19 year old Indian-American violinist Vibha Janakiraman is a musician whose artistic purpose lies at the crossroads of chamber music, pedagogy, cultural intersection, and a love for mathematics. She is a student of Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho at the Juilliard School, where she is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. Her music has taken her to the stages of venues at the White House, Kimmel Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Lincoln Center. Most recently, Vibha was named a 2023 Presidential Scholar in the Arts and a 2022 National YoungArts Gold Winner in Classical Music. She serves as concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra as a member of their Principal Strings pool. After making her orchestral debut at the age of 11, Vibha has since appeared as a soloist with various ensembles in the greater Philadelphia area, including the Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra, the Ambler Symphony, the Newark Symphony Orchestra, and the Main Line Symphony Orchestra. Vibha is dedicated to bringing deeply impactful performances, presented with courage and patience, to her audiences. ​

A devoted chamber musician at heart, Vibha is working towards her dream of performing the full Beethoven String Quartet cycle. She has performed with numerous chamber groups at The Perlman Music Program, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Juilliard School, and has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Maxim Vengerov, and members of the Brentano and Emerson Quartets, amongst others. She is a member of the Neela Quartet, who recently made their Alice Tully Hall debut as part of Juilliard’s Honors chamber music program.

Vibha appeared on NPR’s radio show “From the Top,” where she spoke of her cultural connection to South Indian Classical music and performed Reena Esmail's Darshan. Deeply inspired by her mentors, she is passionate about promoting holistic music education and is an avid teacher. This June, Vibha served as Guest Artist at the C’est Bon Music Academy, where she taught and performed chamber music, and gave a presentation on South Indian Classical Music. Outside of the musical sphere, Vibha loves physics, math, learning languages, and writing. Vibha plays on an 1855 J.B. Vuillaume, generously on loan through the Tarisio Trust: Eric Sun-Karen Law Vuillaume Fellowship.