🎻 Sri Ravī Śrīnivāsan

Carnatic Musician • New Jersey

Short Music Bio

Ravi Srinivasan is a New Jersey-based Carnatic violinist. He is currently receiving guidance from Sri Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli and Smt. Padma Narayanaswamy. His gurus include Sri Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy and Sri H. V. Srivatsan.

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Bio for Carnatic Programmes

Ravi Srinivasan had his initial exposure to Carnatic Music from violinist Sri Anoor S. Ramakrishna of the Ayyanar College of Music. He had further training in violin and vocal from Sri H. V. Srivatsan and Sri Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy. He is currently receiving guidance from violinist Sri Mullaivasal G. Chandramouli and Smt. Padma Narayanaswamy.

He teaches as well, and has trained students for concert performances as well as Cleveland Aradhana programs. He is also proficient in Western classical music, including graduating from the McGill Conservatory of Music and participating in the Stanford Orchestra. He has performed both physically and virtually and received awards at multiple sabhas in India (including Krishna Gana Sabha, Kartik Fine Arts, Hamsadhwani) as well as in North America (including CMANA, Cleveland Aradhana).

He is a patron and former trustee of the Carnatic Music Association of North America.

Bio for Other Programs

Ravi Srinivasan is a New Jersey-based classical violinist and arts patron who performs in both the Indian classical and Western classical styles. He began his music training career with l'Association des orchestres de jeunes de la Montérégie, graduated from the McGill Conservatory of Music and participated in various orchestras, including the Stanford Orchestra.

He has studied and actively performs in the Carnatic, or South Indian classical music style after ongoing years of training and apprenticeship with several gurus in India and North America. Today, he performs in both solo and chamber music programs (with a vocalist and percussion) in India and in North America. He is a patron, has performed for and trains students for the Cleveland Aradhana, North America's largest Indian classical arts festival.

He has received various awards, including the 2012 Lalgudi Jayaraman award from the Krishna Gana Sabha, a leading concert hall in Chennai, India. In New Jersey, he is also a patron of the Carnatic Music Association of North America (CMANA), the oldest Indian classical music organization in North America. He was a past trustee of CMANA and has worked closely with New Jersey's Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

He has trained students in New Jersey as performing violinists for solo, orchestras and concert accompaniment. Outside of the arts, he has had a varied career in technology and business and graduated from Princeton and Stanford in engineering.

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