TEACHERS AND PERFORMERS OF INDIAN MUSIC AND DANCE
(Sweden)

 

Name: Håkan Almkvist
E-Mail: h.almkvist@comhem.se
Field: Sitar
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
Telephone: 46 18 52 08 99
Misc. Info: Begin­ner and advan­ced stu­dents


Name: Paramita Bhattacharya
E-Mail: b_paramita89@yahoo.com
Field: Indian Clas­sical Vocal Music, Rabindra­sangeet, Nazrulgeeti.
Location: Kungs­bergs­gatan 8A, Lgh 0902, 58253, Lin­köping'
Telephone: 0790164808 / 0738932128
Misc. Info: Selected and per­formed as a music artist for All India Radio in Rabidra­sangeet dis­cipline. Recip­ient of the National Scholar­ship in the field of Hindu­sthani Vocal Clas­sical Music. Prize rec­ipient in the re­nowned Dover Lane Music Con­fer­ence Talent Search. Train­ing In­dian Clas­sical Music for last eight years under the mentor­ship of Anjan Majumdar of Kirana gharana. Mr. Majumdar was a dis­ciple of A.T. Kanan. For all other relevant infor­mation please con­tact me.


Name: Anurag Choudhary
E-Mail: anurag183@gmail.com
Field: Flute /Bansuri
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Telephone:
Misc. Info: Anurag is a trained con­cert flautist who continues to per­form and promote Indian Clas­sical Music through con­certs, work­shops and col­labo­rating with other Inter­national Artists in Sweden and Germany.


Name: Soumen Roy Chowdhury
E-Mail: src11@hotmail.com
Field: Sarod
Location: Sollentuna­vägen, 191 48 Sollen­tuna , Sweden.
Telephone: +46 70 408 4006
Misc. Info: Soumen plays Sarod with the trad­ition of Senia Maihar Gharana. His first guru was Late Birendra­nath Band­opadhyay of Sibpur, Howrah ( dis­ciple of Baba Allaud­din Khan and Anna­purna Devi) and his second guru was Late Anil Mallick (Disciple of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan).


Name: Jon Eklöf
E-Mail: Visible_world@hotmail.com
Field: Tabla
Location: Gothen­burg
Telephone: 46 (0) 700 87 35 31
Misc. Info: Student of Sri Naban­kur Bhatt­acharya and Pt. Anindo Chatter­jee.


Name: Deepthi GH
E-Mail: Deepthi.gh@gmail.com
Field: Bharata­natyam
Location:  Helsingborg, Sweden
Telephone: +4670 793 0298, whatsapp +91741100506
Misc. Info: 'A' grade artist in Door­darshan Kendra, completed vidwat exam, i have received pres­tigious State and National awards, given per­for­mance in various Dance festivals, and also Trained 'N' of students under our Natya­dharmi Nirtya kala mandir at Bangalore


Name: Arundhathi Ganapathy
E-Mail: aru.ganesh@gmail.com
Field: Carnatic clas­sical Vocal music, devotional music and sacred chants
Location: Tengdahls­gatan 23, 116 48 Stock­holm, Sweden
Telephone: +46 734915283
Misc. Info: Trained for 20 years under the tute­lage of Vidushi Tirumale Sharada in Ban­galore. Taught junior level music for 8 years in Ban­galore.


Name: Suranjana Ghosh
E-Mail: tablasuranjana@hotmail.com
Field: Tabla
Location: Hälbygatan 32, 752 28 Uppsala, Sweden
Telephone: 00046-762440558
Misc. Info: Guru : Pandit Swapan Chau­dhuri


Name: Jonas Landahl
E-Mail: jonastabla@hotmail.com
Field: Tabla
Location: Albert Engströms­gatan 31, 754 30, Uppsala / SWEDEN
Telephone: 0046-18-314174, 0046-739-130395
Misc. Info: Wrote the first study­book in Swedish about tabla, 2002; "Start to play tabla"


Name: Poorva Express (Stian Grimstad and Moa Danielson)
E-Mail: poorvaexpress@gmail.com
Field: Sitar and Tabla, north indian clas­sical music
Location: Rubinvägen 18, 5 tr, Hägersten, Stock­holm, Sweden
Telephone: +46 (0)8 684 384 34 / +46 (0) 735 506536
Misc. Info: Poorva Express is a swedish duo per­forming and teach­ing Hindu­stani clas­sical music. Moa Daniel­son plays tabla and is a stu­dent of Kishore Kumar Mishra, for­mer student of Pandit Sharda Sahai of Vara­nasi gharana. Stian Grimstad plays sitar and is a stu­dent of Gaurav Mazumdar (student of Pandit Ravi Shankar) and Khursid Ali Khan (former student of Ustad Vilayat Khan). More details: www.poorvaexpress.se.


Name: Radha Prasanna
E-Mail: ardhanarisod@yahoo.com
Field: Professonal Bharata­natyam and Kuchi­pudi dancer.
Location: 96 Tranebergs­vagen, Bromma 16744, Stockholm, Sweden
Telephone: 0769701878
Misc. Info: Profes­sional Bharatha­natyam and Kuchi­pudi dancer from Chennai, India. I have per­for­med across world for pres­tigious festi­vals and sabhas. I have been prac­ticing and per­forming Bharatha­natyam and Kuchi­pudi for past 20 years and dis­ciple of Smt. Hema Rajan, Anitha Guha and Madha­vapeddi Murthy.


Name: Srutilaya Centre for Indian Music
E-Mail: srutilaya@yahoo.com
Field: Clas­sical Indian Music (Vocal)
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Telephone:
Misc. Info: The Sruti­laya Centre for Indian Music aims to pro­mote Indian art and culture in Sweden through music. Here stu­dents learn vocal Car­natic Music, which is the clas­sical art music of South India. At Sruti­laya the em­phasis is on im­parting and im­bibing the trad­itional know­ledge of Carnatic Music. At the same time, the stu­dents are also en­couraged to learn other newer and diverse forms of popular Indian music.


Name: Sunil S.
E-Mail: sunilsundaram05@gmail.com
Field: Mru­dangam
Location: Stockholm
Telephone: 0732427333 (Sweden)
Misc. Info: I am pur­suing mru­dangam approx for last 9 years. I am cur­rently learn­ing from Jaya­chandra Rao Sir Ban­galore. Cur­rently I am in Stock­holm staying at Kista


Name: Swati Sharma
E-Mail: swatisharma.lect27@gmail.com
Field: Tabla, Kathak Dance & Harmon­ium
Location: Helenelund, Stock­holm
Telephone: No; 46-0-769714088, 769714144
Misc. Info: I am clas­sical and bolly­wood dancer . I can also teach Mani­puri dance and play casio as well.


Name: Shenbagarajan ( Raj )
E-Mail: raj_dancer1983@Yahoo.co.in
Field: dancer, tea­cher For all kind of Bolly­wood style
Location: Stock­holm
Telephone: 0722975299
Misc. Info: I am Bolly­wood Movie dancer and I have 10 years experi­ence in Dance field.


Name: Uma Sridhara
E-Mail: uma_diamondnir@rediffmail.com
Field: Indian Light music (vocal), Bharat­natyam Dance
Location: W/O Shankar Sri­dhara, Hamn­gatan 16A, 67132 Arvika SE
Telephone: 0761412510 (mobile), 0570 15532
Misc. Info: My mother tounge is Telugu. I speak Hindi English, Telugu and Oriya fluently. I sing songs in almost all the lan­guages of India.  Bharat­natyam Dancer


Name: Veronica Tjerned
E-Mail: Info@kathakdans.se
Field: kathak dance.
Location: Gothen­burg
Telephone: Mobile­phone - 076 216 52 86
Misc. Info: Veronica is one of the lead­ing dancers within the field of Indian clas­sical dance in Sweden. She is teach­ing all over Sweden and is edu­cated both at DOCH, Dance uni­versiy collage Stock­holm and stud­ied further at Bharata Vidya Bhavan in Lon­don and later inten­sive studies in Kolkata for Rhythmo­saoc and Dr Mitul Sen­gupta. Beside kathak, has she studied tabla for Shree Deb­asish Mukher­jee from 2007 to present time. She also study Hindu­stani vocal from Shree Asish Chakra­borty. She works as a dancer, dance­teacher and choreo­graph. Veronica Tjerned is the artistic dir­ector for Dada, Den asiatiska dans­akademin, and also run the two dance companies, Ghunghuroos for young dancers and Swedish kathak mafia, in Gothenburg. Www.kathakdans.se


Name: KG Westman
E-Mail: shardamusicsweden@gmail.com
Field: Sitar-classical/light music/other genres
Location: Hägersten, Stockholm, Sweden
Telephone: +46 73 755 48 62
Misc. Info: Artist having per­formed in Sweden, most of Europe and also India. Student of Pandit Rabin­dra Narayan Goswami, senior sitar master of Banaras, U.P.


Name: Wahida Zennath
E-Mail: wahida.zennath@yahoo.com
Field:Bangladeshi & Indian clas­sical, modern, Bolly­wood, folk & tribal dances.
Location: Stock­holm, Sweden
Telephone: 0760695016
Misc. Info: Web - www.wahida.se, www.indiskdanskola.se I also know 'Indian Clas­sical Dance' and 'Albripu in Bharathanatyan' which I had edu­cation from Natya Ramya (The School of Dance), Ban­galore, India. The clas­sical style of dances in this know­ledge shar­ing academy has been influen­ced by other pre­valent clas­sical forms of music and dances of the Indian sub­contin­ent, and accord­ingly show some influen­ced dance forms likeAlbripu in Bharatha­natyan. The folk and tribal music and dance forms of Bangla­desh are of indi­genous origin and rooted to the soil of Bangla­desh.



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