Sugam Yayasan
A community foundation for arts, culture and education, in Petaling Jaya.
Follow the riverEvents
Happening now.
Concerts, festivals and celebrations where the whole community comes together.
Events
See the full calendar
Our story
Music travels like water.
Carnatic music began in the south of India and crossed the Bay of Bengal with the families who carried it. Sugam Yayasan is the community foundation where that river settles in Malaysia, and Sugam Karnatica is its academy: a community institution first, and a music school because of it.
Karnatica
The academy: classes and performance in the Carnatic tradition.
Samskhaaraa
The culture: values and learning passed on to the next generation.
Faculty
Still water, clear reflections.
Our gurus teach the way they were taught: patiently, by ear, one phrase at a time.
Guru name
Vocal, to be added
Guru name
Instrument, to be added
Guru name
Percussion, to be added
Programmes
A glade of instruments.
Learn voice and instrument from teachers who trained in the tradition, in classes shaped for children, adults, and complete beginners.
- Vocal
- Veena
- Violin
- Mridangam
- Tabla
Tap an instrument floating by the river to meet it.
Contact
Come ashore.
The quickest way to reach us is WhatsApp. Visit a class, ask about enrolment, or talk to us about supporting the building.
- Find us
- No. 11-1, Petaling Utama Avenue, Jalan PJS 1/50, Petaling Jaya, Selangor
- Write to us
- admin@sugam.org
Building fund
A permanent home.
is what it takes to raise a building of our own: classrooms, a performance hall, and a place that stays. Watch it rise as you scroll. Every gift lays another course.
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Sugam Yayasan, Sugam Karnatica and Sugam Samskhaaraa, Petaling Jaya. Prototype of the River of Sound scroll.