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Organisers of Brillante during a press conference held at Kindred in Kohima on Oct. 11, Friday.[/caption]
The only festival in India to witness an overture of 100 pianists to play Beethoven’s ‘Ode to joy’
The second edition of Nagaland Piano Festival will commence from Oct. 29 till the 31st on the theme “Brillante” at Regional Centre of Excellence for Music & Performing Arts (RCEMPA) in Jotsoma.
During a press conference held at Kindred in Kohima, the organisers informed that the inaugural will be held from 2 pm onwards with an overture of 100 pianos for celebration of piano music with a convergence of local, national and international pianists playing classics, jazz and other contemporary forms of piano music.
The organisers also informed that this is the only festival in India that will overture 100 pianists to play Beethoven’s ‘Ode to joy’.
The second day will witness workshop on classical piano, introduction to jazz piano and improvisation, hymn arrangement basics, piano maintenance, focused interactions, demos, techniques and practice habits. While there will be a piano concert from 5 pm onwards with the theme, “Sapphire skies” featuring classical artist Natalia Kapynova and jazz soloist Aman Mahajan.
The finale of the piano competition will be held on Oct. 31 along with stellar round of artists performing different genres of music.
What makes100 pianos overture unique is that the piano players consists of young learners from the age of 4 years to teachers, band keyboardists, celebrated professionals, guest artists and competitors.
“This performance is a combined community effort (institutions, organisations, churches, etc) to celebrate together the gift of music, the love of the keys and an expression of praise to God”, said the organisers.
They also asserted that the objectives of 100 pianos overture is to collaborate, learn, interact and perform together with new ideas and exposures.
For the competition, there will be two categories- junior from the age of 10-16 years and senior category from 17 years onwards.
A special feature of the competition would be the audience choice award for senior category and the audience can vote live from among the competitors.
Appearances will be made with genres of Broadway and Soul by Chathavi Vupru, Ayim Longchar, Ronnie Odyuo, Kekhrie Ringa and special appearance from KM Conservatory of Music Chennai (AR Rahman’s institute).
The organisers informed that tickets will be available at D/Cafe, Planet Earth Cafe, Kindred, COZ, Ozone Cafe and at the venue itself.
Tickets for Sapphire Skies concert is INR. 250 and for the grand finale the ticket is priced at INR 500. Further it has been added that students with their identity card can avail a discount of INR. 50.
(Our Correspondent)