Shobha Sekhar

Shobha Shekar has been acclaimed both nationally and internationally as an outstanding artiste in the area of carnatic music, and has given a number of outstanding concert performances both in Australia and overseas. Shoba’s dedicated tutelage and training under some of carnatic music’s greatest masters, including Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri K.S. Narayanaswamy and Sangeetha Kalanidhi Smt D.K. Pattammal, is evident in Shobha’s refined musical style with its adherence to the traditional precepts of this venerable art form. Shobha is also an accomplished veena player, having from a young age imbibed the rudiments of this ancient Indian instrument from her mother, Smt Mangalam Muthuswamy, who is herself a distinguished veena player who has regularly performed at carnatic music festivals both in India and internationally. Her love of carnatic music and a desire to impart her immense knowledge of it to ensuing generations of music lovers inspired Shobha to establish the Kala Kruthi School of Indian Classical Indian Music in 1993, whose students range in age from four years to adult.