Mahua M.

Mahuya is gifted with a very strong and melodious voice which is perfectly suitable for the Khayal and Thumri style of Hindustani music. Her soulful rendition of Ragas has kept the audience mesmerized and has won many appreciations and accolades. She is an artist of great caliber, having command on several genres like Khayal, Thumri, Kajri, Chaiti, etc. Systematic exposition of rag structure, brilliant phrasing, and variety of taan patterns – these are a few of the remarkable qualities of her singing. She belongs to Patiala Gharana , and was blessed enough to receive training in Hindustani classical under the guidance of Vidushi Sanjukta Ghosh, Pandit Shantanu Bhattachryaa ,direct disciple of Pandit Ajay Chakroborty and in semi classical from late Smt. Shipra Basu.

Mahuya performed in various prestigious concerts including “Bharotio Nadonik Parishod” which is state government organization.
Most notably, she is a regular performer of ALL INDIA RADIO as well as an empanelled artist of “Indian Council for Cultural Relations” (ICCR).
She was awarded with “Sangeet Prabhakar” and “Sangeet Visharad” , from Prachin Kala Kendra. She was honored by the King of Hyderabad Nizam Raja and was invited to perform in his palace. Her mellifluous and resonant voice made her successful in India as well as abroad.
Currently Mahuya is the director of the music department of ‘Kalpataru Arts’ academy New Delhi.

Performance in India
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• All India Radio, Hyderabad ( Sangeet Mahal, Thyag Raja Festival )
• “Swaranjali Sur Sandhya”, Indian Habitat Center, New Delhi
• “Sangeetika”, Shri Ram Centre, New Delhi
• “Neheru Children Museum” , Kolkata
• “NAINA DEVI Festival”, Nainital
• “All India Integration Camp” in Nainital & New Delhi
• “Youth Festival 2005” on behalf of Rabindra Bharati University.
• Faisalbaba Darber, Nizam Palace, Sumandal at Hyderabad
• Jaipur Sangeet Festival
• “Akheel Sangeet Sammelan”, Katni M.P
• “Sangeet Nritya Mahotsab”, Udaipur
• “Akhil Bharotio Sangeet Sanmelan”, Jodhpur
• “Sur Tal Mahotsab”, Vrindavan
• “Shastryia Sangeet Sandhya”, Balaji Temple, Salasar, Rajasthan
• “Tansen Sangeet Sammelan”, Gwalior
• “Malhar Utsav”, EPI Centre, New Delhi
• “Purav ki Anga Holi ki rang”, Melody Foundation, New Delhi
• “Sur Tal Mahotsav”, Agra
• Performed In Punjabi University and was awarded ‘The Sunad Award of Honoar’ for Shastriya Gayan.
• Recently performed at Patna, concert organized by Sangeet Natak Academy.
• Recently performed at COUCIL FOR GLOBAL UNITY [CGU]





Performances abroad:
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• “Festival Internazionale OSA la Danze” (“International Dance Festival”), Ascona, Switzerland.
• “Cenrtro Di Formazione Musicale”, Barasso, Italy.
• A tour organised by “Culturall”- an Indian cultural organisation, in the major cities of Switzerland, like Thun, Lausanne, Luzern, Winterthur, Basel, Kreuzlingen.
• “Centre Loisirs Et Culture”, Martingny, Germany.
• Comune di Sesto Calende, Provincia di Varese, Italy.
• Comune di Cassano Valcuvia, Varese, Italy.
• “Offene Kirche Elisabethen”, Basel, Switzerland.
• L’eglise Ste-Marie, Mulhouse, France.
• “Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft” (DIG), Mainz, Germany.
• „Infinite Gratitude“ – a tour which purpose was to spread the Indian classical music in various cities of Romania, like Iasi, Campulung, Bistrita, Cluj, Bucharest.
• „Namaste India“ Festival, Romania, Bucharest, where she presented, for the first time in Romania, the khyal style, being awarded a Certificate of Recognition for spreading the Indian culture overseas.

Experience:
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• Music Judge for “Horlicks Kids Widz” Competition, New Delhi.
• Joined with a new group called "Music of India", a fusion musical association
• Joined the “All India Integration Camp” as music teacher, in Nainital.
• Worked as a music teacher at G.D Goenkan World School,Gurgaon
• Touring in the major countries of Europe, holding concerts and music workshops in Switzerland (Geneva, Lausanne, Luzern, Kreuzlingen, Basel, Bern, Liestl, Thun, Winterthoor), Italy (Milan, Rome, Varese), France (Mulhouse, Paris), Germany (Frankfurt, Martingny,Mainz), Belgium (Gaint, Bruxelles), Bangladesh (Dhaka, Faridpur)
• Winner of “Best Teacher Award” from Panchseel Public School, New Delhi
• Joined as a music director during the summer camp organised “Sahitya Kala Parishad”, New Delhi
• Composer and arranger of the “Garbha Sanskar”, a music therapy project for pregnant ladies, for “Johnson & Johnson”- www.babycare.com