page_title: Rezwana Choudhury Bannya
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Rezwana Choudhury Bannya / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Commemoration of 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. It was an Indo-Bangladesh joint celebration, held at the Science City, Kolkata on 9 may, 2011.
context_page_description: Rezwana Choudhury Bannya is a Bangladeshi singer. She is an exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, the songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore. She has won many awards including Bangladesh's highest civilian award the Independence Day Award.
context_section_description: Bannya 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. She also founded Shurer Dhara in 1992, a school for learning music in Dhaka.
  In 2010, in order to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, she brought out a complete audio version of Gitobitan, called Sruti Gitobitan.
caption: Bannya performing to commemorate 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata (May 2011).
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