Kavita Baliga began her musical career at the early age of 5, when she began taking piano lessons which she continued to study for 15 years.  For the next 10 years she performed and competed yearly in piano competitions and in addition to piano, learned Hindustani classical voice, and Western classical voice. Kavita earned her Bachelors of music degree in vocal performance from the University of California at Irvine where she studied under soprano Elizabeth Pehlivanian and baritone Robin Buck.

In 2005 Kavita was admitted to The Boston Conservatory where she studied under the guidance of soprano Sara Goldstein, and earned her Masters in Music degree in Vocal Performance.  While at the conservatory, Kavita studied pieces such as Bach’s cantata no. 51, St. John's Passion, and performed Britten’s St. Nicholas, and works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Wolf, Debussy, Ravel, Rodrigo and Rochberg.

Kavita has played roles such as "Juliette" from Romeo et Juliette by Gounod, "Zerlina" in Don Giovanni by Mozart, Bridesmaid in Trial by Jury by Gilbert and Sullivan, and Emcee in the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler. Her honors and awards include winning 1st place in the Youth Focus Competition of California, and 1st place in the Satya Devi Memorial Trust competition.  Kavita has participated in concerts around the U.S., Switzerland, Italy and India and has had the privilege of working with talented and established musicians such as “Guitar” Prasanna  and A.R. Rahman who have helped her find her “voice” in multiple genres of music. 

In addition to classical music, Kavita composes and records popular music and her debut cd, “Beautiful Day” is available in online stores such as iTunes and Rhapsody.

Kavita is currently a faculty member of Oscar winner A.R. Rahman’s KM Music Conservatory in Chennai, India. In addition to teaching and conducting, her recent projects include recording for A.R. Rahman in the Hindi films 'Yuvraaj' and 'Ghajini', completing a choral transcription for the Telagu film 'Puli', and singing the operatic aria in Shekhar Kapur’s short film ‘Passage’ which will be shown as an accompaniment to a sculpture exhibition at the Swarovsky Kristallwelten museum in Austria.  She also finished a transcription of the protest song “We Shall Overcome” for a concert sponsored by the American Consulate in Chennai honoring the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s pilgrimage to India.  At present, she has returned to Chennai for her second year at KMMC.