Nancy Lesh is an award winning cellist who has devoted the last 10 years to the performance of dhrupad on the cello.

At the age of 22, she first came in contact with Indian classical music and started learning through singing and later playing the bamboo flute (bansuri). After 2 years, she met her most influential teacher Shri Biresh Roy in Kolkata. She then undertook the Guru-Shishya parampara of learning music.

After six years of training, Carolina got the degrees of Sangeet Bharati and Sangeet Prabhakar (Bachelors). She also studied at the Sangeet Research Academy, the largest and most prestigious academy for vocal music in India.

Since her return to the Netherlands in 1992, she not only sings and teaches Indian traditional music, but she also conducts experiments in which the musical styles of different cultures come together.

Carolina performs a complete concert, in which she sings meditative ragas, devotional and romantic songs from Bengal.