E. Gayathri (b. 1959) is an Indian veena player. Gayathri was born on 9th November 1959 to Kamala Aswathama, a veteran veena vidushi and G. Aswathama, a popular film music director of telugu cinema. She started playing the veena at a very young age, making her public debut at a concert in Karpaga Vinayagar temple in R.A. Puram. In1968, when Sri Parthasarathy Swami Sabha, Triplicane invited her to participate in their Saint Thyagaraja Festival, she was only nine years old.