My Compelling Story

Finix Ramdas is a professional violinist based out of the finance capital of India, Mumbai. He started learning Hindustani and Carnatic music on the violin at the tender age of six and is currently pursuing western music. He has completed ATCL (Associated with Trinity college of Music – London) in the year 2010 with ‘Outstanding Musicians Award’ to his success. He has also acquired a diploma in fusion music (violin) from St Andrews College of Fusion Music (Bandra). His expertise includes western, Carnatic, fusion and world music genres. He has also acquired private training in Indian percussion instruments such as mridangam, ghatam and morsing for more than a decade. In the past few years, he has been performing with many artists and has worked with many musicians as a freelancer for studio recording projects. He received a great honour of performing with the legendary violinist and also his Guru Dr L Subramaniam with the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany) for Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival in the year 2009. He has performed in a workshop conducted by a legendary percussionist, Trilok Gurtu. He has also performed with music directors like Amit Trivedi and Dhruv Ghanekar for MTV Coke Studio. He has played solo violin for movies like Madras Cafe, Mitwa, Galgale Nighale, etc. and jingles like Sprite, Slice, Kissan Twist, Tata Salt, etc. He has performed concerts across India with fusion bands like Tapasya and Laya. He is a composer and a soloist for his own fusion band called Conversation. Awards: Outstanding Musicians Award (Trinity College of Music - London) Limca Book of Records, 2006