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Raashi Kulkarni is a Los Angeles-based composer and classical pianist. Her scoring work includes the Netflix and Imagine Entertainment feature Wedding Season (dir. Tom Dey), the award-winning documentary Barefoot Empress (dir. Vikas Khanna), the Disney+ film World's Best (dir. Roshan Sethi, starring Utkarsh Ambudkar), the NAACP Image Award-nominated documentary ifine: beauty, and the feature film A Nice Indian Boy (dir. Roshan Sethi, starring Jonathan Groff and Karan Soni). She was the 2023 recipient of The ASCAP Foundation David Rose Award and a 2024 ASCAP Composers' Choice Award Nominee for Film Score of the Year (World's Best). Her latest work with DreamWorks Animation is set to release in 2025.
Raashi, with Emmy winner Blake Neely, contributed additional music for over 150 episodes on series such as the CW's Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow. In 2019, she composed and orchestrated the music for the DC Universe's first Bollywood-inspired musical, featured on DC's Legends of Tomorrow. Her two independent music albums, Raashi (2018) and Afterglow (2020), debuted at #1 and #2, respectively, on the iTunes World Music Charts. As an artist, she has performed at the Shrine Auditorium, Village Studios, Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Museum, and Patriot Center.
Raashi actively contributes to the community as an Advisor on the Recording Academy's LA Chapter Board, a GRAMMY U Mentor, a Board of Directors member and former Executive Director of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, and as a participant in the prestigious Universal Composers Initiative (2021-2023).
