Four students of the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa), Karachi, will be proceeding to the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Austin, Austin, Texas, to study various aspects of music.
This was announced y Arshad Mehmood, director (Programmes), at a press conference at Napa on Friday evening.
Besides, Mehmood said, the staff and the students of Napa would collaborate with their counterparts at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music to stage joint programmes in the US and Pakistan
The first group of teachers from the US will visit here in April/May, Mehmood said.
The Pakistani exchange students will be at the school of music in Austin for a semester, he said.
The brains behind this was music professor Stephen Slawek, he said.
Mehmood said that the US Consulate-General in Karachi offered Napa a three-year funding for partnership with any music institute in the US.
“An Ad was placed in US newspapers and we received replies from three universities. The offer from the Sarah and Ernest Butler School seemed to be most attractive. So we went in for it”, said Mehmood.
The Sarah and Ernest Butler School offers comprehensive graduate and undergraduate programmes addressing both practical and theoretical disciplines of music and performance.
A total of 12 scholars will go from Napa to the Butler School over three semesters.
This was followed by a second press conference addressed by veteran stage and TV personality Rahat Kazmi.
He announced that the play, “Six characters in search of an author”, would be beginning January 23, at Napa.
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