Dr. Sarita Venkatraman, Suriya's guru, is a passionate practitioner of Bharatanatyam. She has trained in Kathak and Bharatanatyam in India. Her passion for the art form, brought her to Smt. Revathi Satyu when she was a student in Dallas. While working on her Doctoral degree in Space Sciences, she re-started her dance journey and performed her Arangetram in 2003 under Revathi Aunty and Latha Shrivatsa. Since that time, Sarita has honed her craft under many able gurus including Smt. Kalanidhi Narayan, Smt. Priyadarshini Govind, Smt. Nirupama Rajendra, Smt. Padmini Ravi, to name a few. She is also a member of Indique dance company which has won many laurels for its work and performed in several prestigious venues all across the USA. Sarita has been teaching at Arathi school for 12 years. She is the artistic co-director of Mudras in Motion along with Alpana Kagal Jacob. Mudras in Motion is a new movement that aims at using Arts as therapy for the underserved communities. She is also an active member of the Dance Council of North Texas, Business Council for the Arts and the Plano council of PTAs. She lives in Plano with her husband Abhijeet and two sons, Tanav and Eshaan and their pet Allie.

Shriram's aptitude for Carnatic music was spotted & nurtured early by his maternal grandfather and musicologist Late Sri N. Devarajan of Madurai. After receiving the fundamentals from guru Shreemati Prema Subramanium of Jamshedpur, Shriram received advanced training in Carnatic music from his guru and grandfather, who, although old school in his methods, still allowed flexibility for Shriram's own creativity to flourish as well. He has since self-taught himself through CDs, attending live concerts, and through valuable personal interactions with stalwarts and senior professionals in the field of Carnatic music. Today, Shriram is an accomplished concert performer and has performed several vocal concerts and dance arangetrams in the US and in India. He resides in Plano with his wife, Lavanya and 2 daughters- Sanjana and Sneha, who are both accomplished American pop singers in their own right. While doing all this, Shriram also managed to find the time to earn not one, but two masters degrees in Materials Science and Corporate Finance. Shriram enjoys all sports, with Cricket leading the pack and is a self proclaimed fan of wildlife videos on YouTube!

Anjali Prabhala was initiated into music at an early age and trained under her parents, Srini and Uma Prabhala. She pursued advanced training under Vidushi Vizianagaram Vardhani and currently undergoing training with Vidushi Kum. Sriranjani Santhanagopalan.  Anjali is a graded artist from All India Radio since 2018 and received a Diploma in Carnatic music from Potti Sriramulu University, Hyderabad, with Distinction. She has performed extensively at various venues in different cities in USA and various Sabhas in India including Chennai, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam and in various online and virtual venues during this year. She has won first prize at various manodharmam competitions in India and US including Nationals for Shankara Netralaya, Silicon Andhra and Saptami Foundation.  She is an IndianRaga Ambassador for Classical music and has recorded music videos for their productions. She has recorded music for many Classical and Devotional albums, short and feature films like Vindhya Marutham.  She is honored and blessed to have sung for both Bharatanatyam and kuchipudi arangetrams and productions including Natya Charitam and others. Anjali recently graduated with a degree in Computer science engineering at the University of Texas Dallas and is working in a technology role for a large financial services organization.

Sreenivas Ponnappan commenced his musical career in Mridhangam at the young age of seven under his guru Vidwan Chandrasekharan. Sreenivas later came under the tutelage of Ghatam Vidwaan V Suresh who is a direct disciple of Sangeetha Kalaanidhi Sri T.V.Gopalakrishnan, a well-known multi-talented musical legend. Sreenivas has now over two decades of skillful accompaniment for leading senior vocal and instrumental artistes, and for Arangetrams, on Mridangam and a variety of other percussion instruments including Kanjira and Ghatam. Sreenivas regularly performs during Chennai music season. Sreenivas currently resides in Atlanta and is a computer architect by profession. Sreenivas has sacrificed numerous days with his lovely family to fly into Dallas for rehearsals and the final performance today. In this sense, we are doubly indebted to his family who so generously shared his time to make this afternoon possible.

Vasundhara Kikkeri born to a family of music connoisseurs started her initial Indian classical South Indian music (Carnatic) vocal training at an early age of five years under renowned vocalist Dr Smt R.A. Ramamani. a well-known vocalist /Grade A artist known for her melody and creativity. She started her Veena training at a young age and is a disciple of Kalaimamani Dr Suma Sudhindra, Veena Maestro Dr. Chittibabu and Sangeetha Samrat Sri Chitravina N Ravikiran. Vasundhara has performed several concerts in India and abroad. She gave her maiden recital at the age of 18 years at Yavanika in Bangalore and later in various cities in India. She has performed at the prestigious institution Gayana Samaja Bangalore. She was adjudged as the best young veena player at Gayana Samaja and won the Best Junior Concert award. She has performed in USA in prestigious universities such as Oxford Ohio, Purdue –Indiana, Bloomington- Indiana, Cornell, and Cincinnati conservatory concerts both as a performer and as a visiting guest artist. She has participated in fusion music festival in Cincinnati and October Fest in Bloomington and performed with Jazz Players such as Rick Van Matre and famous drum player Glen Velez. She was invited to perform at Louisiana fund raising events and annual state fairs and performed in front of delegates and Mayor of Louisiana. She has CD’s and solo recordings and accompaniments for her credit. Vasundhara cherishes veena guidance from her teachers. A sought after Veena teacher in Dallas Fort Worth metroplex, she imparts the same level of training to future young aspiring Veena players at her Swara School of Veena, a premiere Veena Institution, blessed by Sri Sri Swami Sarveshanandaji. She is dedicated to continue the great Veena tradition and to cherish and preserve the rich, over 10,000 years old, Instrumental grand legacy.

Sri. Sundar is a disciple of late Shri Padma Bhushan N. Ramani, the most renowned flautist of South India and belongs to the 10th generation of the illustrious Karaikudi Veena tradition. Son of late Smt Kalaimaamani and Sangeet Naatak Academy award recipient Veenai Raajeswari Padmanabhan, Sundar learnt Flute from Dr. N. Ramani in chennai during his childhood days. Moving from Chennai to various other cities for studies and work, and now settled in Irving, texas, Sundar continues to play for several Dance arangetrams, musical events in the DFW metroplex and Houston. He considers playing and practicing veena/vocal with his Son and twin daughters as his most favorite past time activity after work. He is currently employed with Verizon Network and Technologies as a lead Data Scientist.