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GAURI GUHA | Gauri Guha is an established and
highly acclaimed professional North Indian
classical
vocalist and recipient of many grants from the Shastri Indo-Canadian
Institute, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council. She
has eight albums to her credit.
She is a senior disciple of
Pandit A. Kanan and Mrs. Malabika Kanan. Currently, Gauri is
studying music under the guidance of Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty.
She achieved first class in Sangit Visharad (Bachelor in Music)
degree from Bhatkhande Sangit Vidyapith in Lucknow, India.
For the last 30 years, Gauri
has performed internationally in many prestigious conferences
and concerts and had been interviewed in the television, radio
and print media in India, Canada, United States and the Caribbean
Islands.
In 1977, Gauri was sent by
the Indian Council for Cultural Relations to the Cultural Centre,
Guyana, South America, as a Cultural Officer/Music Teacher for
three years. During that period, Gauri travelled extensively
in Guyana, Trinidad, Barbados, Jamaica, Suriname and Venezuela.
Gauri is a regular teacher at the Sangit
Academy, Brussels, Belgium. In December 2006, she sang in a movie
called "The Hindu Tomb" at Lille Festival, France.
A CD was released during the festival. In July 2007, Gauri taught
Indian music at a seminar in Neufchateau, Belgium, which is the
biggest dance and music seminar of Europe.
From 1997 to 2003, Gauri taught
workshops and served as a board member of the Worlds of Music
Toronto (WOMT) organization. Gauri has also taught music classes
at M-DO, the Toronto Tabla Ensemble. Gauri also served on the
panels of judges for Indo-Canadian Idol and Toronto Sanskriti
Sanstha (TSS) musical competitions.
In September 2007, she delivered
a speech in "Spirituality in Music" and performed at
the Toronto International Indo-Jazz Festival.
Gauri is on the evaluation committee
of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Calgary, Alberta. She
has received felicitations from the Federation of Bangladeshi
Association of North America (FOBANA), the Association of Women
of India in Canada (AWIC) and BAPS-Swaminarayan Temple Ladies
Group for her contributions in the field of music in Canada.
In spite of Gauri's serious
passion and total commitment towards music, she holds a Master
degree in Literature, Business Management degree and a full-time
senior management position in Scotiabank.
Gauri is one of the registered
members of the Speakers' Bureau of Dominion Institute Passages
to Canada and regularly delivers motivational speeches in high
and middle schools of the Toronto Board of Education. She also
delivered speeches at the Revenue Canada and University of Toronto
in the occasion of Asian Heritage Month Festival. Recently, Gauri
was a guest speaker at the Sales Rally of Scotiabank.
GAURI GUHA | gauri_guha@hotmail.com
| www.gauriguha.com
Bengali Conference Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIvy6fPPieI
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