World-Class Faculty
Our faculty are practitioners and scholars of Indian classical performing arts, carrying lineages forward through rigorous discipline and contemporary inquiry.
Kalyanapuram S. Aravind
Kalyanapuram S. Aravind is an acclaimed Carnatic vocalist who left a software engineering career to devote himself fully to classical music. A premier disciple of Padmabhushan Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan, he is known for his structured raga alapanas, neravals, and emotionally expressive sahitya rendering. An All India Radio A-Grade artist, he has won the Music Academy's Best Vocalist Award, the Yuva Kala Bharathi, and the M.S. Subbulakshmi Fellowship. He teaches through the traditional Guru-Shishya Parampara, anchoring international students toward their arangetram debuts and leading masterclasses on rhythm, voice culture, and the spiritual context of classical compositions.
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Ramya Ranganathan Srinivas
Ramya Ranganathan Srinivas is a dancer, choreographer, and guru trained in Devanrityam and Bharatanatyam, and the founder of YADA. She serves as creative arts director of Amba Anandeswari Kalalaya's AZ wing, training the next generation of performers, while working professionally as a Validation Architect at Intel. Moved by talented young artists dropping out during high school, she launched the youth showcase Jagadananda Karaka in 2015, which grew into YADA — a nonprofit blending Indian classical arts training with continuous performance opportunity for youth.
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