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With our promise of only having the best of the best practitioners in the respective fields to share their ideas and be a part of this experimental collaborative project, Sur Lahiri proudly features its musicians

Smt. Sucheta Bhattacharya on the Vocals
Vishnu Veluri on the Flute
G Lakshmanan on the Tabla

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With our team of talented, established and renown musicians, we believe that our band consists of a mix of experts in their respective fields, who are in the best position to contribute to the success of our band.

Featuring Smt. Sucheta Bhattacharya on the Vocals, Vishnu Veluri on the Flute, and G Lakshmanan on the Tabla.

Smt. Sucheta Bhattacharya holds a Masters of Arts degree in Hindustani Classical Vocal Music from the prestigious Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata, India. She is an “A” Graded Artiste with the All India Radio. She has to her acclaim numerous awards and recognitions which have been conferred upon her.

Smt. Sucheta has numerous years of teaching experience both in Singapore and abroad, and is currently serving as the Director at the Centre for Indian Music and Arts in Singapore.

A Carnatic Flute student of Young Artiste Awardee Guru Sri. Ghanavenothan Retnam, Vishnu Veluri holds a Diploma in Music from Nrityalya Asthetics Society (NAS).

Vishnu been learning Flute since the age of 10, and has been performing regularly at programmes organized within NAS, and has also played at numerous temples over the years for occasions such as Navarathri. In 2011, he became a member of the NUS Indian Instrumental Ensemble. He has had the privilege of performing alongside renown composers like Sri. Kanniks Kannikeswaran and the world-renown Dr. L Subramaniam.

G Lakshmanan holds a Vadhya Visharad Diploma in Tabla from the Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society (SIFAS). He had his initial training in Tabla from Guru Ahmed Sarfraaz, and is currently a disciple of Guru Mihir Kundu.

Lakshmanan won the 3rd prize at the National Indian Music Competitions 2017 for Tabla (Open Category). He has performed extensively both in Singapore and abroad. Lakshmanan is a certified Tabla instructor with the Ministry of Education under the Arts and Music Instructors Scheme, as well as a certified PA Trainer in Tabla under the People`s Association.

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Sur Lahiri features Smt. Sucheta Bhattacharya on the Vocals, Vishnu Veluri on the Flute and G Lakshmanan on the Tabla

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Raag Yatra - A Melodic Journey into Ancient India.
3rd December 2017, Sunday, at 2pm.
Programme Zone, Woodlands Regional Library,
#01-03, 900 South Woodlands Drive, Singapore 730900.
Free Admission.

Featuring Indian Classical Music in a literary setting, Raag Yatra is a performance which aims to introduce the nuances of Indian Classical Music to the general public audience through the means of a narration. Through such an unique concept, we aim to make Indian Classical Music more familiar to the common man on the street through a medium which he can relate to. Come and watch the show to find out how this art form, often shunned off by people as being too complex, is still based on things that all of us relate to!

Experience Indian classical music through an entirely unique and fresh perspective which you never have seen before. Join us as we introduce you to Indian Classical Music through narration, or the telling of stories.

Do join us to get to know for yourselves the close relationships between this art form and the epics and stories that we are about to tell you!

Name and work email of liason officer at National Library Board (NLB) :

Ms. Sheerin Mustapa
Sheerin_MUSTAPA@nlb.gov.sg

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Featuring Indian classical music in a literary setting, Raag Yatra is a performance which will transport you back to ancient India. Be prepared to be serenaded by pieces based on Indian classical music, which will bring out the emotions that are felt by the characters in a chosen Indian epic.

The program will feature some Indian Classical Music Raaga-based compositions in the setting of this epic. As the story is progressing, the audience will be led through an emotional journey through the entire setting of the story, replicating the experience of the audience themselves experiencing for themselves what it would be like to experience and go through the emotions and feelings of the characters in the story.

As they are led through this journey, they will get to listen to some songs and pieces based on Indian classical music that aptly bring out the emotions that are felt by the characters in the story at that point in time.

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I_MQ2w4jCZRaKyj6n7hjo1pbjPZCaj9y

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pq4GJ7SbuU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=926nGvFF7cU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtuwTtqv3IA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAtHgIeRARk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFogb1eqMPw

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Approximately 30

Reflection
We were happy that we were able to present Indian Classical Music to a wider scope of audience compared to just the same kind of people you will see in a typical classical music concert. By having this program at a community space like the library, we were glad that we were able to reach out to a wider range of audience, more specifically the people who will normally not be around during a typical classical music concert.

We were also glad that we were able to demystify Indian Classical Music, by presenting its nuances through the means of a narration. Through this, we were glad to be able to make the audience, being the real layman to music, and more so to this type of music, really connect to this form of music.

On our part as musicians, we enjoyed having to think of a common theme which relates to both us, the practitioners of this art form, and the normal layman on the street as well, in order to present such a show. Through this, we discovered the common thread that connects such a complex art form to the not-so-musically-inclined people.

We feel that in the future when we embark on such projects, we can think of other ways than just narration of stories to wrap around such a presentation, so that we can think of more creative ways to present shows with such unique concepts.