Hindustani Light Classical singer Rekha Surya trained under Begum Akhtar and Girija Devi. She is from Lucknow and now lives in New Delhi.
She recorded for the Archives of Sangeet Natak Academi in 1994.
She has been invited
to sing by the Smithsonian Institution Washington DC, the Metropolitan
Museum in New York, Cornell University, MIT with International Hindi
Association in Boston, Columbia University, Yale, World Music Institute
New York, Harvard University, University of Toronto, Nehru Centre
London, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan London, Bharat Bhavan Bhopal, National
Centre for Performing Arts Mumbai, Ram Vilas Palace Baroda, Roosevelt
House New Delhi, French Ambassador's residence New Delhi, Canadian High
Commissioner's residence New Delhi, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Lal Bahadur
Shastri National Academy, Indian Council for Cultural Relations and
fund-raising concerts.
She is an A-Grade
Artist from All India Radio and is in the Established-Artist category
with ICCR. She represented India at the Asian Music Festival Sri Lanka
in 1999 and at the International Falak Festival Tajikistan in 2006.
In India, she has
performed in Mumbai, New Delhi, Calcutta, Pune, Allahabad, Hyderabad,
Bangalore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Dewas, Ujjain, Ratlam, Vadodara,
Lucknow, Kanpur, Nagpur, Srinagar, Chandigargh, Bhuj, Gandhidham,
Burhanpur, Ludhiana, Faizabad, Ambala, Dehra Dun, Mussoorie,
Bhubaneswar.
Outside India, she
has performed in Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los
Angeles, Madison, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, New Foundland,
Oslo, London U.K., Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Singapore. |