Veena & Devesh Chandra: Music of North India

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Venna Chandra is an internationally renowned sitarist, composer, teacher, and choreographer known for her ability to communicate the beauty and complexity of North Indian Classical music to the western listener. She is noted for her skill and sensitivity in the meend (bending of wire) and her ability to produce vocal sounds on the sitar. She is the founder and director of the Dance and Music School of India in Latham, NY, where she teaches Indian classical music. She has been a faculty member at Skidmore College since 1990, teaching sitar in the Music Department. She is also the Artist Associate in Sitar at Williams College.

Devesh Chandra has been learning the tabla since the age of 3. He has learned Northern Indian Classical Music by accompanying his mother, Veena Chandra. Devesh is a sought-after tabla player and educator. In addition to tabla solos and playing with Indian classical music, he has collaborated and worked with musicians across a broad range of musical genres from western folk and western classical to flamenco and jazz as well as Latin music. He has also composed music for modern dance, and he teaches tabla as an Artist Associate at Williams College.