Faculty – Community Education Division (Sanskrit Studies)
Shri. Srinivas Bangarbale is a Sanskrit Faculty at the Hindu University of America’s Community Education Division. He serves as faculty for the Certificate Program in Vedic Sanskrit at HUA. He has a master’s degree in Sanskrit and Vedic Studies from Hindu University of America. Shri. Bangarbale’s focus on Sanskrit is on Sahitya. He has translated Kulashekhara Alwar’s Mukunda Mala, a Sanskrit composition of 40 verses, into English. He is currently developing a verse-by-verse translation of Mahakavi Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsa, an epic with 19 chapters and close to 1,000 verses set to many different metres.
Shri. Bangarbale is a Carnatic classical musician with a long-standing presence in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He actively contributes to regional classical music organizations, leads the training and group rendition of Tyagaraja’s Pancharatna kritis, and teaches vocal music to students of all ages, emphasizing lyrical fidelity, meaning, and musical precision. He also presents lecture-demonstrations on classical compositions. He trained under traditional teachers, beginning with his father, Sri. BKS Acharya, and later received advanced vocal training from Vidwan D. Seshachary of the Hyderabad Brothers.
Professionally, he served over 20 years in public service, including as Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, representing the United States in international financial regulatory forums. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MS in Computer Science from Villanova University, and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University’s Visvesvaraya College of Engineering.
