Apoorva Krishna

Apoorva Krishna is an accomplished South Indian Classical Violinist, in the Carnatic genre of music. She has been trained in the illustrious Lalgudi Bani from Guru Lalgudi Srimathi and Anuradha Sridhar. Apoorba became the first Indian artist to receive the London Tarisio Grant. Her Master’s in Contemporary Performance and Post Master’s Fellowship at Berklee College of Music culminated in her debut album Intuition featuring Shankar Mahadevan, steering truly in the direction of world music. Her song Merging Parallels won the 70th BMI Composer Honorable Mention Award. She performed at Harvard Business School with John McLaughlin and Ustad Zakir Hussain, London Darbar Festival, Poland JazzJantar, Berlin Tagore Centre, Bogotá JazzalParque, NCPA, NMACC, and Madrid Sony Auditorium. Featured on Rolling Stone India, The Strad, The Hindu, Business Standard, Deccan Herald, New Music USA, Rock Street Journal, Times of India, she received All India Radio A Grade, Kalavanta, Naadbhed Yuva Puraskar, and Music Academy’s Best Accompanying Violinist Award.