Agathe Fortier
Founding group ('laid the foundation of the institution')Founder of Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya
Agathe Fortier is the founding group ('laid the foundation of the institution') of Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya (2001)[1], an Indian non-profit working on education and arts & culture from Dharwad.
Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya
Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya is a residential school in Kalkeri village, Dharwad district, Karnataka, that combines conventional academics with training in Indian classical music. Recognised by the Karnataka State Board of Education and holding 80G and 12A status, it reserves a quarter of places for children from Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and other backward communities, and is supported through child sponsorship and Annadaan meal donations.
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Dharwad
- Founded
- 2001
- Press
- 0
References
- [1] “This group, comprising Mathieu Fortier, a Canadian citizen immersed in the study of Hindustani classical music, his artistic French wife Agathe Fortier, a graduate in Fine Arts, Ustad Hameed Khan, a virtuoso sitarist and then the principal of the Music Department at the Karnataka College in Dharwad, and Mathieu’s brother, Blaise Fortier, laid the foundation of the institution.” — Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya. Source
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