Ragini Shankar
Born in a family with a musical lineage spanning over seven generations, Ragini Shankar began her training in Hindustani(North Indian) Classical Music on the Violin at the tender age of 4 under the tutelage of her illustrious grandmother, Padmabhushan Dr. N Rajam and her exemplary mother Dr. Sangeeta Shankar, ace violinists of India.
She has performed in numerous prestigious music festivals all over India, Europe, North America and South East Asia.
Known for her ability to reproduce vocal music on the violin, she has collaborated on musical projects with acclaimed 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 fusion ensemble ‘Taraana’.
She has collaborated with Grammy Award-nominated music producer Nick Patrick and acclaimed song-writer Amy Wadge for the album. Besides she has collaborated on projects with renowned lyricist Irshad Kamil’s ‘Ink Band’, noted French composer Thierry Pecou’s ‘Sangata’ and Sangeeta Shankar’s innovative fusion ‘inStrings’.
She is a recipient of the Aditya Birla Kala Kiran Award and the Jashn-e-Youngistan award presented by the Vice President of India. She has also appeared on the platform of Talks at Google and Tedx for Indian music. She currently teaches at Rajam School of Violin and was a faculty at the Whistling Woods International-School of Music, a premier film school in Mumbai for 6 years.
She has also excelled in her academics being a top ranker in Mechanical engineering and holds a Masters’ in Music.
