sarod teacher).
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Name: Ravikesh Singh
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Tabla, Dhol, phakwag, bongo and conga
Location: 5 lilydale place, Forest Lake, Brisbane, Australia
Telephone: 0403822165
Misc. Info: Teachers – C. Hanuman has taught me the dholak. I have learnt tabla from Sukvinder Singh, Alpesh Vaitha, Pt. Ishwar Lal Mishra, Sunil De Kumar and Balbir. I have been taught drum kit, timpani, bongos, congas, djembe, xylophone, glockenspiel, auxiliary and chimes from Steve Stiller. website http://www.myspace.com/southoftheborderrecords, http://www.southborderrecords.com.au/, http://www.ravikeshsingh.com.au/
Name: Padmalakshmi Sriram
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Bharatnatyam
Location: Sunnybank, Logan, Springfield
Telephone: 0420860078 / 0406860078
Misc. Info: Smt. Padmalakshmi Sriram is a professional Bharatanatyam classical dancer from South India. She is a performer, choreographer and teacher. She has performed for various festivals and organizations in India and since she moved to Brisbane in July 2013 she has performed in several events organized by local councils and communities and prestigious stages including Queensland Multi-Cultural Center, Brisbane City Hall and Selva Vinayagar Temple to name a few. She has been teaching dance for more than 15 years with a lot of dedication imparting our values and culture on the kids and runs a dance school at three different locations in Brisbane. www.lalithakalalaya.com.
Name: Mrs Manga Surendran
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Indian Classical Dance – Bharthanatyam
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Telephone: 0433967489 / 31720850
Misc. Info: Smt. Manga Surendran is the artistic director of Eswaralaya Kalaikoodam and has a unique capacity for training students in Bharathanatyam, folk dances and dance dramas.She has been teaching Bharthanatyam for more than thirty years and classes can be arranged to meet the individual needs.
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Name: Menaka Visvanathan Thomas
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: South Indian Classical Vocal music, Bhajan/ Kirtan, Bharata-natyam (South Indian Classical Dance), Yoga
Location: Moorooka, Brisbane, QLD
Telephone: 0421345699
Misc. Info: Menaka has been learning Indian vocal music from the young age of 5 from the Sri Krishna Music Academy in Brisbane under the tutelage of her mother, Mrs Vijaya Visvanathan. She has also been trained in the classical art form of Bharata-Natyam since a young age from Mrs Chitra Yogi Srikhanta in Brisbane. She is now imparting these sacred art forms from her own school ”Samaana Yoga and Indian Fine Arts”, which aims to foster spiritual development through Indian music, dance and Yoga. Menaka teaches people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Facebook Page – Samaana Yoga and Indian Fine Arts.
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Name: Vijaya Visvanathan
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: South Indian Classical Vocal music
Location: Brisbane, QLD
Telephone: 0452209635
Misc. Info: Vijaya Visvanathan is an accomplished vocalist, hailing from a family of musicians from India. She is the principal of the Sri Krishna Music Academy in Brisbane, which has imparted Indian classical vocal music to people of all ages since 1988. She is known for her dedication to music, technical expertise and emphasis on singing with Bhakti, or devotion. She trains both adults and children alike in this sacred art form.
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Name: Rahim Zullah
E-Mail: [email protected]
Field: Hindustani Classical Music Ghazals, voice training
Location: Brisbane
Telephone: +61 0414988907
Misc. Info: Website – http://www.indian-music.com.au/ Rahim Zullah is a teacher of vocal Indian classical music including ghazals, bhajans and light music. He is fully trained in Indian classical music by Ustad Ghulam Sadiq Khan of Delhi University. He has also learnt ghazals and light music from Ustad Mehdi Hassan. He is currently running a music school in Brisbane, Australia. He has students from many different ethnic backgrounds learning to play Indian raagas on various instruments or for voice culture/training. Rahim has performed at all major music festivals in Queensland. He has also performed in concerts in many cities of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.
Other Sites of Interest
Implicit learning of Indian Music by Westerners
Nowadays: The Role of Internet for Propagation and Proliferation of Music
Multicultural Music Instruction in the Elementary School: What Can Be Achieved?
Training in Indian Classical Dance: A Case Study
Rasabodha: Understanding Indian classical dance by recognizing emotions using deep learning
Embodying culture : gurus, disciples and tabla players
Distance Education in Indian Music : Feasibility and Prospects
My Experience in Bharata Natyam (Indian Dance)
Learning Embodied Semantics via Music and Dance Semiotic Correlations
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