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The Indian Academy of Performing Arts New York, New Jersey USA |
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Smt. Allyn Miner Allyn Miner received her B.A.
from the University of Wisconsin where she majored in South Asian studies. On
the Wisconsin Year in India Program and subsequently supported by Fulbright
and Rockefeller grants she lived and studied in Varanasi, India for most of
the eleven years between 1971 and 1982, where she studied under sitarist
Thakur Raj Bhan Singh. She performed in a number of cities in India and on
All India Radio before her return to the U.S. in 1982. In 1985 she began advanced training under Ustad
Ali Akbar Khan and became his formal disciple in 1990. She performs in
Indian classical music circles, chamber and world music music series,
universities, and private venues in the U.S. and regularly returns for
performances in India. Her sitar style reflects her long training and
experience in India and the guidance and aesthetic influence of Ustad Ali
Akbar Khan. She is one of seven Hindustani instrumentalists featured on the
CD "Rainbow" (Neelam, 1998). Her new
solo CD is will be released in fall 2004. Allyn received a Ph.D. from the Department of Musicology, Banaras Hindu University, in 1982 for her dissertation "Sitar and Sarod in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." It has been published by the International Institute for Traditional Music (Berlin, 1993) and reprinted in India by Motilal Banarsidass (Delhi, 1997). She received a Ph.D. in Sanskrit from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 for work on the Sangitopanisatsaroddhara which has been published in Delhi. She continues her research on Indian musicological texts and the history of Hindustani music. She is Senior Lecturer in Indian Music and Coordinator of Performing Arts events in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she has been since 1988. She practices and teaches yoga at the YogaSport studio in Ardmore PA. She lives with her husband Titus in Philadelphia. |
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