Classical Western Music & Classical South Indian Dance with Johanna

Tomasz Pajak (violin)

Born in Poland, Tomasz began learning how to play the violin at the age of six. A graduate with distinction from Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and Royal Conservatory in Brussels, he quickly established himself as both a performer and a teaching artist appearing across Europe, USA, Middle East, Africa and Asia. Currently, Tomasz is a faculty member and violinist in residence at the Delhi School of Music.

Kurt van der Basch (piano)

Kurt van der Basch grew up in Canada, where he studied piano with Anna Lea Bartonova and later at Acadia University with Professor John Hansen. Kurt left Canada for Europe in 1999 to pursue a career in film and television production as an Illustrator, eventually working on such films as Star Wars the Force Awakens and Jurassic World. Kurt van der Basch recently relocated to Delhi where he continues to work in Film and Music.

Johanna Devi (Bharatanatyam)

Johanna Devi has been trained in Ballet, Modern and Contemporary Dance techniques as well as in Bharatanatyam at the Jessica Iwanson School of Contemporary Dance in Munich, at the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance Theater in New York City (USA), with Lata Pada in Toronto (Canada) and with Savithri Jaganatha Rao (Kalakshetra) Chennai (India) since the age of six.

She has been one of eight dancers worldwide, who had been invited by the ICCR to perform at the 2nd International dance festival at Kamani auditorium in New Delhi in 2011.