Young and senior participants from all over the world, both non-Indians and persons of Indian origin - musicians, teachers, students, music loving professionals and scholars in various fields - have so far participated. Their enthusiastic participation, encouraging responses, recommendations and frequent inquiries are among the reasons for resuming this course. 

The following features should go a long way to make it easier and more affordable for students around the world to benefit from participation: 
- Much lower individual participation fees 

- Special student rates (individual or group participation); this is also the rate offered to other participants from earlier courses 
(i.e. a voluntary contribution towards the costs of running the new course) 

- Group rate (min. 12 persons per group); this is meant for students and others registered with a recognized cultural or educational institution anywhere in the world (e.g. adult education programs) 

- Charitable donation in the form of an educational fund payable in Rupees for a good cause (see course website for more information); this option is reserved for Indian participants residing in India;  Indian children are the beneficiaries of this category 
(Participants are welcome to add money to their applicable amount for the purpose of donating to the charity mentioned above; the difference will be forwarded and acknowledged on receiving this payment.) 

Other new features:  
- Payments (credit cards/bank account) can now also be made through PayPal; this is secure and cost free (without need for a PayPal account) 

- Registration is done by e-mail 

- Teachers/tutors of a special seminar group are welcome to join and monitor the course forum (free of charge); this option is useful in those cases where students need credits for their academic courses 

- The course forum now has familiar, more intuitive features helping even inexperienced computer/internet users to use their time productively 

- All course related discussions give a choice of either communicating person-to-person or being accessible to all the other (registered) participants 

- Seminar groups may opt for separate forum discussion groups (on request) 

- The forum's system protects participants from from unsolicited mail; their e-mail addresses need not be revealed anywhere 

For more details, pleasse refer to the course website: http://www.carnaticstudent.org ; Feedback from satisfied participants 
 
 
Ludwig Pesch, Course Author and Tutor 
Carnatic flautist; Music teacher; Diploma and Postdiploma of the Kalakshetra College Chennai; Author of reference and text books; Contributor to journals, radio and television programmes; Decorated with the "Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande" (Cross of the Order of Merit on the Ribbon) of the Federal Republic of Germany; Recipient of the Rabindranath Tagore Cultural Award (Kulturpreis), Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft (2003). 

The course author's writing "has been highly regarded for its accurate scholarship. At the same time he takes pains to write in a style that does not intimidate the lay reader." - The Music Magazine 

For more information please visit Ludwig's website. 
 

Ludwig Pesch on South Indian (Carnatic) Music 

	About Ludwig Pesch
	The history of South Indian music
	Music Education
	The role of music in Indian society