The leading music institute Piano Kids celebrated its 8th anniversary with an evening of exhilarating piano music performed by over hundred talented youngsters in chic costumes at the Srimanta Sankardeva International Auditorium, Kalakshetra, Guwahati, on 7.4.2022.
The musical programme was designed and directed by renowned piano maestro Kushal Krishna Dev Goswami, was titled ‘Night Of The Little Pianists’.
The evening proceeded with the students displaying their prowess and energy in a number of musical numbers, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’, Bishnu Prasad Rabha’s evergreen ‘Bilote Halise Dhuniya Podumi’, JP Das’s immensely popular ‘Porichoy Bihin’, Zubeen Garg’s ‘Mayabini’, traditional Biyaa Naam, Dwipen Barua’s evergreen ‘Kune Aji Abeli’, Jayanta Hazarika’s everlasting ‘Tomar Marame Mor’, Dr Bhupen Hazarika’s immortal creation ‘He Dola He Dola…Bor Bor Manuhor Dola’, a Bihu tune, popular Christmas song ‘Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells’, ‘Puzzle series’ for beginners and rounding off with the State song of Assam ‘O Mur Apunar Desh’. For a change, the students themselves played the role of anchors and entertained the audiences with their antics on stage.
The musical evening also witnessed the felicitation of renowned music director and singer JP Das, eminent singer Dwipen Baruah and internationally renowned sound designer Jatin Sarma, who graced the occasion as the chief guests. “The piano is being worshipped today,” JP Das in his speech likened the piano to the highest form of instrumental art.
Piano Kids continues to nurture and develop Assamese classics with timeless western and contemporary compositions in all its varied forms.
It has been central to Goswami’s pioneering and acclaimed work in piano music, and which in turn, has provided a wonderful structure for the young and upcoming pianists to not only just learn and practice, but broaden their horizons, in a collective musical environment
