Reviews, Interviews, Podcasts

Review: Indian Link (2025)

Bhairavi Raman: When the violin speaks many tongues

“In the alapanas of the abstract pieces, the effect was almost otherworldly – as though she was carrying her listeners into distant, uncharted lands. In these moments, her command of Western idioms blended seamlessly with her Carnatic roots, revealing not only technical mastery but a restless curiosity that sought to expand the very language of the violin.”

Interview: The South First (2023)

An Indo-Australian draws the bow on violin strings to bridge a cultural divide

“Indian-Australian violinist Bhairavi Raman flits between Carnatic and Western Classical music forms to navigate two cultures”

Interview: Indian Sun (2024)

How violinist Bhairavi Raman strings together two cultures

“Each time I’ve seen Bhairavi Raman perform, she’s clad in beautiful saris that, along with her music, pull in the audience. Like many children growing up in diaspora communities, Raman says she has learned to adapt to different cultural situations.”

Podcast: Liquid Architecture (2022)

Bhairavi Raman reflects on her early love for the violin, the questions that push her musical practice to new parameters, and expands on her inquiries into the space between Western and Carnatic classical music.

Interview: Culturally Diverse Women (2022)

Come and hear Bhairavi share her journey of finding her voice, creating her own path and thriving as an individual and leader in the spaces she operates.

Interview: Indian Link (2025)

Bhairavi Raman: Seven notes of the noted

“Melbourne-based Indian-Australian violinist Bhairavi Raman blends Western Classical and Carnatic traditions to express her bicultural identity, through a creative fusion of her “two sound worlds”.

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Interview: Indian Link (2023)

Bhairavi and Nanthesh, reconciling identity through music

“Musicians Bhairavi Raman and Nanthesh Sivarajah are part of a new generation of South Asian Australians bringing a bicultural voice to traditional Carnatic music”