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'' | '''Jyoshna La Trobe''' (aka ''Jyosná'', ''Joshna'', ''Jyotsna'') is a singer/songwriter and [[:wikipedia:Ethnomusicologist|ethnomusicologist]]. Her Saḿskrta name means "moonlight". | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Jyoshna | '''Jyoshna''' was born ''Joanne La Trobe'' to a musical family in England on 1956 August 11. Her parents were Leslie Essex La Trobe and Toni La Trobe (aka Isobel Burton). The family migrated to Australia then to [[New Zealand]] in 1963, which became their home. Jyoshna began composing at an early age and was performing with her band "The Livewires", at Greenmeadows Intermediate School, [[Manurewa]]. Her second band was '''Turiiya''' which included Daryn Long (aka Diipali Linwood) and Kim Wesney who performed, composed and recorded together between 1983 and 1990. Since then Jyoshna has gone on as a solo artist and recorded many albums. | ||
Jyoshna | Jyoshna explores new ways to express music and spirituality from both a Western and Eastern prospective, fusing sounds of traditional Indian music with Western sensibility, [[Taonga Puoro]] and singer/songwriter styles. | ||
Jyoshna’s music has taken her to many countries of the world and at each place she has collaborated with local musicians: in India with the Mahato Kiirtan group and the Rarhi [[Chhau dance]] musicians; in London with the RAWA group; in Vermont USA with local musicians Tina Tourin and friends and in Brazil with Matrika (Cecilia Valentim, Sergio Leone, and Ramon Soza and friends). Her music has featured on Brazilian TV, NRK Norwegian and NZ TV. | |||
Jyoshna’s music has taken her to many countries of the world and at each place she has collaborated with local musicians: in India with the Mahato Kiirtan group and the Rarhi [[Chhau dance]] musicians; in London with the [[RAWA group]]; in Vermont USA with local musicians Tina Tourin and friends and in Brazil with Matrika (Cecilia Valentim, Sergio Leone, and Ramon Soza and friends). Her music has featured on Brazilian TV, NRK Norwegian and NZ TV. | |||
As an original composer, Jyoshna has authored many albums of both her own, as well as ethnographic material, including ''Red Earth Song'' (1996), ''Magnificence'' (2001) and ''Unity Hours I and II'' (2010). Most recently Jyoshna's has composed music for the New Zealand feature film ''Stars in Her Eyes'' (2016, Dir. by Athina Tsoulis)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/stars-in-her-eyes-2016/credits | title=Credits: Stars in Her Eyes | publisher=[[NZ On Screen]] | accessdate=July 14, 2017}}</ref> and completed a new album called ''Dharma Cakra, [[Sanskrit]] songs for [[Meditation]]''. Jyoshna is presently working as an itinerant lecturer, music teacher and composer at [[Bethells Beach]] in Auckland. Her other passion is ethnomusicology and in 2010 Dr. Jyoshna La Trobe completed her PhD in Music at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS), University of London on "Marai Kirtan and the Performance of Ecstasy in the Purulia District of West Bengal, India". Jyoshna’s research focuses on the ‘praise music of [[West Bengal]] ([[Rarh]]), India, as well as [[Māori music|Maori]] and indigenous people’s music. She also has her own collection of audio visual material housed at the World Music Archives, [[British Library]] (C1211). | As an original composer, Jyoshna has authored many albums of both her own, as well as ethnographic material, including ''Red Earth Song'' (1996), ''Magnificence'' (2001) and ''Unity Hours I and II'' (2010). Most recently Jyoshna's has composed music for the New Zealand feature film ''Stars in Her Eyes'' (2016, Dir. by Athina Tsoulis)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/stars-in-her-eyes-2016/credits | title=Credits: Stars in Her Eyes | publisher=[[NZ On Screen]] | accessdate=July 14, 2017}}</ref> and completed a new album called ''Dharma Cakra, [[Sanskrit]] songs for [[Meditation]]''. Jyoshna is presently working as an itinerant lecturer, music teacher and composer at [[Bethells Beach]] in Auckland. Her other passion is ethnomusicology and in 2010 Dr. Jyoshna La Trobe completed her PhD in Music at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS), University of London on "Marai Kirtan and the Performance of Ecstasy in the Purulia District of West Bengal, India". Jyoshna’s research focuses on the ‘praise music of [[West Bengal]] ([[Rarh]]), India, as well as [[Māori music|Maori]] and indigenous people’s music. She also has her own collection of audio visual material housed at the World Music Archives, [[British Library]] (C1211). | ||