Twenty two-year old violinist Aditi Krishnaprakash from Mysore, only child of her parents, was allowed full freedom to pursue her interest in music. The parents are passionate lovers of classical music. Aditi’s maternal granduncle was the well-known gottuvadya vidwan of yesteryear, Varahaswamy Iyengar. Captivated by the vioilin even as a child of four after she heard a Hindustani violin concert of N. Rajam, Aditi started violin lessons with H.K. Narasimha Murthy, a staff artist in AIR-Mysore and a disciple of violin maestro M.S. Gopalakrishnan. This lasted for about twelve years. Chitravina Ravikiran used to perform often at Mysore and Aditi was greatly attracted to his music. She took the liberty of writing to him directly, expressing the wish to learn from him and was readily accepted as a student. For the past six years she has been shuttling between Mysore and Chennai for classes whenever she can take a break from her studies. She does not like learning through Skype and believes that the only way to learn music is directly from the guru on a one-to-one basis. She considers Ravikiran a complete musician-cum-guru and feels that nobody can explain the finer points of music better than he. Among the many compositions that Ravikiran has taught her are some of the most beautiful songs of Oothukadu Venkata Kavi, the propagation of which is his priority.