Krishna Nagaraja - arrangements, baroque viola, hardingfele

Violinist, violist, composer, arranger, Krishna Nagaraja has always approached music from many different directions. After a career as a baroque musician, his path led him to the folk music from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and the Nordic countries. In 2014 he obtained a Master’s Degree in Global Music (GLOMAS) at the Sibelius Academy, and in the same institution in 2022 he completed his doctorate in Folk Music with the project ‘Polska Travels: Composing (at) the Crossroads’, focusing on the hybridisation of musical genres. He has presented the project at several international conferences.

Norwegian music is the protagonist of “Tales from Norway”, his first CD as a composer, released in 2022 and featuring string quartet Meta4 and himself on the Hardanger fiddle. He is currently conducting the post-doctoral artistic research project ‘PolyMatters’, affiliated to the Sibelius Academy. The project focuses on polyrhythms in three different musical areas and produces three respective compositions, of which the last, entitled “Peripheries” for string quartet, was commissioned by the Kuhmo Chamber Music festival and will be premiered by Meta4 in July 2026.