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Amie Maciszewski, Ph.D.

Sitarist, teaching artist, ethnomusicologist

Sangeet Millennium
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Pakistan 2018

In 2018, Amie was part of a Texas-based team that was awarded a grant by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. Led by Dr. Michael Hirsch, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Huston-Tillitson University (in Austin) the team conducted training workshops on social science, education, and ethnomusicology research methods for diverse junior faculty selected by Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission. These were held at Punjab University, Lahore; HEC Resource Commission, Khanaspur, Khyber Pakhtunkwa; and Fatima Jinnah Women’s University, Rawalpindi.  Amie also completed a residency as visiting artist-scholar by the National Academy for Performing Arts (NAPA) in Karachi where she gave a sitar performance and led a workshop on doing ethnography. In addition while in Karachi, she  performed upon invitation at Peace Niche/T2F, opened for renowned Qawwali ensemble Fareed Ayaz-Abu Mohamed at their annual Munshi Rahimuddin Birth Anniversary celebration, and presented a lecture-demonstration on Hindustani music to elementary school students at Ilmester Academy. In Lahore, she followed up on her interest in advocating for marginalized artists by participating in a program held at Fountain House that is part of an ongoing project to empower members of the Khwaja Sira (transgender) community, particularly seniors. 

You can read a review of her performance at the National Academy for Performing Arts here.

Power99

In Islamabad, adjacent to Rawalpindi, following a visit by the team to Power99 FM, a progressive digital radio station dedicated to empowering people in under-served areas of northern and central Pakistan through interactive radio education broadcasts in multiple lesser-spoken regional languages, Amie accepted an invitation by the station directors to do an interview and performance on the nighttime music program.  Amie’s performance in Islamabad, has been shared online by Power99.live. https://youtu.be/PUHdXx7JsgM

At the end of 2019, Amie visited Pakistan for the third time. She traveled to Hunza, a remote northern mountain region, where she visited the innovative Leif Larsen Music Academy in historic Karimabad, dedicated to the preservation of the traditional music of the Hunza people. She is embarking on a pilot research project on this community. She also conducted a 2-day workshop on ethnomusicology at Fatima Jinnah Women’s University, which included a sitar and tabla concert, in addition to coaching students to prepare multidisciplinary performances which they presented at the end of the workshop.

Jam with Hunza musicians Islam Habib (C), Ustad Davesh Khan (R), Nov. 2019s  - Aliabad, Nov. 2018

Jam in Aliabad, Hunza, with Islam Habib (C) – rabab and voice, and Ustad Darvesh (R) – voice. November 2019

Fatima Jinnah Women's University 12-19

Fatima Jinnah Women’s University Ethnomusicology Workshop, Dec. 2019

Fatima Jinnah Women's University 12-19

Fatima Jinnah Women’s University Ethnomusicology Workshop Opening concert, December 2019

 


Fatima Jinnah Women's University 12-19

Fatima Jinnah Women’s University, Rawalpindi, December 2019 – Ethnomusicology workshop opening ceremony with Dr. Bilal Muhammad (L) and Sajawal Khan (C) on tabla

Karachi, 08-18

Fareed Ayaz-Abu Muhammad Qawwal concert opening, Karachi, Aug. 2018 with Waqas Gulab on tabla

 

T2F Karachi concert 08-18

T2F, Karachi concert, Aug. 2018 with Arieb Azhar (L) and Ustad Bashir Khan (C)

 

NAPA workshop, Karachi 08-18

National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA), Karachi,  workshop – Aug. 2018

Ilmester Academy, Karachi, 08-18

Ilmester Academy, Karachi, Aug. 2018 school workshop

 

 

 

 

Concert at NAPA, Karachi, 08-18

Concert at NAPA, Karachi, Aug. 2018 with Ustad Bashir Khan on tabla

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