Classical Music
The MIT Group of Institution’s Vishwashanti Sangeet Kala Academy (VSKA), Pune under guidance of Bharat Ratna lata Mangeshkar invites entries for Sangeet Visharad courses 2015-2018. The deadline for applying is May 15, 2015 and the courses will commence in the month of August 2015.
The institute teaches about 112 musical instruments from all over the world. VSKA offers full-time, part time weekend courses and more in the following streams in the Hindustani music like vocal, violin, flute, sitar, harmonium, tabla, pakhawaj and kathak.
VSKA offers residential programmes for learning Indian classical music. The Vishwashanti Sangeet Sanskriti Darshan, a two-year introductory course introduces students to fundamental concepts of music. This course introduces students to the world of music and music-making through a lot of emphasis on guided listening and music appreciation.
The Vishwashanti Sangeet Visharad is a three-year intensive module that aims to develop each student’s individual performing ability. This course will provide students with a vast amount of musical raw material which they will be taught to utilise in order to develop their own aesthetic performative taste and style.
Vishwashanti Sangeet Alankar is a two year high-level course which will prepare the student to begin functioning in the outside world as attained, skilled, knowledgeable performer of Hindustani classical music. The course will build upon the Sangeet Visharad course and will teach the students compositions, ragas, talas and vocal techniques of greater difficulty and complexity.
The VSKA has introduced ‘Soulful Weekends’, a weekend getaway for music lovers who want to spend a evening in learning little nuances of music, exploring the musical instruments from across the globe and more. Soulful Weekends are classical and light classical music based weekend programme along with yoga, promising a therapeutic and invigorating experience.