Indian Express, India
"...If the vocalist had been a veteran musician, the reviewer may have raved about his virtuosity and complete mastery. But when the singer happens to be a frail but precocious child, only five years of age, the reviewer is at his wits end. It needs a philosopher, a metaphysicist and spiritualist to adequately describe or explain this rare phenomenon... a manifestation of divine grace..."

The New York Times, USA
'…Infinite capacity for micro-tonal shadings reminiscent of the human voice… the core of Carnatic music played with teasing precision…'

Sony Music.com
'…The fact that Ravikiran’s tone seems to float in space, unencumbered by any kind of indiscretion by the agents that produce it, is indicative of the artists perfection in the playing technique.…'

The BBC Music Magazine, UK
'...an impressive solo on the wonderfully resonant chitravina, but the main business is sharing ideas between the three main styles...infectiously lively in some intricate up-tempo material…'

Radio National, Australia
"...one of the world's greatest slide players - whose instrument is NOT a guitar! ...an amazing slide player in anybody's language. "

The Sunday Star, Malaysia
'…Combines breadth of vision and expansive imagination… accuracy and spellbinding speed… hand his music a singing quality that is divine…'

Los Angeles Times, USA
"…The program was distinguished by Ravikiran's ravishing playing… an arresting virtuoso…"

The Hindu, India
'…For Ravikiran, music is literally child's play…'

Toronto Sun, Canada
' Instinct dictates that anyone who's christened after an instrument is probably a real terror on it. So it is with 34-year-old Ravikiran, a wizard on the Chitravina… magical collaboration with Chinese, Brazilian, and Indian musicians… stunning level of virtuosity and improvisation… '

The Melbourne Age, Australia
'…Ravikiran's strong rhythmic structures, and free form interaction with instruments is the first reason for the dancer's expansion of the language…'

Folk Roots, UK
'Sliding around on the Chitravina, Ravikiran plays with lightning speed and laser precision...'

Desiclub.com, USA
'…The Mozart of Indian Music…'

The Plain Dealer, USA
'…(In Lakshmi Prabhavam in Cleveland,) Ravikiran stuck to a classical idiom coloured by inventive instrumentation…'

Gulf Times, Qatar
'…Ravikiran cast a spell over the audience…'

The Beat, USA
"Heartstopping mastery..."

Asian Eye, UK
'A musical genius... stunned the world at the age of two... enjoys a global appeal...'

Wellington Post, New Zealand
'Master of the chitravina... an unprecedented phenomenon...'

The Musicmagazine.com
'Ravikiran's holistic sense of music makes the complex ideas here almost accessible to non-specialists... a great expedition into deep waters...'

Oregon Voice, USA
'...music lovers were treated to a performance of epic proportions ...'

Mixdown, Australia
'The Crown Prince of Carnatic Music... In protest of current global events, Ravikiran recently conducted a 'Gandhian' styled twelve-hour marathon in Melbourne, Australia... His latest Australian visit was also marked by the staging of 'Savithri' at the National Theatre, where enchanted audiences were exposed to his composing talents...'