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Teachers & Performers of Indian Music & Dance


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Name: Ayyagari Syamasundram
E-Mail: Syamsundaram@gmail.com
Field: Veena
Location: Somasundaranagar, Bagh Amberpet, Hyder­abad – 500 013
Telephone: Mobil – 9247434866
Misc. Info: “Central San­geet Natak Akademi awardee 2011”, “Mahathi Kalanidhi” Sri Ayyagari Syama Sundaram, an exponent and highly reputed pro­fes­sional Veena Vidwan of Andhra Pradesh. Born in 1948 at Vizianagaram, is the son of “Vainika Ratna” late Sri Ayyagari Someswara Rao, a famous Veena Vidwan. He has superb control over the instru­ment and has mastered the tech­nique of veena play­ing. His music is aesthetically rich and belongs to the gayaki style. He learnt vocal from “Sangeetha Kalanidhi” Sri Nedunuri Krishna Murthy garu. Shri Syamasundaram is an outstanding per­former and tea­cher. He has won hearts of audience in pres­tigious music festi­vals in India and abroad . He has trained a number of stu­dents, having served as Principal of the Government Music & Dance College of Guntur & Vijayawada.

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Name: Ramprapanna Bhattacharya
E-Mail: ramprapanna.sitar@gmail.com
Field: Sitar
Location: Hyder­abad, India
Telephone: +91 97480 08729
Misc. Info: Sitarist, tea­cher (one-to-one / over internet) and per­former. Please visit web­site for more infor­mation: http://ramprapanna.webs.com ..


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Name: D. Harina Madhavi
E-Mail: dh_madhavi@rediffmail.com
Field: e.g., Hindu­stani Vocal
Location: Chaitanyapuri, Dilsukhnagar, Hyder­abad, Telangana, India
Telephone:
Misc. Info: San­geet Alankar – Hindu­stani vocal ABGMV, Mumbai, Maha­rashtra M.A Hindu­stani music (Vocal), Amravati, Maha­rashtra. Teaching all grades of stu­dents at a private organi­zation. Teacher and per­former. Other quali­fication: Msc M.phil – Life sciences. Content writer.

Name: D. Srinivas
E-Mail: dsrinivasveena@yahoo.co.in
Field: Veena
Location: Lingampally, Opp.Sundarayya Park, Hyder­abad, TS., 500044 2) Plot No:34, LIC Colony, Behind NTR Park, Indira Park, Hyder­abad, A.P. 3) MIGH-18 Vidyanagar, O.U.Main Road, Near SVES College, Hyder­abad -44
Telephone: 9347204313, 040-27604313, 27600172
Misc. Info: D. Srinivas, a child prodigy in veena, has born in a family of mus­icians at Hyder­abad in Andhra Pradesh. His mother Smt. D. L. Tulasi, a popular veena artiste having identified his taste and talent in veena, initiated and encouraged him to pursue and master the art. Srinivas gave his maiden concert at the age of 9 for AIR, Hyder­abad. Vidwan Sri N.S. Srinivasan a desciple of flute maestro late Sri T.R. Mahalingam, is his guru and master archi­tect to intro­duce him as an artiste with laudable indi­vidual traits. Srinivas is a scholar­ship holder from A.P. Sangeeta Natak Academy for 6 years. Srinivas has participated in almost all the pres­tigious Gana Sabhas and has been the rec­ipient of many awards for his meritorious and merit worthy per­formances.

Name: Veena Dhari
E-Mail: ksrkvd@gmail.com
Field: Carnatic Clas­sical Vocal music
Location: Padmarao Nagar, Hyder­abad, AP.
Telephone: 9989641605
Misc. Info: On­line music classes

Name: Duddu Radhikka
E-Mail: upaasanainstitute@gmail.com
Field: Carnatic Clas­sical Music – Vocal
Location: Hyder­abad, India
Telephone: +919966624246
Misc. Info: Duddu Radhikka is a post graduate and a Gold Medalist in music and cur­rently pur­suing doctoral studies in music. She is the dis­ciple of Sri D Raghavachari (the elder of the famous “Hyderabad Brothers”) and Smt. Indira Kameswara Rao. Radhika is a per­forming musician and has been giving con­certs for over 20 years. She has per­formed across the country for many organi­sations of repute. She teaches stu­dents in her institution “Upaasana” and also teaches on­line through Skype.

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.
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Name: K. Sangeetha Kala
E-Mail: sangeethasisters@gmail.com
Field: Karnatic Music Vocal
Location: khairatabad, hyderabad,-4.
Telephone: cell – 9397608795, 9395156061
Misc. Info: Per­formances and honours; 1. being an B-High graded artist in air, and Doordarshan , performed in Nadaneerajanam live telecast prog. in SVBC, channel in 2010. 2. per­formed in Russia, Germany, Japan. 3. Giving train­ing to many stu­dents to appear for dip­loma exams and also for radio auditions since 10 years. 4. con­duct­ing on­line classes for stu­dents in u.s. and Russia. gurus – grand father late sri K. Kodanda Pani, Hyder­abad brothers and sri Nedunuri Krishna Murty.

Name: Smt. Kaza Subhashini Sastry
E-Mail: subhashini.sastry@gmail.com
Field: Veena
Location: Krishna Nagar Colony, B/H Krupa Complex, Safilguda, Hydera­bad-500056.India.
Telephone: +91-9959973438
Misc. Info: Smt. Kaza Subhashini Sastry is an ‘A’ Grade Veena artist of All India Radio and Door­darshan. She started her veena traning at the age of 9 years from great veena stalwart Sri Vasa Krishna Murthy of Vizianagaram. She continued her train­ing with Dr. Manchala Jagannadha Rao and was trained under the guid­ance of world renowned veena vidwan Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Emani Shankara Sastry. She has given veena con­certs in major sabhas all over India. The Visakha district Samskruthika Mandali and the Visakha Sahrudaya Sahithi have jointly honoured and conferred on her the title ” Madhura Veena Bhashini”. Atirudrayaga Cultural association have honoured and conferred on her the title of “Madhura Mahati”. Her detailed profile can be viewed in the web­site www.kazasubhashinisastry.com. She is a teach­ing faculty at Sri Pottisriramulu Telugu Univer­sity.

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Name: L.V.S.S. Devi
E-Mail: devisri1506@yahoo.com
Field: Veena and Vocal (carnatic)
Location: Dayanad Nagar, Malkajgiri, Hyderbad – 47
Telephone: Mobile – +91 9291256532
Misc. Info: Devi is a dis­ciple of gurus Sri Ayyagari Satya Prasad and Srimathi Dr. Saraswathi Vasudev. Devi has done her diploma in Veena at Telugu Univer­sity, Hyder­abad and done her Masters Degree in both veena and vocal from Sri Padmavathi Mahila Univer­sity, Tirupathi. Devi is an excellent per­former and teaches both veena and Carnatic vocal at home presently. Interes­ted take on­line classes.


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Name: Dr. Aranyakumar M.
E-Mail:  aranyasitar@gmail.com
Field: Sitar, Surbahar, Esraj, Dilruba and Tarshehnai
Location: Seri­lingam­pally, Hyderabad, Telangana – India.
Telephone: Mo: 9611521311
Misc. Info: Assistant professor in music, Central University of Hyderabad. Studied Maihar style instrumental music under legendary sarod maestro Pt. Rajeev Taranath, sitar­ist Pt. Sudhir Phadke and Smt. Sandhya Apte. AIR approved A grade artist in sitar and B High grade in surbahar, esraj, dilruba and tar shehnai instruments. Teaching sitar, sarod, esraj and other instruments in Senia Maihar style..

Name: Prof. M.V. Lakshmi Devi
E-Mail: mvlakshmimadabhushi@gmail.com
Field: Carnatic Vocal and Veena
Location: Barkatura, Hyderabad, Telangana 500027
Telephone: 9848114906
Misc. Info: I am a student of Prof. Nookala China Satyanarayana garu in vocal music and Mr. V.S. Anantha Rao , staff artist AIR in veena. I teach and perform music. I am also a freelance music journalist.

Name: Padmaja M
Email: radhiram29@yahoo.com
Field: Carnatic music vocal
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
Telephone:
Misc.Info: Masters in carnatic vocal music. All India Radio, Vijayawada Artist ..


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Name: Ustad Shabbir Nisar
E-Mail: shabbirnisar@yahoo.co.in
Field: Tabla
Location: Meraj Colony, Toli Chowki, Hydera­bad-50008, India.
Telephone: 23562650
Misc. Info: Ustad Shabbir Nisar is the desciple and son of Late Ustad Shaik Dawood of Hyder­abad. Founder of Tablanawaz Ustad Shaik Dawood Music Academy.


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Name: Vijaya Lakshmi Paluri
E-Mail: vlakshmipaluri@gmail.com
Field: Carnatic Vocal and Light music
Location: Hydera­bad
Telephone: 224.829.8905
Misc. Info: I teach Carnatic vocal and light music includ­ing Annamacharya keerthanas. I am cur­rently in India and I give lessons on Skype. My skype ID – v.lakshmi1010. Also I take 3 classes per week and my fees is 40$ a month.


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HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT LEARNING THE TABLA?
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Name: Gajender Shewalker
E-Mail: tablagaju1@yahoo.com
Field: Tabla
Location: Nampally Hyderabab-1
Telephone: 011919246109975 \ 011914023325842
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Name: Ramani Siddhi
E-Mail: siddhi2siddhi@gmail.com
Field: Kuchi­pudi Dancer, Teacher, Per­former
Location: Dilsukhnagar – 3, Hyder­abad – 60
Telephone: 9948078459 / 9848051214
Misc. Info: Ramani Siddhi is a perfect epitome of sulptured Kuchi­pudi dance.  She has been initiated into the field of dance at a very tender age of 5 and have grown interest on this clas­sical dance in the years that went by.  She had great oppor­tunity to learn dance under the tute­lage of maestro Padma Bhushan Dr. Vempati Chinna Satyam at his academy, Kuchi­pudi Art Academy, Chennai.  Here she has shaped herself into a prominent and promising dancer and have per­formed along with her guru at many places. 

LEARNING THE TABLA-1? YOU MAY BE READY FOR LEARNING THE TABLA-2
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Name: Ch. V. Gopala Krishna Murthy
E-Mail: vrgkm@yahoo.com
Field: Carnatic-Vocal
Location: Revenue Board Colony, Asmanghad, Malakpet, Hyder­abad – 500 036.
Telephone: Mobile- 9849811560
Misc. Info: skype ID: gopala.krishna178. I am a reputed clas­sical and dev­otional per­former as well as a good teacher in the filed of Carnatic music. I got Gold Medal in M.Phil Music from P.S Telugu Univer­sity, Hyder­abad, Telangana. I visited gulf coun­tries and given number of per­formances and got good apprec­iation. I am a notified vocal­ist in Dharma Prachara Parishad, T.T.D. I per­formed so many con­certs through­out India and abroad

Name: Varanasi Bala Bharathi
E-Mail:  balabharathiv@gmail.com
Field: Karnatak Music – Vocal
Location: Anand Bagh, Malkajgiri, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India
Telephone: +91-9290076762
Misc. Info: Post Graduate in Karnatic music- vocal.  By profession I am a music teacher in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Atmakuri Rama Rao School, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. I have a flair for teach­ing. I have been teaching Karnatic vocal for the last 10 years and cover both the practical and theoritical aspects of music in both English and Telugu. Till now I have trained a number stu­dents for appearing for various Govt and other exams.   I had tute­lage from great gurus like Prof. Shesulatha, Ganga Ramachandran, etc.


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Name: Y.V.L. Narasimha Rao
E-Mail: narasimha.yeturi@gmail.com
Field: Mridangam
Location: Hyderabad
Telephone: 9912442948, 8985185987
Misc. Info: Diploma in mridangam by Telugu University (1992). I have total 30 years exper­ience in teach­ing mridangam and accompanying to music con­certs and classical dances. I can prepare the students to appear for Certificate & Diploma exams as per P.S. Universty syllabus. I can guide the students to accompain concerts and solos. Students also from U.S., Muscat, U.K. are learning mridangam at me. Recently I got #1 Rank badge as ‘Mridangam Teacher’ from “Urbanpro” is one of the leading website and I got 5*stars out of 5 * stars from another TOP website “SuperProf”. Fees – Rs. 700/- to Rs. 1000/- per hour..


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