Sangeet Aaradhana Part-2 Praveshika- Purna (Learn Music- Practical and Theory)

About the Author Monica Shah is a founder and director of Aaradhana Sangeet Academy. She is a renowned classical vocalist of Kirana Gharana. She has obtained her preliminary training from Shri Laljibhai Chauhan of Agra Gharana. She is a prominent disciple of Dr. Smt Pradipta Ganguli With complete dedication and devation Dr. Shah has adopted melodious Gayaki (style) of late Pt. Shri Rasiklalji Andharia, a great maestro of Kirana Gharana. She is taking training under the Guidance of thumari queen Smt. Girijadevi. She has performed more than 1000 Concerts of classical music and Bhajans.

Her father was a Ceramic Industrialist and mother is a Sitarist She has secured gold medals in Ph.D. in music in 2000, in 1987, Sangeet Visharad in 1981.

She was decorated with many Awards like, the most prestigious Award of Gujarat Gaurav Puraskar (Government of Gujarat), Surmani Award, Navdip Pratisthan Award, Pt. Omkarnath Thakur Award, Sangeet Shiromani Award, GCCI Award, etc... She is a regular singer of radio and doordarshan.

She has performed at many famous festivals and places like Saptak Festival (Ahmedabad), Bajju Samaroh, Tanariri festival (Vadnagar), Kumbha Samaroh (Udaipur), Classical Female festival, Kankaria carnival festival (Gujarat), Sankalp festival, Sur singar, Swar Sadhana, Kala Gurjari, (Mumbai), Sangeet Academy. M.S. University (Baroda). S.R.A (Kolkata) gandharva maha vidhyalaya, Flame University (Pune), etc... She performs and also conducts work-shop at U.S.A. and Canada every year.

Her audio CD's of Classical vocal, Jain-stavans, Bhajans, Kirtans are highly appreciated by music-lovers.

Preface Expert teachers of the field of music and arts, people having thirst of knowledge, respected elders, dear group of interested people, superior singers, musicians and actors, students eager to worship music and my very dear disciples having age of 5 years to 75 years…

I thank you all for giving the book Sangeet - Aradhana warm welcome never seen before and reward in short duration of time. You have increased my enthusiasm. Thank you very much for approving and accepting me as an artist and writter.

Vimochan - Lokarpan' of the book `Sangeet Aaradhana - Part-1 was complished by the pious hands of Swami Adhyatmanandji on Shivratri day in presence of thousands of devotees. I found as if my music worship became blissful. Having bowed down to Swamiji I thank him. It is my good luck that the inauguration of Aaradhana Sangeet Academy was done on Vasant Panchami by reverent Mahalakshmi Vahuji with her blessings.

At this time I can't resist myself mentioning one nice task. `Akita' is a popular and favourite evening newspaper of Rajkot in which I write articles in a column named 'Se re ga ma' every thursday. In this column, I cover many subjects like Sangeet worship and teaching, yoga, merriment of mind, music therapy, health, .concentration, inspirational incidents, kaku prayog, taal, biography of artists etc. For this I have to keep my mind incessantly engaged in music with reading, thinking and contemplating of this subject. For this reverent Shree Kiritbhai Ganatra, the founder of `Akita' and my disciple Mrs. Kinnariben Yatinbhai Oza have become my guide and milestone of musical carrer and its progress. I thank them for this.

In `Aaradhana Musical School' disciplined training is given with 'Guru-Shishya Parampara.'

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