Nagai Muralidharan

Who is Nagai Muralidharan?

Nagai Muralidharan was born on December 4, 1958 to Sri. R.Rajagopalan and Smt. R. Komavalli. He began his violin tutelage under his mother Smt. R. Komavalli.Nagai Muralidharan later underwent further training from Sri. R. S. Gopalakrishnan. Nagai Muralidharan's maiden performance was at the age of 10 and his career as a violinist has spanned for over 4 decades. Today, he is a top-ranking violinist, noted for his clarity, rich tonal quality, and crispness, and has developed a distinct scholarly style of his own. Nagai Muralidharan is also a regular feature in the Radio Sangeetha Sammelan concerts on Doordharshan, and as an accompanist in several CDs and cassettes. Additionally, he also served as a violin artiste in All India Radio, Trichy from 1978 to 2003. Over the years, Nagai Muralidharan has traveled and performed in countries all over the world including USA,Canada,Australia,Europe,Singapore,Malaysia,Dubai,Muscat,Doha,Behrain.

He has accompanied many legends and young artists in their vocal and instrumental concerts including Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Alathur Srinivasa Iyer, M.D.Ramanathan, Dr.M.Balamuralikrishna, Voleti Venkateswarulu, Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, R.K.Srikantan, Maharajapuram Santhanam, Madurai Somasundaram, Tanjore Kalyanaraman, T.M.Thyagarajan, D.K.Jayaraman, K.V.Narayanaswamy, T.K.Govinda rao, Seerkazhi Govindarajan, Chidambaram C.S.Jayaraman, Tanjore Sankara Iyer, K.J.Yesudas, T.V.Sankaranarayanan, Madurai T.N. Seshagopalan, Trichur Ramachandran, O.S.Thyagarajan, Sanjay Subrahmanyan, P.Unnikrisnan, Papanasam Ashok Ramani, S.Balachandar, T.R.Mahalingam, Dr.N.Ramani, Namagiripettai Krishnan, A.K.C Natarajan and many others.