Tansen Sangeet MahavidyalayaII Sector 50 NoidaII MUSICII DANCEII ARTS
A-56/2, near Ravi’s Noddy Play School, A Block, Sector 50, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201303, India
Tansen Sangeet Mahavidyalaya – Sector 50, Noida is a vibrant cultural campus where music, dance and the visual arts converge under one roof. Established more than two decades ago, the institute is named after Mian Tansen, the fabled vocalist of Emperor Akbar’s court, and true to that legacy it treats every learner – whether four or sixty-four – as a potential torch-bearer of Indian performing traditions. Occupying a low-rise building nested among the residential towers of Sector 50, the school is unmissable: a terracotta façade carved with dancing Bharatanatyam poses greets visitors, while day-time ragas spill from an airy first-floor balcony into the rose-scented compound.
Inside, 24 acoustically treated studios are lined with teakwood dholaks, tanpuras, tablas, violins, guitars, and digital keyboards. Each room houses CCTV for parents’ live-streamed viewing as well as an in-house recording set-up, encouraging both practice and yearly audio portfolios. The main dance hall, a 1,600 sq ft sprung-floor studio with eight-foot mirrors and adjustable LED mood lighting, hosts Kathak spins in the morning, urban hip-hop rehearsals by noon, and evening Kuchipudi masterclasses lit by the gold of the setting sun.
Curriculum is divided into four wings: Classical Vocal (Hindustani & Carnatic), Instrumental Music (sitar, sarod, guitar, piano, drums), Dance (classical & contemporary) and Fine Arts (canvas, charcoal, digital animation). Courses are mapped to Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Trinity College London and ABRSM syllabi, allowing students to appear for graded exams that are recognised from Allahabad to Aberdeen. A Pathshaala programme meets thrice weekly for hobbyists, while the five-year Diploma in Performing Arts is designed for committed artists accompanied by yoga-meditation modules in Swara-Sadhana and movement-mudra kinetics.
Faculty is the soul here: gurus hold ganda-bandhan ties to Rampur-Sahaswan, Kalakshetra and New York’s Broadway Dance Centre; their biographies ornament the foyer like modern miniatures. Guest sessions each quarter bring legends such as Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt or Terence Lewis for closed-door baithaks where microphones vanish and taals are defined only by handclaps.
The annual show, “Tansen Saanjh”, transforms the neighbourhood park into an open-air stage with 6,000 floating diyas and live santoor gushing through fairy-lit trees. Beyond spectacle, students daily engage in community outreach—ragas at the nearby orphanage, Bharatanatyam flash-mobs for Noida traffic week, or free weekend sketching camps under Banyans. Wi-Fi enabled lounges serve as co-working corners for parents, complete with library shelves stacked with LPs from the 1950s and current Pitchfork zines.
Enrolment begins every quarter; trial lessons host no more than six pupils at a time. Whether you arrive craving a khayal, planning to pop-lock, or hungry to sculpt clay while moonlight jazz streams from an adjoining room, Tansen Sangeet Mahavidyalaya in Sector 50 offers an immersive, ever-welcoming home for the full alphabet of creative expression.
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- Published: July 27, 2025
