100K+
Children Reached
200+
Teachers Certified
35
Schools · Programmes designed since 2014
2014
Founded
It started on stage.

India’s own music curriculum.

Sangeet4All is the life’s work of Vidushi Saskia Rao-de Haas and Pandit Shubhendra Rao — artists celebrated from the Sydney Opera House to the United Nations, honoured with a knighthood and India’s national awards. After every performance came the same question: how do our children learn this? This is their answer — India’s first complete, integrated music curriculum, Nursery through Grade 12, with Indian classical music at its centre, delivered by your own teachers.

The Founders

Two artists, one shared mission

The New York Times called their music together “movingly meditative.” Vidushi Saskia Rao-de Haas wrote the Sangeet4All curriculum — recognised as the leading music education programme in India and among the finest in the world.

Vidushi Saskia Rao-de Haas

Vidushi Saskia Rao-de Haas

Creator of Sangeet4All · Indian Cello · Author · Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau

A world-renowned cellist, published composer, educator, and author, Saskia Rao-de Haas is the creator of an entirely new instrument: the Indian cello — described as “closest to the human voice, with the range of a complete orchestra.” She has graced the world’s most prestigious stages, and holds one of the Netherlands’ highest civilian honours as Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau. Sangeet4All is her gift to the world.

Pandit Shubhendra Rao

Pandit Shubhendra Rao

Co-founder · Sitar · Composer · Atal Behari Vajpayee National Award

One of India’s foremost sitarists and composers, Shubhendra Rao creates music that, in the words of The Hindu, “is not aimed at titillating the senses, but to seize the soul.” A thinking musician carrying his instrument from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House, he is the first recipient of the Atal Behari Vajpayee National Award for Arts and Culture — and the inspirational force at the heart of Sangeet4All and Director of Musikul Pvt Ltd.

Why Sangeet4All

Music Matters

Every school teaches English, maths, and science with the same structure, year after year. Music is rarely taught that way — a rotating specialist, a once-a-week period, no shared method from one grade to the next. Sangeet4All closes that gap: one sequential curriculum, Nursery to Grade 12, with Indian classical music at its centre and Western and popular traditions taught alongside it.

No institution in India treats music education as its own discipline the way conservatories in Helsinki, London, or Beijing do. Sangeet4All brings that same rigour into an ordinary Indian classroom — taught by the teachers already there. And from the very first day, you can see it: children singing, playing, creating.

“We believe music is the birthright of every child — not a luxury for the talented few, but something every school can teach well.”— Vidushi Saskia Rao-de Haas & Pandit Shubhendra Rao, Co-founders
Children playing the Swartarang
Children performing on the Swartarang
Young children in a Sangeet4All class
Young children, first classes
A primary classroom in session
A primary classroom in session
Children playing the Bansi
Learning the Bansi in class
A Sangeet4All classroom
A Sangeet4All classroom
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What We Offer

Eight ways to work with Sangeet4All

None of them is the “real” offer with the others tacked on — each serves a different part of what music education actually needs.

01

School Curriculum

Nursery through Grade 12. One complete, sequential programme.

02

Teacher Training & Certification

Your own classroom staff, trained and certified as Sangeet4All educators.

03

The Seven Pillars Assessment

Our own holistic framework for tracking musical growth — without a single exam.

04

CSR & NGO Programmes

Bringing music to underserved communities, with documented, measurable impact.

05

Concerts & Performances

Book Vidushi Saskia Rao-de Haas and Pandit Shubhendra Rao for your event.

06

Books & Patented Instruments

Eleven beautifully illustrated books, plus the patented Swartarang, Bansi, and Tala Chakra.

07

IB & University

Indian music for the IB curriculum and higher education.

08

Consultancy

We can help you with important decisions for your school: starting a new school and need help with creating music rooms designed for learning, from soundproofing to layout? Want to improve your arts department functionality? Want to implement a curriculum across all your schools? Want to understand more about NEP 2020 integration in the arts? We are there to help. A first conversation is always free.

Our Schools

Making music with schools since 2014

Shiv Nadar School
The Khaitan School
G D Goenka
Suncity School Sector 54
Suncity School Sector 45
Suncity School 37D
Seth Anandram Jaipuria School Ghaziabad
Seth Anandram Jaipuria School Kanpur
MIS
Manav Rachna International School
The Infinity School
The Lakewood School
Anand Niketan School
Ramagya School
Sapphire International School
Gyaananda School
SLPS
St. Mary's School
Amar Jyoti
Super Kidz
The Khaitan School
Shiv Nadar School
The Khaitan School
G D Goenka
Suncity School Sector 54
Suncity School Sector 45
Suncity School 37D
Seth Anandram Jaipuria School Ghaziabad
Seth Anandram Jaipuria School Kanpur
MIS
Manav Rachna International School
The Infinity School
The Lakewood School
Anand Niketan School
Ramagya School
Sapphire International School
Gyaananda School
SLPS
St. Mary's School
Amar Jyoti
Super Kidz
The Khaitan School
School Corner

Our schools, taking the stage

Infinity School students performing for the Prime Minister
The Infinity School

They sang for the Prime Minister

Students of The Infinity School performed for Prime Minister Narendra Modi — Sangeet4All voices on the nation’s stage. From classroom baithaks to moments like this: this is what music education can become.

Your School Here

Your school’s moment belongs here

A performance that made the town talk, a child who surprised everyone, a festival your students carried — we want to celebrate it. Send us your Sangeet4All stories and photos.

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A Sacred Lineage

The Sangeet4All family begins here

Shubhendra Rao’s road is the tradition itself. At seventeen he left his family home in Bangalore and moved into the household of Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar — living, learning, and serving at the feet of his Guru in the Guru Shishya Parampara, the way India’s music has been carried for centuries.

Saskia Rao-de Haas crossed the world for the same tradition. A Dutch cellist who came to India and was accepted as a disciple of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, she went further still — creating the Indian cello so the music could speak through a new voice. Her Guru’s own words: “She has been taught by God and everyone should listen to her music.”

And the lineage continues: their son Ishaan Leonard Rao — ABRSM Grade 8 at nine, SONY Global Scholar, Berklee cum laude pianist and composer— already named among the country’s top young artists in Indian Express year ender 2021 at age seventeen.

This living chain of teacher and student is what Sangeet4All carries into every classroom — because in our tradition, everyone who learns becomes family. The Sangeet4All family now numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
Young Shubhendra with Pandit Ravi Shankar
Shubhendra with his Guru, Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar
Saskia with Guru Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
Saskia with her Guru, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
Shubhendra and Saskia performing together
Two instruments, one stage
Ishaan as a young child playing sitar
Ishaan, the next generation
Ishaan Leonard Rao today
Ishaan Leonard Rao — Berklee, cum laude
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Social Impact

Reaching beyond the classroom

From the lanes of Nizamuddin Basti to Tata Steel’s communities in Jharkhand, Sangeet4All has brought music to children who would otherwise never encounter it. The Foundation teaches Indian classical music to underprivileged, differently-abled, and seriously ill children — and brings them together with children from partner schools to perform and learn as equals.

“For Nizamuddin’s young voices, ragas are the great leveller.”
— Times of India, August 17, 2014

The Foundation’s work extends beyond CSR — into Silence Concerts for students, corporates, and concert halls; the annual Sitar Ramarao Utsav; and a volunteer programme of over 30 people helping bring music education to life. See all of our activities →

Tata Steel Foundation
Ministry of Culture, GOI
Bal Bhavan, New Delhi
Cancer Society of Delhi
Hope Project, Nizamuddin
Sangeet Natak Akademi
Youth Development Centre
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Sunday Times feature on the Nizamuddin Hope Project
Tata Steel Foundation programme
Bal Bhavan programme
Music brings joy
Ustad Zakir Hussain with the Sangeet4All books
Ustad Zakir Hussain
A Blessing

The late Ustad Zakir Hussain — one of the greatest musicians the world has known — held these books in his hands and gave the work his blessing. We carry it into every classroom.

Recognition

The world’s highest honours, the world’s great stages

Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau

Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau

Conferred on behalf of King Willem-Alexander · April 2025

India Today–Mahindra Drivers of Change

India Today–Mahindra Drivers of Change

Republic Day 2024 · Women Transforming India

United Nations, Geneva

United Nations, Geneva

Human Rights Day concert · December 2025

Ellora Caves, Maharashtra

Ellora Caves, Maharashtra

Performance for 80 years of UNESCO

Atal Behari Vajpayee National Award

Atal Behari Vajpayee National Award

First recipient · Arts and Culture, 2018

As Featured In
New York Times
India Today
The Hindu
Indian Express
Times of India
Deccan Herald
The Week
VPRO Netherlands
Elsevier
Books & Instruments

Books, instruments, and games

Six curriculum books, method books for every instrument, our patented instruments, and classroom games — some available for your home, others exclusive to Sangeet4All schools.

Dhwani book cover
Vadya book cover
Raga and Tala book cover
Desi book cover
Duniya book cover
Shastra book cover
Ukulele method book
Swartarang instrument
Bansi flute
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Voices from the Classroom

What schools say

“Inspiring — and something that will transform Music Education in Schools towards what it is meant to be! The Education World cannot thank you enough for this.”

— Ms. Shashi Banerjee, Principal, Shiv Nadar School, Noida

“In India there is a defined curriculum for maths, science, languages — sadly, none for music. Sangeet4All teaches children the basic theory of music and its elements, forming a solid base to pursue any kind of music they wish. The teacher training programme is a great contributor to meaningful, measurable outcomes in the classroom.”

— Mr. Vedant Khaitan, Director, The Khaitan School, Noida

“There is a kid in class 1C — Devesh. In his first music classes he responded to nothing; he sat quietly. Then one day he joined the greeting song — and today he took part in every activity. When the class gave him a round of applause, he smiled and said: ‘Main bolta hu magar thoda thoda’ — I speak, but a little. This change in Devesh is because of Sangeet4All.”

— Dr. Neha Singh, Music Educator, Mira Model School, Delhi

“My daughter really enjoyed playing the Bansi — she got wonderful knowledge about music in a very fun way. She improved a lot.”

— Parent, Silverline Prestige School

“The Swartarang is a very unique instrument — it helps our students learn different ragas and even motivates them to compose their own music.”

— Neha Shukhija, KG Mentor, Gyaananda School

“It was enriching and engaging and gave an insight into teaching preschoolers and young classes strategically and simply.”

— Tarika, The Shriram School
Bring It to Your School

Start the conversation

01
The only complete K–12 music curriculum

Indian, Western, and popular traditions — vocal and instrumental — Nursery through Grade 12.

02
Your own teachers, certified

No specialist hire needed. Aligned with NEP 2020.

03
A real assessment framework

The Seven Pillars — rigorous, holistic, no exams.

04
100,000+ children reached since 2014

A decade-long, growing movement.

05
Head of Programme

For school onboarding and programme enquiries, contact Chandrika Raj — 98111 20983.

In Memoriam

Colin Campbell

Every drawing in Shastra was done by hand by the late, amazing Colin Campbell — an artist of rare gift, with a lifetime’s mastery of pen illustration. He was part of this book through and through, and each drawing he made is a work of art in itself. It was a joy to work with him. The pencil frames across this website are drawn from his work: his art doesn’t decorate this site; it frames it.

Saraswati, by Colin Campbell

Saraswati, goddess of music

Shastra

Tansen, by Colin Campbell

Tansen, the legendary singer

Shastra

Tansen with his Guru, by Colin Campbell

Tansen with his Guru

Shastra

Pandit Ravi Shankar, by Colin Campbell

Pandit Ravi Shankar

Shastra

Shubhendra and Saskia, by Colin Campbell

Shubhendra & Saskia, by Colin’s hand

Shastra

Nataraja, by Colin Campbell

Nataraja, Lord of the Dance

Shastra

Raga Mala miniature, by Colin Campbell

A Raga Mala miniature

Shastra

Raga Mala miniature, by Colin Campbell

A Raga Mala miniature

Shastra

The Bhakti movement, by Colin Campbell

The Bhakti movement

Shastra

In gratitude, the Sangeet4All Family

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