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, Fayiz Muhammed 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
Violinist Born Died Style Currently active Abhijith P. S. Nair 1991 carnatic and jazz fusion Akkarai Subbalakshmi 1983 Carnatic Ambi Subramaniam 1991 Carnatic and Western Arrol Carelli 1985 Carnatic and Western B. Sasikumar 1949 Carnatic Balabhaskar 1978 2018 Carnatic and Western fusion Delhi P. Sunder Rajan 1969 Carnatic Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao 1924 2000 Carnatic Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu 1893 1964 Carnatic Embar Kannan 1975 Carnatic Fayiz Muhammed 1997 Carnatic and Western Gagan Chandra Chatterjee 1890 1949 Hindustani Ganesh and Kumaresh 1964 Carnatic Gingger Shankar - Western H. K. Narasimha Murthy - Carnatic H. K. Venkatram 1965 Carnatic Joi Srivastava 1930 2003 Hindustani Jyotsna Srikanth - Carnatic and Western Kala Ramnath 1967 Hindustani Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan 1935 2008 Carnatic L. Athira Krishna - Carnatic and Western L. Shankar 1950 Carnatic and Hindustani L. Subramaniam 1947 Carnatic and Western L. Vaidyanathan 1942 2007 Carnatic Lalgudi G Jayaraman 1930 2013 Carnatic Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi 1963 Carnatic M. Chandrasekaran 1938 Carnatic M. Narmadha - Carnatic and Hindustani "Inheriting a legacy", The Hindu online, 1 January 2010 M. S. Gopalakrishnan 1931 2013 Carnatic Manoj George 1971 Indian, Western, world fusion Mayavaram V. R. Govindaraja Pillai 1912 1979 Carnatic Mysore brothers – Mysore Nagaraj and Mysore Manjunath - Carnatic Mysore Tirumakoodalu Chowdiah 1895 1967 Carnatic N. Rajam 1938 Hindustani Nandini Muthuswamy - Carnatic and Western Nandini Shankar 1993 Hindustani Nedumangad Sivanandan 1935 Carnatic R. K. Shriramkumar 1966 Carnatic R. R. Keshavamurthy 1913 2006 Carnatic Ragini Shankar - Hindustani Roopa Revathi 1984 Carnatic and Western Sabareesh Prabhaker 1989 Western Sangeeta Shankar 1965 Hindustani Sharat Chandra Srivastava 1971 Hindustani Charumathi Raghuraman - Carnatic Sikkil R. Bhaskaran 1936 Carnatic Sunita Bhuyan1970Indian, world folk, fusionYes T. N. Krishnan 1928 2020 Carnatic Tirukkodikaval Krishna Iyer 1857 1913 Carnatic V. Lakshminarayana 1911 1990 Carnatic V. G. Jog 1922 2004 Hindustani V. V. Ravi - Carnatic Vittal Ramamurthy - Carnatic
References
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