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.
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
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
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
Other
Idakka Tripunithura Krishnadas
Jaltarang Anayampatti S. Ganesan Seethalakshmi Doraiswamy
Santoor R. Visweswaran
See also
Carnatic music South India
References
External links Information on Carnatic music (resource for lyrics of a number of Carnatic kritis)