Ragini Shankar

Shankar 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.

Shankar excelled in her education in mechanical engineering and also holds a master's degree in music.[6]

Shankar 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] The Association of Performing Arts of India,[20] T. N. Krishnan Foundation,[21] and Bengal Music Foundation.[22]

She has also performed abroad in the USA,[23] Canada,[24] the UK,[25] Netherlands,[8] Germany, France,[26] Belgium,[27] Hungary, Singapore,[28] Malaysia and Dubai.[29] Ragini gives lecture demonstrations and conducts workshops on a regular basis during her travels.

Shankar was a faculty at Whistling Woods International School of Music in Mumbai for 6 years and currently teaches at the Rajam School of Violin.[30]

She is a part of the renowned Bollywood lyricist Irshad Kamil’s The Ink Band, a series of poetry interwoven with music.[31][32] She is also a part of an Indo-French musical project called Sangata, formed by the noted French composer Thierry Pecou[33] and was covered in an article in Le Monde.[34] Her recent collaborations include inStrings, an innovative fusion band, giving a new sound to popular Indian tunes.[35] She has appeared on the platform of Talks at Google[36] and Tedx[37] for her talks on Indian music.

She resides in Mumbai.

Aditya Birla Kala Kiran Award,presented by Rajashree Birla, 2019[38]

Jashn-e-Youngistan presented by the Vice-President of India, Venkaiah Naidu, 2018[39] [40]

Jaya Smriti presented by film actress and dancer, Hema Malini, 2012