sur gyan music academy greater noida
D274, Paramount Golf Foreste, UPSIDC Site C, Gulistanpur, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201306, India
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Sur Gyan Music Academy, Greater Noida: Where Every Note Finds Its Home
Tucked away on the second floor of the Ansal Fortune Arcade adjoining P-3 in Sector Gamma II, Sur Gyan Music Academy is hard to miss only if you ignore the bright, saffron‐hued board painted with a stylised tanpura that hangs above the staircase. Step inside at 5:00 p.m. on any weekday and you’re greeted by a long corridor lined with framed photographs of Pt. Ravi Shankar, Lata Mangeshkar and a young A. R. Rahman—silent reminders of the institution’s credo: “Respect the legacy, dare to innovate.”
The academy was founded in 2013 by vocalist-composer duo Suraj “Sur” Sharma and Gyanendra “Gyan” Pathak—hence the playful portmanteau. A mutual disappointment with rigid classical syllabi and cookie-cutter guitar classes led them to create a space that treats Hindustani sangeet, Western theory, production software and stage craft as spokes of the same wheel. Today, the faculty is a twelve-member collective of gurus ranging from a Jaipur-Atrauli khayal exponent who still travels with a harmonium that once belonged to the Dagar brothers to a Berklee graduate whose side hustle is crafting synth patches for Netflix scores.
Four acoustically-treated studios—Riyaz, Harmony, Rhythm and Mix—occupy 3,500 sq ft. Riyaz keeps microphones at ear level so a young sitarist receives the same attention as a bassist; Harmony houses eight weighted keyboards slaved to a communal Mac Pro, while Mix is a projector‐lit cube where students dissect anything from a Tyagaraja kriti to a Bill Evans progression on Logic Pro. A small library at the far end contains over 700 digitised bandishes, 300 printed scores and two 1970s Russian reel-to-reel tapes that students are encouraged to restore themselves as part of a “Heritage & Tech” weekend elective.
Batch sizes never exceed six, ensuring a “micro-gurukul” atmosphere. Monthly “Sur Sabhas” turn the waiting lounge into a miniature baithak where beginners share the floor with professionals; parents sit on floor cushions eating samosas from the academy’s own kitchen kit, while passers-by on the arcade breathe in alaaps drifting past the glass doors. Annual highlights include the “Ganpati SynthFest” (where electronic producers remix a 200-year-old aarti) and “Raag & Roll” in December, a ticketed concert that hires students as performers, sound engineers, stage managers and even marketing interns.
Fees remain modest—₹3,500 a month for two one-hour sessions—and scholarships pegged to talent have so far helped forty-two children from nearby villages. Evening commutes avail the Delhi-Meerut Rapid Rail’s Knowledge Park II station, a six-minute e-rickshaw ride away. Whether you are seven and thrilled by tabla syllables that sound like raindrops, or thirty-seven and itching to coax Delhi blues out of a battered Stratocaster, Sur Gyan reminds you that music is less a discipline to master than a friendship to renew—one perfectly tuned antara at a time.
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- Published: August 1, 2025
