Balu Raguraman

Bangalore Balu Raguraman is one of the finest violinists of the present generation. He was trained and tutored and gurus Sri Ulsoor S Chandrasekhar, Sri V V Subramaniam and Smt Neela Ramgopal. Balu Raguraman has won several awards and continues to tour the world accompanying many senior artists in the field. He has accompanied some of the stalwarts like Sri Maharajapuram Santhanam, Dr N Ramani, Sri Chitravina Ravikiran, Smt. Bombay Jayashree, Dr M Balamuralikrishna, Sri TV Gopalakrishnan, Sri T N Seshagopalan, Mandolin Srinivas, Mrs. Sudha Ragunathan, Dr Nithyashree and many others. He has performed at the most prestigious music festivals in India. He has appeared on world stages including the London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Festival Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall & The Berlin Jazz Festival in Germany. He has been coveted as an A top graded artiste of All India Radio. Presently, as the resident violin teacher at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in London, since 1997 he continues to propagate the heritage of Indian music through his roles as a teacher, a performer and a composer at The Bhavan Centre in London. Balu’s vast experience of both Teaching and peforming has helped him carve a nische for himslelf as a front ranking carnatic violinist in the field of carnatic music.