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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 the 1900. Indian violinists today such as Manoj George, L. Shankar, 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

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