Chaitra Gururaj

Chaitra Gururaj is the director of the Auburn Indian Music Ensemble. She brings her previous experience as the director of the Indian Music Ensemble at Emory university, Atlanta, GA.

Through her cultural initiative 'Sunada Chaitanya Foundation' she is striving to bring the music of the east to the west to further cross cultural understanding. She has been training students in south Indian classical music (also referred to as carnatic music) in the United States since 2007. Prior to 2007, she was and continues to be an empaneled artist for south Indian music in All India Radio (AIR Bangalore). In addition to classical music, she is well-versed in other genres of Indian music such as semi-classical, contemporary and folk music.

More information can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/wwwchaitraanadayogacom/music