Amie Maciszewski/Sangeet Millennium

Description

Sangeet Millennium, founded (2006) and led by internationally acclaimed sitarist/teaching artist/creative culture-worker Amie Maciszewski, is a collective/project ensemble that presents South-Asian music for the world, performing repertoires that seamlessly combine traditional South-Asian (classical/folk/devotional), Indo-jazz fusion, and/or worldbeat. Comprised of Amie + 1-4 artists, Sangeet Millennium Ensemble offers theme concerts, lecture-demonstrations, and interactive workshops/master classes tailored to diverse, intergenerational audiences. Topics include: South-Asian Music for the World; Strings/Songs/Skins Along the Silk Road; ‘Raag/Rasa/Rang’: Feeling the Color of South-Asian Sound/Music; Songs of South-Asian Seasons; Raga/Jazz/Bollywood. A studied musician with over a decade’s immersion training in India (Santiniketan, Kolkata) and a career entering its fifth decade, Dallas-based Amie brings the authenticity of deep cultural experience and connection to Sangeet Millennium’s musical offerings, and proficiency in Bengali-Hindi-Urdu. NM Arts Division, Austin Cultural Arts, Dallas OAC, TCA, M-AAA, NEA, and ATT-PAC have supported Amie’s/Sangeet Millennium’s work. They placed twice in the Austin Chronicle’s Texas Top Ten Worldbeat Bands category. For her cross-cultural musical contributions, Amie received the Gandharva Award from Hindustan Arts/Music Society (Burdwan, India, 2014) and felicitation from Lahore (Pakistan) Mozang Rotary Club (2016), Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (2002), and Austin Cultural Arts’ “We All Belong” initiative (2023). Photo by DART EarthX.