Avra Banerjee
InterContinental Music Awards Winner
2024 – Best of Asia | Asian Pop
Avra has over 15 years of Indian classical music training, is a composer and plays the instrument sarod, specializing in World music. He has done successful collaborations with musicians across the USA, Europe, India and Australia. Avra has till date released 7 albums, more than 30 singles and has been awarded and nominated in some of the most prestigious awards like Global Music Awards, LIT Music Award, World Entertainment Awards, Akademia Awards, OneEarth Award Festival, X-Pose-Ing Award, Josie Music Award, Independent Music award, Elite Music Award, Global Indian Music Award in categories like World music, Fusion Music and Instrumental music. Founder of two World music bands “Ragamorphism” in India and “SwaraSynthesis” in Australia, where he performs, writes and arranges the compositions. As a composer and songwriter, Avra has multiple releases that span across diverse genres like World music, Indian Classical music, Fusion music, Rock & Pop music, Ghazals and Sufi music as both instrumental and vocal songs in multiple languages like Hindi, Urdu, English, Bengali.
Avra says “Music is more an art for me than entertainment and hence I prefer to create music that is intricate and musically challenging, but at the same melodious and contemplative to the listeners”
Hence, he has experimented many of his compositions with multimodal melodies that also goes beyond the conventional rhythmic patterns.
Avra is based at Perth, Australia and beside a successful musician, he is also a working professional in a senior leadership role in an IT organization. Avra is married to Nabanita, who is a school teacher in primary education and has a school going son of 14 years who is doing his trainings on Piano in Jazz, Indian classical and contemporary music.