Shonali Srivastava
Tabla player, percussionist and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lessons are available in the Bay Area and online.
Study with Shonali
Watch Teen TaalTabla, music and dance lessons
Shonali teaches children, teenagers and adults in the Bay Area and online. Beginners are welcome.
Tabla · Naal · Dholak
Hindustani vocals · Keyboard
Hindi · Kathak · Bollywood dance
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Lucknow, India
San Francisco Bay Area
Shonali Srivastava is an Indian-born American tabla player, percussionist and music educator. She grew up in Lucknow in a family of musicians. Her father, Girja Shanker Srivastava, was a flautist, and she began appearing on stage at about three years old.
Dhun in Raga Pilu, with her father Girja Shanker SrivastavaShe is a disciple of Ustad Zakir Hussain, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri and Pandit Birju Maharaj, and works in the Lucknow gharana of tabla.
She moved to the United States in 1997. In California she founded Shonali's Academy of Music & Arts and has continued to perform and teach in the Bay Area.
Approved artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan. The first woman approved by AIR to perform naal.
Training and lineage
Post Nipun in tabla from Bhatkhande, Lucknow
Visharad in Hindustani vocal music
Prabhakar in Kathak from Prayag Sangeet Samiti
Lucknow gharana of tabla
Melody's of Tabla
2015
Her 2015 tabla album features Teen Taal, Jhap Taal and Kaharwa.
- Teen Taal16 beats
- Jhap Taal10 beats
- Kaharwa8 beats
Tabla performances and accompaniment
Sisters in ConcertHindustani classical music with Nidhi Nigam
Tabla accompanimentHindustani vocal performanceFor Bay Area tabla solos, Hindustani vocal or instrumental accompaniment, dance accompaniment and collaborations, write to Shonali.