Aamod Centre of Liberal Arts

*About the artists of the concert PRACHI*

**3 GENERATIONS OF FLAUTISTS*
The Godkhindis,* Pt Venkatesh, Pravin and Shadaj, are probably the first family which has three generations playing the Bansuri- bamboo flute together on the stage. Pandit Venkatesh Godkhindi, the senior most flautist of Karnataka, aged 69, has been performing for the past 40 years and is the guru for his son Suramani Pravin Godkhindi. Pravin, aged 36 yrs, happens to be one of the most sought after and prolific flautists of the country. The youngest of the three, Master Shadaj Godkhindi, aged 8 yrs, is Pravin’s son. He made his stage debut at the tender age of 3 ½ years. *PRACHI, the morning concert will have Pt Pravin Godkindi and Shadaj Godkhindi and they are accompanied on the tabla by Kiran Godkhindi, elder brother of Pravin, thus making it a family affair all the way.*
*Pravin Godkhindi has many laurels to his illustrious career as a musician*
The first Indian Flautist to perform on the 8 Feet contrabass flute.

"Top Ranking Artiste" in Hindustani Bansuri, by Akashvani (AIR)

1st INDIAN to represent Bansuri at the WORLD FLUTE FESTIVAL held at Mendoza Argentina

NATIONAL AWARDS for Films BERU & VIMUKTHI

Brand Ambassador for AKG Microphones

Started toying with a small flute at the age of 3 years

First public performance at the age of 6

Gurus - Pandit Venkatesh Godkhindi & Vidwan Anoor Ananth Krishna Sharma

TITLES: SURMANI, NAADA-NIDHI, SUR SAMRAT, KALAPRAVEENA, ARYABHATTA, AASTHANA SANGEET VIDWANfrom udupi sri krishna mutt

B.E. - Electrical & Electronics engineering with DISTINCTION

Performed with Eminent Musicians like Ustad Zakir Hussain, Dr. Balmurali Krishna, Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Dr. Kadri Gopalnath, Sivamani and many more...



*Pt.Iman Das*
is an internationally acclaimed classical singer of Patiala gharana.. A graded artist of AIR & Doordarshan & has been recently acknowledged by WNYR New York radio in " World's top emerging artists" category & has been interviewed by SBS Radio Melbourne, Australia, only the third classical vocalist ever to be done so after Ustad Rashid khan & Smt. Kaushiki Chakrabarty for his unique contribution to Classically Bollywood concepts.He was selected among the Top Ten Bengalis of Bangalore invited to Bangalore Rajbhavan.He has performed in major embassies in Europe.He is performing round the world for the last 18 years.He has performed in prestigious places like West Bengal State Academy Festival in Rabindra Sadan,Sawai Gandharv Utsav At Kundgol,Dadar Matunga Cultural Center at Mumbai,India Habitat Center & Ustad Allauddin Sangeet Samaraho in Delhi,''The Baithak'' series in mumbai,All Bengal Music Conference with ITC SRA , Park street Carnival,Saturday club,Netaji Indoor Stadium,Iccr in kolkata,Phoenix Market City in Bangalore,Naadbhed in Chennai,Panchamukhee Durgautsav in Harrow Arts Center in London,Indian Embassy in berlin,Theater Am Faden in stuttgart,Piano Fabrik in Brussels,Mandappa Center in Paris,Tunnel Jazz Club in vienna,Aj Sakaler Amontrone on Tara Muzik,Gaanbhasi Live on World Music Day etc..Apart from the solo classical recitals he has conducted several workshops all over india & europe & also been the judge of Milaap 2014 for Spicmacay.Apart from these,
He has done jugalbandi S with Bollywood Legend Shri Amit Kumar(son of Kishore Kumar) , Sitar legend Pandit Subroto Roychowdhury, Internationally famous Flamenco band "Konjaleo", Carnatic Violin sisters(nieces of Grammy Award winner L. Subramaniam & L. Shankar) to name a few apart from his solos. -He has his own classical fusion band with dance " Iman das's Shringar" which is running successfully around the world for the last ten years. He has done playback singing for bengali movies & serials & had written & acted in his highly appreciated drama "Devi Indira" Staged in 2017. He has already written a best selling article on his mentor Pt. Subroto Roychowdhury which was inaugurated and appreciated by none other than Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. He also has a habit of writing on tours & travels often published in several popular medias. He has also done playback singing for several tollywood serials & short films.

*About the Trust Aamod Centre of Liberal Arts*
Our trust Aamod was founded in 2006 to look into music and art awareness and making it a part of our lives for better living . We have come a long way since then but the year 2020 has been crazy. We are looking forward to a new beginning this year and artists have come forward to celebrate that. The trust Aamod now runs a formal school *ACCEL formal+aspiration school with a* vision to spread awareness on how impart education to develop adaptive thinkers and responsible people in the society. That is the foremost and the very important vision of ACCEL . The music and art focus in its hard core formal syllabus has been doing magic to all the students and parents towards fulfilling the vision. The school is now upto the elementary level with a plan to have the high school soon. . PRACHI, the morning concert is being hosted by ACCEL school to mark the beginning of the new year. Request you all to join in the celebration and make a small contribution towards the online viewing.
Please find the poster attached for all details . Please do not forget to send the e mail to enable us share the concert link .
🙏🙏🙏. Thanking you all in advance.

Managing Trustee
Sreela Deb

Please join in at our new premises at Lake View Farm , Siddapura, Whitefield for the event Remembering Rabindranath .

String theory How an experimental school in Bengaluru is trying to shape ears and minds to understand music

Immerse is a fund raising event: all well wishers please participate
Please find the concept and programme details and poster attachment of the fund raising recital for Aamod Centre of Liberal Arts. The B Steinner which we used on 24th Sep and also paid advance of 2.5 lakhs is gone back to the store for balance payment of 4.5 lakhs by January. The following notice is the fund raising event for that.

Aamod has been training 150 students in classical music and dance has reached a stage where it needs a grand piano for the next level of training . As a fund raiser for buying the piano Aamod is hosting this grand piano solo recital with a unique theme. Looking forward to your participation in the event by collecting donor passes generously. Attending this concert can be considered as mandatory for the purpose of understanding music.

Title of the concert' IMMERSE - Titled and Untitled compositions through the ages '
Concert type:Piano recital
Performer : Takafumi Mori
Duration : 60 mins
Time 7 pm to start with a short break for 10 mins for refreshments in between.

Concept Note
Continuing our tradition of presenting eminent and notable artists in various fields of art, music and dance, through special concerts, Aamod Centre of Liberal Arts is organizing a piano recital ' Immerse' with the renowned Japanese concert pianist Mr. Takafumi Mori from France on Saturday the 31st of October 2015 at Alliance Francaise de Bangalore auditorium sponsored by of our patron Alliance Francaise de Bangalore and on the Essex piano sponsored by Furtados Music . The concert begins at 7 pm with a short break and refreshments in between.


Aamod has been spreading Western Classical music for the last 8 years by way of structured classes and master classes in western classical instruments in general and piano in particular and also by way of top class recitals in piano. It has been a daunting task as the number of professionals that teach classical music in a proper fashion is but limited in our country and so is the limitation to the availability of top class artists as well.

Though Aamod has made substantial progress with a good number of students while building an audience for this art form, it is felt that students are learning with a challenge to acquire a certain skill in a certain duration of time but not aware of certain nuances such as its history and the art of piano playing.

And for that, listening and understanding classical music filtered by styles, by composers , by genres and so on would be necessary for the learners as well as the audience for whom the learners and professionals will perform.

That said, and taking into consideration the limited facilities that are at our disposal, Aamod has embarked upon a project to host a series of piano concerts which will take learners of Western Classical Music on a step by step journey of understanding and listening to such music by live recitals performed by national and international concert artists .

For this purpose, our Japanese pianist from France and the pianist on special duty at Aamod , Takafumi Mori, will be collaborating with Aamod for this task through the series called “IMMERSE”.

Aamod is specially inviting all piano lovers and piano learners to attend this event and all other IMMERSE events and make the IMMERSE series a very popular and useful one.
This particular one is on Titled and Untitled Music and will comprise of pieces of great composers which many of us are rearing to listen . Duration one hour .

About the performer Takafumi Mori:
Born in Tokyo, Takafumi Mori began playing piano at the age of 8. After completing his bachelor's degree with Katsumi Ueda at Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) he continued his studies with Mikhail Olenev at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

As a Huygens Scholarship Programme recipient he gained his master's degree at Rotterdam CODARTS conservatory under Aquiles Delle Vigne, graduating with the highest mark.

Takafumi has given concerts in Japan, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Poland, Russia and the United States, and has been broadcast as soloist on Holland's Radio4 and Portugal's Anttena2.

He has participated in master classes with such distinguished pianists as Bela S**i, Lazlo Simon, Seymour Bernstein, Ferenc Kerek, Victor Lyadov, Pavel Nersessian, Aleksey Nasedkin, Jan Jiracek von Arnim, Gabriel Kwok, Olivier Gardon, Enrico Pace, Emanuel Krasovsky and Ronan O'hora.

He has won a number of awards at national competitions, included two first prizes. He was also awarded the Special Composer's prize at the International Russian Music Competition (USA), third prize at the 2nd International Baltic Piano Competition (Poland) and third prize at the IV Panama International Piano Competition - the first Japanese pianist to win an award there.

As a chamber musician he was invited to participate in the International Chamber Music Festival, and has given many concerts and received several prizes at other international competitions.
Currently he is working as a pianist on special duty at the Aamod Centre of Liberal Arts, Bangalore India.
About THE SCHOOL, THE PRINCIPAL :Aamod Centre of Liberal Arts,
Started in ’03 by Sreela Deb. It has expanded greatly since, now teaching about 150 students in classical music, dance and visual arts, in both the Western and Indian genres. Aamod runs a Montessori school, with an emphasis on music, known as ACCEL. A leading school for piano music, it sources teachers of international repute, and also organizes master classes with pianists and compose

More information about the Aamod Centre of Liberal Arts can be found at these links:

Blog: http://aclabangalore.blogspot.in
YouTube Channel: http://youtube.com/aclabangalore
page: http://facebook.com/aclabangalore


In closing, we request you to help us cover this event cost and generate some funds for the school to buy the grand piano which is waiting at the Furtados store for the balance payment .

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Dear All
We are very pleased to inform that after five long years we were able to have Sohini Debnath over to our school to have a four day workshop from 13th to 16th August. Ms Sohini Debnath will be in a residency at Aamod interacting and choreographing in a workshop for ACCEL , Aamod and BIMA students from 13th to 18th August.. It is the second time that she will be in a residency with Aamod.

We are also very happy to announce that this month's Limelight will be a fabulous Kathak Recital by Sohini Debnath and together with that we will have the performance of our very popular Hindusthani faculty Smt Madhusree Dey .

Sohini is an able disciple of Padma Shri Guru Smt Rani Karnaa . Madhusree Dey has been trained under Guru Asutosh Bhattacharya of Kirana Gharana and disciple of Pt Bhimsen Joshi . We are looking forward to present you a memorable evening of Kathak and Hindusthani Classical in this month's Limelight.
Date : Sunday 16th August
Time: 6-00 to 7-30 pm
Venue: Ferns City Club House Doddanekundi ( See poster attached)

The above is a part of the artist residency support programme and the donor support is of Rs 200/- per person .

Request you all to contribute that for the event to be a successful one.
Please find attached the poster for all details

Please call 9900589996 or e mail us @gmail.com
for any clarification .

Striking the right chord Shilpa Ramanujam has managed to strike the perfect balance between her academics and music and excelled in both the fields.