Apoorva Krishna and Eve Matin

Apoorva Krishna

Trained in Carnatic violin from Guru Lalgudi Srimathi and Anuradha Sridhar, Apoorva Krishna became the first Indian to receive London Tarisio's Young Artist Grant. Apoorva was awarded the 70th Annual BMI Student Composer Honourable Mention 2022 for her original composition ‘Merging Parallels’ at Tribeca 360 NYC. An AIR A-Graded artist, 'Kalavanta', 'Naadbhed', and Berlin Rising Star awardee, Apoorva graduated with a Masters and Post Masters Fellowship at Berklee College of Music. Apoorva performed the Shakti masterpiece 'Lotus Feet' with Grammy Winner John McLaughlin and legend Ustad Zakir Hussain Ji. Her 8-track fusion album 'Intuition' combines Carnatic influences with Latin jazz, Flamenco, Western Classical, Waltz, Bluegrass, and Jazz-fusion. 'Intuition' highlights 'Merging Parallels', a contemporary Thillana introduced by John McLaughlin and 'Rāgamaya', featuring Padma Shri Shankar Mahadevan.

Eve Matin

Eve Matin is a Persian-Peruvian harpist and composer who studied at Berklee College of Music. She started her career when she was 17 years old debuting as a principal Harpist at the Peruvian Symphonic Orchestra and travelled vastly as a soloist performing for global festivals. Eve experiments with new ways of exploring the instrument by composing, improvising and painting with new techniques thereby creating original soundscapes