Kala Iyer, residing in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 30 years, is the Founder/ Director of KALALAYA, an Institution of Fine Arts and school in Fremont , California , dedicated to teaching Carnatic Vocal lessons at all levels. The school has presented several programs in the Bay Area. Kala has been mainly responsible for promoting Indian Classical/Light Music and Classical Dance in the United States through the mainstream of American audience.

She has organized the concert tours of South Indian Classical artists from India . She has brought so far, R. Suryaprakash, O.S. Thiagarajan, Priya Sisters, Mandolin U.P. Raju, P. Nagamani, Malladi Brothers, Hyderabad Brothers, P. Unnikrishnan, Vijay Siva, Raji Gopalakrishnan, A. Kanyakumari, Embar Kannan, Urmila Sathyanarayanan, Rama Vaidyanathan for United States and Canada .

She has organized the light music tours of S.P. Balasubramaniam, Mano, Harish Raghavendra, Malathy Lakshman, Malgudi Subha and Lakshman Sruthi.

She has organized several concerts in the Bay Area for the past 25 years. To name a few artists that have been featured are: Late Dr. Namagiripettai Krishnan, Dr. M. Balamurali Krishna, Dr. K. Yesudas, Dr. N. Ramani, T.N. Seshagopalan, Trichur V. Ramachandran, T.R. Subramaniam, Sudha Raghunath, P. Unnikrishnan, K. V. Narayanaswamy, Mandolin U. Srinivas, etc.

She has also featured Smt. Chitra Visweswaran, Alarmel Valli and Dr. Padma Subramaniam.

Kala Iyer, a well known Carnatic vocalist in the Bay Area, majored in Music at Delhi University and is a holder of B.A. (Honors) Degree, where she did comparative studies on Indian and Western music. There she studied under Sri T.R. Subramaniam, and later studied under the great late Dr. M.L. Vasanthakumari. Kala draws from a repertoire of classical and semi-classical compositions.

Kala has appeared on All India Radio in Delhi and, since moving to the U.S. , has performed several times in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Miami , and Cleveland. She has also accompanied as vocal support for several Bharathanatyam dance schools and individual dancers. She has presented several lecture demonstrations and performed a few Jugalbandhis.