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About Surya

Surya is a musician and music educator with a Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. He has been teaching and performing music for over 20 years. Surya teaches piano, drums and voice out of his own studio in San Pablo, CA, as well as online. Surya took piano lessons from age 6-13. He started playing drums in 1991. After  enrolling in a high school world music course, he fell in love with jazz and music from different parts of the globe. At Oberlin he studied with jazz drummer Greg Bandy and composer Wendell Logan.  Surya has been a teacher at The Jazz School, the SF Community Music Center, Edna Brewer Middle School, Elmhurst Middle School, California College Preparatory Academy, and more.  After moving back to the bay area Surya studied voice with Julia Uhlehla and  Andrea Fultz and Indian style singing with Rita Sahai and Jai Uttal. In 2009 Surya rediscovered his love for piano, and has used the Hoffman method as his basis for teaching. Surya plays and sings music for Shabbats and High Holiday Services at Congregation Kol Shofar, and does private solo piano and drum gigs throughout the Bay Area.