Dr. Subhadra Desai

Hindustani Classical vocalist Dr. Subhadra Desai is has received professional guidance from Madhup Mudgal. She has performed at prestigious national festivals and other foras. She is the first recipient of the ‘Mani Mann Fellowship’, a National Fellowship for young musicians constituted under the aegis of Sanskriti Pratishthan, New Delhi.

A scholar of Sanskrit, she is the author of a Doctoral thesis in Sanskrit on the ‘Musical heritage of Valmiki-Ramayana’.

Subhadra’s ability to creatively assimilate her academic and musical training is evidenced in her lecture-demonstrations to distinguished audiences. This also invests her rendering of devotional music with a tangible intensity that moves her listeners.