An instrumental concert was held recently, organised by the Sarva Sree Foundation. The artistes were N Jayaprakash (violin) and K Babu (mridangam) who had come from South India for the yearly workshop arranged by Sarva Sree to train its students and teachers.

The concert got off to a good start with a surprise performance by Nirjher Chowdhury, a student of Sarva Sree who had been training for the last five months. He enchanted the audience with his presentation of varnam in Raga Hamswadhani followed by two kritis in raga Nata Bhairavi and Gowri Manohari.

Next came the instrumentalists Jayaprakash and Babu with a resonant performance of a very famous Tyagraja Kriti in Bangla raga. This was followed by various types of kritis in Raga Ananda Bhairavi, Amrita Varshini, Shree, Sindu Bhairavi and a Tillana in Raga Madhymavati.