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Aga Khan Music Awards Opens Nominations for the 2020-22 Awards Cycle

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Geneva, Switzerland, 1 November 2021 - Nominations for the 2020-22 cycle of the Aga Khan Music Awards are now open. The triennial Awards, which come with US$ 500,000 in prizes, recognise exceptional creativity, promise, and enterprise in music that has flourished in cultures shaped by Islam.

Nominations for the Music Awards will be solicited from a distinguished international group of performing artists and music specialists, who include educators, scholars, producers, arts presenters, and representatives of civil society and cultural development organisations. They are asked to recommend nominees whose work embodies or showcases music’s traditional role as a source of spiritual enlightenment, moral inspiration and social cohesion. Nominees may be individuals, groups, or organisations.

Domains in which nominees may have demonstrated distinction include:

- creation of a musical work or body of work (which may be in the form of notated music, recordings, video, film, or digital media);
musical performance;
- music-related social or humanistic endeavours (education; preservation, revitalisation, documentation and dissemination; social inclusion; and/or research and scholarship); and
- the development, sustainability, and availability of music or musical institutions.

Nominations submitted to the Awards secretariat will initially be reviewed by an expert panel, which will select semi-finalists for consideration by the master jury. The identity of nominators is to remain confidential.

The first Aga Khan Music Awards ceremony took place in Lisbon, Portugal from 29-31 March 2019. It was co-hosted with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Lisbon Municipality. The date and venue for the 2022 Awards ceremony will be announced soon.

Fairouz Nishanova, director of the Aga Khan Music Programme, said, ‘The launch of the second Awards cycle comes at an auspicious moment. Over the last two world-changing years, musicians have learned to innovate in the ways they develop, express, and disseminate artistic creativity, and we are excited to work with such a distinguished group of nominators to identify emerging talent, new directions, and significant achievement in a broad range of musical styles and languages.’

The Aga Khan Music Awards are governed by a steering committee co-chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan and his brother, Prince Amyn Aga Khan. They are administered by the Aga Khan Music Programme, an endeavour of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. The master jury that selects winners will be drawn from eminent musicians, arts presenters, producers, and arts education leaders. Award winners will pursue professional development opportunities arranged in collaboration with the Music Awards during each triennial awards cycle. These opportunities, supported by special grants, will include commissions for the creation of new works, contracts for recordings and artist management, support for pilot education initiatives, and technical or curatorial consultancies for music archiving, preservation, and dissemination projects.

Members of the Aga Khan Music Awards Steering Committee include:

His Highness the Aga Khan
Prince Amyn Aga Khan
Ara Guzelimian, Special Advisor, Provost Emeritus, The Juilliard School; Artistic and Executive Director, Ojai Music Festival
Farrokh Derakhshani, Director, Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Sir Jonathan Mills, Director, Edinburgh International Culture Summit
Joseph Melillo, Executive Producer, Emeritus, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Luis Monreal, General Manager, Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Salima Hashmi, Professor Emeritus, Beaconhouse National University
Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, University of Central Asia (UCA)

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Aga Khan Music Awards: embracing an expression of spirituality

The second cycle of the Aga Khan Music Awards will be held later this year, to acknowledge the exceptionally creative artists and musicians who have displayed innovation in their craft during the past two world-changing years.

Throughout the history of Muslim societies, arts and music have played an essential role as a source of spiritual enlightenment, moral inspiration, and social cohesion. The elegant sounds of traditional instruments, the allure of poetic lyrics, and the depth of human vocals have, for many centuries, reflected the Islamic tradition.

"The cultural heritage of Islam has long embraced musical language as an elemental expression of human spirituality,” said Mawlana Hazar Imam at the inaugural Aga Khan Music Awards ceremony in 2019.

“Listening to music, practising music, sharing music, performing music - have long been an intimate part of life for Muslim communities across the world, as has the chanting of devotional and historical or epic texts.”

The Aga Khan Music Awards were established by Mawlana Hazar Imam in 2018 to foster the development of living musical heritage in societies and disseminate it internationally through collaborations with creative musicians, artists, educators, and arts presenters.

These triennial awards are organised by the Aga Khan Music Programme, an endeavour of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. They aim to strengthen tolerance and pluralism by recognising and supporting talent worldwide, and promoting different musical genres — the constellation of devotional music and poetry, indigenous classical music, traditional folk music, and tradition-inspired contemporary music — that have flourished in cultures shaped by Islam.

At the very first Aga Khan Music Awards ceremony held in Lisbon, Portugal, in March 2019, Mawlana Hazar Imam spoke about the remarkable diversity within the realm of Muslim music.

“It comes in many styles, forms and classical repertoires. It includes simple folk melodies, contemplative, mystical music and driving dance rhythms; and it reflects the immense diversity of different Muslim cultures themselves, including musical traditions that have been carefully cultivated over the centuries within the Ismaili community,” he said.

“The launch of the second Awards cycle comes at an auspicious moment,” said Fairouz Nishanova, director of the Aga Khan Music Programme.

“Over the last two world-changing years, musicians have learned to innovate in the ways they develop, express, and disseminate artistic creativity, and we are excited to work with such a distinguished group of nominators to identify emerging talent, new directions, and significant achievement in a broad range of musical styles and languages.”

The award winners will pursue professional development opportunities supported by special grants, including commissions for creating new works, contracts for recordings and artist management, support for pilot education initiatives, technical or curatorial consultancies for music archiving and preservation, and dissemination projects.

With an abundant talent spread across the world, these awards recognise exceptionally creative artists and musicians and render much-deserved international recognition and exposure.

From young school children to aspiring young professionals, venerated master musicians, and laureates of the Aga Khan Music Awards, individual artists, ensembles, and arts communities are offered opportunities to create and perform music in the network of the Aga Khan Music Programme.

Look out for the shortlist of finalists, to be announced later this year - the second cycle of the Aga Khan Music Awards promises to be an occasion not to miss!

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Winners of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards announced

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Laureates recognised for engaging with contemporary social and environmental issues while sustaining and developing musical traditions


Geneva, Switzerland, 6 October 2022 – Laureates of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards were named today. The triennial Awards, established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 2018, recognise exceptional creativity, promise and enterprise in music in societies across the world in which Muslims have a significant presence. Award winners and recipients of a Special Mention will share a prize fund of $500,000 as well as opportunities for professional development. These opportunities include commissions for the creation of new works, contracts for recordings and artist management, support for pilot education initiatives, and technical or curatorial consultancies for music archiving, preservation and dissemination projects.


The Aga Khan Music Awards reflect the conviction of His Highness the Aga Khan, 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims, that music can serve as a cultural anchor, deepening a sense of community, identity and heritage, while simultaneously reaching out in powerful ways to people of different backgrounds.


In naming the laureates, the Awards Master Jury expressed its desire to support as many outstanding nominees as possible from the geographically and culturally diverse pool of close to 400 nominations in a time of urgent need for musicians and music educators. While contributing to the preservation and ongoing development of musical heritage, many of the laureates draw on the power of music to raise awareness about social and environmental issues.


Laureates of the Aga Khan Music Awards will be celebrated at a ceremony and series of affiliated events in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, organised in conjunction with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture on 29-31 October 2022.


The laureates of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards are:


Winners (Full biographies of the laureates are available here https://the.akdn/en/how-we-work/our-age ... -laureates)


Zakir Hussain (India)

Special prize for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his highly visible model of enlightened cross-cultural musicianship that has elevated the status of the tabla both in India and around the world through countless artistic collaborations, concert tours, commissions, recordings and film scores.


Afel Bocoum (Mali)

Singer and guitar player from Niafunké, Mali whose music combines acoustic guitar with local instruments to echo the sound of “desert blues” in an earthier, tradition-based style.


Asin Khan Langa (India)

Sarangi player, singer, composer and community activist from Rajasthan’s hereditary Langa musical community, who performs Sufi poetry set to traditional and newly composed melodies.


Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane (Mauritania)

Singer and ardin (harp) player from Trarza, in southwest Mauritania, who performs the music of Mauritanian griots in a deeply traditional style.


Daud Khan Sadozai (Afghanistan)

Leading exponent of the Afghan rubab who has had a major impact on the preservation, development and dissemination of Afghan music worldwide.


Peni Candra Rini (Indonesia)

Indonesian composer, improviser, vocalist and educator whose knowledge of traditional Indonesian performing arts informs her creation of new works produced worldwide.


Soumik Datta (UK)

Sarod player who fuses his training in Hindustani classical music with pop, rock, electronica and film soundtracks to raise awareness about urgent social issues including climate change, refugees and mental health.


Yahya Hussein Abdallah (Tanzania)

Singer and composer of devotional songs and reciter of the Qur’an from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania who composes and sings in Swahili as well as some of Tanzania’s 126 local languages.


Yasamin Shahhosseini (Iran)

Leading young master of the oud who is reimagining the place of this instrument in Iranian music through her innovative compositions and improvisations.


Zarsanga (Pakistan)

Singer from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, known as the Queen of Pashtun Folklore for her career-long devotion to the orally transmitted traditional music of tribal Pashtuns.


Special Mentions


Dilshad Khan (India)

Tenth-generation sarangi player from a hereditary lineage in Rajasthan who is expanding the language of the sarangi in film music and through innovative cross-cultural collaborative projects.


Golshan Ensemble (Iran)

Four women who perform Iranian traditional music with a contemporary sound and are active as teachers, with a special focus on transmitting their musical tradition to girls and women.


Sain Zahoor (Pakistan)

Punjabi musician with a lifelong practice of singing Sufi poetry in local shrines and festivals, often accompanied by ecstatic dance.


Seyyed Mohammad Musavi & Mahoor Institute (Iran)

Founder and long-time director of Mahoor Institute of Culture and Arts, who has made seminal contributions to the development of Iranian music and musicology.


Zulkifli & Bur’am (Aceh, Indonesia)

Revitalisers of Acehnese song traditions who have cultivated community building amongst youth through their participation in Bur’am, a traditional singing and drumming ensemble established by Zulkifli.


The Aga Khan Music Awards Master Jury also named Musallam al-Kathiry as the winner of a special award for Excellence in Service to Omani Musical Heritage. Mr al-Kathiry, a music researcher, arts manager, performer and composer from Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, has made important contributions to the collection, documentation, preservation and dissemination of Omani music.


The Master Jury that selected the winners consisted of six distinguished arts professionals from Azerbaijan, Bahrain, India, Turkey, Tunisia and the United States: H.E. Shaikha Hala Bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Divya Bhatia, Rachel Cooper, Yurdal Tokcan and Dhafer Youssef.


Full biographies of the Master Jury members are available here https://the.akdn/en/how-we-work/our-age ... aster-jury


The Aga Khan Music Awards – administered by the Aga Khan Music Programme, an endeavour of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture – are governed by a Steering Committee co-chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan and his brother, Prince Amyn Aga Khan. The other members of the Steering Committee are: Ara Guzelimian, Special Advisor, Provost Emeritus, The Juilliard School, and Artistic and Executive Director, Ojai Music Festival; Salima Hashmi, Professor Emeritus, Beaconhouse National University; Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, University of Central Asia (UCA); Joseph Melillo, Executive Producer, Emeritus, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM); Sir Jonathan Mills, Director, Edinburgh International Culture Summit; and Zeyba Rahman, Director of the Building Bridges Program at the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.


Full biographies of the Steering Committee members are available here https://the.akdn/en/how-we-work/our-age ... -committee


For press enquiries:


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Laureates of 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards announced

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GENEVA, (Switzerland): Laureates of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards were named Thursday. The triennial Awards, established by His Highness the Aga Khan in 2018, recognise exceptional creativity, promise and enterprise in music in societies across the world in which Muslims have a significant presence.

Award winners and recipients of a Special Mention will share a prize fund of $500,000 as well as opportunities for professional development. These opportunities include commissions for the creation of new works, contracts for recordings and artist management, support for pilot education initiatives, and technical or curatorial consultancies for music archiving, preservation and dissemination projects.

The Aga Khan Music Awards reflect the conviction of His Highness the Aga Khan, 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims that music can serve as a cultural anchor, deepening a sense of community, identity and heritage, while simultaneously reaching out in powerful ways to people of different backgrounds.

In naming the laureates, the Awards Master Jury expressed its desire to support as many outstanding nominees as possible from the geographically and culturally diverse pool of close to 400 nominations in a time of urgent need for musicians and music educators.

Laureates of the Aga Khan Music Awards will be celebrated at a ceremony and series of affiliated events in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, organised in conjunction with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture on 29-31 October 2022.

The laureates of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards are:

Winners

• Zakir Hussain (India)

Special prize for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his highly visible model of enlightened cross-cultural musicianship that has elevated the status of the tabla both in India and around the world through countless artistic collaborations, concert tours, commissions, recordings and film scores.

• AfelBocoum (Mali)

Singer and guitar player from Niafunké, Mali whose music combines acoustic guitar with local instruments to echo thesound of “desert blues”in an earthier, tradition-based style.

• Daud Khan Sadozai (Afghanistan)

Leading exponent of the Afghan rubab who has had a major impact on the preservation, development and dissemination of Afghan music worldwide.

• Peni Candra Rini (Indonesia)

Indonesian composer, improviser, vocalist and educator whose knowledge of traditional Indonesian performing arts informs her creation of new works produced worldwide.

• Soumik Datta (UK)

Sarod player who fuses his training in Hindustani classical music with pop, rock, electronica and film soundtracks to raise awareness about urgent social issues including climate change, refugeesand mental health.

• Yahya Hussein Abdallah (Tanzania)

Singer and composer of devotional songs and reciter of the Qur’an from Dar es Salaam, Tanzaniawho composes and sings in Swahili as well as some of Tanzania’s 126 local languages.

• Zarsanga (Pakistan)

Singer from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, known as the Queen of Pashtun Folklore for her career-long devotion to the orally transmitted traditional music of tribal Pashtuns.

The Aga Khan Music Awards– administered by the Aga Khan Music Programme, an endeavour of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture – are governed by a Steering Committee co-chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan and his brother, Prince Amyn Aga Khan. The other members of the Steering Committee are: Ara Guzelimian, Special Advisor, Provost Emeritus, The Juilliard School, andArtistic and Executive Director, Ojai Music Festival; Salima Hashmi, Professor Emeritus, Beaconhouse National University; Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, University of Central Asia (UCA); Joseph Melillo, Executive Producer, Emeritus, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM); Sir Jonathan Mills, Director, Edinburgh International Culture Summit; and Zeyba Rahman, Director of the Building Bridges Program at the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

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Muscat – The winners of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards were announced on Thursday and they will be feliciated at a ceremony in Muscat, organized as part of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, which will be held between October 29 and 31

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Aga Khan Music awards: Lifetime achievement goes to Zakir Hussain

Oman’s Musallam al-Kathiry wins special award for excellence in service to Omani Musical Heritage.

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MUSCAT: The Sultanate of Oman will host the Aga Khan Music Awards at the Royal Opera House Muscat on October 30.

The awards nite will be celebrated at a ceremony and series of events in Muscat organised in conjunction with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture from October 29-31.
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Muscat: Indian tabla maestro Zakir Hussain and Pakistan’s Zarsanga, also known as ‘Queen of Pashtun folklore’ and Tanzania’s Yahya Hussein Abdallah were among the ten winners of the prestigious The Aga Khan Music Awards 2022.

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The ten artists spanning genres ranging from Pashtun folk to West African blues will be honoured at a glittering ceremony, which will be held at the Royal Opera House Muscat (ROHM) from October 29-31. The ceremony will be organized in conjunction with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. All music award winners will receive cash prizes totalling $500,000.

The Aga Khan Music Awards Master Jury also named Oman’s Musallam al Kathiry as the winner of a special award for excellence in service to Omani musical heritage. Kathiry is a music researcher, performer and composed and has made important contributions to the collection, documentation, preservation and dissemination of Omani music.

First awarded in 2019, the triennial celebration is held under the auspices of the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim community, with the aim of supporting artists and preserving the musical heritage in areas such as the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia and North Africa.

“Music can serve as a cultural anchor, deepening a sense of community, identity and heritage, while simultaneously reaching out in powerful ways to people of different backgrounds,” reads the award statement.

“While contributing to the preservation and ongoing development of musical heritage, many of the laureates draw on the power of music to raise awareness about social and environmental issues.”

The winners were chosen by a jury consisting of international arts professionals including Sheika Hala bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, the director general for Bahrain's Authority for Culture and Antiquities, and British dancer and choreographer Akram Khan.

The other winners are Afel Bocoum (Mali), Peni Candra Rini (Indonesia), Asin Khan Langa (India),

Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane (Mauritania), Daud Khan Sadozai (Afghanistan), Soumik Datta (UK) and Yasamin Shahhoseini (Iran).

The jury also had special mentions for the outstanding contributions to music. They were Dilshad Khan (India), Golshan Ensemble (Iran), Sain Zahoor (Pakistan), Seyyed Mohammad Musavi and Mahoor Institute (Iran) and Zulkifli and Bur’am (Aceh, Indonesia).

Besides Bahrain’s Shaikha Hala Bint al Khalifa and UK’s Akram Khan, the Master Jury comprised of distinguished arts professionals from Azerbaijan, India, Turkey, Tunisia and the USA: Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Divya Bhatia, Rachel Cooper, Yurdal Tokcan and Dhafer Youssef.
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#AgaKhan music awards - a part of the arts & culture which catalyse & enable the process towards actualising & advancing pluralism

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Why music matters: The Aga Khan Music Awards

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A praise singer from Dar es Salaam, an all-female quartet from Tehran, a dervish from Lahore, and the world’s most famous tabla player… These are just a few of the 16 remarkable laureates of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards, which are being celebrated this weekend in Muscat, Oman, as the Music Awards and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture team up to create the first-ever joint Awards event.

How were these musicians selected to receive one of the prestigious Awards, which were established by Mawlana Hazar Imam in 2018 to recognise exceptional musical creativity, promise, and enterprise in societies across the world in which Muslims have a significant presence? And why offer support for music and musicians at a time when so many urgent needs compete for attention in every sector of the AKDN’s work? To answer these questions, we need to look back at the original inspiration for the Music Awards and its predecessor, the Aga Khan Music Programme, and trace their development and social impact.

Mawlana Hazar Imam has spoken about the critical role of his visit to Tajikistan, in 1995, when he was deeply impressed by the rich and resilient musical life of the communities he visited and began to think, as he put it, “about the ways in which music can be a strong cultural anchor, deepening a sense of community, identity, and heritage, while simultaneously reaching out in powerful ways to people of different backgrounds.” But how to turn a lucid observation about the power of music into an ongoing cultural development programme that applies the rigorous metrics and analytical schemes of development professionals to measuring the impact of music? Can music’s impact ever be measured? To explore this question, Mawlana Hazar Imam established the pioneering Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia, as the Music Programme was first known.

The year was 2000, nine years after the breakup of the Soviet Union. The social and economic aftershocks of the breakup reverberated strongly in Central Asia, and musicians were particularly hard hit. Under Soviet rule, musicians could count on guaranteed employment as performers, teachers, and composers, but without the sprawling Soviet infrastructure, musicians were left to their own devices. As the newly independent nations of Central Asia took stock of their cultural assets, it became clear that many traditional practices had been lost, including, notably, musical practices. Revitalising these traditions, training young musicians to perform them, and stimulating demand for them among listeners became the work of the Aga Khan Music Initiative. Fairouz Nishanova, the Music Initiative’s long-time director, recounted the challenges of getting the programme off the ground. “In Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, we scoured the countryside for musical tradition-bearers,” she recalled. “Some of the best had given up playing music, and we had to persuade them to return to it. We offered them positions teaching music in a network of schools we established, but they were skeptical about whether there would be any interest.” Parents were also skeptical about providing their children with lessons on traditional folk instruments. ‘Why not learn the accordion?’ some parents advised their children.

Persistence paid off, however, and the Music Initiative began to see a measurable impact of its work. Enrollments in music classes burgeoned. Workshops to build high-quality instruments cranked up production. Students from the music schools competed successfully in regional and international competitions. And an increasing number of folk instrument cases could be spotted on the streets of Bishkek, Almaty, and Dushanbe. Concert touring networks presented musicians from Central Asia around the world. The prestige of traditional music grew. Government officials took notice and provided resources to help the Music Initiative scale up its programmes.

Yet, despite the achievements of the Music Initiative and its successor, the Aga Khan Music Programme, their impact was limited by their remit to work on the ground in six specific countries and offer long-term support to a small network of schools, with the result that dozens of other countries with strong Muslim musical heritage were left untouched by their activities. Broadening the impact of the Music Programme was a principal rationale for establishing the Aga Khan Music Awards. By casting a global net for musical talent, the Music Awards exponentially expanded the networking possibilities of the artistic community the Music Programme had been growing for more than two decades.

This work is ongoing and evolving. Today, many of the Awards laureates are using their musical gifts to teach and mentor young people, raise awareness about urgent social and environmental issues, and rally listeners to causes of justice and freedom. While the broader social impact of the Music Awards will only become known with time, all indications are that supporting the creative work of exceptionally gifted musicians is a successful strategy for advancing the overall mission of the AKDN.

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Transcending boundaries through music

This year’s Aga Khan Music Awards laureates hail from nine countries around the world


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In a world that can often feel uncertain, music is a source of hope. It’s a universal language; one that transcends cultural boundaries and can unite people of different backgrounds. Just a single chord can touch one’s innermost being, evoking emotions without uttering a word.

These attributes and abilities are one of the many reasons why I believe Mawlana Hazar Imam established the Aga Khan Music Programme in 2000 and the Aga Khan Music Awards in 2018. It was to acknowledge this cultural force and to encourage investment in, and nurturing of, cultural assets and creative expression as a means of uniting people.

“The Aga Khan Music Awards will aspire to fill a unique cultural role,” said Mawlana Hazar Imam in announcing the establishment of the Awards in 2018. The initiative aimed to celebrate devotional music and poetry, indigenous classical music, traditional folk music, and tradition-inspired contemporary music that has flourished in cultures shaped by Islam. It highlights music’s traditional role as a source of spiritual enlightenment, moral inspiration, and social cohesion.

This year’s laureates hail from nine countries. Spending a few hours diving deep into their music, I was filled with energy and joy. I felt transported across the globe, from villages to concert halls, listening to technical mastery, emotion, and a deep connection to historical roots. The Awards will bring new exposure to these phenomenal talents.

Some of the laureates, such as Zakir Hussain from India, and Zarsanga from Pakistan, have performed for more than six decades and are recognised globally as the best in their fields. When Zakir Hussain plays, you know you’re watching a virtuoso, with a unique mastery and command of the tabla. Zarsanga, known as the Queen of Pashtun Folklore, is another example of preserving traditions. She expertly sings the orally-transmitted music of the Pashtuns, celebrated by millions of people worldwide.

Others weave together contemporary and traditional sounds to create their music. Afel Bocoum from Mali does this effortlessly with an instrumentation and vocal style that feels accessible, and one cannot help but move to the beat. Peni Candra Rini of Indonesia composes innovative artistic works, representing a new vision for Javanese music based on her knowledge of traditional Indonesian performing arts. Soumik Datta, from the UK, creates pieces interpreting classical Indian music in unique ways, often incorporating pop, rock, and electronica. Yasamin Shahhosseini of Iran plays the oud with technical mastery and soul, finding innovative ways to incorporate traditional Persian music into her compositions.

Some of the laureates have devoted their lives to the preservation of artistic traditions. Asin Khan Langa, from India, sings and plays the Sindhi sarangi, an incredibly melodious instrument. He has remained in his village to nurture the legacy of the community’s artistic craft. Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane from Mauritania also hails from a hereditary line of musician-poet-singers and plays the ardin, while showcasing Berber-Arab vocal techniques and a commanding presence on stage.

Browsing the list of all laureates in this year’s Awards cycle immediately showcases a rich diversity. In his speech at the Aga Khan Music Awards ceremony in Lisbon in 2019, Mawlana Hazar Imam spoke of the remarkable diversity of music that exists in the Muslim world.

“It comes in many styles, forms and classical repertoires,” he said. “It includes simple folk melodies, contemplative mystical music and driving dance rhythms; and it reflects the immense diversity of different Muslim cultures themselves, including musical traditions that have been carefully cultivated over the centuries within the Ismaili community.”

Music can be deeply spiritual. Many musicians speak of a higher plane accessible through music and art. In the Ismaili Tariqah, dhikr is an example of contemplation, reflection, and connection, often through congregational recitation. More broadly, music is one of humanity’s ways of expressing ourselves, and expressing devotion to the divine. A producer once told me that two thirds of all songs are about love. Love of the divine, and songs of devotion or praise would fall into this category.

Some of the laureates in this year’s Awards cycle focus exclusively on devotional music. Yahya Hussein Abdallah of Tanzania uses his vocal technique to demonstrate such devotion, composing and reciting songs of praise. Daud Khan Sadozai, from Afghanistan – though based in Germany – plays the Afghan rubab. His work has contributed to the preservation, development, and dissemination of Afghan music worldwide. Through his music, he takes his listeners on a journey, transporting them to another level via tremendous focus and technical skill.

The Aga Khan Music Awards Master Jury also named Musallam al-Kathiry as the winner of a special award for Excellence in Service to Omani Musical Heritage. Mr al-Kathiry, a music researcher, arts manager, performer and composer from Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, has made important contributions to the collection, documentation, preservation and dissemination of Omani music.

Each of the artists being recognised at this year’s Award Ceremony are storied in their own right. From using music to bring people and communities together, to preserving traditional instruments, styles, and pieces, to channeling devotion through artistic expression, the artists are worthy of the prizes they will receive. Their talent radiates through the screen and speakers. Fortunately, we’ll all be able to hear them live in Oman later this week. The world is in for a treat.

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Sharing & understanding the rich diversity of Artistic & musical heritage and expressions advances inclusion & pluralism - Architecture is most important form of Art

“what is the art form that has the most important impact on every society, in every part of the world? And the answer is quite simply, architecture” https://archleague.org/event/presidents ... -aga-khan/

The ultimate aim is to improve the quality of life & wellbeing of all individuals families & communities - Aga Khan

*The Aga Khan Award for Architecture and Music* will take place in the *Sultanate of Oman* from October 29 to 31 2022

On October 29, _His Highness Sayyid Kamil bin Fahd Al Said, Secretary-General of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers_, will host the Aga Khan Music Awards ceremony, which will include the distribution of the Walk of Creativity Award.

The celebrations will be held at the *House of Musical Arts at the Royal Opera of Muscat*, in the presence of distinguised guests, as well as a Omani architects and musicians, in addition to approximately 250 international guests from around the world, members of the Steering Awards Committee, arbitration, finalists and winners of the Architecture and Music Awards.

On *Monday, October 31,* His Highness Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitham Al Said, Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth, will host the fifteenth cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture at the Royal Opera House, with 463 competing projects.

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Architecture Awards

On *Monday, October 31,* His Highness Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitham Al Said, Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth, will host the fifteenth cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture at the Royal Opera House, with 463 competing projects.

Hazar Imam’s explained the role of architecture and about this Award in an interview

“ The role of architecture: "A second area which really worries me considerably are the consequences of the liberalization of the economies of the developing world, where more and more initiative for economic change will be driven by individual entrepreneurs. These men and women are usually not particularly concerned with damage to the environment around them, and therefore I am worried about how we can help make this process of change occur in an appropriate manner. Link to Interview
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The Programme has just ended in Oman

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Prince Amyn Aga Khan came too and gave his insights and of Hazar Imam. Also present are Princess Zahra and Prince Hussain
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Prince Amyn Aga Khan: “And while there is no single music that one could say is a universal language, the urge to make music and to have music in our lives is universal.”

Fairouz Nishanova, Director of the Aga Khan Music Programme.
She remarks, “At the root of this community is the key idea of pluralism, which His Highness the Aga Khan has repeatedly underscored as a fundamental condition for a peaceful and prosperous world.” The Ismaili

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2022, Saturday Oct 29: Aga Khan Music Awards & Aga Khan Award for Architecture Livestream: Tune in for the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture and Aga Khan Music Awards being jointly hosted this weekend in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. The prize-giving ceremonies and gala concerts, to be attended by members of Mawlana Hazar Imam’s family, will be streamed live on The Ismaili TV this Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. The first-ever joint Awards event promises to be a unique occasion for all those interested in music or architecture. The Music Awards gala concert and prize-giving ceremony will take place over two evenings on Saturday and Sunday, while the Award for Architecture prize-giving ceremony will be held on Monday evening. Live coverage of all three events is scheduled to begin at 10:45 AM Eastern Standard Time.live on The Ismaili TV on: Ismaili.tv

Saturday, October 29: 7:45am PT │ 8:45am MT │ 10:45am ET
Sunday, October 30: 7:45am PT │ 8:45am MT │ 10:45am ET
Monday, October 31: 7:45am PT │ 8:45am MT │ 10:45am ET

The program was live webcast also on akdn and ismaili.net

Here is the VIDEO of Prince Amyn arriving with Princess Zahra and Prince Hussain at the event.

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Here is a VIDEO extract of the ceremony

https://ismaili.net/timeline/2022/2022-10-29-akma.mp4

Here is the VIDEO speech of Prince Amyn Aga Khan.

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The Ismaili Update: Aga Khan Awards | Episode 1

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Join host Noor Al Kassir for the first instalment of The Ismaili Update: Aga Khan Awards, an Ismaili TV special giving viewers an insight into this week's events taking place in Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman.

Episode one includes a behind the scenes look at the venue for this year’s Awards, the Royal Opera House and a glimpse into the Muscat Jamat’s excitement to be hosting international guests for the Awards.

Tune in Saturday when Ustad Zakir Hussain is presented the Lifetime Achievement Award and Prince Amyn Aga Khan will deliver an address.

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Prince Amyn Aga Khan presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Zakir Hussain

Oman · 29 October 2022 · 3 min

Muscat, Oman, 29 October 2022 – In this evening’s opening programme of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards, Prince Amyn Aga Khan presented a special Award for Lifetime Achievement to acclaimed tabla player Ustad Zakir Hussain, who was cited for his “enduring contributions to the musical heritage of humanity, peerless musical mastery, and sustained social impact as a performer and teacher”. Zakir Hussain has long served as one of the world’s most visible models of enlightened cross-cultural musicianship. Over the course of his six-decade-long career, he has elevated the status of the tabla both in India and around the world through countless artistic collaborations, concert tours, commissions, recordings and film scores.

The latest of these artistic collaborations took place this evening in the Royal Opera House Muscat’s House of Musical Arts. Ustad Zakir Hussain performed as a soloist with the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Hamdan al Shaely in a performance of Peshkar, a concerto for tabla and orchestra composed by Zakir Hussain in 2015.

Before presenting the Award for Lifetime Achievement, Prince Amyn Aga Khan addressed the distinguished audience that filled the concert hall of the House of Musical Arts. He noted that the true impact of the Music Awards will be measured by the achievements of the laureates as they endeavour to use their musical talent and knowledge to contribute to the well-being of their respective societies and of humanity at large. He added that “the gift of artistic talent bestows a responsibility on those who receive it to share their good fortune with others, to unite us despite our many apparent differences.” Prince Amyn underscored the important role of the Music Awards in supporting music educators. “By educating young people in their own musical traditions while also providing them the tools to expand those traditions in new cosmopolitan directions, we are helping to prepare a new generation of cultural leaders that will build bridges and connections across cultures,” he said.

Prince Amyn’s address was preceded by remarks from His Excellency Dr Jamal al-Moosawi, Director of the National Museum – Sultanate of Oman. Dr al-Moosawi noted that “Hosting the second edition of the Aga Khan Music Awards is very much in alignment with the Sultanate’s desire to build bridges of communication and cooperation between countries and cultures.”

As a finale to the evening’s programme, the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra was joined by the Aga Khan Master Musicians (AKMM), the resident ensemble of the Aga Khan Music Programme, in a rousing performance of “Tashkent,” composed by AKMM saxophonist Basel Rajoub and arranged for orchestra by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky.

In addition to Ustad Zakir Hussain, other laureates who performed live or were presented in short films include sarangi players Dilshad Khan and Asin Khan Langa, from India; Tanzanian praise singer Yahya Hussein Abdallah; Coumbane bint Ely Warakane, a hereditary griot from Mauritania; singer and guitar player Afel Bocoum, from Mali; devotional singer Sain Zahoor and “Queen of Pashtun Folk Music” Zarsanga, from Pakistan; and music researcher Musallam Al-Kathiri, from the Sultanate of Oman. The Music Awards continue on 30 October with more performances, films and presentations of awards.
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A global Pluralistic Sound -Advancing Pluralism

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Advancing pluralism and inclusion is part of the themes of these awards and to celebrate the rich diversity and tapestry of musical & Architectural expressions

Prince Amyn Aga Khan sharing his and Hazar Imam’s insights spoke of the diversity and assimilation of musical expressions & an outcome of the creation of a “global pluralistic sound” He added that there is no contradiction between a global pluralistic sound and celebrating a diversity of local traditional musical sounds, “on the contrary they are mutually enhancing “

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You can also follow the Aga Khan Award for Music and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture on our Facebook page:

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The Ismaili Update: Aga Khan Awards | Episode 2

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Join host Noor Al Kassir for the second instalment of The Ismaili Update: Aga Khan Awards, an Ismaili TV special giving viewers an insight into this week's events taking place in Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman.

Episode two includes highlights from The Aga Khan Music Awards Ceremony Part 1, in which a speech was given by Prince Amyn and His Excellency Jamal Bin Hassan Al Moussawi, as well as performances by Zakir Hussian, the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra and Aga Khan Master Musicians.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgLYGQvLBRY&t=425s
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The Ismaili Update: Aga Khan Awards | Episode 3

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Join host Noor Al Kassir for the third installment of The Ismaili Update: Aga Khan Awards, an Ismaili TV special giving viewers an insight into this week's events taking place in Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman.

Episode three includes highlights from the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Seminar and the Aga Khan Music Awards Ceremony Part 2, in which the 2022 Aga Khan Music Award Laureates received their certificates.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWRTDqRQLic&t=42s
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2022, November 31: Princess Zahra awarded the prize on behalf of H.H. The Aga Khan. You can see her 6 minutes VIDEO SPEECH here:

http://ismaili.net/timeline/2022/2022-1 ... a-oman.mp4

Also for the 90 minutes full program today, look at this VIDEO link:

https://youtu.be/NkU0sR1DTmQ

Also, if you missed the Music Award, see here:

https://youtu.be/cWRTDqRQLic

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Fifteen laureates receive Aga Khan Music Awards at 2022 ceremony

Rezaul Karim from Muscat (Oman) 31st October, 2022 12:30:27 PM

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The 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards concluded Sunday night (Oct 30) with the presentation of awards to 15 laureates by Sayyid Bilarab bin Haitham Al Said and Prince Amyn Aga Khan during a gala concert at Royal Opera House Muscat’s House of Musical Arts.

The awards presentation marked the culmination of a spirited two-day celebration in which laureates performed live or were presented in short films.
A special Award for Lifetime Achievement was presented to acclaimed tabla player Ustad Zakir Hussain during the Music Awards’ opening night concert on October 29.

This evening’s programme featured performances by Peni Candra Rini, an Indonesian composer, improviser, vocalist and educator; Yasamin Shahhosseini, an Iranian oud player who is reimagining the place of the oud in Iranian music; the Tehran-based Golshan Ensemble, which performs Iranian classical music; and Soumik Datta, a sarod player from the United Kingdom who fuses his training in Hindustani classical music with pop, rock, electronica and film soundtracks to raise awareness about urgent social issues, including climate change, refugees and mental health.

Laureates of the 2022 Music Awards were selected by a Master Jury from a field of close to 400 nominees from 42 countries.

They share $500,000 prize money and will have opportunities for professional development.

These opportunities include commissions for the creation of new works, contracts for recordings and artist management, support for pilot education initiatives, and technical or curatorial consultancies for music archiving, preservation and dissemination projects.

In her concluding remarks, Fairouz Nishanova, Director of the Aga Khan Music Awards, expressed gratitude on behalf of the Music Awards and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture for the invitation from the Sultanate of Oman to hold the Awards celebration in Muscat, and for the collaboration of Oman’s Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports; Royal Opera House Muscat and its House of Musical Arts; and the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra, which performed in the programme of October 29.
Quoting remarks delivered by Prince Amyn Aga Khan at the previous evening’s performance by Awards laureates in the House of Musical Arts, she added, “We couldn’t have hoped for a clearer demonstration of the power of music to unite us despite our many apparent differences, and to affect our emotions and our dreams.”

The performances of laureates and the presentation of awards took place before a distinguished audience that filled the Royal Opera House Muscat’s House of Musical Arts.

It included Omani dignitaries and officials, members of the diplomatic corps, musicians and academicians, international guests of the Music Awards, including the Awards Master Jury and Steering Committee, and representatives of many AKDN institutions.

Zakir Hussain (India)

Special prize for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his highly visible model of enlightened cross-cultural musicianship that has elevated the status of the tabla both in India and around the world through countless artistic collaborations, concert tours, commissions, recordings and film scores.

Afel Bocoum (Mali)

Singer and guitar player from Niafunké, Mali whose music combines acoustic guitar with local instruments to echo the sound of “desert blues” in an earthier, tradition-based style.

Asin Khan Langa (India)

Sarangi player, singer, composer and community activist from Rajasthan’s hereditary Langa musical community, who performs Sufi poetry set to traditional and newly composed melodies.

Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane (Mauritania)

Singer and ardin (harp) player from Trarza, in southwest Mauritania, who performs the music of Mauritanian griots in a deeply traditional style.

Daud Khan Sadozai (Afghanistan)

Leading exponent of the Afghan rubab who has had a major impact on the preservation, development and dissemination of Afghan music worldwide.

Peni Candra Rini (Indonesia)

Indonesian composer, improviser, vocalist and educator whose knowledge of traditional Indonesian performing arts informs her creation of new works produced worldwide.

Soumik Datta (UK)

Sarod player who fuses his training in Hindustani classical music with pop, rock, electronica and film soundtracks to raise awareness about urgent social issues including climate change, refugees and mental health.

Yahya Hussein Abdallah (Tanzania)

Singer and composer of devotional songs and reciter of the Qur’an from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania who composes and sings in Swahili as well as some of Tanzania’s 126 local languages.

Yasamin Shahhosseini (Iran)

Leading young master of the oud who is reimagining the place of this instrument in Iranian music through her innovative compositions and improvisations.

Zarsanga (Pakistan)

Singer from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, known as the Queen of Pashtun Folklore for her career-long devotion to the orally transmitted traditional music of tribal Pashtuns.

Special Mentions

Dilshad Khan (India)

Tenth-generation sarangi player from a hereditary lineage in Rajasthan who is expanding the language of the sarangi in film music and through innovative cross-cultural collaborative projects.

Golshan Ensemble (Iran)

Four women who perform Iranian traditional music with a contemporary sound and are active as teachers, with a special focus on transmitting their musical tradition to girls and women.

Sain Zahoor (Pakistan)

Punjabi musician with a lifelong practice of singing Sufi poetry in local shrines and festivals, often accompanied by ecstatic dance.

Seyyed Mohammad Mousavi & Mahoor Institute (Iran)

Founder and long-time director of Mahoor Institute of Culture and Arts, who has made seminal contributions to the development of Iranian music and musicology.

Zulkifli & Bur’am (Aceh, Indonesia)

Revitalisers of Acehnese song traditions who have cultivated community building amongst youth through their participation in Bur’am, a traditional singing and drumming ensemble established by Zulkifli.

The Aga Khan Music Awards Master Jury also named Musallam al-Kathiry as the winner of a special award for Excellence in Service to Omani Musical Heritage. Mr al-Kathiry, a music researcher, arts manager, performer and composer from Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, has made important contributions to the collection, documentation, preservation and dissemination of Omani music.
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Yahya Hussein | Aga Khan Music Awards 2022

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Asin khan Langa & Dilshad Khan performance | Aga Khan Music Awards 2022

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Afel Bocoum & Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane performance | Aga Khan Music Awards 2022

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