U n’ I with Rashmi Shetty- Season 3- Ashwini Koushik

My guest today is an Indian film musician, flautist and a well recognised stage artist , producer and music conductor. A perfect guest for this women’s day special Ashwini Koushik - a popular flautist from Bengaluru.

Some of the highlights of her illustrious career are:

● Recorded for over 180 film tracks and background scores in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu

● 3000 + live shows as a flautist with almost all the leading artists from the South Indian cinema industry

● Lead flautist in Zee Tamil Sa Re Ga Ma Pa; Sun TV’s Sun Singer; ETV Kannada’s Edhe Thumbi Haduvenu; Star Jalsa on Star Bangla; Udaya Super Singer on Udaya TV; Haadu Karnataka on Colours Kannada

• Consolidated views of over 50 million on YouTube

Ashwini Koushik’s debut orchestral stage production titled Ilaiyaraaja - An Insight in 2019 was a sold out event and went viral on YouTube garnering more views than the original tracks. Maestro Ilaiyaraaja invited Ashwini Koushik to record in his new studio for his projects after watching her perform.

Ashwini Koushik’s Ilaiyaraaja live shows have gone on to become a flagship show running to packed houses. Featuring a rich variety of musicians in a large orchestral setting with most of the Maestro’s original musicians. The show sees Ashwini performing some of the most iconic compositions of Ilaiyaraaja from his film tracks, non-film albums and background scores while conducting the orchestra and narrating the show.

Ashwini has the distinction of performing with most of the leading musicians in the South Indian film industry on stage as well as in recording studios. Among the musician fraternity, she is most recognised as the ‘perfectionist who comes fully prepared’ and as the only artist who has a ready script bank of over 8000 tracks across genres, languages, eras and composers. She has performed across the country playing Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and has a constant fan following. Among show organisers, she has the reputation of attracting crowds with her presence, earning her reputation as a crowd puller.

Writing perfect notations of full original scores, Ashwini is widely recognised and appreciated by musicians as a musically strict and capable conductor. She has the distinction of having conducted a wide range of artists including orchestras featuring the original musicians of RD Burman from Mumbai and Ilaiyaraaja from Tamil Nadu, to musicians from the state of Kerala deep down South and everyone in between. She has the necessary experience to handle rookie musicians as well as established and highly experienced artists from across the country. She is a very well liked conductor and a coordinator among all musicians.

With the beginning of her new venture, The Content Company, Ashwini hopes to be a successful content producer producing high quality music featuring new sounds and collaborating with new and established musicians. This early stage venture is in partnership with her serial entrepreneur husband Koushik Varaghur.

Ashwini Koushik is primarily based in Bangalore but divides a small portion of her time in Chennai.

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Email: fascinatingflute@gmail.com

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