OUR FOUNDER / DIRECTOR

• Born in the city of Pune, Western part of India,a family of Traditional South Indian musicians, Jagan Ramamoorthy was born for the fiddle to be initiated into it by his seventh year, by his father and grandmother at home. After many years of training in the Carnatic style, Jagan Ramamoorthy made the plunge into the North Indian tradition and thus became a primary disciple of Dr. N. Rajam.
  
• Having relocated to the United States in 2002 and having acquired an MFA world music performance Degree in 2004 from CalArts, Valencia CA, Jagan Ramamoorthy also is a Durfee Foundation Master Musician Fellowship Awardee for 2006-2007.
  
•  California Traditional Music society has recognized his work for excellence in Traditional music and Arts by awarding the LA Treasures twice for his work in Indian music, in 2004 and 2007.
  
• Featured as a Soloist in the Hollywood blockbuster movie HULK, for Danny Elfman's music score in 2003. Apart from this he played Violin for many Trance-Traditional fusion music albums such as "Love Pass Filter" (Carlos Torres--Emmy Awardee), for another Album with Tina Sugandh, also played Live Raga based music for Jivamukti Yoga studio for their upcoming DVD's for Yoga Postures.
  
• Jagan Ramamoorthy has also been on the faculty of Sangeet School of World music, as a Violin/Vocal teacher for the past several years
•  Apart from this he has been teaching at CalArts as a "Special String class workshop" teacher for the last two semesters, besides training over six cellists from CalArts as well, in his rare tradition.
• Apart from the above mentioned, Jagan Ramamoorthy has also been invited many times as a Guest Lecturer to teach on topics such as "World music, Ethnomusicological aspects and Antiquity of Indian music" at Otis college of arts and design and California State University at Northridge, CA (CSUN)
  

Mission:

The primary focus of this foundation will involve performance and research based workshops, seminars and other public/ community service which is very rare for the Los Angeles city, where the culmination of so many cultural aspects, traditions and knowledge is so powerful and easily the best city for such activities as planned by Spundana Mudra Arts foundation.

Apart from being a very systematic and disciplined educational Art Foundation, we would be involved in research of Micro-tones and Micro-tonal music that can help the communities in a diverse socio/ cultural region, to live a healthy way of life through several musical journeys involving great masters of a very traditional and aesthetic lineage under the banner of “Art Of Transcendence”—a unique feature of presenting Art works in various media—electronic and print, for all communities to learn, preserve and incorporate these ancient arts in their daily lives.

We would be organizing public seminars, workshops and concerts involving “Micro-tonal Music, Yoga, Meditation and healing systems available” in collaborative projects such as Audio CD and DVD production that connects Music with other forms of Art—both Visual and Performing.

Other collaborative projects with many more Art groups featuring some of the greatest masters from Indian classical music, dance and Yoga experts and not to mention therapists such as massage therapists, Pranic healers and Reiki-healers in newer ideas involving Musical tones, micro-tones and harmony

Goals:

We, as a foundation would be inviting professional Artists from world over for lecture-demonstrations, conduct teaching workshops for the Los Angeles community keeping in mind the Diverse cultural nature of the city and spread it to even the Bay area in future.
Every six months we plan to conduct a public show of various Artists comprising of mainly Micro-tonal music specialistswho would bring along with them, a plethora of other artists such as the percussionists from various genre, to conduct workshops, seminars and performances within the city of Los Angeles.


Main area of Research:-
" Micro-tones and their connection with healing powers.  "How can the Microtones affect the human consciousness and cause a definite influence on the DNA?"