Music credentials

A few of her notable performances have been concerts at Dharmasthala and Hariharapura (Navaratri), Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Indian Institute of world culture, Yavanika state youth center, Kannada Sahitya Parishad, The Bangalore Gayana Samaja, Kannada Bhavana organized by Directorate of Kannada and Culture academy, Seshadripuram College, Ananya sabhangana, Sri Rama Lalitha Kala Mandira, Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Temple, RMV Sangeetha Sabha, Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams, Kapaleeshwara temple (Chennai), Sri Krishna temple, Udupi, Sringeri Sharada Devasthanam (Sringeri), Hariharapura, Horanadu Annapurneshwari Temple and many more. She has performed at the Girinagar Sharadamba Temple for 25 consecutive years as part of the Sharnnavaratri festival. She specializes in Panchaveena, Dashaveena, Dwadashaveena, and other instrumental ensembles. She has been training many talented young students in a structured approach and encourages them to showcase their talents on esteemed platforms and ensembles.

Music Therapy and Psychology Intervention: Dr. Geetha Bhat has successfully implemented music therapy as a positive and alternative mode of therapeutic intervention across various neurological impairments like multiple sclerosis, autism, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury and various disorders and disabilities like down's syndrome, dyslexia, intellectual impairments, and emotional disorders. She has also extended her music therapy interventions to cancer survivors and cancer patients at the Cytecare Cancer Hospital and Karunashraya in Bengaluru. Her articles on education, psychology and music therapy have been published by leading newspapers such as The Indian Express, The Times of India, The Deccan Herald, Prajavani, The Vijay Times (the Bangalore mirror) and in magazines Kalasinchana from Ananya, The First Melody from Bharatiya Samagana Sabha, SamYoga from Ranjani Fine Arts, Lalitha Kala Tarangini from Sri Rama Lalita Kala Mandira and many more. Her knowledge-sharing talks and presentations at various schools and Colleges, Bharatiya Sangeetha Sammelan, Sri Satya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli, Academy of Music-Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Ideas Conclave (RFA) at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, TEDx talk at Jain (Deemed-to-be) University, Cytecare Cancer Hospital, VHD Central Institute for Home Science, Global Autism Convention-St John's Hospital, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeeth, Nightingales Enrichment Center for Senior Citizens, Nadamanthana Conference at Jain College, Ananya, Malleshwaram, Bharatiya Samagana Sabha has gained her a lot of appreciation. She adds to her credit by conducting several awareness and sensitization programs on child safety, abuse alertness, parenting and counseling for slum children, rural and backward children apart from children from various international schools and convents. Many of her interviews and programs have been aired on All India Radio, Bengaluru and TV channels like Praja TV, Doordarshan, Ayush and Udaya TV. She is associated with institutions and NGOs catering to autism and related developmental disabilities in children and adults and has also collaborated with rehabilitation professionals in the employment of Indian classical music in music therapy as a successful mode of deriving positive outcomes in treating children and adults over a range of non-musical goals.