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Neyveli S. Radhakrishna

Double violin artist

Biography

'An exceptional artiste who has developed a unique style of playing violin, a seasoned South Indian classical violinist working with legendary musicians in the field of Western music in different parts of the globe. Fantastic and poignant violin.'

---- God Father of world music , Bharat Ratna Sitar Maestro-Pandit Ravi Shankar

' Virtuous and soulful violin '

..... Jonas Hellborg

A true son of the soil, Radhakrishna bathes the world with his inimitable style of playing violin.

Nestled amidst the verdant canopy of cashew, casuarina, jack and mango groves, Neyveli has thrown up quite a lot of engineers, medicos and musicians, apart from lignite. Neyveli and power go together like “JUNOSWANS”, enlightening the multitude with “light”.

Radhakrishna plays the rare, creative and unique ten string, stereoscopic DOUBLE VIOLIN, the only one of its kind in Asia among a handful in the world.

Let us catch a glimpse of his musical odyssey through Carnatic and World Music and swim in the strains of his unique DOUBLE VIOLIN.

Radhakrishna and his inimitable DOUBLE VIOLIN were featured in the prestigious

FIDDLER MAGAZINE (USA) winter 2006/07

THE STRAD (UK) January, 2009

STRINGS(USA) February, 2009

Radhakrishna has teamed up with the cream of Carnatic musicians, notably Dr.N.Ramani, T.V.Gopalakrishnan, T.K.Govindarao, T.N.Seshagopalan, O.S.Thiagarajan, Ravikiran, Kadri Gopalnath, SudhaRaghunathan, Sowmya and percussion giants T.K.Murthy, Vellore Ramabadran, Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Trichy Sankaran, Yella Venkateswara Rao,Guruvayur Durai, Srimushnam Rajarao, Haridwaramangalam A.K. Palanivel, Tanjore Govindarajan, Tanmoy Bose and drums Sivamani.

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Neyveli S. Radhakrishna

Radhakrishna with his Double Violin

With Matthies Muller-Ahimsa Band

With N. Ramani & Umayalpuram Sivaraman in a Concert

Radhakrishna - double violin player

With Bharat Ratna late Pt. Ravi Shankarji

With Anoushka Shankar

With Dominique & Jonas Hellborg

Career

Radhakrishna was privileged to participate in the musical odyssey of Bharat Ratna, legendary Pandit Ravishankar’s Festival of India II and III across US and Canada, performing in most prestigious halls like Stern Auditorium-Carnegie Hall, New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall- Los Angeles, Boston Symphony Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall, Baltimore Symphony Hall, Zellerbach Auditorium, University of California at Berkeley, Roy Thomson Hall-Toronto, Canada, earning encomiums.

Globe trotter Radhakrishna has absorbed local genres as seen from his eclectic violin. In multi-cultural projects he has jammed with Western music giants Jonas Hellborg (bass guitar), Simone Zanchini (accordion), Ernst Reigsegar (cello), Mattias IA Eklundh (Guitar), Misrili Ahmet (dohollo, darbukka) and other stars shining in the global firmamanet.

Festivals:-

Ravishankar’s Festival of India II and III US and Canada

Woodstock-Poland, Baltic Seafestival-Poland

Jazz music festival-Switzerland

Dunya world music festival, Rotterdam

Indishe Nacht-Siemens Forum-Erlangen

Festival international de Percussió de Catalunya-Spain

Congo Square Jazz Fest 2009-Kolkata

World Human Rights festival,Germany

Beach front Jazz Festival, MOSAIC, South Africa

Shetland Folk Festival, U.K., 2010

Awards & Achievements