Publishing with Smithsonian and Roli in 2026 | Fifteen Albums, Two decades of sound | Professorship at Thames Valley University, London | Nurturing Minds, globally | Featured at the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
For more than four decades, Professor Surinder Singh has studied how sound shapes human behaviour — across ethnomusicology, the psychology of communication, and the ancient music traditions of India. His work gives institutions and audiences a new vocabulary for emotion, attention, and the conditions under which people think, lead, and connect.
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Professor Surinder Singh carries the Gurmat Kirtan tradition — a living science of sound, transmitted through lineage. His work does not invite audiences into a tradition; it carries the tradition into the rooms where leaders, clinicians, and thinkers are engaging the deeper questions of attention, emotion, and what it means to be human.
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Raj Academy is the international non-profit through which Professor Singh trains the next generation of teachers and practitioners. Its existence is part of why his keynote work lands: he is not speaking about a field, he is running one.
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