Shane
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About Shane
Shane Monds is a multi-instrumentalist and composer collaborating with filmmakers, artists, performers from diverse traditions. His work has been featured at venues including St. Peter’s Basilica, the Acropolis, the documentary film channel, multiple film festivals, and through audio installations at James Turrell's Twilight Epiphany, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Menil Collection. A specialist in non-Western music, Monds earned his doctorate in composition from Rice University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Hindustani music, focusing on the Etawah gharana's sitar and surbahar traditions under musicologist Deepak Raja and Pandit Arvind Parikh. He studies sitar with Abhik Mukherjee and trained in North Indian voice and tabla with Chandrakantha and David Courtney. He is Composer-in-Residence at The Sufi Records, a groundbreaking label for original Sufi crossover music. Dr. Monds plays bass, guitar, piano, sitar, surbahar, and other fretted instruments.
Shane Monds is a multi-instrumentalist and composer collaborating with filmmakers, artists, performers from diverse traditions. His work has been featured at venues including St. Peter’s Basilica, the Acropolis, the documentary film channel, multiple film festivals, and through audio installations at James Turrell's Twilight Epiphany, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Menil Collection. A specialist in non-Western music, Monds earned his doctorate in composition from Rice University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Hindustani music, focusing on the Etawah gharana's sitar and surbahar traditions under musicologist Deepak Raja and Pandit Arvind Parikh. He studies sitar with Abhik Mukherjee and trained in North Indian voice and tabla with Chandrakantha and David Courtney. He is Composer-in-Residence at The Sufi Records, a groundbreaking label for original Sufi crossover music. Dr. Monds plays bass, guitar, piano, sitar, surbahar, and other fretted instruments.