Faculty
Get trained by some of the best musicians
The faculty at World Music Conservatory consists of thorough professionals and industry stalwarts who have not only years of teaching experience, but also who’s been performing on the big stage.
Our Masters
Mr Gopi, World Percussion
Gopi was born in a family of musicians, his father being a Mrudangam (Indian percussion instrument) player.
Even as an infant, Gopi showed keen interest in music and used to accompany his father to temples, concerts where he played the cymbals.
He, later on, went to formally study and play the Tabla. This gave him a firm foundation and confidence to experiment with other percussion instruments from different parts of the world.
He has a wide collection of percussion instruments that he has acquired while traveling for performances all over the world. In his musical journey, he has been fortunate to learn under the eminent guidance of Gurus like Pandit Suresh Talwalkar & the percussion maestro Trilok Guru.
Today he is considered to be one of the most accomplished percussionists in the World Music category.
Smt Vidushi Sangeetha Srikishen, Carnatic Vocals
Vidushi Sangeetha Srikishen a Carnatic vocalist and an entrepreneur, began her musical journey at the tender age of 5 when she used to lead SAI BHAJANS at various religious gatherings along with her mother, a violinist.
Inspired at a very young age, she went on to learn music and during her musical journey, she had the great opportunity to be tutored by some of India’s finest musicians.
She is a postgraduate in Music from the Mysore University.
Smt Vidushi Sridevi, Carnatic Vocals
Smt Vidushi Sridevi has completed her MA in Kannada and Sanskrit and in Karnatic Classical Music.
She Auditioned in All India Radio as B high artist and has taught more than 150 students in Gurukula served as a teacher in Adamya Chetana and currently working in World Music Conservatory.
She has participated in more than 5000 programs and participated as a playback singer for many musical plays, in Hampi Utsav, in Vishwa Kannada Sammelana, in Vishwa Samskruta Sammellana.
Vidushi Paavani Bharadwaj, Carnatic Vocals
Vidushi Paavani Bharadwaj comes from a family of musicians. She has been learning music since 20+ years. She is an 'A' grade artiste of All India Radio, Gold medalist in MA Music and a Biomedical engineer.
She is currently pursuing PhD on the topic, 'A study on the efficacy of Indian Music Therapy during Pregnancy' at Vishwakarma University. She has performed at various prestigious platforms across the country and has won several awards.
Paavani is a passionate teacher and firmly believes in disciplined learning and aims at spreading the roots of our ancient music education, to the future generations.
Smt Sharanyaa Sriram, Carnatic Vocals
Sharanyaa Sriram represents the nouveau and emerging generation of classical vocalists and performers.
She is a regular face at the world-renowned annual December Music Festival, Chennai, and at several leading venues like The Madras Music Academy, Thyaga Brahma Gana Sabha, Brahma Gana Sabha, Karthik Fine Arts, and Chennayil Tiruvaiyaru, to name a few.
She has appeared and performed on various regional TV.
Vidwan Sri Sunil Subramanya, Mridangam
Sunil Subramanya was drawn to the art of percussion as a child. He hails from a family with deep roots in music, particularly in the Bhajana Sampradaya. He started his initial training at the age of 10 under his father Sri Subramanya and Sri Sringeri Ramachandra Rao. Later he came under the tutelage of Mridangam Maestro Vidwan Bangalore Arjun Kumar.
Sunil has taken advanced training from VID. Sangeetha Kalanidhi Sri Umayalapuram K Sivaraman.
Sunil has been giving concerts at esteemed sabhas and music festivals all over India. He has been training many students in India and abroad.
Sunil is an ‘A’ graded artist of ALL INDIA RADIO and DOORDARSHAN. He is the recipient of CMANA (Carnatic music association of North America) award from percussive arts center Bangalore in the year 2017. He is the recipient of one of our country’s most prestigious awards - “ANANYA YUVA PURASKARA” for the year 2019.
Bhargav R Ranganath, Carnatic Vocal Coordinator, Indian Music
Bhargav R Ranganath is an aspiring Carnatic Vocalist.
Bhargav initially underwent musical training from Vidwan Chandrashekhara Bhagavatar in Mumbai for 10 years.
His passion for music stayed alive while he completed his engineering and post-graduate degrees.
After having worked for L&T and PWC, Bhargav returned to Carnatic music, recently acquiring a Master's degree in music from Jain university, Bangalore.
Currently he is continuing to advance his training under Vidwan Tirumale Srinivas.
Vidwan Durgaprasad Rao, Hindustani Flute
Vidwan Durgaprasad Rao is a Flautist Par Excellence & Singer known for his soulful renditions. he is a multi-faceted personality who wears many hats! He is a prominent disciple of Padma-Vibhushan "Hariprasad Chaurasia ji".
Vidwan Durgaprasad is now based in Bangalore city where he has been performing in solo Bansuri classical concerts, fusion concerts, light music concerts as accompanist, and recording flautist for albums and movies..
Vidwan Mahesh Kumar Heroor, Hindustani Vocals & Harmonium
Hailing from a place called Heroor from Gulbarga, Shri Mahesh Kumar Heroor is one of the most promising young Hindustani vocalists of Karnataka.
He is an exponent of Hindustani Classical music and Light Classical music. He is blessed with a great voice. He was trained in the Guru – Shishya Parampara system of music under none other than the Sangeet Shivayogi Ubhaya Ganaacharya Dr. Pandit Puttaraja Gavai.
He has been performing in all leading organizations and music festivals.
Shri Mahesh Kumar Heroor is a faculty at the World Music Conservatory for the past two years and trains students in Classical and light forms of music.
Mr Anthony Raj, Saxophone / Western Flute
Mr. Anthony Raj did his diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1973 and worked in Bangalore Baptist Hospital for 37 years.
During the course of this period, his desire was to learn the wind instruments.
He was formally trained to play the Saxophone under the guidance of the renowned music conductor Mr. Narayana Swamy.
He later on diversified into other wind instruments. He plays Saxophone in Church and has been giving public performances.
He has been training students at the World Music Conservatory and teaches the wind instruments.
Subhasis Bhattacharya, Saxophone
Mr. Subhasis Bhattacharya has been playing guitar, piano, tabla & vocal for the past 20 years at the Musicians & Administration in the Indian Air Force.
He learned music from Kolkata University - Sangeet Ratna (Hindusthani Vocal), Senior Diploma (Tabla), Senior Diploma (Key Board), and 5th Grade Guitar, 5th Grade Theory In Music (Western) From Trinity Collage of London and Solo Saxophonist (Western & Hindi).
He performed with renowned music bands in stage shows and assisted them in composing their leading songs & playing guitar.
Mr. Subhasis Bhattacharya performed all over India & the universe (France, Italy, Thailand, Srilanka, and Bangladesh).
He was also awarded the best performance award for vocals and guitar chops at the Indian Air Force.
Suneesh Thomas, Piano, Western Keyboard, Western Violin
Suneesh Thomas is basically from Kerala-Kannur.
He is a pianist and violinist par excellence and has over 20+ years of experience in music as a performer.
He has completed his post-graduation in Sociology and also completed 8th Grade from Trinity College of London. He has pursued his music training from Communication Training Institute - Bangalore.
He has worked in the Air Force for 20 years as a musician, and also with renowned conductorcise composers and performed in countries like Finland, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, Srilanka and many more countries.
He has trained more than 2000+ students and has created stage performers at many schools and is associated with the Delhi Symphony Society.
He composes and arranges music for the Symphony Orchestra.
He is happy working in World Music Conservatory as a faculty from the past 3 years.
Dr. Shyam Sundar, Indo Western Keyboard
Dr. Shyamsundar Dage is from Bangalore. He is specialized in Indo Western Keyboard and has been teaching for almost more than 2 decade that enables students to play popular Indian music like Film songs, Patriotic songs, and Light music.
Shyam Sundar has trained more than 3000+ students. He has worked in Taal music for 4 years and worked in orchestras like Zemkar Melodies, Jai Melodies, and Sangeeth Saurabha.
Presently working as Zone music activity trainer in Sri Chaitanya Techno School. He is also running an orchestra called Cini Star Music Group.
Several instrumental programs is given by him.
We are very glad to have him in World Music Conservatory for the past 15+ years as an Indo Western Keyboard Faculty.
Mr Amar Gulecha, Guitar
Mr. Amar Gulecha was born and brought up in Bangalore. He has been playing guitar for more than eight years and teaching for the past four years.
He has learned from various music schools in Bangalore. He has completed his Trinity Grade 8 from Trinity College London.
He has tutored 700+ students and has guided them for various performances and guitar exams from initial grade to 8th grade.
He teaches various genres like rock, hard rock, pop, western, blues, heavy metal, classical, etc.
He plays for bands and does regular shows in and around Bangalore. He is also a session guitarist and has worked on different music projects.
He has been composing and recording his own music for three years.
Mr. Amar Gulecha has been playing the keyboard also from three years. He has been tutoring at World Music Conservatory for more than two years.
Mr Shiva Tej Manohar, Guitar
Shiva Tej Manohar has been playing guitar for the past 10 years and teaching for more than 4 years.
He learned the basics from Mr.Ramnath Sharma who is an intermediate and advanced by himself and learned from workshops with one of the world's most famous teachers Andy James.
He has learnt both western and Indian classical. He teaches from initial to 8th grade in Trinity.
He composes songs and plays guitar in his own rock band Arha.
He also plays guitar as a session artist for some music directors in sandalwood.
Vidushi Sindhu Putturaya, Carnatic Violin
Vidushi Sindhu Puthuraya, a Carnatic Violinist, has been trained under the world-renowned Musician Vid. T.S. Krishnamurthy from 13 years.
She is the recipient of the Kousthuba scholarship, awarded by D. Subbaramaiah Fine Arts Trust, Bangalore.
She has won various awards from the reputed Sabhas like Gayana Samaja, Swararnava Sangeetha Shaale, etc.
Vidushi Sindhu Puthuraya has performed in many concerts, both as an accompanist and a solo artist. She has been teaching for the past 4 years.
She is also learning Western Violin and Piano at World Music Conservatory.
Ms Jhilik Khamrui, Western Vocal
Jhilik Khamrui is a proud student of WMC who started her musical journey with us in 2017 as a Western Vocal student. She was outstanding and excelled in all her Trinity grade exams. During her journey at WMC Jhilik was quick to pick up the stage performance dynamics and is a heartthrob among a huge fan following. She is blessed with a very powerful voice and brings out the emotions beautifully. As a performer Jhilik sets the stage on fire. WMC absorbed as a teaching faulty in 2021.
Very humble by nature, Jhilik has a great attitude as a musician. She is pursuing Hindustani vocals and also knows to play the piano & guitar.
She is extremely popular among students and liked by all her colleagues. She has trained more than 100 students so far for Trinity grade exams with cent per cent results.
She is highly talented and writes songs in Hindi & English. She is very good in training students for performances.
She has been a part of Happy Streets organised by Times of India, and has performed widely.
Vidushi Vidhya Natarajan, Veena
Dr. Vidya Natarajan, a veena artist, and a vocal teacher learned to play the veena under the eminent Veena exponent, Dr. Suma Sudhindra. She finished her Ph.D. from Bangalore University with the thesis titled “Veena and its scientific aspects.”
She has performed in a lot of Pancha veena concerts in the Madras December season festival, Ramanavami festivals, and Gokulastami Festivals.
She has also performed in the 25 Veena Concert under the tutelage of Dr. Suma Sudhindra.
Dr. Vidya Natarajan also conducted workshops, seminars and ran the music school for Vidushi. S. Sowmya and Shashikiran, under the banner Carnatica.
She also won the competition at the academy of music, Chennai, and Bangalore.
She is presently getting trained under the able guidance of Smt. Bhagyalakshmi Chandrashekaran, a top-grade artist at AIR.
Dr. Priya, Drums
Dr. Priya Andrews found her passion for music at the early age of 8 and was inspired by her father Mr.Andrews who was also a musician.
She not only started to accompany him but also play percussion for the live stage shows. At the age of 10, she had already assimilated a stern grip over the sticks and performing well with the composer and the rhythm pad.
By the time she was 18, she had already played for 600 live shows and had been asked to be a session drummer for well-known country artists.
Dr. Priya Andrews finished her Indian classical grade in Mridangam from Vidwan. Sri. Jayachandra and also procured grades from Trinity School of London under the guidance of Vidwan. Sri. Babusukumar from Babu School of Rhythm.
Passion for music and dedication towards her trait resulted in Dr. Priya Andrews performing with legendary singers like S P Balasubrahmanyam, S Janaki, L.R Eswari, Rajesh Krishnan, Anuradha Bhat, Shamitha Malnad, Archana Udupa, Hemanth, and Usha Kokila, to name a few.
Having won the Nadopasana award, she regularly performs for major TV stations.
Vidwan Srimanth, Tabla
Vidwan Shri Srimanth lives in Rajajinagar. He started learning Tabla at the age of 12 years.
He started his basic lessons under the guidance of Guru Shri Vidwan Puttaraj Gawai for 14 years. He has completed his SSLC.
He is also awarded as Tabla Chatura in Raichur and Tabla Vidwan in Kopal.
Shri Srimanth has traveled to almost all the States in India for performances. Interestingly he has accompanied renowned artists of different genres like musicians.
Smt Gayathri Mohan, Film & Light Music
Gayathri Mohan learned Carnatic classical music with Guru Sri & Smt. Venkata Rao (Chitradurga). Gayathri Mohan also has a Music B. A. at Maharani's Arts College, Bengaluru, and a Music (M.A.) at Bangalore University.
Gayathri Mohan has performed more than 5000 musical shows all over India, which included most of the famous personalities from the Kannada film Industry.
She’s a recipient of the prestigious Aryabhatta Awardee (2003 at Ravindra Kalakshetra).
Gayathri Mohan has trained hundreds of students in Bangalore & other places from the past 30 years who are now into live shows and have become successful T.V artists.
5 years of experience as a performer and anchor in TV channels, she has also performed in the Madhura Madhuravee Manjula Gaana program on Chandana channel.
Ramyashree. R., Visual Arts
Ramya completed her Masters in Visual Art in specialising Sculpture department from Bangalore University and Bachelor of visual arts, specialising in painting and art from ken school of Art from Ken school of art.
She has an outstanding knowledge of diverse design skills
Sculpture, paintings, sketching & pottery.
An experienced artist with over 10 years of related work experience Ramyashree has been active in putting up exhibitions & participated in competitons
Camps and Groupshows.
🔹 Acrylic painting: origami, water color painting, pencil sketching, Human Anatomy, perspective drawings, oil painting.
painting, wall painting, Coffee painting
Creative painting, Traditional painting,
Abstract painting, print making.
🔹Sculpting - Stone work, Clay Modelling
Pottery, Wire Art work, just to name a few..
She was worked under Sri Shanthamani muddaiah, Famous Sculptural artist, Bangalore.
She can adapt according to the work environment and is well organised.
Ramya loves to teach almost all mediums of art. Students love her classes as she makes it very interesting and can connect with all age students.
Bharath Gowtham, Visual Arts
A post graduate in visual arts from the Bangalore University, Bharath Gowtham hails from Shivamoga where he did his schooling and Bachelor of visual arts, specialising in painting & art.
Bharath has worked in almost all mediums of art. To name a few, here are some mentioned. Anatomy sketches ● Landscape (water colour) ● Perspective ● Still life studies ● Craft ● 2D design (Poster colour) ● Compositions (Painting) ● Warli Painting ● Creative Painting ● Portrait ● Tattoo ● Canvas Painting ● Digital Art & Illustrate Art.
Apart from the above mentioned , Bharath’s key skills and subjects are Abstract Painting • Traditional Painting • Portrait • Creative Painting • Wall Painting.
He has a deep passion in teaching and is liked by all his students.
Bharath has a keen interest in chanting Sanskrit slokas, Skating, Singing & Theatre. Whenever he finds time, Bharath engages himself in community & social related works.
