Pandit Satish Vyas
Santoor maestro
Blessed with a formidable musical background and training, thanks to both his father, Padma Bhushan (Late) Pandit C. R. Vyas, and his guru, Padma Vibhushan Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Satish Vyas has build an outstanding reputation as a soloist on the santoor. He has been a regular concert artist for more than 30 year, performing and recording all over the world. In 1997, he was the only non-Western instrumentalist invited to perform in Venice, Italy at the "Mostra Mozart Festival", organised by the prestigious European Mozart Foundation. Pandit Satish Vyas has a number of recordings to his credit with labels such as UK-based Navras Records, Music Today, Times Music, BMG Crescendo and Sony Music. The government of India has honoured him with Padma Shri in 2003.
Maneesha Kulkarni
Academic supervision
Maneesha Kulkarni is assistant professor of hindustanī music at the University of Mumbai.
Uday Kulkarni
Tabla accompaniment
Uday Kulkarni is a disciple of Pandit. Somashekhar Holgundi of Dharwad. He had his advance training under various stalwarts of tabla like Pandit Ravindra Yavagal, Pandit Suraj Purandare, Pandit Suresh Samant and Pandit Vamanrao Mirajkar. He has been performing regularly in AIR and accompanying various artists of both vocal and instrumental forms of hindustanī music. Uday is teaching tabla at Goa College of Music.
Jonathan Voyer
Research, creation and interpretation
Jonathan Voyer has a Baccalaureate in Education (B.Ed), a Master's degree in Religious Studies (M.A) and a Ph.D in Artistic Research from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). He received his initial training with voice teacher Louise Yard from whom he learned the Bel Canto singing technic. Disciple of santoor maestro Pandit Satish Vyas and of vocalist Pandit Somanath Mardur, he now evolves in the hindustani music tradition. With dancer Julie Beaulieu, he founded the company Samskara : les artisans du passage to promote transcultural dialogue through arts. Jonathan is an independent researcher associated to Centre d’études et de recherche sur l’Inde, l’Asie du Sud et sa diaspora (CERIAS) and performs regularly in Canada and abroad.