TEACHERS AND PERFORMERS OF INDIAN MUSIC AND DANCE (Minnesota)

 

Name: Vijayalakshmi Balaji
Email: ragasvara@gmail.com
Field: Carnatic music- Vocal
Address: 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: davidwhetstone@mac.com
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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