Sumana Chandrashekar

Sumana Chandrashekar is a Carnatic vocalist, a Ghatam player and an independent music researcher. She has performed in India and abroad. She received a grant from the Sandbox Collective-Goethe Institut to create an experimental performance work called ‘Rendu Ghatam’ based on the story of the ghatam. With a keen interest in music education, she has been part of the core team that designed the music education component of ‘Kali-Kalisu’, an arts education teacher training initiative involving government school teachers across the state of Karnataka. She has conducted music and sound workshops for teacher-educators, trainee teachers and has presented papers on music education.