Early Life
Manu Narayan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and currently resides in New York City. He is an accomplished classical saxophonist in the western and South Indian Carnatic styles. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, when Narayan was a freshman, he won the Concerto Competition and performed the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto with orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh. Narayan studied the Carnatic saxophone in Mangalore, India with Sri Kadri Gopalnath, and played on All India Radio as the winner of the All India Radio music competition of Mangalore.
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