Ragini Shankar
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Ragini Shankar | |
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 Ragini Shankar performing at Theatre de la Ville, Paris[2] | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Varanasi, India |
| Genres | Hindustani classical music, fusion |
| Occupation | Violinist |
| Instrument | Violin |
| Website | www |
Ragini Shankar is an Indian violinist who performs Hindustani classical music and fusion. She is the grand-daughter of the renowned Padmabhushan Dr. N. Rajam.[3] and the daughter of Dr. Sangeeta Shankar[4]
She began her training at the age of 4 and gave her first public performance as an 11-year-old.[5] She plays violin in the Gayaki Ang, a revolutionary technique to reproduce vocal music on the violin.
Education
Shankar excelled in her education in mechanical engineering and also holds a master's degree in music.[6]
Performing career
She has performed in various prestigious festivals like the Europalia,[7] MERU, Netherlands,[8][9] Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Festival,[10] Dover Lane Music Conference,[11] Saptak Festival of Music,[12] Theatre de la Ville, Paris,[13] Theatre de l'Alhambra, Geneva, Switzerland,[14] MilapFest,[15] Yaksha (festival),[16] Aarohi for Pancham Nishad,[17] Jaya Smriti organised by Hema Malini,[18] Temple of Fine Arts,[19] Bengal Music Foundation.[20]
She has performed in several countries abroad; the USA,[21] Canada,[22] UK,[23] Netherlands,[8] Switzerland,[14] Germany, France,[24] Belgium,[25] Hungary, Singapore,[26] Malaysia and Dubai.[27] Ragini gives lecture demonstrations and conducts workshops on a regular basis during her travels.
She is known for her collaborations with various artists in diverse genres. Ragini and her sister Nandini Shankar have been signed by Decca Records US, a part of Universal Music Group for a full-length music album for their musical ensemble ‘Taraana’.[28][29] She is a part of the renowned Bollywood lyricist Irshad Kamil’s The Ink Band, a series of poetry interwoven with music.[30][31] She is also a part of an Indo-French musical project called Sangata, formed by the noted French composer Thierry Pecou[32] and was covered in an article in Le Monde.[33] Her recent collaborations include inStrings, an innovative fusion band, giving a new sound to popular Indian tunes.[34]
Ragini is a recipient of the distinguished Aditya Birla Kala Kiran Award[35] and the Jashn-e-Youngistan [36] [37] Award presented by the Vice President of India. She was a faculty at Whistling Woods International School of Music in Mumbai for 6 years and currently teaches at the Rajam School of Violin.[38] She has appeared on the platform of Talks at Google[39] and Tedx[40] for her talks on Indian music.
She resides in Mumbai.