Violin : Kiran Athreya

Kiran Athreya is a disciple of violin maestro Sri. Delhi P. SunderRajan. He began learning vocal with his grandmother Smt. Vatsala Parthasarathy and continued with Smt. Padma Kutty in California for a couple years before he began his violin training. Sri. Krishna Kutty introduced Kiran to the art of carnatic violin at the age of 9 and since then Kiran has been training with his present guru Sri. SunderRajan. He has accompanied many senior vocalists, given solo performances, and has played for numerous arangetrams in Southern California, Arizona, Chicago and India. He was the recipient of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) scholarship for carnatic violin in 2008. Kiran is currently pursuing an MPH at the University of Southern California.