India is a diversified country with different cultures, cuisines, languages, dances, festivals, dresses, habits and of course music. Thus it is extremely complex to address the issues of any particular topic. Every region has its own advantages and disadvantages. If we talk about music in India, we’ll see that North East India has a strong influence of Western Music, East India boasts of a huge range of different musical genres, South India proudly has Carnatic Classical Music along with a strong South Indian Film Music, West India and North India mostly are the same with a strong culture of Bollywood Music along with Indian Classical and Regional Music. Every state of India has its Folk Music too. The process of Music Education in India too becomes complex. One has to first decide on whether they will learn Indian or Western Music. If they wish to learn Indian Music, then the possibilities are Hindustani Classical Music, Carnatic Classical Music, Folk Music, Bollywood Music, Devotional Music, etc. Then there is regional music like for Music Education in Kolkata, candidates may learn Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrul Geeti and so on. For Western Music Education in India, the scopes are Western Classical Music, Rock & Pop, Jazz, Blues.
Music Education in India as a whole is extremely disorganized. Specially for Western Music, there is a huge demand for learning but the number of good music educators are few. Also, there is close to zero awareness regarding children music learning like the world famous Kodaly Children Music Education system. Only a few schools in India do teach Kodaly Music to children between the age of three to six years. Western Music Education is still heavily dependent on the colonial music exams boards with several wrong myths. There are also Australian Boards and also global boards like musiCEA International Music Exams Board. Music education in India is of primarily amateur standard as many teachers are self taught or taught by self taught teachers. There is probably a hand counted number of teachers who have studied in International Music Universities. There is a section of teachers who has received well guided training too. But there is a huge shortage of properly trained music educators in India and also a huge shortage of proper music schools in India. The gap between demand and supply is increasing with every passing year though there is a change in mindset in last few years. Digitization has made a section of population aware of the right learning approaches. They are keen to make the right choices. They are willing to travel to get the right education. They are willing to spend for the right education. Thus, the music education industry in India is growing rapidly. Music education in Kolkata too is going through a rapid transformation too. International Music Schools like the Academy for Musical Excellence is providing services for Children Music Education, Music Education for Special Needs Children, School and College students, adults and professionals and also to retired personals.
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