Bina Kalavant, a sitarist and staff member at the Kalavant Center for Music and Dance, began her music and dance studies at age four at the Shreyes Foundation, a progressive, experimental school in Ahmedabad, India. She is trained in the Manpuri and Kathak dance traditions, and later extensively studied sitar under such distinguished teachers as Ustad Ghulam Rasool Khan, and Shri Sukhrajsinh Jhala.

From 1982 to 1990, she served as a director for the Naad Niket Musical Academy in Ahmedabad where she also taught sitar and music theory.

Bina has given professional performances and assisted in lecture/demonstrations for the American Museum of Natural History, Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music, City Lore of New York, New Jersey State University, William Patterson University of New Jersey, University of Connecticut at Hartford and the Cooper Union Adult Education series. She also conducted Indian music ensemble classes at New York University for post-graduate ethnomusicology students.

She has also given performances at The Town Hall, Symphony Space, and Lincoln Center Out of Doors, and has given many short recitals at various institutions, such as Third Street Music School, Yale Center for British Art, Downtown Music at Grace and Jamaica Arts Center.

Besides being a mother, Bina manages a busy schedule regularly conducting sitar workshops and giving sitar instruction on an individual basis. She has successfully nurtured many of her students into becoming accomplished performers of Indian classical music.