Registration has begun for Bengal Classical Music Festival 2015, set to be held for five consecutive nights from November 27 to December 1 at Bangladesh Army Stadium.
Registration via online and mobile phone opened early Friday. To register online, one has to log on to the website of Bengal Foundation – www.bengalfoundation.org. To register via mobile phone, one has to write Bengal and send to 6969.
Bigger and better, the third instalment of this mega classical music festival has been dedicated to artist Qayyum Chowdhury, who fell sick while delivering his speech on the fourth-day of last year’s festival and lost his breath when rushed to the hospital.
The festival will present a broad variety of classical music genres and dance forms by several performers from India and Bangladesh.
This year, festival’s epochal introduction would be the internationally famed tabla player, Zakir Hussain, with Jayaprada Ramamurthy is on the flute, Carnatic vocalist M Balamurali Krishna, khayal singer Shubha Mudgal, Shruti Sadolikar and dhrupad singer Wasifuddin Dagar have all been confirmed to perform for the first time in the festival.
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Violinists from three generations lead by N Rajam, who is known as the singing violin of India, will come for the first time to enthral the audience. Raja and Radha Reddy, a dancing couple who are renowned as exponents of the South Indian dance form of Kuchipudi, are new in the festival as well.
The frequent performers who won audience’s heart in their previous visits to Dhaka including Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty, Pandit Suresh Talwalkar, Pandit Ulhas N Kashalkar, Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar and Ustad Rashid Khan have confirmed to be featured this year as well.
The festival is presented by Square Group and supported by BRAC Bank Ltd, while Robi Axiata Ltd is its telecom partner.
