Jay Gandhi has been a student of the bansuri since the age of fifteen and has received training from many different masters of this instrument including Pandit Ronu Majumdar, Pandit Vijay Raghav Rao and Pandit Raghunath Seth. In 2006, he fulfilled one of his lifelong dreams and began studies under the world renowned bansuri master Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. He has completed an Individual Major in Jazz Performance at Oberlin College/Conservatory of Music, studying privately under such Jazz luminaries as the saxophonist Gary Bartz and trumpetist Marcus Belgrave. He continues to spend the greater part of each year in India studying and performing.
Jay has performed for audiences in India, Europe and America and is known for his expressive tonal quality and the emotional depth of his musical explorations. He has also had the honor of providing live accompaniment on bansuri for many great North Indian Classical performers, all of whom have also been very important guides towards his musical growth, including Pandit Ronu Majumdar, Pandit Raghunath Seth, Pandit Vidyadhar Vyas, Pandit Nayan Ghosh, Smt. Kum Kum Sanyal (vocalist), and Pandit Ramakant Pathak (pakhawaj). He has completely devoted himself to imbibing the deepest aspects of Hindustani Classical Music and knows that this journey is one that is lifelong.
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