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Name: Mrs. Padma Balakumar
Email: balapad@acsmail.net.au
Field: Dance - Bharatanatyam
Address: 12, Bowerman Place, Cherrybrook Sydney, NSW 2126, Australia
Telephone: 612-98754921
Misc info: Padma Balakumar is a teacher and performer of the Indian classical dance style Bharatanatyam. She is also the founder director of "Nrityagriha" School of Indian Classical Dance. The school specialises in Bharatanatyam (Kalakshetra style). Classes are held for both senior and junior dancers at Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook.
Name: Jay Dabgar
Email: jay_dabgar@yahoo.com
Field: Tabla
Address: Adelaide, South Australia.
Telephone:
Misc. Info: I am a Tabla player from Banaras Gharana, have been taking training under shree Nandan Mehta since last 13 years., have won many Compititons like National Youth Festival-1st-2001, AIR Compititon-1stin 2002 National Yuva Mahotsava-1999-2nd and many other Compititons too, Scholarship from Department of Culture,Government Of India Have given Performances as Solo Artist and as an tabla accompniest also in many concerts like Saptak Annual Festival, Ustad Abdul Latif Khan Samaroh and many others. Will be available in Australia after 15-june 2006 mail me if you require any help in learning or Accompanieng Tabla or contact me for byuing any Indian Musical Instruents or getting it repaired in Australia. My website is http://www.jaydabgar.com/
Name: Namita Debroy
Email: debroy_s@hotmail.com
Field: Kathak
Address: 1 Calais Close Sunnybank Hills Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Telephone: 0401 185 277, (07)3272 6412
Misc. Info: I learnt Kathak dance from Lucknow University 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 10 years in Brisbane. I teach both adult and children, I take students of various age group. The lessons are once a week and go for an hour. Lessons are available in the evening on weekdays and during the on Saturdays.
Name: Jonathan Dimond
Email: jonathan@jonathandimond.com
Field: Tabla
Telephone: (03) 9016 3506
Address:
Misc Info: www.jonathandimond.com - Jonathan Dimond commenced tabla at New England Conservatory, studying intensively with Jerry Leake. He also received additional tuition in tabla, tala, and raga from Warren Senders (voice), Abby Rabinovitz (flute), and Harriotte Hurie (voice). In 1996 and 1999 Jonathan studied in Pune, India with Sri Bharat Jangam. : Performances : Mr Dimond performs on tabla in Classical and fusion contexts. He has performed on tabla with David Trasoff (sarode), Gulfam Sabri (santoor), Aloke Dasgupta (sitar), Rahim Zullah (voice), Paul Livingstone (sitar), David Philipson (bansuri), Mohammad Omranifar (tar), Peru Frances (voice), Fred Siciliano (sarode), Shen Flindell (tabla), Soumya Chakraverty (sarode), and the Satoko Fujii Orchestra (in Japan).
Name: Mithilesh Dronavalli
Email: mithilesh@biostatistics.net.au
Field: Carnatic Keyboard (Synthesizer), Carnatic Vocal
Address: Melbourne, Australia
Telephone: Mobile 0422 895 837
Misc. Info: I am researching the use of synthesizers to create instruments with the correct gamahams for carnatic music in keyboard. I have trained vocally for 6 years. Two of my great teachers incluse Sistagaru from Ramadas colledge of music and CVP shastry (National Carnatic Competition 1st prize winner). I have an inclination towards Tyagaraja and Annamacharya songs. I performed in Adelaide and Sydney with keyoboard and vocally and I would love to teach both arts. I am well versed in Carnatic theory. Here is a link to my research: http://www.biostatistics.net.au/carnatic.htm
Name: Sam Evans
Email: info@2drums.net
Field: tabla
Address: Melbourne, Australia
Telephone: (+61) 0423 145447
Misc Info: A student of Pandit Anindo Chatterjee over the past decade Sam regulary performs as soloist and accompanist in India and is currently teaching Indian Music at Monash University in Melbourne. Sam began has tabla training in India under Shri Debasis Brahmachari and has evenly divided his time between Calcutta and India over the past decade with funding assistance from the Australia Council for the Arts, The Ian Potter foundation and Monash University. He has performed at many international jazz and world music festivals, on radio and live television broadcasts. Sam is currently promoting his Tabla Lehara CD: Madhu Mahal, recorded in India in 2006 and teaching tabla to individuals and groups in Melbourne. His website www.2drums.net has a constantly updated series of videos and more information.
Name: David Fernandez
Email: piaste04@yahoo.com.au
Field: Tabla; Mridangam; Kanjira; Claypot
Address: 6 Heydon Avenue; Labrador 4215 Gold Coast
Telephone: 0412 342016
Misc. Info: Greetings in Music; I have studied Tabla under the tradions of the Delhi Gharana in 2001, and all South Indian percussion under V. (Ghatam) Suresh, my guru in Chennai. I perform professionally in Australia on Tabla and Mridangam with Sitar, Sarod, and Veena artistes. I have incorporated the language of Tabla; Mridangam and Tavil to create my own signature sound enabling me to play any rhythmic pattern musically and with feeling. I also use regularly in my concerts in World Music a stripped down drumkit -- with all my other percussion being micd up in the centre and the drumkit spread around me allowing me the musical freedom to move at will onto any percussion in classical or fusion styles. Any queries are welcome.
Name: Shen Flindell
Email: shen@ethnosuperlounge.com
Field: Tabla
Address: Brisbane, Australia
Telephone: 0415-106428
Misc. Info: Shen has studied Benares Gharana tabla with great devotion under his Guru-ji of tabla, Pt. Kaviraj Ashutosh Bhattacharya, a senior disciple of the great Pt. Kanthe Maharaj, since 1994. After his Guru-ji's passing in Feb 2004 he has continued his study with senior disciples of Guru-ji. Shen spends parts of each year in Japan, Australia and Varanasi, performing and teaching tabla. In all three countries, Shen has a number of tabla students, some of whom have gone on to study in Varanasi with Shen's guru-ji of tabla, Late Pt. Kaviraj Ashutosh Bhattacharya and in the music school which continues in his name. In Brisbane he recently opened the Ashu Babu Memorial Tabla School, with both adult and children's classes. Shen's lessons follow his Guru-ji's traditional classical style of teaching, emphasising quality of sound, refinement of hand-shape and development of technique and through devoted practice. Shen also supplies and repairs tabla and tabla accessories. Please see www.ethnosuperlounge.com for more info.
Name: Gypsymasala
Email: gypsymasala@yahoo.com.au
Field: Flamenco and Tabla
Address: 38 Moondarra Circle South Lake, Perth, Western Australia
Telephone:
Misc. Info: www.geocities.com/gypsymasala/groove.html
Name Pooja Gupta
Email smileypooja@rediffmail.com
Field Ghazal Singer
Telephone: 0403263005
Address: Unit 5, 16 Edgewood Road, Dandenong, Melbourne,VIC 3175. I was brought up in tradition Indian music family,exposed to music at an age as early as 5 yrs. Recieved training in Indian Classical Music for more than 20 years .Completed Sangeet Visharad in Hindustani Classical Music . Have been teaching music for last 5 years -classical as well as semi classical music. Have performed Ghazal shows world wide.
Misc Info:
Name: Nila Hagglund
Email: nilahagglund@yahoo.com.au
Field: Tabla
Address: 4/134 Falcon Street, Crows Nest , NSW, 2065 (Sydney) Australia.
Telephone: 0424613870
Misc. Info Completed 5th year visharad in Tabla in the Farukhabad Gharana through Akhil Bharatiya Gandharav Mahavidyalay, Mumbai,India and so have been playing tabla for 8 years.
Cost: Usually Charge $50 for a private class but its negotiable.
Name: Ustad Amin-ul-Haque
Email: aminsangit@yahoo.com
Field: Vocal Music ( Hindustani Classical, Hindi, Bengali)
Address: 1/1 Tennyson Avenue, Clayton, VIC 3169, Melbourne Australia
Telephone: ( 613) 95488709
Misc Info: I completed Bachelor and Master in Music from M S University of Baroda in 1989 with indian govt. scholarship. Later I started learning from Padmabhushan Smt. Kishori Amonkar and Laxmikant Bapat ( deciple of Pt. Bhimsen Joshi) Professor Basantrao Ranade and completed 3 years ford foundation fellowship on Khayal under Ustad Phool Mohammad. I have a diploma in Tabla from Bombay University. I am an enlisted artist of Bangladesh Radio and Television. I was a music teacher of Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts and teacher and examiner of Govt. Music College Dhaka. During 2004 I am settle in Melbourne and set up a Music Centre at my home. I teach and perform Khayal, Thumri, Ghazal, Bhajan, Nazrul song, Rabindra songs and Modern songs and compose modern songs.
Name: Zia Islam
Email: tomalshimlin@hotmail.com
Field: Tabla
Address: 87 Atchison Road, Macquarie Fields, NSW 2564
Telephone: 0413352028
Misc. Info: I have completed a five year study in performing arts (Tabla) at M.S University, Baroda, Gujrat, India. I perform solo as well as in many fusion bands around Australia and overseas. For more information about me and one of the bands I'm in visit http://www.yellowmonday.com.au
Name: Glen Kniebeiss
Email: glenkau@yahoo.com.au
Field: Tabla
Address: Melbourne, Australia
Telephone: 0422 278 068
Misc. Info: Glen has undertaken extensive tabla
studies with Ustad Anthony Dass of Delhi gharana (a
disciple of Delhi gharana khalifa's Ustad Inam Ali
Khan, Ustad Gameh Khan and Ustad Munnu Khan). Glen has
also studied tabla with Sri Umakanta Dash of Puri and
Sri Pankaj Kumar in Rishikesh. Glen has performed many
concerts around Australia and in India. Currently Glen
is teaching tabla and performing tabla
lehera/accompaniment in Melbourne, please see his
website for more info; http://www.tabla.com.au
or http://www.melbournemusic.info
Name: Kranthi Kiran Mudigonda
Email: kranthikiranm@hotmail.com
Field: Carnatic Classical Vocal, Violin, Mridangam, Kanjira.
Address: Bankstown, NSW, Australia.
Telephone: 0488229745
Misc Info: I am a Carnatic Musician from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. I have learnt music from Sri Dwaram Satyanarayana Rao for 15 years. I can perform and teach Carnatic Classical Vocal, Devotional Music (Annamayya Kirtanas, Bhadrachala Ramadas Keertanas, etc.), Carnatic Classical Violin, Mridangam and Kanjira. I have an experience of 7 years in teaching music. I am interesting in teaching home tuitions. Anyone interested, can contact me on my email or on phone.
Name: Vickneswaran Ramakrishnan
Email: vicky120@hotmail.com
Field: tabla
Address: 23, Ballidon Crescent, Carine-6020, Perth, Western Australia.
Telephone: 0421 701 771, 9447 0149
Misc. Info: Tabla Visharad from Gandharva Mahavidyalay, Pune. Studied under the able guidance of Ustad Hanif Mohamed Mirajkar in Pune. do contact for tabla classes and also performing(tabla solo & accompaniment).
Name: Dr. Mrs. Nisha Rao
Email: venkatnisha@hotmail.com
Field: Hindustani classical Music
Add: 5, Mandell Cl, Coopers Plains, Brisbane, Australia.
Telephone: 07-32195176
Misc info: Brought up in 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. At the behest of Shri. Manade in early 70s she started learning Hindustani classical music and trained with Late S Kulkarni and later with Mr R Zullah (AU). She has learnt music for over 13 years, and has performed in a variety of programs in Mumbai and Brisbane. She has started a School of Hindustani Classical Music a few years ago. She teaches classical - vocal music and Bhajans (devotional songs) in Brisbane.
Name: Vimala Sarma
Email: vsarma@bigpond.com
Field: Kuchipudi
Address: 448 Wilson St Darlington Sydney NSW 2008 Australia
Telephone: 612 9699 4414
Misc. Info: Dancer and Teacher - http://www.nayika.org/
Name: Bhakti Shakti
Email: bhaktishakti@iinet.net.au
Field: Sacred Dance and Chanting
Address: 498 Miller St Cammeray 2062 Sydney
Telephone: 0410 616 988
Misc. Info: Please look at our calendar at : www.unitantra.com : : www.tantrananda.com
Name: Ravikesh Singh
Email: ravikesh_singh@hotmail.com
Field: tabla, dhol, phakwag, bongo and conga
Address: 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, Joseph A.Nand, Deeraj Shestra, 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. Composing, Recording and Sound, Mixing, DJ, Producing and Teaching. I have constructed a recording studio in my house where I Compose, Record and Produce music for Artist's internationally and across Australia. I have also started my own record label in 2006 which is called "South of the Border Records" (http://sotbr.freewebpage.org/) . : I also work for "Music and Sound for Media INTERNATIONAL" which looks after the music and sound for media in Australia and worldwide. (Radio ads, TV ads, movies, animation ect.)
Name: Rathika Mahadevanee Sivapathasundaram
Email: bharatha_kalanjali@yahoo.com
Field: Bharatha Natyam
Address: 6 Shield Court Glen Waverley Victoria 3150 Australia
Telephone: 61 3 9886 5083
Misc. Info: For information please visit www.bharatakalanjali.org
Name: Ramchandra Suman
Email: rsumansangeet@hotmail.com
Field: Kathak, Bollywood Style Dance, Tabla, Pakhawaj and Dholak
Teephone: (02) 97967401
Address: 154A, Stacey Street, Bankstown, NSW 2200
Misc. Info: Pandit Ramchandra Suman, an established artist of Kathak and Pakhawaj/Taba Percussion first learnt the art of Kathak dance in
Jaipur gharana under the able tutelage of late Chiranjee Lal ji. He further honed his skills in Kathak in Lucknow gharana
under the legendry Shambhu Maharaj, Lachhu Maharaj and Birju Maharaj. Pandit Suman has polished knowledge of the art of choreography
and the intuitive understanding of emotions for effective expressions. He gave his first dance performance at the age of 16 and earned
applause from many Kathak dance masters.
During his days at Bhartiya Kala Kendra, Delhi, Pt Suman learnt Pakhawaj from Guru Purshottam Desh Ji of Nathawar gharana and
accompanied many Kathak exponents like Sitara Devi, Pratap Pawar and Birju Maharaj. He has also accompanied on both Tabla and Pakhawaj
with Ubhyagana Vidushi Shyamala G.Bhave in India and abroad. As a percussionist he has accompanied Pandit Vidyanath Seth,
and AIR Artiste and masters like Dagar Brothers, Siddheshwari Devi. He also provided tabla accompaniment to many famous
Kathak dancers such as Karnatak's Maya Rao.
Pt Suman has performed in several countries including Canada (Canada Expo - 1967), Germany, UK, Thailand, Singapore, Malasiya,
New Zealand, and the Pacific Island. After teaching for 12 years in Fiji, in 1978 Pt Suman was was invited by the Asian Dance
and Music Centre in Sydney to perform and teach at its institute. Pt SUman has given lecture demonstrations at Australian
Universities at Melbourne, La Trobe, Monash, ANU, Sydney, New England, and Queensland.
Name: Jeganathan Umakaran
Email: umakaran@hotmail.com
Field: tabla, mrdhangam, ghatam, kanjira, morsing.
Address: u3/5 crozier tce Oaklands Park 5046 South Australia.
Telephone: 08-83580765 or 0439870552
Misc. Info:
Name: Manjula Viswanath
Email: manjula1907@hotmail.com
Field: Bharathanatyam
Address: 4/28 Bowden Street Parramatta NSW 2151
Telephone: 0403 494519
Misc. Info: Rasika Dance Academy is institution for Bharathanatyam which is runned bt Manjula Vishwanath She trains students not only to become dancers but also good teachers
Name: Vajira Wijesinghe
Email: evajira@yahoo.com
Field: Sitar, Violin (Oriental)
Address: Villa 1 /4, Beaconsfield Street, Revesby, NSW 2212, Australia
Telephone: 0403714191
Misc Info: I studied music under Dr Nirmala Kumari (www.nirmalakumari.info) of Sri Lanka for over 10 years and hold Diplomas in Music from the Lukhnow Bhathkande Vidyapith, India, in Sitar and Violin.