The Day Dreamers Show We will be live with a world-renowned Sitarist Dr. Amie Maciszewski is an award-winning musician, teaching artist, ensemble leader, and scholar. Audiences describe Amie’s trad…

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We will be live with a world-renowned Sitarist Dr. Amie Maciszewski is an award-winning musician, teaching artist, ensemble leader, and scholar. Audiences describe Amie’s traditional sitar/tabla and Indo-jazz fusion ensemble performances as “magical” and “elegantly vibrant.” She is deeply committed to lead persons of various backgrounds, generations, and abilities in the exploration of the diversity of performance traditions in the world through sharing the traditional and new music culture of South Asia. She has traveled three continents completing artist residencies, performing in and hosting recitals, and conducting all-ages workshops on the music of South Asia, particularly Hindustani music, as well as on world fusion music. She was awarded the Gandharva Puroskar 2014 by Hindustan Arts and Music Society in Burdwan, India, for her contribution to Indian music internationally. Her brainchild, the critically acclaimed Sangeet Millennium Ensemble (Austin Chronicle Texas Top Ten award, 2008 and 2011), seamlessly blends traditional Indian melodies with jazz/world grooves, creating an ever-evolving boundary-defying sound.

Amie is a juried artist on the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) Touring Roster and Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA), an Empanelled Artist of the India World Cultural Forum (IWCF), and a City of Dallas Cultural Services Contractor. She served as a Cultural Ambassador for the US Consulate/Lahore, Pakistan; Visiting Musician-Researcher at ITC-Sangeet Research Academy/Kolkata (2011-14); City of Austin Cultural Contractor (2000-13); and New Mexico Arts Division Artist-in-Residence (1986-91). The Rotary Club Lahore Mozang awarded her “for her tremendous contribution worldwide to promote the art carving love and harmony across the borders.” She is scheduled to leave for another tour of Pakistan next week as a scholar-performer and instructor, this time supported by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies.

Amie’s musical credits include five CDs (two classical sitars and three with her Sangeet Millennium Ensemble), as well as soundtracks in three independent films, four film festival trailers, and two theater productions (notably Enacted Arts’ A Modern-Day Vyasa: Jean-Claude Carriere’s Mahabharata, 2013-14).

Her training includes both formal academic study (B.Mus. – Gold Medalist, M.Mus. – Merit Scholar, sitar performance, Viswa-Bharati University, Ph.D. ethnomusicology, University of Texas/Austin) and traditional immersion mentorship in India (under the late sitarist Professor Suresh Misra, Santiniketan, West Bengal), as well as ongoing traditional study with two legendary gurus: Grammy-nominated Sarode Maestro Aashish Khan and, until her death in 2017, the late vocal diva Padmavibhushan Girija Devi.

Amie has served as visiting professor on the faculties of the Universities of Texas, Alberta, and Pittsburgh; as visiting artist-scholar at the Universities of Colorado, Chicago, and Louisiana State. Her scholarly work has been supported by a Fulbright IIE grant (UT/Austin), a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship (U of Alberta), and the Sangeet Research Academy Guru Pedagogy Project (ITC-SRA, Kolkata, India), among others. Passionate about women’s rights and creativity, she has published numerous scholarly journal articles and book chapters. She has also co-produced/directed four ethnographic films documenting her research with socially marginalized musicians in India, two of them award-winning, which have screened at juried festivals, conferences, and other events in North America, India, Pakistan, and Europe.

Amie resides primarily in Dallas, TX, where she teaches sitar and Hindustani vocal lessons to students of all ages and backgrounds, including, most recently, a community of Bhutanese refugees relocated to Dallas. She performs and tours frequently in the region and beyond. She travels to South Asia nearly every year. There, she consults with her gurus, performs and conducts workshops, and continues her advocacy research.

Here is linknto one of her great piece of work: https://youtu.be/y1N1LuEq8R0

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49 thoughts on “The Day Dreamers Show We will be live with a world-renowned Sitarist Dr. Amie Maciszewski is an award-winning musician, teaching artist, ensemble leader, and scholar. Audiences describe Amie’s trad…”

  7. Muhammad Irfan Khilji Reply

    Artist are Ambassadors of His Country and Also representive Of His Culture Or History So Could u plz tell us What u did For peace Of both people or both Nations if and also foe ur own ?

  16. Sohail Noor Reply

    بہت بہت نوازش بھائی، من آنم کہ من دانم ،
    ہمارے ہاں تو دستور ہی یہی ہے کہ
    عمر بھر سنگ زنی کرتے رہے اہل وطن،
    یہ الگ بات ہے دفنائیں گے اعزاز کے ساتھ۔۔۔
    Unfortunately …

  17. Sohail Noor Reply

    Amazing music , it’s opening the way of my mind through artistically ideas , it’s lot to me , really very thankful to you

  32. Sohail Noor Reply

    She should visit bhutshah as well , there is another musical instrument has only one string called yaktara or iktara , she could meet players there

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