Nikhil Palluruthy Music teacher & Director of Sanskriti Kala Kendram
15 Reviews

Carnatic Music Teacher and Performer with more than 20 yrs of experience in India and UK.
Qualification - MA MUSIC (RLV College of Music and Fine Arts (now doing phD in music )
Tradition - Grandson of Late Kunjan Velu Bhagavathar (first guru of Padmavibhooshan Dr. KJ Yesudas )
Experience - Director of Sanskriti Kala Kendram (Centre for Fine Arts ) since 2012.

(Sanskriti also conducts the online classes for BHARATHANATYAM, KEYBOARD, VIOLIN,GUITAR, VEENA, FLUTE)

Three years in Kochin Kalabhavan.
Disciple of
Sri Vaikkom Arun Kumar (Kalabhavan),
Sri Thamarakkad Govindan Namboothiri (Rtd Principal, RLV College of Music and Fine Arts )
Sri. Cheppad Vamanan Namboothiri (AIR, Thrissur)

Individual classes for beginners and advanced
students. No group classes for online students.
No age limit for learning. Classes through Skype, Google Meet, Zoom etc,.
500+ students in India and abroad.
Free Trial Class. Provide recordings of lessons.

Teaching style - Now a days we have many option to learn Carnatic music through online. But it is difficult to find out the best style of this system. Here I offers the syllabus which owed from Great Maestro Sri Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyyenkar's "Paani" or the style of teaching method.The major three Music Colleges in Kerala follows this system on last two three decades with the help of our great Guru Parampara. This teaching method got many appreciation from Music Academy, Chennai.

Through this method, trying to teach a beginner to sing perfect Swara notations without any Gamakas. So they can learn the position of each note perfectly and they are able to sing all kind of music along with Classical Songs.

On the intermediate level onwards we started the theory of South Indian Music also. At this stage you can able to sing Keerthanams and Krithis along with Varnam Chapter which leads to the advanced level ie, Manodharama Sangeetha which includes Raga Alapana, Niraval, Kalpanaswaras, RTP etc.

Mode of instruction - English /Malayalam/Tamil.

Subjects

  • Carnatic Music Beginner-Expert

  • Guitar Beginner-Expert

  • Indian Carnatic music Beginner-Expert

  • Carnatic music vocal Beginner-Expert

  • Carnatic vocal Beginner-Expert

  • South Indian Classical Music Beginner-Expert

  • South Indian carnatic vocal music Beginner-Expert

  • Carnatic Music (Vocal) Beginner-Expert

  • Carnatic Classical vocal Beginner-Expert

  • Carnatic Music -Vocal Beginner-Expert

  • Vocal carnatic music Beginner-Expert

  • Classical and light music Beginner-Expert

  • Carnatic music for adult at beginners level

  • Carnatic Classical Music Beginner-Expert

  • Carnatic classical music indian Beginner-Expert

  • Music - Vocal Classical, Light & Devotional Beginner-Expert

  • Bharatanatyam Kalamandalam style Beginner-Expert

  • Veena and Vocal lessons Beginner-Expert

  • Vocal Carnatic class Beginner-Expert

  • Keyboard lesson Beginner-Expert

Experience

  • Director (Oct, 2012–Present) at SANSKRITI KALA KENDRAM
    Director of Sanskriti Kala kendram (centre for fine arts ) is a well known Art school at Kochi. Have 5 branches in various places in Ernakulam District. We offer the classes for Music, Drawing, Dance, Keyboard, Violin (western & eastern ), Mrudangam, Tabla, Veena, Guitar, Yoga, Zumba with expert teachers.

Education

  • MA MUSIC (Jun, 2000–Mar, 2003) from Rlv college of music and fine arts–scored 89

Fee details

    ₹800–1,800/hour (US$9.58–21.56/hour)

    For beginners 900-1100/hr
    For intermediate 1200-1400/hr
    For Advanced 1500/-
    For experts 1600-2000/hr

15 Reviews
5 out of 5

User Photo April 28, 2021

Knowledgeable and Accommodating

He is a great singer and a great teacher. He knows music very well and imparts that in a simple way to students. His goal is not only to teach music but to bolster a love for music in students, which is very rare and requires a dedication to the art. Very accommodating with timings and friendly as well.

User Photo April 3, 2021

Talented, Dedicated, encouraging and resourceful Teacher

I have been under the tutelage of Shri Nikhil for more than 2 months now. A talented singer, he is also an extremely dedicated and resourceful teacher. He uses creative methods to drive in the concepts. He has been extremely patient with me. He is also very focused on bringing out the potential of his student/s . His focus on “shruthi shuthi” helps singers to have a perfect musical foundation which will help them excel in their future musical endeavors. I am extremely grateful to have a teacher like Shri Nikhil.
Namaskaram ??

User Photo March 28, 2021

Carnatic Classical Musician & Music teacher

Great teacher ?

User Photo March 28, 2021

Dedicated and Resourceful teacher

Nikhil Sir has been my son's guru since last year. His quest for detailing and explaining the significance of the notes and ragas has enhanced his learning and understanding.

User Photo March 27, 2021

Review.

Nikhil sir, is a brilliant teacher, who is pleasant and very supportive towards his students, being taught by him is quite enjoyable as he always keeps his students at ease, and is very patient ?

User Photo March 27, 2021

Excellent teacher

Nikhil Sir has vast musical experience and is an excellent teacher. Myself and my daughter have been learning Carnatic music under him, he is very good at assessing student’s abilities and interests and adjusting his lessons accordingly

User Photo March 27, 2021

Excellent classes

Mr.Nikhil has been training my daughter for over a year now. He takes special attention on every note and is very helpful making corrections as required. He has in depth knowledge in music and is an excellent guru.

User Photo January 24, 2021

Ultimate knowledge man of carnatic music

My extremely favorite carnatic vocal guru. He is have very depth knowledge in carnatic music in all aspects. His classes are very energetic also. He consider each and every student he knows every students weak points and fault in singing . He will give us big support and confidence in studying and singing carnatic music lessons. Even a super busy person he is very much down to earth. If we come to under his study we can never drop his class. A very good teacher student relationship we can keep with him. A real guru should be like him..?

User Photo August 2, 2020

Excellent Music Teacher

He is very good at assessing a student's abilities and interest and adjusting his lessons accordingly. He makes all the Carnatic music sessions fun and challenging. He is a Carnatic Guru and can teach all genres of music. I would highly recommend him as a perfect music teacher.

User Photo July 21, 2020

Carnatic Class

Excellent classes. Very Patient teacher.

User Photo July 14, 2020

Excellent lessons

Excellent teacher with lots of individual attention to the students. Nikhil possess excellent communication and patience to repeat the lessons multiple times . Theory lessons are integrated into the practicals and explained in a clear and concise manner. All lessons are structured based on the capability of the students and aims to boost the confidence of the students.

User Photo July 13, 2020

Useful class

He is an very talented teacher..

User Photo June 28, 2020

Excellent Teacher

The way of teaching is so simple, that anybody can learn singing, awesome sir...
Even I would like to learn from you.
Thank you sir

User Photo June 28, 2020

Very Useful class

I like this class of all the online music classes
Particularly because of brevity and sensitivity towards the learners... Ian not in a position to
Attend personal classes and this I find very useful. Thanks a lot..

User Photo June 23, 2020

Very experienced tutor in Carnatic Music

I've joined for Carnatic vocal..Classes are very well structured and very easy to understand. I wish to join other subjects of him also.. Though online class, a good communication and feedback which I most expect from. And affordable fee too.