About Us
A gurukul for the modern age
Sangeetshala is an initiative to promote Indian Classical Music and Global Classical Music, and to make serious vocal & instrumental training accessible to students of every age and background. We believe music is not a performance to be watched but a discipline to be lived — rooted in tradition, open to the world.
Our Story
Sangeetshala began as a small circle of practitioners meeting to preserve ragas and talas that were slipping out of everyday teaching. What started as informal riyaaz sessions grew into a structured school — one that treats Hindustani classical music and the Western classical tradition as two dialects of the same human impulse: to give time a shape worth remembering.
Today we run vocal and instrumental programs for children, adults and working professionals, host recitals and lecture-demonstrations, and maintain a growing library of notation, recordings and writing on both traditions.
What We Stand For
Authenticity
Taught in the guru-shishya tradition, faithful to raga and tala.
Openness
Global classical music studied and celebrated alongside our own.
Rigour
Structured levels, real practice discipline, honest feedback.
Belonging
A community for every age, from first lesson to lifelong practice.
Our Gurus & Faculty
Practitioners and teachers guiding every raga and every recital.
Pandit Ananta Chatterjee
Hindustani Vocal
Pandit Ishwar Chandra Sharma
Tabla
Smt. Kalyani Subramanian
Carnatic Vocal
Smt. Leela Ramanathan
Sitar & Theory