Dr. Sriram Parasuram started learning violin at the age of 4 and gave his first public performance lasting 90 minutes at the age of 8. Since then he has given well over 3000 violin solo concerts all over the world. His mother Smt. Parvathy Parasuram being his first Guru, Sriram has also had the good fortune of training rigorously under Sangeetha Kalanidhi KS Narayanaswamy and Sangeetha Kalanidhi T Viswanathan. For Hindustani Music, he received tutelage from (late) Padmabhushan Pandit CR Vyas.

He received a fellowship to study Western Classical Violin in the US and followed it up with a Masters from theUniversity of Akron, Ohio, USA. He proceeded further and did his PhD in World Music from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA. He also holds a BE - Mechanical from Mumbai University and is an MBA alumnus of IIM Calcutta.

Sriram has also made many successful forays into the fields of jazz and popular music. He has collaborated, composed and performed with many musicians from varying cultures such as Javanese Gamelan, West African drumming, and Japanese Koto. The Hindi-English pop album SAVARIYA - an endeavour of his group 'Three Brothers and a Violin' - saw him as a composer-singer. The album received rave reviews and was awarded the Screen Videocon award for Best Composer and Best Album in 2000. In a unique project in 2005 and then 2010, Sriram directed and performed with an ensemble, scoring live background score for landmark silent films - 'The Light of Asia' and 'Shiraz.