List of Carnatic instrumentalists

This is a list of musicians famous for playing the carnatic music of South India.

Musicians are listed by the instrument they play or played.

Violin

* Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
* Tirumakudalu Chowdiah
* Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
* Papa Venkataramiah
* Lalgudi Jayaraman
* M. S. Gopalakrishnan
* T. N. Krishnan
* L. Vaidyanathan
* L. Subramaniam
* L. Shankar
* V. V. Subrahmanyam
* V. V. Ravi
* G. J. R. Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi
* A. Kanyakumari
* Mysore Manjunath
* Hemmige V. Srivatsan [http://narada.org/hvs]
* R. K. Shriramkumar
* Ranjani & Gayathri
* B. Shashi Kumar
* S. Varadarajan
* L. Athira Krishna
* Ganesh and Kumaresh [http://www.ganeshkumaresh.com]
* Vijay Venkateshwar
* Delhi P.Sunder Rajan [http://delhisunderrajan.sabhaonthenet.com]
* Vittal Ramamurthy [http://www.violinvittal.com]

Veena

* Dr.Challapally Chitti Babu
* Emani Sankara Sastry
* S. Balachander
* E. Gayathri
* R. S. Jayalakshmi
* Ranganayaki Rajagopalan
* Raajeswari Padmanabhan
* Srividya Chandramouli
* N. Muralikrishnan
* Revati Krishna
* Jayanthi Kumaresh
* Rajeswari Pariti

Flute

* T. R. Mahalingam
* Dr. N. Ramani
* Tiruchy L. Saravanan
* Bhaskaran
* Vijay Venkateshwar
* T. Viswanathan
* Shashank
* B. Shankar Rao

Mandolin

* U. Srinivas

Gottuvadhyam

* N. Ravikiran

Guitar

* R. Prasanna

Saxaphone

* Kadri Gopalnath

Mridangam

* Palghat Mani Iyer
* Palghat R Raghu
* Umayalpuram K Sivaraman
* Vellore G. Ramabhadran
* Trichy Sankaran
* Karaikudi Mani
* Palani Subramaniam Pillai
* Ramnad V. Raghavan
* T. Ranganathan
* Mannargudi Easwaran
* Guruvayur Dorai
* Yella Venkateswara Rao
* Pulletikurthi Rama Rao
* Tanjore Kumar
* Trichur Mohan
* A. G. A Somasundaram

Ghatam

* T. H. "Vikku" Vinayakram
* Tiruchy Murali
* Pudukkotai Ramachandran
* Ghatam Karthik
* Ghatam Giridhar Udupa

Kanjira

* G Harishankar
* V. Selvaganesh

Thavil

* Valangaiman Shanmugasundram
* Valayapatti Subramaniam
* Haridwaramangalam Palanivel
* Tirupugur Muthukumaraswamy
* A.V.MURUGAIYAN
* V.M.GANAPATHY
* T.R.SASIKUMAR
* T.K.MANIMARAN
* Tiruvallikeni Shantakumar

ee also

* Carnatic music
* South India

External links

* [http://www.carnatic.com/ Information on Carnatic music]
* [http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/lyrics.html Resource for lyrics of a number of Carnatic "kritis"]
* [http://www.vimoksha.com/carnatic/carnatic-instrumentalists.html Indian classical Instrumentalists ]