ABOUT US – THE MUSIC CIRCLE
The Music Circle is a music education organization with a mission to empower children, teachers, and parents around the world with tools that help them make music and use it as an agent for social and emotional change.
At its core, The Music Circle is founded on the belief that music has no borders, age, religion, gender, race, or color — and that it truly “makes the world go round.”
The Music Circle currently encompasses three programs: Music Together Mumbai (est. 2006), Music in Measures (est. 2012), and TheraTunes (est. 2018).
MUSIC TOGETHER
MUSIC IN MEASURES
THERATUNES
PRESS RELEASE
PRIYANKA SETH PANDIT
Founder and director,
Music Together Mumbai
Flautist, mother-of-three and former history teacher with a Master’s in education from Columbia University, Priyanka Seth Pandit brought the only research-based music and movement programme, Music Together, to India in 2006. Ever since, she’s helped babies and children (about 500 of them each year) develop physical, cognitive and language skills while singing, dancing and playing instruments with their parents, in music groups conducted by her dedicated team of teachers. Her second project, Music in Measures, uses the same techniques layered with world music and literature.
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PRIYANKA SETH PANDIT
Project Rangeet Classroom,
Dharavi, Mumbai
Education isn’t only about math, sciences and languages. It is equally important to expose young, impressionable minds to the right values as well as socially important messages of cleanliness, equality, conservation, etc. Fortunately, innovation in education in India hasn’t confined itself to only the three Rs — Reading, writing and arithmetic. In Mumbai, Project Rangeet uses art and music to make school children aware of socially relevant issues. Since 2014, founders Priyanka Seth Pandit, Karishma Menon and Simran Mulchandani have created nine lesson plans focusing on issues …