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Geeta Novotny (born Geeta Bhatnagar, 8 of September) is an award-winning, multi-faceted artist in the world of performing arts as a singer and actor.

Highlights
In 2010-2011, Geeta is a winner of the prestigious 2010 Beverly Hills Auditions which has lead to her being contracted for solo recital engagements in 2011 at venues such as The Music in the Mansion Recital Series at the historical Beverly Hills Greystone Mansion and The Previews Concerts Series in Manhattan Beach, and at California State University at Bakersfield. Geeta will also be reprising her role as a featured soloist in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra and the Bakersfield Masterworks Chorale. She will also be headlining at concert at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZ.

Non-Profit Organizations
As an important compliment to her performance career, Geeta donates her time and talent for humanitarian causes. She is proudly a project leader and roster artist for the charitable organization Sing for Hope which was co-founded by opera singers Camille Zamora and Monica Yunus. Geeta has sung under the auspices of Sing for Hope for concerts for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, for the 2008 Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Summit. Geeta arranged a concert for Sing for Hope in partnership for the 2010 International Women’s Festival in Santa Barbara helmed by Patty DeDominic. The concert featured talents such as renowned singer, composer, and double violinist Gingger Shankar, tenor Daniel Montenegro, and pianist Jeremy Frank.

David Lynch Foundation Online Record Label
Geeta has been chosen to be an artist with the David Lynch Foundation Music Online Record Label in support of the David Lynch Foundation which will make history in 2011 as the first charity-owned and operated record label. The Label will fully launch in April 2011 with an audio and video track Geeta singing the Gounod / Bach Ave Maria with with Andy Summers, the famed guitarist of the band The Police, on electric guitar. Geeta and Andy will also launch the Label with artists such as Maroon 5, Neon Trees, Peter Gabriel, Moby, Ozomatli, Iggy Pop, Dave Stewart, Mary Hopkin, Ben Folds and others.