List of Indian violinists
The violin may have been introduced to India by the military bandsmen of the East India Company around 1790. Baluswami Dikshitar, brother of renowned Carnatic Composer Muthuswami Dikshitar, learned the instrument from the military bandmaster in Madras and adapted his playing style to suit Carnatic Music. There are two styles of violin playing in India: the Carnatic and the Hindustani.[1] Carnatic violinists such as Tirukkodikaval Krishna Iyer, Malaikkottai Govindaswamy Pillai and Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu performed concerts as early as the 1900. Indian violinists today such as Balabhaskar, L. Shankar 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, 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 have satisfactorily managed to perform both Carnatic and Western music on the violin. The following is a list of famous Indian violinists.
List
Violinist | Born | Style | Currently Active | Ref. |
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A. Kanyakumari | 1951 | Carnatic | Yes | [2] |
Akkarai Subbalakshmi | 1983 | Carnatic | Yes | [3] |
Ambi Subramaniam | 1991 | Carnatic and Western | Yes | [4] |
Arrol Carelli | 1985 | Carnatic and Western | Yes | |
Avaneeswaram S R Vinu | 1973 | Carnatic | Yes | [5] |
B. Sasikumar | 1949 | Carnatic | Yes | |
Balabhaskar | 1978 | Western | Yes | |
Delhi P. Sunder Rajan | 1969 | Carnatic | Yes | [6] |
Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao | 1924 | Carnatic | No | [7] |
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu | 1893 | Carnatic | No | [8] |
Embar Kannan | 1975 | Carnatic | Yes | |
Gagan Chandra Chatterjee | 1890 | 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] |
Johar Ali Khan | 1967 | Hindustani | Yes | [14] |
Joi Srivastava | 1930 | Hindustani | No | [15] |
Jyotsna Srikanth | - | Carnatic and Western | Yes | [16] |
Kala Ramnath | 1967 | Hindustani | Yes | [17] |
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan | 1935 | Carnatic | No | [18] |
L. Athira Krishna | - | Carnatic and Western | Yes | [19] |
L. Shankar | 1950 | Carnatic and Hindustani | Yes | [20] |
L. Subramaniam | 1947 | Carnatic and Western | Yes | [21] |
L. Vaidyanathan | 1942 | Carnatic | No | [22] |
Lalgudi G Jayaraman | 1930 | Carnatic | No | [23] |
Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi | 1963 | Carnatic | Yes | |
M. Chandrasekaran | 1938 | Carnatic | Yes | [24] |
M. Narmadha | - | Carnatic and Hindustani | Yes | [25] |
M.S. Gopalakrishnan | 1931 | Carnatic | No | [26] |
Malaikkottai Govindaswamy Pillai | 1879 | Carnatic | No | [27] |
Mayavaram V. R. Govindaraja Pillai | 1912 | Carnatic | No | [28] |
Mysore brothers - Mysore Nagaraj and Mysore Manjunath | - | Carnatic | Yes | [29] |
Mysore Tirumakoodalu Chowdiah | 1895 | Carnatic | No | [30] |
N. Rajam | 1938 | Hindustani | Yes | [31] |
Nandini Muthuswamy | - | Carnatic and Western | Yes | [32] |
Nandini Shankar | 1993 | Hindustani | Yes | |
Nedumangad Sivanandan | 1935 | Carnatic | Yes | |
R. K. Shriramkumar | 1966 | Carnatic | Yes | [33] |
R. R. Keshavamurthy | 1913 | Carnatic | No | [34] |
Rabin Ghosh | 1932 | Hindustani | No | |
Ragini Shankar | 1989 | Hindustani | Yes | |
Roopa Revathi | 1984 | Carnatic and Western | Yes | |
Sabareesh Prabhaker | 1989 | Western | Yes | [35] |
Sangeeta Shankar | 1965 | Hindustani | Yes | |
Satyakam Mohkamsing | 1987 | Hindustani | Yes | [36] |
Sharat Chandra Srivastava | 1971 | Hindustani | Yes | |
Sikkil R. Bhaskaran | 1936 | Carnatic | Yes | |
Sridhar Parsekar | 1920 | Hindustani | No | |
T.N. Krishnan | 1928 | Carnatic | Yes | [37] |
Tirukkodikaval Krishna Iyer | 1857 | Carnatic | No | [38] |
V. Lakshminarayana | 1911 | Carnatic | No | [39] |
V.G. Jog | 1922 | Hindustani | No | [40] |
V. V. Ravi | - | Carnatic | Yes | [41] |
Vittal Ramamurthy | - | Carnatic | Yes |
Violin brothers Kolkata(Debsankar Roy&Jyotisankar Roy.
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Indian classical by Violin brothers at academy on 8th November 2016
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