Singer Ankhi Halder and elocutionist Samiul Islam perform at AFD

Alliance Fran�aise de Dhaka organised an evening of Tagore songs by Ankhi Halder with elocutionist Samiul Islam Poluck on November 22 at Auditorium Nouvelle Vague, Alliance Fran�aise de Dhaka (AFD).                 

Ankhi Halder completed the five-year certificate course on Tagore songs at Shurer Dhara, a prestigious music school in Bangladesh, and has been teaching music there since 2009. Halder, a disciple of Rezwana Choudhury Bannya, one of the leading practitioners of Tagore songs in the South Asian subcontinent, has performed in reputable venues, major television channels as well as in Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Indonesia, and India, among others. Halder rendered eight songs in the Shruti Gitabitan - a phenomenal compendium of all the 2,232 songs from Gitabitan by Rabindranath Tagore. Her first studio album was released this year titled Toma Paney Chahi on the Impress Audio Vision label.
Elocutionist Samiul Islam Poluck is a gold medalist at Jatiyo Shikkha Shoptaho and a regular artist of Bangladesh Television (BTV). His velvet baritone and unique poetry presentation makes him immense popular among the class audiences in home and abroad. His first solo recitation album "ITI RABINDRANATH" was released from Hindustan Records, India.