Born to a family of music connoisseurs, Savita began learning Carnatic music at an early age from Sankara Sarma. She also had the privilege of training under Rama Ravi and O V Subramaniam, besides learning Tiruppugazh from A S Raghavan. Since 1995, she has been under the tutelage of Chitravina N Ravikiran. She is a recipient of the scholarship for Carnatic classical music instituted by the Government of India.

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The Pattammal of Andhra

Mrs. Jayalakshmi Santhanam is one of the senior musicians of today. She has been in the Carnatic music field for over 50 years and as the The Hindu writes, “Jayalakshmi Santhanam belongs to the old school of musicians who had the good fortune to imbibe lessons from stalwarts like Harikesanelloor Muthiah Bhagavathar, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar and V.V Sadagopan.”
 

Madurai Thirumalai Nambi Seshagopalan learnt music under his mother, and later under tutelage of Ramanathapuram C. S. Sankarasivan. He holds a degree in science from Madras University and a degree in music from Madurai University where he serves as professor of music. He is a also a composer and a master of the veena and harmonium and an exponent of harikatha.

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SAROVAR was a super hit and your sacrifices made it happen. On behalf of the GLAC committee, I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your contribution to make this festival an outstanding success. The positive comments, e.mails, personal phone calls we have been getting in the last few days shows the enthusiasm of the community. Never before have we seen this much of audience for GLAC and we are humbled by this fact and also the additional responsibility it puts on our shoulders to meet the expectations of this new membership. As our Vote of thanks at the end of the festival had to be curtailed due to time constraints, I'm calling out each one of your contribution. It's your success as well and we will continue to draw upon your services as we embark on newer initiatives.

Ranjani, Sivaram,Ramamurthy, Ambuja: Your contribution at the front desk was one of the most complex ones and with guests streaming-in almost throughout the day, you sat there during the entire festival sacrificing your own enjoyment of the music. Besides, you had documented the source of revenue very clearly such as membership, day pass etc which made it easy for accounting for it easily.

Annapurani, Manjunath and others- You ensured that we all have our coffee just when we needed it! Also, you took on the most thankless job of house keeping, general cafeteria management with a smiling face and no expectations of 'lime light' which is truly praiseworthy.

Roopa Shyamsundar- You contributed an invaluable piece from your house without our asking. In fact I had exactly this in my mind and you saw that and volunteered when we met a the rehearsal on the previous day. The lamp enhanced the prestige of the Inaugural ceremony.

Prabhakar: Your timely call in the morning of the festival helped us set up the chairs well in time before the Inaugural event. You also helped in crowd management for the big events

Nagu, Siva, Padma (Kuppa), Priya, Bob Sundar, Kamakshi, Padma (Sundar), Lalitha, Meena, Maithrey, Without your helping hand, a very critical part of our festival would not have been possible. The high energy of all the artists showed that they were all well taken care of.

Viji, Ravi (Vangipuram), Shiva, Sudhakar, Srinath- For transporting the artists from and to the airports besides bringing them to the auditorium well in time for the performances.

Radhika Ganesan: You made a beautiful garland for TNS even though we literally gave this task to you at the last minute.

Krishnan: Yours was another thankless job and a very tough one. You spent enormous time on your webcast taking the awareness of the festival to a global audience. I know that we are going to have a long and fruitful partnership for a common cause.

Mark Stone and OU team- Your team made enormous contributions and toiled for long hours while getting free advise on how sound system should be managed every few minutes! You took it all in your stride and performed with true professionalism. Hats off to you guys. Mark.. please send this to the entire team as I don't have their e.mail id.

Thank you all and if I have missed out any name it is inadvertent,

Sankar Krishnan
Secretary, GLAC