Sound of Music

Music accompanies one through the melancholic nights. Melody and harmony hold our hands through the rough and the calm. We are trapped in a smoky and dimly lit labyrinth and music is the true escape to eternal bliss.

The ability to stand on one's own is a shadow of the innate ability to balance on harmony. The chaotic chasm of our lives seizes our union with the inner tunes. We are disintegrated and music integrates us. Music is the universal language that binds us together and requires no word in particular to connect or communicate. A categorised serenity is found in music that nowhere else in the world can be achieved.

Music is a talent one can acquire with sheer dedication, compassion and concentration. Finding an esteemed and creditable music school, however, in the crowded alleys of Dhaka city is a challenge one is confronted with.

Fawzia Chowdhury, the principal of Sound of Music reveals that music shares love, peace and understanding integrating the power to connect humanity. This school places no discrimination on those who long to walk through the beautifully engraved path called music. Due to lack of opportunities the many talents hidden among us go unnoticed. This school intends on extending the warm welcome to the talented students who are faced with socio-economic barriers.

She opined that a nation does not die out due to the lack of food but due to the absence of desire. Music triumphs over obstacles of hatred and violence, awakening one from slumber. Sound of Music, located at the turn of Gulshan #1 next to Hush Puppies on the 5th floor of the elevator is a little, yet nonetheless beautiful and vibrant music school. Sound of Music motivates the underlying tunes to nurture and cultivate the highest calibre of talent. The assets of this school consist of, but are not limited to the accomplished teachers:

Dr. Ruposhi is a solo concert violinist who specialises in North Indian Classical music. She has received her doctorate from Baroda. Her courses comprise of one of six months and one of three years after which the graduation from Sound of Music is certified. Guitar is taught by Ashok Paul; the present music producer of Radio Bangladesh is a former teacher of BAFA. He has trained in Kolkata under the supervision of Guru Shomir Khasnabis. He further specialises in Western beats and stresses on individual needs. He assesses his students individually with emphasis on the roots of the strings.

Amalija Maya, a trained Bosnian soprano singer teaches Western vocal. She has directed various children's choirs and has been a soloist since the age of nine. Pritom Kumar Das has trained rigorously for twelve years at the Anondo Skonkar Centre at Kolkata and has appeared on several TV shows over the years. His field of expertise constitutes of samba, salsa, flamingo, jazz, ramba, hip-hop, modern dancing and cha-cha. With his dance regimes anyone is fit for the dance floor.

Borsha, a graduate from Charukola Institute further extends her arms to the arts. She teaches painting and does not fall short of spreading the colours through the lives of her students. Dr. Julia trains her students for five long years transforming them into pianists. This Georgian pianist holds the credential to sign internationally acclaimed professional certificates to quality-endorsed students.

Starting this October, she will be attending to students from advanced levels and her experience in the courses from Russia and Europe labels her an expertise at her finest. Natasha is a Russian piano teacher with former experience of five years in her designated field. She designs her piano courses accommodating the students' requirements. Philippe, a French pianist, has designed his own course and progresses on individual needs. He has completed a ten-year course on piano at Classical Music Academy in France and a two-year course on jazz in China. He has been teaching the instrument professionally for more than a period of eight years.

Fawzia Chowdhury holds etiquette or grooming lessons every Friday. She has trained in the UK for several years on etiquette and feels that socially representing oneself is an art.

Sound of Music wants to induce a revolutionary music movement into the nation. Integrate the dissolved pieces with the arts and build up a sacred union, abiding in harmony. The tunes blend in to soothe and to harmonize a being. Only when one is truly in harmony with oneself can then a synchronized chime reverberate through the corridors.