TEACHERS AND PERFORMERS OF INDIAN MUSIC AND DANCE
(Netherlands-Nederland)

 

Name: Mrs Sruthy Appu, Srishti Indian Dance & Music
E-Mail: admin@srishti-indianmusicanddance.com
Field: Clas­sical Music/ Karnatik Music Singer & Semi Clas­sical Dancer
Location: Amstelveen , Nether­lands
Telephone: +31615369341
Misc. Info: http://www.srishti-indianmusicanddance.com. Srishti Indian Dance and Music @Amstelveen offers dif­ferent types of Indian Dance, Indian Music & Instru­mental lessons under one roof for both adults & kids. We also accept on demand requests for Workshops, Trainings & Perfor­mances for stage shows and any other events.


Name: Prajna Bhattacharya
E-Mail: prajna.bhattacharya@gmail.com
Field: Hindu­stani Clas­sical and semi-classical vocal (Geet, Ghazal, Bhajan, folk songs in Hindi and Bengali languages)
Location: Delft, The Nether­lands
Telephone: +31 015 2121008
Mobile: +31 0628266374
Misc. Info: Prajna Bhatt­acharya has started learn­ing sing­ing at her child­hood and acquired her degree from Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandi­garh with distin­ction in North Indian Vocal Clas­sical Music. After­ward she took les­sons from some eminent tea­chers from Kolkata on semi clas­sical and light music. During the last 25 years she is per­for­ming semi clas­sical, ghazal, bhajan, Bolly­wood music and dif­ferent genre of Bengali music in vari­ous places of India, The Nether­lands, Ger­many and Belgium. She is a regular artist of The Gandhi Centre, part of ICCR in The Hauge.


Name: Sandip Bhattacharya
E-Mail: tablasan@gmail.com
Field: Tabla, Pakhawaj, Dholak, Harmon­ium
Location: Jan van Galen­straat 215-2, 1056 BW Amster­dam/ Nether­lands
Telephone: Studio +31-20-7371341, Mob. +31-681940300
Misc. Info: Sandip Bhatt­acharya- one of the very well known and res­pected Indian musi­cian based in Nether­land since last 32 years.  He has trained under his illus­trious Tabla maestro, Guru Pt. Ishwar­lal Mishra (Benaras) is in the trad­ition of the le­gen­dary tabla maestro Pt. Anokhe­lal Mishra. He also stud­ied Farukha­bad & Ajrara with Pt. Arvind Mul­gaon­kar (Mumbai). Sandip is very highly res­pected tea­cher and has many stu­dents who are making their mark in their res­pec­tive area. He travels around the globe with great Indian mas­ters for con­certs, festi­vals, master clas­ses etc. and col­la­bo­rates with top mus­icians from all over the world. www.sandipbhattacharya.org 


Name: Niti Ranjan Biswas
E-Mail: nitiranjan@hotmail.com
Field: Tabla
Location: Van Baerlstraat 27. 1070 LP Amster­dam, the nether­lands, 1070 LP
Telephone: +31 615510021
Misc. Info:


Name: Daniël Crisafulli
E-Mail: sitar-world@mail.com
Field: Sitar
Location: Goid­schal­xoord­sedijk 18 in Goid­schal­xoord in the Nether­lands
Telephone: 31648610483
Misc. Info: sitar world. Strings. Teaching for one hour 25 euro


Name: Surajit Das
E-Mail: surajitmusic@gmail.com
Field: Sitar
Location: Rivierenlaan 156 8226 LH lelystad Hol­land
Telephone: 0031 6 24948687
Misc. Info:www.surajit.net My name is Surajit Das, born in India (Kol­kata), and I am an Indian music (sitar) per­former, Teacher, and com­poser for more then 35 years. I live in Hol­land and also partly in India. Name of our music group is "Shanti" it is a tra­di­tio­nal Indian music with Free Jazz and World Fusion Music, where instru­ments from dif­ferent cul­tures or coun­tries (like sitar, tabla, didge­ri­doo, Mantra sing­ing, key board, piano, flute, and jembe) are used. To lis­ten my music www.surajit.net and click to music. For concert and lessen, . Tel -0031 320 254492


Name: Heiko Dijker
E-Mail: info@heikodijker.com
Field: Tabla
Location: Amsterdam, NH, Netherlands
Telephone: 06-22801775
Misc. Info: www.heikodijker.com Disciple of legen­dary Ustad Faiyaz Khan, regular per­for­mer in India and the rest of the world. Years of teach­ing experi­ence, lec­ture demo's and seminars. Teaches at WMDC Rotter­dam, SKVR, and pri­vate.


Name: Hari and Chethana
E-Mail: hari_noopur@yahoo.com
Field: Kathak
Location: at KORZO Theatre no 42 prinses straat den hague
Telephone: 00 31 6 49 05 18 44
Misc. Info: www.harinoopur.com


Name: Tammo Heikens
E-Mail: tammo.heikens@tiscali.nl
Field: Sitar and Esraj
Location: Tweede Wester­park­laan 108, 3544 VR Utrecht, the Netherlands
Telephone: +31302885198
Misc. Info: web­site: www.shambo.nl


Name: Shashwathi Jagadish
E-Mail: shashwathi.j@gmail.com
Field: Carnatic Music
Location: Rotter­dam
Telephone: +31 647657167
Misc. Info: Shashwathi Jagadish is a Carnatic musician from Chennai, India. She has learned music for about 20 years and  she taught for 3 years at the Kala­kshetra Foun­da­tion Chennai. She has per­formed con­certs all over South India. She did her debut in movies for the Maestro Illaya­raja for the movie Gaayam 2 and has sung back­ing vocals for renowned music direc­tors like A R Rahman. Residing in Rot­ter­dam she  continues to teach Carnatic sing­ing to stu­dents from all over the world over Skype. Work­ing with young children, she constantly tries to innovate with creative new methods to keep children engaged and in­spired in their pur­suit of this pre­cious art form.


Name: Nitai Kar
E-Mail: nitai.tabla@gmail.com
Field: Tabla
Location: Amstelveen, Nether­lands
Telephone: +31619944131
Misc. Info: My name is Nitai Kar, born in Kolkata.I have been a table player , tea­cher and per­for­mer for the last 25 years. I have been part of several TV and radio re­cord­ings ac­com­pany­ing eminent vocal artists. I have also ac­com­panied several Clas­sical dance per­formers all over India. The roots of my tabla are from the Benaras and Luck­now gharana. For pri­vate tutions and per­for­man­ces please con­tact me at nitai.tabla@gmail.com


Name: Harikrishnan Kesavan
E-Mail: hari.olive@gmail.com
Field: Carnatic Vocal
Location: Spieringweg 605F, Vij­fhuizen, 2141EB, The Nether­lands
Telephone: +31 617567031
Misc. Info: Harikrishnan, native of Kerala, India, has been learn­ing Carnatic music vocal for more than 20 years from pro­mi­nent Gurus like Shree Bellary Venkateshachar and Shree Chandra­mana Nara­yanan Nam­boo­thiri. His achieve­ments include 'Accredited Artiste Award' in Carnatic Music by Shree Sankara Ac­cre­dita­tion Council, Semi final­ists in the real­ity show Super­star the Ultimate con­ducted by Amrita TV, Tanpura award from Dr. K. J. Yesudas as part of Shree Poor­nath­rayeesa San­geetha Sabha. He has been giving numer­ous per­for­mances includ­ing Nether­lands and Germany. He is cur­rently taking Carnatic music lessons at Nupur school of per­for­ming arts, Almere and Arulmigu Sri Aruna­cha­lesh­warar Temple at Bever­wijk. Also open for Skype classes . Skype Id - hari.carnatic


Name: Gayatri Krishna
E-Mail: gayatrikrishna2008@gmail.com
Field: Vocal, Carnatic and Lite music
Location: Enschede, The Nether­lands
Telephone:
Misc. Info: My name is Gayatri and I'm living in The Nether­lands. I have been trained in Indian carnatic music for 16 years. I can teach Carnatic music, Bha­jans in various Indian lan­guages like( Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada etc..) and Lite music. Iam very much in­ter­ested in spreading my divine know­ledge to other people by my teach­ing.


Name: Siddharth Kishna
E-Mail: info@siddharth.eu
Field: Sitar
Location: Amster­dam, Nether­lands
Telephone: +31616444866
Misc. Info: Siddharth started learn­ing sitar at an early age of ten under guid­ence of Ustad Jamaluddin Bhartiya. Later he continued his study at Rotter­dam Con­ser­vatory with Pandit Budha­ditya Mukher­jee, exponent of the Imdad­khani Gharana (school where he passed with excel­lent marks. In 2000 Sid­dharth was awar­ded with the Pro­vision for Excel­lent Young Music­ians, a grant which is given by the Dutch govern­ment to stimulate top talents of con­ser­vatory stu­dents. Since then Sid­dharth has per­formed all over Europe and India. Till now his most re­mark­able per­for­mances were in 2005 and 2007 when Sid­dharth per­formed in The Nether­lands and New Delhi in pre­sence of the Queen of The Netherlands of her of­ficial State Visit. In 2008 Sid­dharth per­formed in a series of con­certs to­gether with the Dutch Chamber Orches­tra for the opera Marco Polo by Tan Dun. web: www.siddharth.eu


Name: Darshan Kumari
E-Mail: darshankumari@yahoo.com
Field: Sitar, vocal
Location: Westerdok 314, 1013 BH Amsterdam, The Nether­lands
Telephone: +31 (0)20 625 85 08; Mobile: +31 (0)6 302 33 542
Misc. Info: http://www.school-of-indian-arts.tk/. Please refer to my Web site for more details about les­sons and con­certs.


Name: Dr Pragati Shankar Mishra
Email: pragatishankarmishra@gmail.com
Field: Instrumental classical music (SITAR) and Indian classical dance (Bharatanatyam)/ semi-classical dance/Bollywood dance.
Location: Amstelveen , The Netherlands
Telephone: +31621921979
Misc. Info:


Name: Raj Mohan
E-Mail: info@rajmohan.nl
Field: Vocalist: Geet & Ghazal, Thumri, Bhajan, Khayal, Crossover, and poetry
Location: Utrecht, The Nether­lands
Telephone:
Misc. Info: www.RajMohan.nl and http://www.Daayra.nl/


Name: Samhita Mundkur
E-Mail: gaud.malhar@gmail.com
Field: Hindu­stani Clas­sical and semi-classical vocal (Geet, Ghazal, Bhajan, folk songs in many Indian lan­guages)
Location: Arnhem, the Nether­lands
Telephone: (+31) 026 8401545
Misc. Info: Samhita Mundkur started sing­ing at a young age and has trained in both clas­sical and light music. Holding Masters degrees in both Sanskrit and French, Sam­hita has had the op­por­tunity to per­form on radio and tele­vis­ion since child­hood, in Mumbai, India and later in Kuala Lumpur, Malay­sia. Sam­hita has par­ticipated in seve­ral theat­rical and musical per­for­mances in India, France, Kenya and Malay­sia and has had the good pri­vilege of work­ing with some great artis­tes and com­posers in India, includ­ing Bhaskar Chanda­varkar, Zakir Husain, Taufiq Qureshi, Piyush Kanojia, Louis Banks.


Name: Satishkoemar Satishkoemar Myre-Makhan
E-Mail: s.myremakhan@gmail.com
Field: Bharata­natyam dancer/ choreo­graper / tea­cher and nattu­vangam artist.
Location: Amsterdam-Hol­land / Oslo-Norway
Telephone: +31 627885959
Misc. Info: www.sidt-indiandance.com


Name: Liesbeth Pankaja
E-Mail: liesbethpankaja@gmail.com
Field: Bharata­natyam
Location: Liesbeth Pankaja Bennink, Amster­dam, The Nether­lands
Telephone: +31652371296
Misc. Info: web­site - wwww.chidambaramhiddentreasure.com


Name: Prema
E-Mail: Be.Prema@Prema.Be
Field: Bhajan, mantra, Harmon­ium
Location: Trekvogel­weg 371, 3815LL Amers­foort, The Nether­lands
Telephone: 0031/(0)6-3430.5885
Misc. Info: www.Prema.Be


Name: Vishnupriya Rangarajan
Email: vishnupriya2694@yahoo.com
Field: Carnatic music
Location: Amstelveen, Netherlands
Telephone: +31 6 45 31 01 59
Misc. Info: Whatsapp: +91 9940554491 - Vishnupriya is a Carnatic musician from Chennai, India. She has been trained for more than 20 years. She com­pleted her grad­uation in the reputed Kala­kshetra Foun­dation and has also taught there. She has per­formed in several con­certs and has sung for several dancers in India and abroad. She con­tinues to teach Carnatic music over Skype for students all over the world. Residing in Amstelveen, she strives to make her classes as inter­esting and creative as pos­sible by also teaching some Theory of Carnatic music.


Name: Aura Rascón
E-Mail: flautra@gmail.com
Field: Bansuri (Indian bamboo flute) and general intro­duction les­sons to Hindu­stani Clas­sical Music for dif­fer­ent (west­ern) instru­ments
Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland. The Nether­lands
Telephone: +31 652520461
Misc. Info: www.aurarascon.com A dis­ciple of Pdt. Hari­prasad Chaurasia since 2005. BA in traverse flute and music peda­gogy from the Uni­versity of Sofia, Bul­garia, and a BA and MA on Bansuri and Hindu­stani Clas­sical Music from CODARTS, Con­ser­va­tory of Rotter­dam. I have also studied in the trad­itio­nal manner at my Guru­ji's ashram: 'Vrinda­ban Guru­kul' in Mumbai and Orisa in India. I have been active as a ban­suri solo player, as well as a member of various cross-cultural music for­mations, touring inter­nation­ally in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Tea­ching experi­ence varies from pri­vate to group classes, work­shops and lectures in Bulgaria, Mexico, The Nether­lands, France and Argen­tina.


Name: Surendra Sathi
E-Mail: surendrasaathi@yahoo.com
Field: Sitar and vocal [light]
Location: Beukenlaan 236, 6823MK Arnhem Neder­land
Telephone: 06-16992921
Misc. Info: worked as a lyric in bolly­wood. com­poser. www.surendrasathi.com


Name: Chetna Sehgal
E-Mail: [email protected]ragas.com
Field: Sitar & Hindu­stani Vocal (both light & clas­sical)
Location: Amstel­veen/ Amster­dam
Telephone: +31621921979
Misc. Info: www.globalragas.com


Name: Debjani Sengupta
E-Mail: [email protected]yahoo.com
Field: Manipuri clas­sical dance and specialist in Rabin­drik style of dance
Location: Amsterdam, Nether­lands
Telephone: (020) 8894310/0642787448
Misc. Info: First class first Sangit Prabha­kar Dip­loma from Prayag Sangit Samiti, Allaha­bad, India. Have per­for­med Mani­puri clas­sical dance since 1965 and have choreo­graphed dance dramas since 1985. Website - www.manipuridance.org


Name: Chrada Sheoratan
E-Mail: Natyasudha@hotmail.com
Field: Dance Classes Bharatha Natyam
Location: Danceschool Natya Sudha in Utrecht and Almere, The Nether­lands
Telephone: 0031 (6) 43140804
Misc. Info: Web­site - www.natyasudha.com pri­vate and group classes in Bharata Natyam pro­vided by a pro­fes­sional dancer and choreo­grapher. The fol­lowing con­tents are covered: Car­natic Vocal, Nattu­vangam, theories and history of Bharata Natyam


Name: Shyama Warrier
E-Mail: shyamawarrier@gmail.com
Field: Baratha­natyam, Mohini­attam
Location: Amstel­veen, Eind­hoven, 's-Hertogen­bosch
Telephone:0631974502
Misc. Info: Talented dancer and tea­cher. Kindly con­tact for details of clas­ses, per­for­man­ces and work­shops



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