Dr. Kalmala Shankar is a regular Artist from A I R and has performed for many National Programs of Music & Sangeet Sammelan of Akashawani & Doordarshan.
‘Shankara’ Arts Foundation is a registered non –profitable organization, established in the year 2007 at Varanasi. Varanasi is well known as the city of Lord Shankar (Shiva). The Foundation is named after the deity, which is the name of a Raga too.
The main objectives of the Foundation is to provide high skilled training in music, and the mission is to promote and encourage artists based exclusively on talent, and not by inheritance of musical legacy by birth alone.The Foundation teaches the right aspects of learning classical music in a Guru-Shishya-Parampara way and gives the opportunity to maintain high level of music through the audio and video recordings of the legendary artists. Shankara Arts Foundation conducts workshops and lecture-demonstration series every quarterly which gives the platform for thinking, learning and teaching through performance, discussion and appreciation.
There is Shankara Music Festival held every year in the memory of Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi which gives the stage for the established and young talented artists as well.
Shankara Arts Foundation provides the facility to learn Indian Classical Music, semi classical music for vocal, Hawaiian Guitar- Shankar Guitar (Innovative form of Hawaiian guitar) and Sitar. These teachings are provided in the way of Guru-Shishya parampara (the oldest & traditional Indian way of learning).
Shankar has participated in many music festivals like Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy, Sangeet Natak Academy New Delhi, SCZCC, NCZCC, Taansen sangeet Samaroh, Sawai Gandharv Sangeet Samaroh, Soorya Festival, Taaj Mahotsav, Narad gaan Sabha, Ganga Mahotsav, Sankat Mochan Festival, Goa Kala Academy, Spic Macay Series throughout India etc.She performed in various countries like Singapore, Hungary, Austria, France, Dubai, Abudhabi, Muscat, Doha, Switzerland, U.S.A. and U.K