Geetha's son ANAND BENNETT is the inventor of the new "CONTRA" basses and mondocellos in many different sizes. The instruments are based on his own 'contra' fingerings, designed to enable the player to learn one and then play all of them with the same techniques.

Anand has played with Teri Braxton, Sadao Watanabe, Betty Carter, and Ricky Martin. He has won several awards since his high school days including the Down Beat soloist award.

Husband: Dr. FRANK BENNETT
Composer/arranger/ percussionist Frank Bennett has worked in many styles of music throughout his career. As a South Indian percussionist he has performed with his wife Geetha India, Hong Kong, Canada and many venues in the U.S. As a jazz percussionist he has performed with Benny Goodman, Jimmy Heath, Lou Donaldson, and others. His compositions have been played in many recital halls and SUNY, Oneonta, N.Y has twice featured three day festivals of his music. A New York Times review of his chamber pieces at Carnegie Recital Hall stated: [Bennett] "uses Western forms, long-lined melodies, and rich harmonies; but he also found ways to weave Indian rhythms and modes into the textures in a way that lets them sound mildly exotic, but never alien. Mr. Bennett's sense of balance...is impeccable". (Alan Kozinn,1989).

He studied Veena with M. A. Kalyanakrishnan, Muthulakshmi Ranganathan,
and Dr. S. Ranamanathan and Indian percussion with Ramnad V. Raghavan, T. Ranganathan, and briefly with Palgat T. S. Mani Iyer.

Frank has been an orchestrator and arranger for a number of feature films including Spy Kids I and II, Gods and Generals, Dragonfly, America's Sweethearts, Cats and Dogs, Princess Diaries, The Emperor's New Groove,
The Wedding Planner, Scream 3, End of Days, Inspector Gadget, South Park, Patch Adams, My Favourite Martian, The First Wife's Club, George of the Jungle, Liar/ Liar, In and Out, The American President, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, White Fang II, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, City Slickers I & II, Hocus Pocus, and Sneakers. He has also worked on the television shows "The West Wing" and "The Simpsons". He has received two Emmy Award Citations.

Recently a concert of his compositions was performed at the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. In 2001 he participated in lecture/workshops at Syracusue University, SUNY Cortland, SUNY Oneonta, Hamilton College, UCLA, and Colgate University. He has also accompanied his wife Geetha in concerts at Goucher College, the Albany Hindu temple and the Siva Vishnu Temple in Washington, D.C.

Frank's orchestral pieces include a concerto for Indian violin and a recent concerto for the South Indian Saraswathi Veena (lute), performed by Geetha last October with the Utica (N.Y.) Symphony Orchestra. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University.