List of Indian violinists


There are two styles of violin playing in India: the Carnatic and the Hindustani. 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

ViolinistBornDiedStyleCurrently active
Abhijith P. S. Nair1991carnatic and jazz fusion
Akkarai Subbalakshmi1983Carnatic
Ambi Subramaniam1991Carnatic and Western
Arrol Carelli1985Carnatic and Western
Avaneeswaram S R Vinu1973Carnatic
B. Sasikumar1949Carnatic
Balabhaskar19782018Carnatic and Western fusion
Delhi P. Sunder Rajan1969Carnatic
Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao19242000Carnatic
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu18931964Carnatic
Embar Kannan1975Carnatic
Fayiz Muhammed1997Carnatic and Western
Gagan Chandra Chatterjee18901949Hindustani
Ganesh and Kumaresh1964Carnatic
Gingger Shankar-Western
H. K. Narasimha Murthy-Carnatic
H. K. Venkatram1965Carnatic
Joi Srivastava19302003Hindustani
Jyotsna Srikanth-Carnatic and Western
Kala Ramnath1967Hindustani
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan19352008Carnatic
L. Athira Krishna-Carnatic and Western
L. Shankar1950Carnatic and Hindustani
L. Subramaniam1947Carnatic and Western
L. Vaidyanathan19422007Carnatic
Lalgudi G Jayaraman19302013Carnatic
Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi1963Carnatic
M. Chandrasekaran1938Carnatic
M. Narmadha-Carnatic and Hindustani
M. S. Gopalakrishnan19312013Carnatic
M S Viswanath1984Carnatic and Western fusion
Malaikkottai Govindaswamy Pillai18791931Carnatic
Manoj George1971Indian, Western, world fusion
Mayavaram V. R. Govindaraja Pillai19121979Carnatic
Mullaivasal G Chandramouli1965Carnatic
Mysore brothers – Mysore Nagaraj and Mysore Manjunath-Carnatic
Mysore Tirumakoodalu Chowdiah18951967Carnatic
N. Rajam1938Hindustani
Nandini Muthuswamy-Carnatic and Western
Nandini Shankar1993Hindustani
Nedumangad Sivanandan1935Carnatic
R. K. Shriramkumar1966Carnatic
R. R. Keshavamurthy19132006Carnatic
Ragini Shankar-Hindustani
Roopa Revathi1984Carnatic and Western
Sabareesh Prabhaker1989Western
Sangeeta Shankar1965Hindustani
Satyakam Mohkamsing1987Hindustani
Sharat Chandra Srivastava1971Hindustani
Charumathi Raghuraman-Carnatic
Sikkil R. Bhaskaran1936Carnatic
T. H. Subramaniam1967Carnatic
Sunita Bhuyan1970Indian, world folk, fusionYes
T. N. Krishnan19282020Carnatic
Tirukkodikaval Krishna Iyer18571913Carnatic
V. Lakshminarayana19111990Carnatic
V. G. Jog19222004Hindustani
V. V. Ravi-Carnatic
Vittal Ramamurthy-Carnatic