I am very interested in music. I didn’t really see piano as a hobby when I lived in New Delhi, due to the fact that I was in a group class. Once I started working with a private tutor and starting seeing the extent of my musical abilities develop over time, it grew into one of my primary hobbies. Now I enjoy it more than ever. It has taken a lot of work and effort but I have learned so much about sound and music.

Music has helped me find something in me that I never knew before. That is my love of performing. I would usually think to myself that I would be too timid or scared to go up in front of my class and present something, let alone a concert hall!

Earlier this year, I practiced on one of my favorite pieces, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (Opus 27). Once I could play the 3rd movement well enough, I entered and was selected as a winner in an International Piano and Strings competition and I got to play at the Carnegie Hall, which was one of the most exciting moments of my life!

Here's a video of me playing the same piece that I performed at Carnegie Hall from a smaller recital a few months earlier:

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement)

Here's a video of my recital of the well-known melancholic 1st movement from the same sonata from a recital a year before:

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (1st Movement)

Here is a video of my recital of Chopin's Polonaise in G Minor last winter. Did you know he composed this piece when he was just 7 years old?

Chopin - Polonaise in G Minor

I wrote a little more about the effect music has had on me here.

Recently I was asked my Maths Teacher to help her husband during his concert performance, There’s A Place For Us, which was held to support my school. I helped him as the piano "page turner" and it was an amazing experience being on stage with so many world class opera singers, who literally shook the stage with their powerful voices!

There's a Place for Us - concert held in Jersey City

Title Image: my performance at Carnegie Hall this summer.