Background
Avaneeswaram South R Vinu was born to Avaneeswaram.N Ramachandran(RtdPrincipal of RLV music college Thripunithura) and Sahithi Devi in Trivandrum, Kerala.His grand father late Avaneeswaram.K.Krishna Pillai was a renowned Nagaswaram player. Vinu started learning violin from his father at the age of six who himself was a musician.after that he got training from the violinist Professor Kilimanur Thyagarajan.
Career
Later he underwent higher studies in violin from Maestro Mysore M Nagaraj (from the 1992 till 1997). Vinu is one of the sought after accompanying violinists. He has traveled extensively all over the world and performed with many leading musicians including Padmavibhushan Doctor M Balamuralikrishna, Madurai T. North. Seshagopalan, Aswathi Thirunal Rama Varma, Sanjay Subrahmanyan,Padmabhushan T. V. Sankaranarayanan, Doctor.N. Ramani,T K Govindarao, Neyyattinkara Vasudevan, Padmabhushan Doctor.K. J. Yesudas, P. Unni Krishnan,Professor
Parassala B Ponnammal.
Vinu has performed many prestigious venues in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Botswana and Qatar.