Founders' Advanced Raag
A small, audition-only cohort for advanced students. Gurmit Kor teaches the cohort personally, raag by raag, on Saturdays.
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Raag Marwa · sunset hour · session recording
Gurmat Sangeet & the music the Gurus composed, taught in its Hindustani classical home it — one student, one raag, one breath at a time.
Raag Marwa · sunset hour · session recording
From Bhairav at dawn to Yaman at sunset — the full classical cycle, preserved in the Guru Granth Sahib, taught in our Surrey studio. Hover any tile to see the raag's name.
I started teaching the raags the Gurus composed in 1998 — a Hindustani classical inheritance that the Guru Granth Sahib itself preserves deserve a school. Twenty-five years later, every one of those raags is still taught here.
Gurmit Kor is the founder and principal teacher at KOR. His students — from Surrey and across the Lower Mainland — have gone on to perform kirtan at gurdwaras, compete internationally, and pass the tradition to their own children.
The music of the Guru Granth Sahib — the foundational cycle of raags used in kirtan. The school's signature program.
Hindustani vocal and instrumental foundations — raga architecture, tala, aaroha-avroha to advanced bandish — taught as discipline in service of Gurmat Sangeet. The raags the Gurus composed sit inside this wider Hindustani tradition, so we teach the foundations our kirtan students need to carry a shabad with authority.
Tabla, harmonium, dilruba, taus, sitar & more. One-on-one weekly instruction with lineage-aware pedagogy.
Group practice and stage preparation for students ready to lead kirtan at gurdwaras and community events.
A small, audition-only cohort for advanced students. Gurmit Kor teaches the cohort personally, raag by raag, on Saturdays.
Read the syllabus
Twenty-five years teaching. The institute's founder and principal teacher. The teacher most students eventually arrive at.
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A late-afternoon raag of patience and weight. Many of the most demanding kirtan shabads are written in Marwa.
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My grandfather sang kirtan his whole life. When he passed, I wanted to learn the raags properly. Gurmit-ji didn't just teach me the notes — he taught me why my grandfather sang them.Harleen B. · Student since 2019 · Surrey, BC
Book a trial lesson at our Surrey studio. No commitment — just an hour, one raag, and a teacher who has spent twenty-five years learning how to teach this tradition.