Narasimha Kikkeri, a long time devotee of Pujya Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji (Pujya Appaji), has performed regularly at Mysore Ashram on several occasions. Narasimha Kikkeri, inspired and encouraged by his parents Smt.Sathyavathi and Sri K.N. Rajarao, began his violin training in Carnatic music at an early age from Vid Sri. S Murthy and later learnt under Vid Sri Mysore S Mahadevappa and Vid Sri MS Govindaswamy a disciple of Lalgudi Rajalakshmi, sister of legend Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman Sir.
Over the years Narasimha has been a frequent performer on All India Radio & TV stations and several academy concerts and represented India at the festival of India during international music festivals. He has accompanied leading Indian artists T.N.Sheshagopalan, Dr T. Viswanathan, Dr Chitti Babu, N Ravikiran, Trichur V Ramachandran, and R.K. Srikantan to name a few. He has accompanied Hindustani singer Rashid Khan during US tour along with CD releases. Narasimha Kikkeri is well adapt playing with Western and Jazz players and performed across USA and several universities.
He has performed solo concerts frequently at several leading universities including Bloomington Indiana, Berkeley Boston, Cornell, Oxford Miami, Cincinnati,and UNT to name a few. In addition he has played several fusion concerts with leading Jazz & drum players. He currently resides in Dallas with his family.