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Teachers & Performers of Indian Music & Dance

Name: Suvrat Apte 
E-Mail: suvratapte@gmail.com
Field: Tabla and sitar performer and teacher.
Location: Skarpnäck, Stockholm.
Telephone: 0701484255 (or +91 7972431693)
Misc. Info: I have learnt tabla from Sanjay Karandikar and Pandit Ramdas Palsule. Recently, I have received guidance from Ustad Zakir Hussain as well. I have learnt sitar from my mother Urmila Apte. I perform regularly in India and Europe.
Professionally, I am a software engineer working specializing in backend engineering and functional programming..

THESE BOOKS MAY NOT BE FOR YOU
A superficial exposure to music is acceptable to most people; but there is an elite for whom this is not enough. If you have attained certain social and intellectual level, Elementary North Indian Vocal (Vol 1-2) may be for you.

This has compositions, theory, history, and other topics. All exercises and compositions have audio material which may be streamed over the internet for free.
Are you really ready to step up to the next level? Check your local Amazon.

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: Stockholm, Sweden.
Telephone: +46 70 475 1625
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)..

This book is available around the world
Check your local Amazon. More Info.

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 (Das)
E- Mail: tablasuranjana@hotmail.com 
Field:  Tabla
Location:  32D Hällbygatan, Uppsala 752 28, Sweden 
Telephone:  0046-762440558 
Misc. Info: A senior disciple of Padmashree Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri. Professionally teaching experience more than 25 years. She is playing both  Indian and Western different styles of music. Has been performing in India and many other European countries together with many Maestro musicians.  “Teental ” her world music group based in Sweden also performing in Sweden and in India many prestigious festivals and venues.  Last one and half years Swedish National Television has been following her for a documentary film which will be broadcast on 14th oct . Basic  and advanced students.   www.tablasuranjana.com ..

Name:  Vyshnavi Korlakunta
E-Mail:  vyshnavikorlakunta@gmail.com
Field:  Kuchipudi and folk dances
Location:  Stockholm, Sweden
Telephone:  +46 727755084, +91 9491665632 (whatsapp)
Misc. Info: Performing artist and teacher with a diploma in Kuchipudi from PSTU. 300+ performances and won several competitions in 9+ years of academic learning. Awarded as Bharatiya Natya Mayuri in both Kuchipudi and folk dances.

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: I am student of Kishore Ghosh/tabla and Suranjana Ghosh/tabla. I wrote the first study-­book in Swedish about tabla, 2002; “Start to play tabla”..

Name: Poorva Express (Stian Grimstad and Moa Danielson)
E-Mail: poorvaexpress@gmail.com
Field: Sitar, Santoor, 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: + 46 0702105774
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..

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN TABLA, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU
This is the first volume of the most complete series on the tabla. Fundamentals of Tabla

It is available around the world. Check your local Amazon for pricing.

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: 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 uni­versity 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 under Shree Deb­asish Mukher­jee from 2007 to present time. She also study Hindu­stani vocal from Shree Asish Chakra­borty. She works as a dancer, dance­ teacher and choreo­grapher. 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 & Surbahar
Location: Skarpnäck, Stockholm, Sweden
Telephone: +46 73 755 48 62
Misc. Info: I am a student of Pt Rabindra Narayan Goswami who is performing regularly in Europe, India and US. I also offer lessons in person or online and do production and composing. www.kgwestman.com ..


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