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...
20 year old Ramana Balachandhran is not your conventional college student. Though he is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Application—a pathway that he says ‘makes sense’ in India and as the...
As a vocalist in the Karnatik tradition, T.M. Krishna’s musicality eludes standard analyses. Uncommon in his rendition of music and original in his interpretation of it, Krishna is at once strong and...
The Lalgudi siblings are the torchbearers of their eponymous violin gharana, named for their late father Lalgudi G Jayaraman – one of Carnatic music’s ‘violin trinity’. The family claim a direct lineage...
Rajhesh Vaidhya was born into a musical family in Tamil Nadu – his father KM Vaidyanathan played mridangam, and ghatam master TH ‘Vikku’ Vinayakram is a relative. But the young Rajesh followed...
Mysore Manjunath and Mysore Nagaraj are among Carnatic music’s leading violinists. Trined principally by their father S. Mahadevappa, they developed a style which they describe as a “blend of emotive appeal, technical...
The Lalgudi siblings are the torchbearers of their eponymous violin gharana, named for their late father Lalgudi G Jayaraman – one of Carnatic music’s ‘violin trinity’. The family claim a direct lineage...
Kala Ramnath is one of India’s most adept violinists, sliding around the fretboard in a strikingly vocalistic style. Her approach is focused on Hindustani classical music, but she also incorporates ideas from...
Jyotsna Srikanth’s sliding violin is a mainstay of Europe’s global music circuit. Aged five she heard Carnatic Violin for the first time, and tried to imitate the instrument’s action by scraping together...