Article February 14, 2000 Issue

Listening and learning

A conversation with cellist Rajan Krishnaswami

By Kim Shippey

Rajan Krishnaswami comes of a musical family. His father could pick up most instruments and play Indian ragas on them. His mother sang in professional opera choruses. He has bachelor and master of music degrees from the Juilliard School, New York, where he studied with Channing Robbins and Joel Krosnik. Later, he studied under Eberhard Finke in Germany. His brother Don is also a professional musician, with Juilliard degrees in composition and viola.

Rajan Krishnaswami regularly gives solo and chamber music concerts in the United States and Canada. He has taught master classes in the United States and in China, is serving on the faculties of the University of Washington and the Cornish College of the Arts, and is head of the lower strings department at the Seattle Conservatory of Music.

He talked with us shortly after a duo-recital with pianist Mark Salman in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York.

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