Gingger Shankar

Gingger is an Indian America composer, violinist and singer. In 2007, Gingger was one of only six film composers selected from around the world to attend the prestigious Music Composer's fellowship at the Sundance Film Institute. She has scored films such as Sundance award winning documentary 'Recycle', IDFA documentary 'This is My Picture When I Was Dead', 2011 Sundance feature film' Circumstance' and many others. In 2008, Gingger was selected for the BMI conducting fellowship under Lucas Richman. Some of her film works were recently performed live at the opening night of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Her haunting, angelic vocals and prolific composition and instrumental talents entwine to create a musical experience unlike any other. The artist and co-composer behind the poignant score of Mel Gibson's 2004 box office hit The Passion Of The Christ, Gingger has lent her voice and vision to several diverse projects ranging from soundtracks to soulful pop and electronic hip-hop. She is the only female in the world that has mastered the 10-string Double Violin, an instrument that covers the entire range of the orchestra's double bass, cello, viola and violin, and of which there are currently only two in existence. Gingger has collaborated with such uniquely talented and varied artists as L. Shankar, Zakir Hussain, Phil Collins, Steve Vai, Peter Gabriel, Steve Lukather, Cheap Trick, Smashing Pumpkins, Trent Reznor and Tony Levin, to name just a few. Her music can also be heard in Mike Nichol's film, "Charlie Wilson's War" starring Tom Hanks, where she had a chance to collaborate with film composer James Newton Howard. In the fall of 2008/2009, Gingger appeared as a special guest with the Smashing Pumpkins on their 20th Anniversary tour. During that time, Gingger debuted at Carnegie Hall as a soprano in the opera 'Ainadamar'.