Hailed as "the new king of Indian classical violin" and “India’s Itzhak Pearlmann," Ambi Subramaniam has been trained by his father and guru Dr. L. Subramaniam since he was three years old. He first played the violin on-stage when he was seven years old, and in 1999, played to an audience of 200,000. He also played as part of the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games’ opening, in Pune.
Ambi has performed both as a soloist and along with his father at some of the most prestigious venues across the world. Some of his performances include the Royal Festival Hall, London, the Madison Square Garden, Chicago's Millennium Park for the Chicago World Music Festival, the Theatre de la Ville in 2017 (where he was the youngest Indian soloist to perform), and more. He has performed with the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Nationale du Lille, Sinfonia Baltica, the Kwazulu Natal Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, and the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. In 2016, he recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios.
Along with his sister Bindu, Ambi runs SaPa, which teaches music to over 30,000 children. He has co-authored over 20 textbooks in total, including India’s first series of textbooks dedicated to teaching the Carnatic violin. He has also conducted masterclasses in Norway, Sri Lanka, Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, and others.
Ambi studied Western classical piano and violin, and received an LTCL in the violin from Trinity College. He was recently a featured soloist in the background score of the Bollywood film Sardar Udham, composed by Shantanu Moitra. He also co-hosts the SaPa Show, which teaches global music to young children across the world, and is a youth delegate at the United Nations for the Sri Chinmoy Peace Meditation Group.
Ambi has a bachelor’s degree in business management, an MBA, and a Ph.D. on developing a global violin technique. He has received recognitions including the Ritz Icon of the Year, the Rotary Youth Award, two Global Indian Music Awards and was named among GQ's 25 Most Influential Young Indians in 2021.
