Svara

Anatolijus Lomonosovas - sitar
Vitalijus Logvinovas - tabla, vocals
Eirimas Velicka - zither, vocals
Jurate Adlite - tanpura

Svara is the only group in Lithuania which performs Indian classical music. The group is using authentic musical instruments made in India. Svara means sound in Sanskrit. The group has so far been giving concerts in Russia, Latvia, Estonia and Poland. Its music has been used in soundtracks of such movies as The Ticket to Taj Mahal by the Lithuanian film-maker A. Puipa and The Stone Carver by A. Maciulevicius. The group records its music at the national radio and television facilities; it also collaborates with the Lithuanian National Youth Theater.

Anatolijus Lomonosovas
Anatolijus Lomonosovas, founder of the group, plays sitar since 1981. In 1984 the group gave its first official concert in the House of Composers in Vilnius. In 1985 the group participated in a performance devoted to the outstanding sitar player Ravi Shankar. In 1986, they became a member of the Music Committee of the-then USSR-India society and actively participated in the activities of the Non-European Music Division at the Moscow Conservatory, which was founded by the famous Professor J. K. Mikhailov. During the India-USSR cultural festival, which lasted one year, at the initiative of J. K. Mikhailov A. Lomonosovas was invited to play with Ustad Imrat Khan, one of the most prominent world sitar players, and became his pupil. Lomonosovas was granted scholarships by the Open Society Foundation and the Government of India, and in 1991 and 1997 took professional classes under the guidance of Ustad Imrat Khan in Calcutta. During his stay in India he gave concerts with his teacher and also performed by himself.

Eirimas Velicka
Eirimas Velicka, folk music expert and author of music textbooks has participated in concerts of Svara since 1995. Together with A. Lomonosovas they have also attempted various syntheses of the Indian classical and Lithuanian folk music.