List of Carnatic instrumentalists

This is a list of Carnatic instrumentalists: musicians famous for playing the carnatic music of South India. Musicians are listed by the instrument they have played.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Bowed strings

Violin

• Lalgudi Jayaraman
• Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
• Tirumakudalu Chowdiah
• Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
• M. S. Gopalakrishnan
• T. N. Krishnan
• H.K. Venkatram
• L. Vaidyanathan
• L. Subramaniam
• L. Shankar
• Mysore brothers - Mysore Nagaraj & Dr. Mysore Manjunath
• Embar Kannan
• G. J. R. Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi
• Ragini Shankar
• A. Kanyakumari
• Ganesh and Kumaresh
• M. Narmadha
• Vittal Ramamurthy
• V. V. Ravi
• Nedumangad Sivanandan
• Delhi P. Sunder Rajan
• B. Sasikumar
• Gingger Shankar
• Jyotsna Srikanth
• Balabhaskar
• Abhijith P. S. Nair
• Ambi Subramaniam

Plucked strings

Veena

• Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
• Challapally Chitti Babu
• Emani Sankara Sastry
• S. Balachander
• Doraiswamy Iyengar
• E. Gayathri
• Jayanthi Kumaresh
• Kalpakam Swaminathan
• Ranganayaki Rajagopalan
• Rajhesh Vaidhya
• Revathy Krishna

Mandolin

U. Srinivas playing a mandolin

• U. Srinivas

Chitra veena

• N. Ravikiran

Guitar

• R. Prasanna
• Sukumar Prasad

Winds

Venu

• T. R. Mahalingam
• N. Ramani
• Prapancham Sitaram
• Shashank
• K. Bhaskaran
• T. Viswanathan
• B. Shankar Rao
• Tiruchy L. Saravanan

Nadaswaram

Sheik Chinna Moulana with a Nadaswaram

• T.N. Rajarathnam Pillai
• Namagiripettai Krishnan
• Sheik Chinna Moulana
• Sheik Mahaboob Subhani

Saxophone

• Kadri Gopalnath

Percussions

Piano

• Anil Srinivasan

Mridangam

• Palghat Mani Iyer
• Palghat R. Raghu
• Vellore G. Ramabhadran
• Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair
• Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
• Trichy Sankaran
• Karaikudi Mani
• Ramnad V. Raghavan
• T. Ranganathan
• Palani Subramaniam Pillai
• Mannargudi Easwaran
• Guruvayur Dorai
• T. V. Gopalakrishnan
• Ramesh Srinivasan
• Patri Satish Kumar
• Erickavu N. Sunil
• Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam

Ghatam

• T. H. "Vikku" Vinayakram
• Ghatam Udupa

Kanjira

• G. Harishankar
• V. Selvaganesh

Thavil

• Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel

Morsing (jaw harp)

Srirangam Kannan playing a morsing

• Srirangam Kannan

Other

Idakka

• Tripunithura Krishnadas

Jaltarang

• Anayampatti S. Ganesan
• Seethalakshmi Doraiswamy

Santoor

• R. Visweswaran

See also

• Carnatic music
• South India

External links

• Information on Carnatic music
• "karnATik". Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 7 July 2020. (resource for lyrics of a number of Carnatic kritis)