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For one night only, Anil Srinivasan and Sikkil Gurucharan perform their spell-binding new music from the heart of India, accompanied by Lingalayam's stunning all-female Indian classical dance troupe.

Saturday 20th August 2011

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Veena

Varalakshmi Sritharan is an exponent and teacher of Veena. She obtained the Sangeetha Vidwan title for Veena and Vocal and also a Postgraduate Diploma in Music Teaching at the Tamil Nadu Government Music College, Chennai, South India. Varalakshmi has the enviable record of having accompanied on the Veena almost all the Bharatha Natyam Arangetrams here in Sydney, over the past five years. She has also been an accompanist for many full-length dance-dramas produced by different dance institutions in Sydney. Varalakshmi is a permanent member of the Lingalayam Dance Academy and has been a permanent member of the Lingalayam Dance Company orchestra since Lingalayam’s first live orchestral debut in 1999. Varalakshmi, accompanied by her students, plays for many charity and community performances.