Established 1950 Website Official webpage Founded 1950 | Affiliations UGC Phone 0542 236 6463 Type of business Faculty | |
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Dean Prof. Birendra Nath Mishra Location Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India Address Aurobindo Colony, Banaras Hindu University Campus, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221005 | ||
Faculty of Performing Arts, (Hindi: प्रदर्शन कला संकाय) (a.k.a. Performing Arts faculty) is a faculty in the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India which offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate courses in performing arts. It was founded in 1950 and had several renowned and award winning artists and musicians as faculty members.
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History
Faculty of Performing Arts was started by Pandit Omkarnath Thakur in 1950. The faculty was initially instituted as a college and was called "Music and Fine Arts". In 1966, Pandit Govind Malviya and founder Principal Sangeet Martand Pandit Omkarnath Thakur in 1966 the college was restructured to a faculty, with three departments (Vocal music, Instrumental music and Musicology). Faculty of Performing Arts claims to start the first department of Musicology in India headed by eminent musicologists Prof. Prem Lata Sharma.