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Jyoshna La Trobe is a New Zealand singer, songwriter and ethnomusicologist. Her name comes from sanskrita and the meaning is The moon light.

She began her musician career in 1980 when she wrote her fist album named ........., she tape recorded and gave it into her gurus hands in 19... Before she joind the women group Turiiya in 198. and made album Waitin, which is coming back in France, she recorded albums as

She comes from a rich and varied background in interdisciplinary education projects, research, teaching, original and traditional music collaboration, as well as events management. Her musical experiences range from live performance and studio recording, to teaching, workshops, conferences, exhibitions and other inter-disciplinary events. She is also an active performer and songwriter versed in several music traditions, including Bengali songs and has recorded many albums, both ethnographic and documentaries. In addition to being a vocalist of several genres, her instrumental repertoire includes the guitar and the khol drum. More recently she has embarked on a parallel career as an academic and industry researcher, successfully completing a Ph D in Music at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Over the past five years I spent long periods of time researching the music culture of Rarh, India, with support from the British Library Sound Archives as well as INTACH Trust, UK. She has made over 130 hours of visual and audio recordings from performances, interviews, of local experts in West Bengal and Jharkhand. These have been deposited in the British Library Sound Archives for future generations. As a result of her research and music, she has also been invited to run seminars, workshops and to give TV and radio presentations in Norway, USA, Germany, Italy, Holland, Denmark and Australia, as seen on NRK TV for example, (see above). These have been very well received. Prior to her PhD research, her stint as a lecturer in Contextual Studies and researcher for the Department of the Visual Arts School, Auckland University at Manukau in 1998-2001, involved lecturing, student tutoring, administration and interviewing many prominent NZ artists for publication. She was also responsible for organising lectures and performances within and without the university. In her work as an educator she also presented a course on Indigenous People’s Music culture at the School of Visual Arts. She has organised several festivals and managed important concert tours of different world music and performance groups in and out of the UK. Some of these events have involved premier institutions such as The British Library, the University of London, the National Museum in Wellington, Asian Music Circuit, Asia 2000 and the Royal Chhau Academy of Rarh, India.

As the coordinator of various art organisations, including WAC (Women Artists Community) in NZ and RAWA in London (Renaissance Artists and Writers Association) she has been involved with liasing with different professionals. With her RAWA group she has been involved in organising charity events and performances in prisons, homes of the elderly, shelters for the Homeless in London, for the victims of calamities worldwide.

She has had considerable experience in organising research trips to different places and has produced so far four ethnographic sound recordings of Indian music and two visual documentaries on Indian culture, titled “The Shiva Gajan” and also “The masks of Chorida”, which have become part of the British Library Collection as well as the Visual Art School at Manukau Library Collection (see under Red Earth).