Artist Information Arranger, Orchestrator, Dr. Frank Bennett began his study of music composition in 1960 at Duke University where he was a student of Dr. William Klenz and Ian Hamilton. He studied veena with M. A. Kalyanakrishnan, Lakshmi Ranganathan, and Dr. S. Ramanathan. He studied Indian percussion with with T. Ranganathan, Ramnad V. Raghavan and Palgat T. S. Mani Iyer. As a percussionist, Frank has given many performances on Eastern and Western instruments. As a south Indian percussionist, he has performed with renowned singers Sri K. V. Narayanaswami, Smt. Jayalakshmi Santanam, Dr. S. Ramanathan, and veena player/vocalist Sri M. A. Kalyanakrishnan.