List of Indian violinists

There are two styles of violin playing in India: the Carnatic and the Hindustani. ^[1] Carnatic violinists such as Malaikkottai Govindaswamy Pillai, Tirukkodikaval Krishna Iyer and Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu performed concerts as early as 1900. Indian violinists today such as Manoj George, L. Shankar, and Balabhaskar have successfully adapted the Western music style of playing the violin and have been performing concerts outside of India. Violinists such as N. Rajam and Sangeeta Shankar are highly accomplished international performers in the Hindustani style. Violinists such as T.N. Krishnan, A. Kanyakumari, H.K. Venkatram and Mysore brothers have remained Carnatic classical violinists and have yet been able to reach out to audiences outside of India. Also, artists such as Jyotsna Srikanth, L. Subramaniam, Ambi Subramaniam, Fayiz Muhammed, and Roopa Revathi have satisfactorily managed to perform both Carnatic and Western music on the violin.

The following is a list of famous Indian violinists.

List

T. N. Krishnan

Ganesh and Kumaresh

G.J.R. Krishnan

Avaneeswaram S R Vinu

H.K. Venkatram

Vittal Ramamurthy

B. Sasikumar

Fayiz Muhammed

Balabhaskar

Gingger Shankar

Abhijith P. S. Nair

Akkarai Subbalakshmi

Violinist	Born	Died	Style	Currently active	Ref.
Abhijith P. S. Nair	1991		carnatic and jazz fusion	Yes	[2]
Akkarai Subbalakshmi	1983		Carnatic
Ambi Subramaniam	1991		Carnatic and Western	Yes	[3]
Arrol Carelli	1985		Carnatic and Western	Yes
Avaneeswaram S R Vinu	1973		Carnatic	Yes	[4]
B. Sasikumar	1949		Carnatic	Yes
Balabhaskar	1978	2018	Carnatic and Western fusion	No
Delhi P. Sunder Rajan	1969		Carnatic	Yes	[5]
Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao	1924	2000	Carnatic	No	[6]
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu	1893	1964	Carnatic	No	[7]
Embar Kannan	1975		Carnatic	Yes
Fayiz Muhammed	1997		Carnatic and Western	Yes	[8]
Gagan Chandra Chatterjee	1890	1949	Hindustani	No	[9]
Ganesh and Kumaresh	1964		Carnatic	Yes	[10]
Gingger Shankar	-		Western	Yes	[11]
H. K. Narasimha Murthy	-		Carnatic	Yes	[12]
H. K. Venkatram	1965		Carnatic	Yes	[13]
Joi Srivastava	1930	2003	Hindustani	No	[14]
Jyotsna Srikanth	-		Carnatic and Western	Yes	[15]
Kala Ramnath	1967		Hindustani	Yes	[16]
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan	1935	2008	Carnatic	No	[17]
L. Athira Krishna	-		Carnatic and Western	Yes	[18]
L. Shankar	1950		Carnatic and Hindustani	Yes	[19]
L. Subramaniam	1947		Carnatic and Western	Yes	[20]
L. Vaidyanathan	1942	2007	Carnatic	No	[21]
Lalgudi G Jayaraman	1930	2013	Carnatic	No	[22]
Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi	1963		Carnatic	Yes
M. Chandrasekaran	1938		Carnatic	Yes	[23]
M. Narmadha	-		Carnatic and Hindustani	Yes	[24]
M. S. Gopalakrishnan	1931	2013	Carnatic	No	[25]
M S Viswanath	1984		Carnatic and Western fusion	Yes	[26]
Malaikkottai Govindaswamy Pillai	1879	1931	Carnatic	No	[27]
Manoj George	1971		Indian, Western, world fusion	Yes
Mayavaram V. R. Govindaraja Pillai	1912	1979	Carnatic	No	[28]
Mullaivasal G Chandramouli	1965		Carnatic	Yes	[29]
Mysore brothers – Mysore Nagaraj and Mysore Manjunath	-		Carnatic	Yes	[30]
Mysore Tirumakoodalu Chowdiah	1895	1967	Carnatic	No	[31]
N. Rajam	1938		Hindustani	Yes	[32]
Nandini Muthuswamy	-		Carnatic and Western	Yes	[33]
Nandini Shankar	1993		Hindustani	Yes
Nedumangad Sivanandan	1935		Carnatic	Yes
R. K. Shriramkumar	1966		Carnatic	Yes	[34]
R. R. Keshavamurthy	1913	2006	Carnatic	No	[35]
Ragini Shankar	-		Hindustani	Yes
Roopa Revathi	1984		Carnatic and Western	Yes
Sabareesh Prabhaker	1989		Western	Yes	[36]
Sangeeta Shankar	1965		Hindustani	Yes
Satyakam Mohkamsing	1987		Hindustani	Yes	[37]
Sharat Chandra Srivastava	1971		Hindustani	Yes
Charumathi Raghuraman	-		Carnatic	Yes	[38]
Sikkil R. Bhaskaran	1936		Carnatic	Yes
T. H. Subramaniam	1967		Carnatic	Yes	[39]
Sunita Bhuyan	1970		Indian, world folk, fusion	Yes	[40]
T. N. Krishnan	1928	2020	Carnatic	No	[41]
Tirukkodikaval Krishna Iyer	1857	1913	Carnatic	No	[27]
V. Lakshminarayana	1911	1990	Carnatic	No	[42]
V. G. Jog	1922	2004	Hindustani	No	[43]
V. V. Ravi	-		Carnatic	Yes	[44]
Vittal Ramamurthy	-		Carnatic	Yes

Gallery

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  Jyotsna Srikanth
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  Fayiz Muhammed
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  Abhijith P. S. Nair
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  K. Vaidyanathan
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  L. Shankar
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  L. Subramaniam
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  M. Chandrasekaran
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  Mysore brothers
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  Nandini Shankar
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  Sharat Srivastava
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  V. V. Ravi

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External links

• Indian violin
• History of Violin in India
• Role of Violin in Carnatic Music
• The Origin and Evolution of Violin – As a Musical Instrument: And Its Contribution to the Progressive Flow of Indian Classical Music