From Pandit Jasraj's Student to Royal Albert Hall: The Journey of Violinist Kala Ramnath

The Mumbai/California-based composer was recently part of the Silkroad Global Musician workshop in Boston and performed with tabla maestro and mentor Zakir Hussain in Singapore

A lot of people wouldn’t likely remember what they were doing when they were two-and-a-half years old, but Kala Ramnath does. She had begun training in violin, carrying on a tradition of music in her Kerala-origin family. A seventh generation musician, Ramnath was trained at first by her grandfather, Vidwan A. Narayan Iyer. “He trained me completely in terms of technique, which helped me find my voice later in life, call it in terms of figuring out the right way or in terms of technique to produce my unique sound,” she says.