Negin Khpalwak

[1] In February 2017, the orchestra played at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

[2] Born in Kunar, a province in northeastern Afghanistan, the young girl Negin Khpalwak showed strong passion for music.

At the age of 13, she was selected for the Afghanistan National Institute for Music founded by the musicologist - Ahmad Naser Sarmast.

[4] Dealing with threats, pressure and intimidation from her family members and people from her hometown when going public to perform music, Negin overcame and became Afghanistan's first female conductor.

On an interview in Women and Girls of News Deeply, she emphasized that she would like to further study music overseas and come back to Afghanistan to create new orchestras.