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Emani Sankara Sastry (23 September 1922 – 1987), was a renowned veena player. He came from a family of celebrated classical musicians. His father was Vainika Emani Achyutarama Sastri.

Madras A. Kannan on mridangam

Kishori Amonkar (10 April 1932 – 3 April 2017) was a HIndustani vocalist representing the Jaipur gharana, but incorporated other styles. Her initial teacher was her mother Mogubai Kurdikar.

Uppalapu Srinivas (28 February 1969 – 19 September 2014) was a mandolin player in Carnatic classical music and composer. Because he was a child prodigy, he was sometimes called the Mozart of classical Indian music. Rudraraju Subbaraju (disciple of Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar) taught U. Srinivas by singing, and U. Srinivas developed his phenomenal style of playing entirely his own, since mandolin had never been played in the rigorous and difficult Carnatic style before.

His electric mandolin has 5 strings: tuned CGCGC.

Sikkil Bhaskaran (violin), Thiruvarur Bhaktavathsalam (mridangam), E.M. Subramaniam (ghatam)

Sikkil Kunjumani, (10 June 1927 - 13 November 2010) and Sikkil Neela, (9 September 1938 - 17 September 2023).

with T. Rukmini (violin), Srimushnam Raja Rao (mridangam), T.H. Vinayakram (ghatam)

Ramnad Krishnan (14 September 1918 - 29 January 1973) was a Carnatic vocalist. He learned music from Ramnad C. S. Sankarasivam and Smt. T. Brinda. His brother is mridangam player Ramnad Raghavan.

Snehasish Mozumder is one of the few who have adapted the acoustic mandolin for Hindustani Classical music.

Soumen Sarkar on tabla.

The Bombay Sisters, C. Saroja (b. 7 December 1936) and C. Lalitha (26 August 1938 - 31 January 2023), were a Carnatic music singing duo. from Trichur, Kerala. They had their musical training with H. A. S. Mani, Musiri Subramania Iyer and T. K. Govinda Rao. Since they were groomed in Carnatic Music in Mumbai, they were referred to as the "Bombay Sisters".

with A. Kanyakumari (violin), Srimushnam V. Raja Rao (mridangam) & Govindarajan (ghatam)

Tarun Bhattacharya (santoor) was born in Howrah (next to Kolkata) on 23 December 1957. He was a student of Ravi Shankar. Ronu Majumdar (bansuri) was born in Varanasi in 1965, and is also associated with Ravi Shankar.

Madurai Mani Iyer (25 October 1912 – 8 June 1968) was a disciple at the Shri Thyagaraja Sangeetha Vidyalayam, a music school at Madurai founded by Harikesanallur Muthiah Bhagavatar.

T.N. Krishnan on violin, Vellore Ramabhadran on mridangam

Kala Ramnath's father is T.N. Mani, the brother of Carnatic violinist T.N. Krishnan and Hindustani violinist N. Rajam.

Madras Lalitangi Vasanthakumari (popularly referred to as MLV) (3 July 1928 – 31 October 1990), was a contemporary of D.K. Pattammal and M.S. Subbulakshmi, and was a prime disciple of G.N. Balasubramaniam.

Accompanied by R. Charumati (vocal support), A. Kanyakumari (violin), Tanjore S. Krishnamurthy Rao (mridangam) and Palghat Sundaram (ghatam).

Narasimhan Ravikiran was born on 12 February 1967 in Mysore. A child prodigy, he was able to identify about 325 ragas (melodic scales) and 175 talas (rhythmic cycles) of Carnatic music at the age of 2.

with A. Kanyakumari (violin), Mannargudi Easwaran (mridangam), and Nagaraja Rao (ghatam)