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.