[2] He is the son of the violinist Gottuvadyam Srinivasa Iyengar.
He studied Carnatic music from age four under his father.
Narasimhan also learnt Western classical music and entered Tamil cinema as a violinist, playing for all leading composers except G. Ramanathan.
In 1993, he founded the Madras String Quartet.
[9] In 2024 he released a book Carnatic and Western Music- Blending the two Classical Music Systems.