Background
Karthik hails from a family of musicians. With strong roots in Carnatic, he is also well versed in playing Indian film, Ghazals, Western classical, Pop & Blues. He has given numerous concerts both as a soloist and as an accompanist enthralling audiences at various venues in India and internationally
He has received many other awards including the Special award from Lord Mayor of Sheffield, UK and best violinist award for his violin solo performances. Karthik became the first and youngest Indian violinist to feature twice on BBC Radio, Sheffield, UK in 2012.
Karthik has been nominated for IndianRaga Fellowship, the world’s most prestigious network of performing artists.IndianRaga is an Arts education startup founded at MIT producing the best collaborations and authentic, yet groundbreaking new works in the performing arts.
He has successfully completed the Western music theory course from the University of Edinburgh, UK, Developing musicianship course from Berklee College of Music, USA. He has also successfully completed Western Classical music composition course from National University of Singapore with distinctions. After completing Northwestern University’s “Teaching the Violin and Viola: Creating a Healthy Foundation,” he became a community mentor on Coursera to help guide other teachers.
Karthik has been conducting violin classes online for more than a decade. He has trained more than 500 students from nearly 100 countries so far.
KARTHIK SUBRAMANY LIVE – WORLD FUSION BAND
Having collaborated with musicians from diverse musical backgrounds, the journey enabled Karthik to develop his own unique IndoWestern style bringing best of both worlds and led him to form his own band, Karthik Subramany Live.
The band has strong roots in Carnatic and specialises in blending the genre with World music. The band plays their own compositions in their own unique IndoWestern style as well as different genres of music such as Indian film, Pop, Jazz, Ghazals and Blues.
The band has given many concerts at various venues during different contexts such as Corporates, Weddings, Parties, Religious functions, Festivals, Yoga & Wellness center to name a few. Recently, the band’s world music concert has been featured on News 9.
Musical Training & Education
Undergone training in violin from late Vidwan M. Chennakeshavan (Disciple of legendary musician Padma Vibhushan Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna and Padma Bhushan M. S. Gopalakrishnan) and from Vidwan R.S Ramakanth, son of Padmabhushan R. K Srikantan.
- B.E. Electronics and Communication, VTU, Bangalore
- MSc. IT (with Distinction, SHU, Sheffield, UK
Major performances
- Carnatic violin concert telecast on Udaya TV at the age of ten, Bangalore, 1996
- Carnatic violin performance at the age of ten held at Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bangalore,
- Lead violinist in the fusion band, ‘Trailblazers’ performance at Amritotsava, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bangalore
- Founded Carnatic music guide – A blog consisting information about Carnatic music aspects, biographies of music composers, history of Carnatic music and more in 2007
- Violin concerts in front of over 75,000 audience during the darshan program of the spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi held at Bangalore
- Founded Online violin classes and has trained several students from nearly 50 countries
- Created Self learning Carnatic and Western classical violin online course to help guide students and working professionals self learn violin
- Received best international student award for excellence in music for violin solo and band performances at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
- Awarded Best Indian violinist
- Violin solo concerts during many cultural occasions at Our Native Village Eco Resort, Bangalore
- Carnatic violin solo concert – Vid. Karthik Ravikumar on Mridangam, Vid. Karthik Mani on Ghatam .
- Founded “Karthik Subramany Live”, a unique multi-genre band consisting of accomplished professional musicians
- Karthik Subramany Live concerts at Phoenix MarketCity, Bangalore
- Karthik Subramany Live, World Fusion Music concert at blueFrog, Bangalore,
- Karthik Subramany Live World Fusion Concert at Phoenix MarketCity, Bangalore featured on News 9
- Karthik Subramany Live World Fusion Concert at MLR Convention Centre, Bangalore
- Karthik Subramany Live World Fusion Concert at The Taj West End, Bangalore
- IndianRaga Music Fellowship: Selected fellow for creating professional productions, 2017
- Carnatic & Western Violin solo performances at The Tamara Carnival
- Karthik Subramany Live, World Fusion Music concert at Lotus Convention Centre, Bangalore
- Karthik Subramany Live, World Fusion Music concert at Elaan Convention Center, Bangalore
- Karthik Subramany Live, World Fusion Music concert at Le Meridien Hotel, Bangalore
- Karthik Subramany Live, World Fusion Music concert at Sri Lakshmi Srinivasa Convention Hall, Bangalore
- Guinness World Record performance for the largest Carnatic band attempt headed by feted Carnatic singer, Padma Bhushan Sudha Raghunathan curated by Thyagayya TV, Chennai
- Performed twice at Sheffield Hallam University fest, Sheffield, UK and featured violinist to appear in Sheffield Hallam University magazine
- Violin concert at Holiday Inn, Rotherham, UK that helped to raise money for charity
- Violin performances during many cultural and festive occasions – Republic day, Independence day, Ganesh Chaturthi, Diwali celebrations at Hindu Samaj, Sheffield, UK
- Received young violinist special award for violin solo performance held at Hindu Samaj, Sheffield, UK
- Received special international talent award from the Lord Mayor of Sheffield for violin solo performance during the Diwali celebrations in Sheffield, UK
- Played violin at Britain’s Got Talent auditions held at Manchester and London and received appreciation from the producers.
- First and youngest Indian Classical (Carnatic) violinist to feature twice on Shawkat Hashmi’s show on BBC Radio, Sheffield, UK
- Violin solo concert at Sri Venkateshwara temple, Birmingham, UK
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