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A ‘classic’ delight, the Western way

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City lads do well at the Twin Cities Piano Competition

TALENTED LOT: Winners of the Twin Cities Piano Competition with the jury (L-R) Jonathan Hewitt, Marko West and Monica Papp.

HYDERABAD: It was a treat. A classic Western it was and lovers of that kind of classical music in the twin cities enjoyed some of the finest pieces of the original masters - Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, Chopin and Scott Joplin.

The 2nd Twin Cities Piano Competition saw the best of the pieces performed by our very own Hyderabadi ‘bachchas’ from December 15 to 22, when the Gala Concert was held at the ITC Kakatiya Sheraton and Towers here.

Three rounds

The process of the competitions per se, had three rounds before the Gala Concert that finally threw up six winners, a testimony to the fact that only the best could make it.

Two categories

There were two categories -- for those performing pieces at a level not higher than grade 3 Trinity or Royal School of Music exams and for those performing at levels of Grade 4 and above and three in each category came up tops.

In Category One , the first, second and third places were secured by Nachiket Naik, Mytreyi Chandrasekhar and Avidant Bhagat, respectively. In the second, the winners were Y. Aneesh Athrey, Mohit Dodhwani and Vasanth Bharani. Interestingly, Aneesh who was expected to perform in the first category, went to emerge the winner in the higher category.

A beginning it surely was and a step in the right direction to popularising Western Classical music, a genre that people normally consider to be highly artistic and complex.

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