Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC) in association with Asian Paints, IRCON and Marico Bangladesh is organising “An Evening of Classical Music” by Marina Ahmad Alam at 6:30pm today at the IGCC’s Gulshan premises.
Born in Dhaka, Marina Ahmad Alam started training in the North Indian Classical vocal style at the age of four. In Bangladesh she trained under the tutelage of respected musicians such as Ustad Phul Mohammed Khan, Shri Barin Majumdar, Ila Majumdar and many others.
However, her pursuit of North Indian classical music ultimately took her to its birthplace and after a brief stint at the Gandharva Maha Vidyalaya in New Delhi, she was taken on by the internationally renowned Sangeet Martand Padma Bhibhushan Pandit Jasraj-ji, a luminary within the sphere of North Indian Classical Music and a master of the genre. She went on to receive training in his Mewati Gharana for over two decades and remains one of his senior disciples, performing alongside him worldwide. For the last fourteen years she has also been studying under Manik Bhide of the Jaipur Gharana.
Marina is an accomplished performer in thumris, ghazals, bhajans as well as the Sufi musical tradition. Her performing career has taken her to over a dozen countries across four continents. In 2009, she shared a stage with Grammy-award winning artist Youssou N’Dur when she sang at the “Voices of Islam” concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
