TEACHERS AND PERFORMERS OF INDIAN MUSIC AND DANCE
(Queensland)

 

Name: Manjari Banerjee
E-Mail: mb.guria.banerjee@gmail.com
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.


Name: Namita Debroy
E-Mail: [email protected].com
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: harshad.desai1@gmail.com
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. 


Name: Shen Flindell
E-Mail: [email protected]ethnosuperlounge.com
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.


Name: Janani Ganapathi
Email: janukks@yahoo.com
Field: Bharathanatyam - Per­forming Artist
Telephone:
Misc. Info: Janani Ganapathi is an active per­forming artist, in the field of Bharata­natyam. She can be con­tacted for programs requiring a Bharata­natyam (or semi-classical) presentation. Trained under acclaimed dancers of South India, such as Dr. Prof. Sudharani Ragupathy and Guru A. Lakshman, Janani has danced in pres­tigious Sabhas and Natyanjalis in India and also around European coun­tries. Visit her web­site for more infor­mation: http://jananiganapathi.webs.com


Name: Easwari Krishnamurthy
E-Mail: vinodh77@yahoo.com
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.


Name: Helena Magisson
E-Mail: helena@nateshvarkala.com
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].au
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: Sbmurali2003@yahoo.com.au
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.


Name: Murali Ramakrishnan
E-Mail: Muralidharan_ram@hotmail.com
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].com
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 interschool 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: susmitha_ravi@yahoo.com
Field: South Indian Clas­sical Music (Carnatic Music) - Vocal
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Contact: 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: rhythmofindia@yahoo.com
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 scholourship 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 (adminstarion), Ravikesh Singh (head of music faculty and tabla tea­cher), Rahim Zhulla (vocal tea­cher), Shudha Kumar (Sitar Teacher) and Parth Raval (harmunium and sarod tea­cher).


Name: Ravikesh Singh
E-Mail: ravikesh_singh@hotmail.com
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, Bongo's, Congo's, 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: padmadance@lalithakalalaya.com
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 MultiCultural 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: manga.suren@gmail.com
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 9to meet the indi­vidual needs.


Name: Vijaya Visvanathan
E-Mail: vijaya.visvanathan@gmail.com
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.


Name: Menaka Visvanathan Thomas
E-Mail: menaka_12@hotmail.com
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


Name: Rahim Zullah
E-Mail: rzullah@hotmail.com
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.




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