Ron Cha is a Jazz Pianist who trained in Western Classical Piano initially and crossed over to Jazz and improvised music. Ron is a recipient of the 1 st A.R. Rahman 100% Full Scholarship to Berklee College of Music. He has toured America, Europe and Asia with artistes such as the Ferenc Németh, Gregory Tardy, Jacques Schwarz-Bart and his own projects as a bandleader. He has performed and recorded alongside with Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Dennis Montgomery III, Ferenc Németh, Stephanie McKay, Loy Mendonsa, Gino Banks, and many others. He has attained accolades from some of the best musicians such as Anomalie, DOMi, Rob Araujo, Alain Mallet, Ed Saindon, Shankar Mahadevan, Clinton Cerejo, Vishal Dadlani and Loy Mendonsa. Internationally, he has performed at the prestigious Caux Theater in Caux, Switzerland, SXSW Austin, Sculler’s Jazz Club, Boston and has toured around Spain with Ferenc Németh and Gregory Tardy. In 2013, Ron scored the highest score in the Trinity College of Music Advance Recital Certificate Classical Piano Examination in India and holds the record till date. Most recently, Ron along with Jacques Schwarz- Bart (Tenor Sax) and Isaiah Weatherspoon (Drums) founded a brand new project named “Jazz With An Attitude (JWA)” signed under the prestigious German label, Enja Records. The trio is set to release their debut record early next year.

Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JciS4G2jh_w

Classically trained Indian singer, song writer and producer; with influences from Soul, RnB and Jazz. Carnatic Vocals (12 years): trained under Smt. Akhila Siva (5 years); Jazz Vocals (1.5 years) under Lisa Thorson. Folk Festival (Kazhakh, Indian, Greek ensemble), Mediterranean Music Institute ft Suarez El “Pirana”, Middle Eastern Festival (Pletenesia Choir), World Strings Concert, Berklee Indian Ensemble ft Shreya Ghoshal, Project Session/ Music Video (backing vocals) are some of the highlights during her stint at Berklee College of Music.

Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmFGeamgQXw

We welcome Denis Stern, our guitar faculty for fall 2019. This will be his second time teaching students at campus. Known for his learnings under master musicians such as Philippe Catrine, Al di Meola, Pat Methen at the Rimon Jazz school of Tel Aviv, Israel, he brings a signature style named 'Nuevo Flamenco'.

He brings years of craft, experience, influences and expertise having worked globally with well known musicians like Ludovico Einaudi, Vladimir Denissenkov (with whom he is still presenting concerts on traditional Russian music) and projects with Indian music and dance (Dunia Trio). He is the Founder of the “Denis Stern project” and the duet “Vagabundos de lujo”

Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8bvXB1UjX8

Vishnu Reddy is a drummer from Chennai, India. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music as has learned under virtuoso drummers such as Dave DiCenso, Ralph Peterson, Phil Maturano, Henrique de Almeida, James Murphy and many more. He is a member of the bands Dapper Duck, The Summoned and Today is the Day and has toured the United States multiple times. He has also filled in as a session drummer for stellar east coast metal acts such as Cognitive, Myth of I, Pathogenic, Graveborn, Begat The Nephilim, Wake Of Sirens and Circuitry. Though his primary focus of genre is metal, Vishnu takes influences from a wide range of musical styles including jazz fusion, Carnatic and hip hop among others and has also held drum clinics about transcending the boundaries of genre and finding one's own unique voice behind the drum kit.

Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCBONhPs60

Meet our Voice faculty - Patricia Ramon (Argentina) a Singer Songwriter from Argentina. After graduating as a Professional Musician from EMC Contemporary Music School in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she earned a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston MA. Being one of the best students at berklee, she was further awarded an opportunity to obtained a Master ́s degree in Contemporary Studio Performance in Valencia, Spain. We are thrilled to have this maverick of voice as a part of our esteemed faculty for fall 2019.

Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMLw3qIzVYg

Sreyas is an ‘TOP RANK’ grade artiste of All India Radio and Doordarshan Kendra. He has performed carnatic vocal extensively in India and also internationally in Australia, The Gulf, and Kenya. Sreyas brings a deep voice and an extensive reportoire in Carnatic Music.

Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSAMn8CT_jE

A prestigious mridangam exponent who trained under Kumbakonam Rajappa Iyer and Umayalpuram Sivaraman. A Copeland Fellow, Fulbright Fellow and ex faculty at Harvard Universit,. Umayalpuram Mali has toured widely and has enthralled audiences with the rhythm performances in USA, Canada, Australia, France, Mauritius, Kenya, and Singapore.

Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-0fe2PtkOU

Aravind Bhargav started his musical journey with Shri U Shrinivas at the age of 6 years, much before he could realise the privilege of coming under such an illustrious and legendary Guru. Aravind hails from a musical background. He belongs to a telugu family settled in Tamilnadu. His father, K.Srikantan and his family have traditionally been great fans of classical music. His mother, S.Gnana Prasuna, a vocalist, is a disciple of Sri M.Balamuralikrishna, with credits of performances on AIR & Stage and Grandmother, N.M.Lakshmi was a Veena artist & Music composer.

Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrvwMzyFR7k

Jaikar is a sound designer and also plays keys. He is an audio engineering graduate from SAE Institute. His expertise spreads across sync sound, Location recording, Sound editing and Surround Sound Mixing in Film-industry. He has designed sound for many films in different languages. Death-watch(English), Bheja fry (Hindi), Onayum Aatukuttiyum(Tamil), Julayi(Telugu), Dandu palaya (Kannada), Bachelors party (Malayalam) are a few to name. He is currently into Dolby Atmos mixing.

Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU7UQblEpEU

Karthikeyan did his Sound engineering in MGR Govt Film And Television Institute. He worked as a Music Arranger in Tamil Film Industry for nearly a decade. He is currently working with Facebook, as a Music Producer in Sound collection. He had also been a part of popular regional channels like colour's Tamil, Shankara Channel Kannada. He had been associated with more than 100 short films as Music Producer.

Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1ZKqiSocTk

Meet our Voice faculty - Patricia Ramon (Argentina) a Singer Songwriter from Argentina. After graduating as a Professional Musician from EMC Contemporary Music School in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she earned a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston MA. Being one of the best students at berklee, she was further awarded an opportunity to obtained a Master ́s degree in Contemporary Studio Performance in Valencia, Spain. We are thrilled to have this maverick of voice as a part of our esteemed faculty for fall 2019.

David loubeh is a brilliant pianist who trained in his home country Brazil under renowned classical piano exponents José Eduardo Martins. Soon to be launched, is his revolutionary Ear Training program which aims at effectively improving playing skills for musicians around the world.

Listen to David : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUo8aLUkMwY

We welcome Denis Stern, our guitar faculty for fall 2019. This will be his second time teaching students at campus. Known for his learnings under master musicians such as Philippe Catrine, Al di Meola, Pat Methen at the Rimon Jazz school of Tel Aviv, Israel, he brings a signature style named 'Nuevo Flamenco'.

He brings years of craft, experience, influences and expertise having worked globally with well known musicians like Ludovico Einaudi, Vladimir Denissenkov (with whom he is still presenting concerts on traditional Russian music) and projects with Indian music and dance (Dunia Trio). He is the Founder of the “Denis Stern project” and the duet “Vagabundos de lujo”

Lukas Mantel was Artist in Residence 2015 at Moods Club, Zürich and has played on international stages (DE, PL, AUT, FR, IT, GR, GB, NL, SVK, CZ, HU, LV, ARG, USA) with artists such as: Pierre Favre & the drummers, Karoliina Kantelinen (Värttinä), Christy Doran, Christian Weber, Christoph Stiefel, Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, Nat Su, Marc Méan, Wolfgang Zwiauer, Antonello Messina, Christoph Baumann, Fausto Beccalossi, Rafael Schilt, Christoph Irniger, Marc Méan, Tobias Meier, Veronika Stalder, Matthias Spielmann, Brandy Butler, Christoph Irniger

Madipakkam P. Suresh, A top grade Mridangam artist started learning mridangam from eminent teacher Kumbakonam Sri. Narayanaswamy Iyer, later magnetised to the playing style of world renowned Mridanga maestro Guru Kaaraikkudi R. Mani. There after Madipakkam P. Suresh, blossommed into a full-fledged mridangist with a capacity to accompany all the leading and senior aritists.
He has accompanied all frontline carnatic musicians, notably Bombay sisters, Veena Maestro Chitti Babu, Kalaimamani Sudha Raghunathan, O.S. Thiyagarajan, Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan, Sanjay Subramaniam, Malladi Brothers, T.M. Krishna, Sikkil Sisters, Mala
Chandrashekar, Bombay Sisters, Mambalam Sisters, Bombay Ranjani Gayatri, G.J.R. Krishnan, Dr. Narmada.

Aravind Bhargav started his musical journey with Shri U Shrinivas at the age of 6 years, much before he could realise the privilege of coming under such an illustrious and legendary Guru. Aravind hails from a musical background. He belongs to a telugu family settled in Tamilnadu. His father, K.Srikantan and his family have traditionally been great fans of classical music. His mother, S.Gnana Prasuna, a vocalist, is a disciple of Sri M.Balamuralikrishna, with credits of performances on AIR & Stage and Grandmother, N.M.Lakshmi was a Veena artist & Music composer.

Sreyas is an ‘TOP RANK’ grade artiste of All India Radio and Doordarshan Kendra. He has performed carnatic vocal extensively in India and also internationally in Australia, The Gulf, and Kenya. Sreyas brings a deep voice and an extensive reportoire in Carnatic Music.

Meet our Voice faculty - Patricia Ramon (Argentina) a Singer Songwriter from Argentina. After graduating as a Professional Musician from EMC Contemporary Music School in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she earned a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston MA. Being one of the best students at berklee, she was further awarded an opportunity to obtained a Master ́s degree in Contemporary Studio Performance in Valencia, Spain. We are thrilled to have this maverick of voice as a part of our esteemed faculty for fall 2019.

David loubeh is a brilliant pianist who trained in his home country Brazil under renowned classical piano exponents José Eduardo Martins. Soon to be launched, is his revolutionary Ear Training program which aims at effectively improving playing skills for musicians around the world.

Listen to David : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUo8aLUkMwY

Douglas "ShakerHand" Las Casas, is one of the most prominent Brazilian drummers. His studies of the Moeller technique, Traditional Grip, Jazz, and Brazilian music led this great Brazilian drummer to international recognition, where he received the nickname "ShakerHand"(rattle hand). Learn Samba, Jazz, Polka, Paraguaya, Latin, Maracatu and Bailão drumming styles under this virtuoso drummer this fall 2019 at Sam .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBk_9TjQlNI

Revealed as one of the seven newest talented bass players in Brazil at the IBT BASS FESTIVAL in São Paulo, Adriano Sambetti is Playing the bass guitar since he was 9 yrs old. Adriano Sambatti’s influence was iconic bass player Celso Pixinga whom he met, after which he pursued extensive study focusing on bass guitar in jazz music. Noted by the magazine COVERBAIXO as “ Owner of a very particular style of playing the bass”, Adriano has played and shared the stage with renowned & popular musicians from Brazil such as: Kiko Loureiro (Megadeth), Celso Pixinga, Douglas Las Casas, James Miller, Eduardo Machado , Alain Caron, 3 de Paus, Téo Dornellas, Mozart Mello, Thiago Espirito Santo and others.

Sreyas is an ‘TOP RANK’ grade artiste of All India Radio and Doordarshan Kendra. He has performed carnatic vocal extensively in India and also internationally in Australia, The Gulf, and Kenya. Sreyas brings a deep voice and an extensive reportoire in Carnatic Music

A prestigious mridangam exponent who trained under Kumbakonam Rajappa Iyer and Umayalpuram Sivaraman. A Copeland Fellow, Fulbright Fellow and ex faculty at Harvard Universit,. Umayalpuram Mali has toured widely and has enthralled audiences with the rhythm performances in USA, Canada, Australia, France, Mauritius, Kenya, and Singapore.

We welcome Denis Stern, our guitar faculty for fall 2019. This will be his second time teaching students at campus. Known for his learnings under master musicians such as Philippe Catrine, Al di Meola, Pat Methen at the Rimon Jazz school of Tel Aviv, Israel, he brings a signature style named 'Nuevo Flamenco' .

He brings years of craft, experience, influences and expertise having worked globally with well known musicians like Ludovico Einaudi, Vladimir Denissenkov (with whom he is still presenting concerts on traditional Russian music) and projects with Indian music and dance (Dunia Trio). He is the Founder of the “Denis Stern project” and the duet “Vagabundos de lujo”