Dr M Harre Harren

Dr. M. Harre Harren, M.Mus.,M.Ed.,Ph.D.,Ph.D(USA)Hon, specializes in the field of Music Education and Music Therapy and is a performing musician and vocal artist of traditional Indian music. His music and seminars are rooted in the South Indian Karnatic system of music.

He is one of the proud protégé of the South Indian System of Music having early training in Vocal Music under his mother for more than four decades. He has also received training in Instrumental Music - the Mridangam.  He  had the fortune of learning from the Guru and also learning from the same Guru in the Institution also throughout his curriculum unto research. So he has the fortunate distinction of being a by product of the Gurukula and Institutions at the same time. He  lives with his Guru . His Guru also is his Mother.

Now after having experiencing the various facets of Indian Music Dr.M.Harreharren  has now specialized in the field of Music Education and Music Therapy wherein he finds the happiness of reaching out to somebody individually who really needs the healing touches of Indian Musical system.

Dr.M.Harreharren  as well as the beneficiaries derive real pleasure out of this new area of Therapy. It is a unfortunate that in India -Music as Therapy is not an accredited system of curative mechanism.

Dr.M.Harreharren  also has wider experience and exposure in the International arena of having attended several International Conferences in South Korea, Japan, USA, UK, Australia, and has conducted workshops at USA, Japan, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia.

He is the only Indian Music Therapist & Music Educationist  to have attended Nine  International Conferences on Music Education and Music Therapy and is a Member of the World Federation of Therapy Congress and International Society for Music Education.

Dr.M.Harreharren  was bestowed the Sangit Natak Academy award by the Government of Kerala and the Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award .He is the Past President ( 2002-2003) for the Rotary Club of Pondicherry Aurocity.

Today Dr.M.Harreharren is an authority of Indian Music in the National and International arena. He has written and edited (along with his Guru) more than 40 books and 50 Research papers on various aspects of Indian Music.
He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from India and an honorary doctorate in music therapy and education. He has been a world traveler since 1984, attending more than a dozen international conferences and has conducted more than a dozen international conferences and has conducted more than 200 workshops on various aspects of music therapy education and ethnomusicology.

 

He has released 21 CDs and three DVDs of Indian musical therapy. The CDs offer musical therapy for women, IT professionals, lawyers, teachers, police, children, heart patients, nervous diseases, chronic pain, ayurveda, yoga, journalists, marriages, 50++ age groups, cancer patients, and diabitics.

He is also a Vedic Astrologer and uses Cosmology, Planetary Mantras, Numerology and Vastu Sastra for solving health problems of the people. Currently he is the Head of the College of Fine Arts and performing Arts and Special officer for the Culture Department of the Government of Pondicherry, India. He has taught earlier at the Universities at Thanjavur, Mysore and Madurai in south India. He is also the Chairman of the Society for Music Education, Therapy and Research and research based in Pondicherry and the Director of Academic Research of the Indian Music Therapy Research Foundation based in Kerala.