Sarangi maestro Kamal Sabri teaches sarangi to music students in Lithuania

The strains of the sarangi were heard in faraway Lithuania recently when sarangi maestro Kamal Sabri visited its capital Vilnius. He also taught sarangi to music students at a school there.
“Awareness about the sarangi is growing,” Sabri says. “After the sitar and tabla, now, the sarangi is quite popular – its sound is considered the closest to the human voice.This is the unique thing about it,” he says.
In Vilnius, he says, they found the Indian team quite exotic. “We were invited there by producer Robertas Urbonas. He’s now also getting us to collaborate with Lithuanian soprano saxophone player Petras Vysniauskas,” says Sabri, adding that they plan to bring the collaboration here. He also said Diana Mickeviciene of the Lithuanian embassy in India helped them facilitate the trip to Vilnius.