In 1992 she founded Shurer Dhara, a prestigious music school in Dhaka. In 2021 she completed her research on Rabindra Sangeet at the University of Dhaka, for which she received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.īannya is currently Professor and founding chair of the Department of Dance at the University of Dhaka previously, she had been an Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the same university.
Visva-Bharati, she trained under Kanika Banerjie (Mohor Di) in private sessions for an extended period of time, as she recalled in the Musiana episode, "Meeting Mohar Di", hosted by Srikanto Acharya. Years after receiving her Master's degree from She took lessons from artistes including Kanika Bandyopadhyay, Nilima Sen, Sailajaranjan Majumdar, Santidev Ghosh, Gora Sarbadhikary, Manju Bandyopadhyay and Asesh Bandyopadhyay. She received a scholarship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to study in Sangit Bhavana at Santiniketan, the university that was founded by Tagore himself. However, soon her inner self came to the realization that music was herĭestiny. As she continued taking lessons in music and singing, she also joined the Economics Program at the university of Dhaka after completion of her schooling. Her early singing lessons began with her uncle Abdul Ali that continued later under the tutelage of Sanjida Khatun and Atiqul Islam at Chhayanaut and Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts (BAFA) in Dhaka. Rezwana was born in Rangpur, Bangladesh to her parents Mazharuddin Khan and Ismat Ara Khan. She has won numerous awards including Bangladesh's highest civilian award the Independence Day Award (2016). She is regarded as a legendary Tagore singer by Tagore music aficionados. She is an exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, the songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore.
Rezwana Choudhury Bannya is a Bangladeshi singer and academic.
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