![]() ![]() ![]() Her DVD Hridayaragam was featured in the Women’s History Month at the Smithsonian in 2008 and Strings of Resonance was nominated for the ‘Best Classical Music Awards’ in Dhaka Bangladesh in 2010. Her artistic and creative energy has resulted in directing and producing numerous audiovisual recordings with classical sitar. DC, The Smithsonian in Washington DC, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD, The Shakespeare Theater, Wash DC, The Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, The Harkness Hall, Yale, New Haven CT. She has performed in the US at venues such as The Kennedy Center in Wash. ![]() Laila has performed internationally at venues, such as The Purcell Room, London, The Kerala Arts Society, Kerala, India, the National Museum of Bangladesh, Dhaka, SRA/Bengal Foundation Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh, the India International Center, New Delhi, The Manav Sanghralaya, Bhopal, India. ![]() She was fortunate to continue her study of Indian classical in sitar with teachers, Partha Chatterjee and Krishna Bhatt and Kushal Das. During her final years of training, she attended the College of Fine Arts in Dhaka, where she graduated in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree and received several awards for her watercolor painting. By Mir Qasem Khan, nephew of legendary maestro, Allauddin Khan. She was trained in Indian classical music through sitar in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Alif Laila is one of the few internationally performing female sitar players of the world. ![]()
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