A Hindustani Classical Vocal Music Workshop by: DR. SAMIA MAHBUB AHMAD

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a resident of Maryland, USA, Dr. Samia Mahbub Ahmad is a Hindustani classical vocal musician in the Kirana Gharana. Samia is the disciple of Padma Shri Vidushi Sumitra Guha, one of India’s premier classical vocalists, and Sri Tapan Baidya, one of the pioneers of this genre in Bangladesh. She has been studying, teaching, and performing this ancient music of the Vedic times, live, and on television and radio in North America, South Asia, Europe, and Southern Africa for the past three decades. She has earned many awards and recognitions, including performing for Nobel laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Rosalyn Carter. and has widened her classical base to specialize in Nazrul Sangeet, Bhajans (devotional compositions), and New Age music, melding Hindustani classical music with contemporary melodies and rhythms of South Asia, South Africa, and the West. She has also expanded her collaborative work to combine vocal music with dance choreography and the visual arts.