Jyoshna [SEP] educated at
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 Maori and indigenous people's music. She also has her own collection of
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 stunning albums.
Jyoshna is always looking for new ways to express and explore music and spirituality from both western and eastern prospective, fusing sounds of traditional Indian music