Shankara Arts Foundation

The Shankara Arts Foundation is estabilished at Varanasi by Dr. Smt. Kamala Shankar and Pt. Rajeev Janardan. Varanasi is well known as the city of Lord Shankar (Shiva). That is why the Foundation is named Shankara, which is the name of a Raga too, i.e. Raga Shankara.

The main objectives of the Foundation is to provide high skilled training in music, and the mission is to promote and encourage artists based exclusively on talent, and not by inheritance of musical legacy by birth alone.The Foundation gives the opportunity to maintain high level of music through the audio and video recordings of the legendary artists, at the same time it teaches the right aspects of learning classical music in a Guru-Shishya-Parampara way.

Shankara Arts Foundation conducts workshops and lecture-demostration series every quarterly and there is the Shankara Music Festival, helds every year in December, dedicated to Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi, which gives the platform for the established as well as young, talented artists.

Shankara Arts Foundation needs financial support from all music lovers.
If you would like to help a good cause please send your contributions
to the secretary: Dr. Kamala Shankar.

II. Shankara Music Festival
dedicated to Bharat Ratna M.S. Subbulakshmi
20.01.08. Hotel Diamond, Bhelupur, Varanasi-221 00

Shri Bhaskar Nath (Delhi) - Shehnai
Shri Abhishek Mishra (Varanasi) - Tabla

Shri Bholanath Misra (Delhi) - Vocal
Shri Vinod Lele (Delhi) - Tabla

Ms. Beata Barkoczi (Hungary) - Dance
and
Felicitation to Shri Aklakh Ahmad (Renowned Tabla Maker)

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I. Shankara Music Festival and photo exhibition
dedicated to Bharat Ratna M.S. Subbulakshmi

11.03.07. Roop Kamal, 2A Ravindrapuri, Varanasi

Pt. Vishwanath (Delhi) - Vocal
Shri Vinod Lele (Varanasi) - Tabla

Smt. Svetlana Janardan (Delhi) - Sitar
Shri Abhishek Mishra (Varanasi) - Tabla

Dr. R. Shankar, the patron of the Foundation, is explaining the details of photo exhibition

Mahantji, Pt. Veer Bhadra Mishra is inaugurating the event

Dr. M.S. Shrinivasan, renowned scientist and geologist with Dr. Kamala Shankar, the secretary and Pt. Rajeev Janardan, the President of the Foundation

Pt. Channulal Mishra, Mahantji, Pt. Ishwar Lal Mishra

Pt. Birendra Mishra. and many others

Sitar recital by Smt. Svetlana Janardan

vocal recital by Pt. Vishwanath from Delhi

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The latest events:

Workshop on the Sitar
presented by Tóth Szabi

06-07.06.07. Roop Kamal, 2A Ravindrapuri, Varanasi

Weekend Workshop on the Sitar
presented by Tóth Szabi

12-13.05.07. Sangeetkuti, 1045 Hatital, Jabalpur

Shankara Orchestra concert

16.03.07. Roop Kamal, 2A Ravindrapuri, Varanasi