Gauri Banerjee, a rare female Sarangi Player of India has come from a musical family. Her father Pandit Kishore Banerjee is a well known Tabla Player of Delhi and mother Mrs. Tandra Banerjee is a Gold Medalist in Sitar from Allahabad. Her elder brother Shiv Shankar Banerjee is also a well known tabla player of Delhi. Her Grand Father Pt. Manik Lal Banerjee was a famous Tabla Player of the sixties. So she is the third generation musician of her family.

Gouri started learning Sarangi at the age of Eight from Pt. Kashi Mishra of Benaras. Later she became the disciple of world renowned "Sarangi Sartaj" Ustad Sabri Khan Saheb of Delhi, under whom she's flourishing as the second female Sarangi Player of India at present.

After successful completion of B.MUS (sangit prabhakar) from Allahabad & B.COM (H) from Delhi University, she is doing masters degree in Sarangi & also studying Chartered Accountancy from Delhi (CA Final Student).

She is a frequent performer from Radio & Television of Delhi. She is also a recipient of scholarship in Sarangi from the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. She is an empanelled artist of ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) from the year 2004.

She has already given performances as a Solo Sarangi player in different places of India like Raigarh, Patna, Bokaro, Kolkata, Allahabad, Gwalior, Pune, Ghaziabad, New Delhi etc.

She also enjoys giving Nagma (lehra) & playing Sarangi with Kathak Dance & vocal music. Her favourite ragas are Marubihag, Shree, Madhuvanti, Tori, Multani, Puriya Kalyan, Khamaj, Nat Bhairab, Jhinjhoti etc. Though she has got very good marks in her academic career (88% in I.C.S.E. & 91% in I.S.C.), she has taken Sarangi seriously as a professional career. Currently she is associated with Survarsha Music Academy, New Delhi as a teacher of Sarangi.