Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music (SAM), with legendary guitarist / composer – Prasanna to lead MARG’s music foundation as its President. SAM will be the first ever professional academy of music in India to offer a series of programs in contemporary music that includes Rock, Jazz, Classical and World music. With Voice, Guitar, Piano, Bass, Drums and Indian Percussion concert as its spotlight. SAM will commence its first 6 month diploma certificate course in July 2010. SAM is an exclusive residential campus spread over a sprawling 4 acre blossoming green environs at MARG Swarnabhoomi. The site is situated on the outskirts of Chennai, hub with 75 kms from Chennai and 60 kms from Pondicherry approximately.

SAM will have an internationally acumen faculty; sophisticated infrastructure & amenities beyond compare in the world. SAM’s pioneering curriculum will offer potential musicians a strong USP and an enriching musical vocabulary to groom them for an exhilarating career in a widespread spectrum of 21st century music.

SAM will not only sway the long felt need for a comprehensive contemporary music education in India, nevertheless a whopping preference to academies in western countries and elsewhere for musicians from around the world to come and experience in a truly Indian and yet global insight at an appreciable cost