Ashwin Krishna is a soon-to-be graduate of the 5-year Harvard/New England Conservatory Dual-Degree program, the first classical guitarist ever to be admitted to the program. He has been playing guitar since he was 4 and has won numerous national and international competitions since he was 10. He most notably won the prestigious Parkening International Youth Guitar Competition in 2015, won second place at the GFA International Youth Competition in 2010 & 2011, and was the first guitarist to win the Pacific Music Society Competition in its 100-year history in 2012. He has performed twice on NPR's popular From The Top program, including as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, and currently studies with Jerome Mouffe and Eliot Fisk at NEC.
Ashwin has an undergraduate degree in applied mathematics and computer science from Harvard and is currently working on intelligent object manipulation at MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab).
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Ashwin playing Barrios’ Un Sueño en la Floresta to close out 2020
Ashwin playing an excerpt of Albeniz’s Mallorca for Harvard’s Pause for Art spotlight of its class of 2020 seniors
Ashwin playing Andrew York’s Introduction and Sunburst at the 2011 GFA Youth Competition finals in Columbus, South Carolina
“Ashwin (17) has an excellent sound, is very competent technically, and musically mature for his age”,
- Christopher Parkening, distinguished professor and Grammy-nominated classical guitarist