Evaan Musical Academy
B1-007, SUPERTECH ECO VILLAGE-1, Sector 1, Noida Phase-2, Bisrakh Jalalpur, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301, India
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In a quiet green pocket of Dwarka Sector-7 beside the Metro pillar no. 839, Evaan Musical Academy rises like a soft chord struck at twilight: a modest glass doorway framed by bamboo dusted with fairy-lights, the faint tinkle of harmonium strings drifting out before you even ring the brass bell. Founded in 2014 by vocalist-guitarist couple Avinash and Kanika Raghav after a decade of touring Europe with their folk-jazz trio “Mitti Sona,” the academy was originally a single 12-by-14 living-room turned into a vibration-proof studio. Today it occupies three floors of mirrored spaces that feel more like a living tree than a building—walls of recycled pine covered with students’ post-it thank-yous, LED strips colour-coded to ragas, and a skylit mezzanine herb garden whose lemongrass and tulsi scent every evening riyaaz.
The curriculum is refreshingly non-linear: start wherever your curiosity leans. Core faculty of nine resident gurus and four rotating maestros anchor Hindustani vocal (khayal, thumri, bhajan), Carnatic violin, Western classical piano graded ABRSM, or fingerstyle acoustic guitar modelled on John Mayer meets Kabir. Yet speciality capsules—Lo-fi Hindustani beat production on Ableton, ukulele story-circle for three-year-olds, and Sufi voice-openness labs with whirling—run every alternate Sunday in a black-box theatre that converts to candlelit Sufi nights. Fees scale from 2,300 rupees a month for weekend children’s choir up to 12,000 for the six-month “Pro Track” that ends with a live EP release on Spotify under the academy label “Evaan Echo.”
Acoustics geek out: two isolation booths treated with recycled-jute panels, a Yamaha hybrid grand with 96 kHz interface, a ukulele wall recycled from mango wood, and a lending library of 1,200 vinyl, reel tapes, and indigenous instruments including the Afghan rubab and Kashmiri santoor. Quarterly “Blindfold Jams” throw instrumentalists together sight-unseen; a small red stage lamp is the only cue to change key—a test of ear and empathy graduate students swear by.
Evaan keeps outreach close to the heart: every Republic Day 150 local children paint a 30-foot sound wave mural on the lane outside; profits from yearly concert “Raag & Rolled” fund free six-month lessons for six street-kids chosen by lottery. Seniors from nearby Shraddha old-age home arrive every Thursday for ukulele choir—silver heads bobbing above pastel instruments, their laughter amplifying more than any PA.
Past the final stair a rooftop sunset terrace hosts monthly cuppa sessions where Kanika’s filter coffee, Avinash’s homemade bajra cookies, and a surprise guest—once Ustad Shujaat Khan tuning by lamplight—melt the boundary between guru and friend. Descend three floors later and the city feels remixed, every horn now syncopated, every billboard rhythm waiting for lyrics.
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- Published: July 28, 2025
