Amjad Parvez ( ur, ) (born 28 March 1945) is a Pakistani engineer, writer, and a singer.
Dawn (newspaper), Published 17 September 2006, Retrieved 1 July 2022 He has served as chief engineer, general manager, vice president and managing director of

Nespak The National Engineering Services Pakistan ( ur, , trading name: NESPAK) NES, is a Pakistan-based multinational state-owned enterprise and an energy contractor which provides consulting, construction, engineering, and management services glob ...

(National Engineering Services Pakistan).Arts: Learning classical music
Dawn (newspaper), Published 7 August 2005, Retrieved 1 July 2022

Personal life

Background

Parvez was born in

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, Pakistan in 1945 to Sheikh Abdul Karim who was head of the Chemistry department,

Islamia College, Lahore Government Islamia College Civil Lines ( ur, اسلامیہ کالج ), formerly called Dayanand Anglo Vedic College, is a government college in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Founded by Arya Samaj as the school of Dayanand Anglo Vedic on June 1, 1 ...

. Parvez's grandfather Khwaja Dil Muhammad was the principal at Islamia College, Lahore. He was also a poet of the

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as his nationalistic poems were read in the annual conventions of

Anjuman-e-Himayat-e-Islam Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam ("The Association for the Support of Islam") or Anjuman-e-Himayat-e-Islam ( ur, ) is an Islamic intellectual and social welfare organisation with branches both in India and Pakistan. It was founded in Lahore on 24 Sept ...

mostly presided by

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. Parvez completed his basic education at

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in 1960. He then joined

Government College, Lahore The Government College University, Lahore (colloquially known as GCU), is a public research university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Opened as Government College, Lahore, in 1864, it became a university in 2002. Overview In 1864, Go ...

(GCU) and

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore The University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (UET Lahore) is a public university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan specializing in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. It is the oldest and one of the most ...

(UET) from where he graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1967. After joining UET in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, he proceeded to the

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, UK, in 1968, where he qualified for a master's degree in Quality and Reliability Engineering in 1969 and a Doctorate in Engineering Production in 1972.

Career

Parvez served

(National Engineering Services Pakistan) for nearly 30 years, rose to the positions of general manager and Vice President, and retired as managing director and President in 2005. During his tenure as managing director, he brought in a significant annual amount of business for Nespak. After retirement from Nespak, Parvez joined as professor at UET responsible for teaching and research at graduate and post-graduate levels in its Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Department. He also set up a consulting company for UET namely 'Engineering Services UET Pakistan Limited (ESUPAK)'. From 2011 to 2013, he served as the Head of Department for Mechanical Engineering at the

University of Lahore The University of Lahore ( ur, ), abbreviated as UOL, is a private university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded at collegiate level in 1999 under the IBADAT Educational Trust and was granted full degree awarding status in 2002. ...

. He is a visiting faculty member at Lahore Leads University.

Awards and recognition

* ''Gold Medal'' Award by the President of Pakistan for writing the best technical paper for the Institution of Engineers, Pakistan, in 1977 * ''Dr. A. Q. Khan Lifetime Achievement Award'' from the Institution of Engineers, Pakistan in 2009 *

Pride of Performance The Pride of Performance ( ur, ), officially known as Presidential Pride of Performance, is an award bestowed by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to recognize people with "notable achievements in the field of art, science, literature, sports, an ...

Award in 2000 by the President of Pakistan.

Music

Parvez says he has had a passion for music since his childhood. He began his career as a child artist in 1954 at

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, Lahore in the children's programme 'Honhaar' before appearing on 'Khatir-e-Ehbaab' in the sixties. He trained in classical singing from the Ustads of

Sham Chaurasia gharana Sham Chaurasi Gharana is a vocal gharana (a family's style of singing) in Hindustani classical music known for the singing of vocal duets. It is also known as the cradle of drupad. It is one of the four singing gharanas of Punjab; the other thr ...

such as Ustad Nazakat Ali Khan-Ustad Salamat Ali Khan duo (became their pupil in 1976), Ustad Ghulam Shabbir Khan-Ustad Ghulam Jaffar Khan duo (1992), and music composers Akhtar Hussain Akhian and veteran music composer Mian Sheheryaar. He is a practising singer at the Central Production Unit, Radio Pakistan, where he has recorded hundreds of ghazals, geets, and other songs since the 1970s in his monthly performances. For the past two decades, he has performed a raag for the programme "Ahang-e-Khusrovi" every month and has rendered more than fifty raags in Khayal form. Parvez performs both light,

semi-classical music In South Asia, semi-classical music (Hindi: नीम क्लासिकी मौसीक़ी, Urdu: نیم کلاسیکی موسیقی; ''neem klaseeki moseeqi'') is derived from Hindustani classical music that is often combined with film ...

and classical music songs. Parvez has also been associated with

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(PTV) since its inception in 1964. In his career, he has also performed in the US, UK, France, Italy,

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UAE The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

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and

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Writings

*Parvez's writings has been widely recognised. He has written a regular column reviewing books for

The Nation (Pakistan) ''The Nation'' is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Majid Nizami Trust and based in Lahore, Pakistan since 1986. ''Rameeza'' is the Executive Editor of ''The Nation''. She is the adopted daughter of the renowned Pakistani journalist, ...

, daily newspaper in

, Pakistan for the past three decades. * His writings have been collected in two volumes
‘Symphony of Reflections’
(2006), and 'Rainbow Of Reflections' (2011). Both books were published by Jahangir Books, Lahore. *Parvez also speaks and writes on music. His book titled 'Melody Makers of the subcontinent' covers 47 music composers of India and Pakistan from the 1950s to 1980s. It was published by Sange-Meel Publications, Lahore in 2012.

Bibliography

* ''Symphony of Reflections'' 2006. (Jehangir Books, Lahore) * ''Rainbow of Reflections'', Jahangir Books 2011. * ''Melody Makers of the subcontinent'', Sange-Meel Publications 2012. * ''Melody Singers 1'' (English) Sange-Meel Publications 2015 * ''Melody Singers 1'' (Urdu) Sange-Meel Publications 2017 * ''Melody Singers 2'' (English) Sange-Meel Publications 2019 * ''Rainbow of Reflections'' (Under Print)

References

External links

UAE is fertile ground for Urdu singers
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