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Ahmad Naser Sarmast is an Afghan-Australian ethnomusicologist. He is the founder and director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music.

Early life and education

As his father, Ustad Salim Sarmast, was a famous musician, composer and conductor in Afghanistan, Ahmad Sarmast grew up exposed to a wide variety of musical influences.[1]Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Sarmast graduated from an Afghan music school in 1981.Шаблон:Sfn He later left Afghanistan in the 1990s due to the ongoing Afghan civil war.[1]Шаблон:Sfn Sarmast earned a master's degree in musicology in 1993 from Moscow State Conservatory.[1]Шаблон:Sfn He was given asylum in Australia in 1994.[1] In 2005, Sarmast became the first Afghan to earn a PhD in music, earning his PhD from Monash University.[1]Шаблон:Sfn

Founding the Afghan National Institute of Music

Sarmast returned to Afghanistan to help revive music in his native country after the defeat of the Taliban.[1][2]Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Under the invitation of the Afghan Ministry of Education, Sarmast returned with a plan to restore Afghan music traditions that had been suppressed under years of Taliban rule.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 2006, Sarmast had outlined his proposal in the Revival of Afghan Music (ROAM), wanting to open a dedicated music school with a curriculum combining both Afghan and Western music.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Sarmast returned to Afghanistan in 2008.Шаблон:Sfn He formally opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) in Kabul on June 20, 2010.Шаблон:Sfn

Sarmast originally planned to offer music education exclusively to underprivileged children, orphans and street kids.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The Afghan Ministry of Education wanted him to open the school to talented students, so in the end an agreement was reached for a fifty-fifty split.Шаблон:Sfn The underprivileged children at ANIM receive a stipend of $30 per month to allow them to focus on school.Шаблон:Sfn

Sarmast also placed great importance on offering a co-educational learning environment, a rare situation in Afghanistan,Шаблон:Sfn listing that as his greatest achievement at the school.Шаблон:Sfn

In 2013, ANIM's Afghan Youth Orchestra toured the United States, including performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 2015, the first Afghan female conductor, Negin Khpolwak, held her first concert with an all-female ensemble.Шаблон:Sfn

Victim of Taliban attack

Sarmast was injured in a suicide attack by the Taliban on the Centre d'Enseignement Français en Afghanistan on Dec 11, 2014.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Following the attack, the Taliban released a statement accusing Sarmast of corrupting the youth of Afghanistan.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Immediately after the attack, Sarmast lost consciousness and lost hearing in both ears, as both of his eardrums were perforated, resulting in him becoming completely deaf.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He was rushed to a hospital in Kabul for emergency surgery.Шаблон:Sfn Later, he returned to Australia, where surgeons removed eleven pieces of shrapnel from the back of his head, restoring partial hearing to one of his ears.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Sarmast stills suffers from PTSD as a result of the attack.Шаблон:Sfn

Further information

Sarmast spends time annotating Afghan music in Western notation to help record a mostly oral Afghan music tradition.Шаблон:Sfn He also hopes to rearrange Afghan music in the Western Classical tradition.Шаблон:Sfn

Sarmast has plans to build a concert hall and girl's dormitory at the current institute.Шаблон:Sfn Sarmast is also hoping to build music schools in other cities in Afghanistan, primarily Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad and Herat.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He also dreams of eventually setting up a Symphony Orchestra of Afghanistan.Шаблон:Sfn

Sarmast was the subject of a 2012 documentary, Dr. Sarmast’s Music School, directed by Polly Watkins and Beth Frey.[2]Шаблон:Sfn[3]

In 2018, Sarmast and the Afghan National Institute of Music were awarded the Polar Music Prize.[4]

The 2018 Polar Music Prize is awarded to the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) and Dr Ahmad Sarmast, its visionary founder and director, in recognition of how this inspirational organization has used the power of music to transform young people’s lives.[4]

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 Шаблон:Cite news
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  4. ↑ 4,0 4,1 Шаблон:Cite web
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