Monalisa

Monalisa Banerji, an animator by profession, Master’s degree holder in English. Along with love for language, she has strong inclination and expertise in other creative fields like music, art and craft. She has a deep desire and interest to nurture the kids with all the knowledge she can impart. 

Her Journey in Music:

She has inherited love for singing from her family where all the members are Hindustani Vocal Classical singers. She is a trained Hindustani Vocal Classical musician with a Sangeet Prabhakar degree from the prestigious Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad and Sangeet Bivakar from Bangiya Sangeet Parishad,West Bengal. She is well versed in the classical & semi-classical forms like khayal and bhajans having learnt the art from her mother, Indira Banerji, and her Guru Sri Prabir Kumar Dutta of Kirana gharana. She developed an interest in music from the age of two. Since childhood, she had an opportunity to witness her mother’s musical performances.

She had an opportunity to perform on stages like in SPICMACAY, Pilani, Delhi, Jharkhand and many others and is having several awards to her credit.

She is passionate about taking children along on the path of music – the most subtle form of artistic expression. She is expert in humbly passing on the basics as well as the finer nuances of the sur, taal and laya to her students. She is also well versed in many forms of arts and craft, working with clay, making different types of lamp shade, acrylic on canvas, watercolors, glass painting, mandala art, madhubani painting, oil pastels and the list goes on……Her other hobbies are baking, reading good books, watching meaningful movies and travelling.

All this combined gives birth to “Little Artist Art, Craft and Music Classes”. She runs this academy in her house as well as virtually where kids enjoy learning with love. She feels overwhelmed by seeing her little artists performing on small stages. She comes with 6+ years of experience in  teaching kids of different age groups.