![]() ![]() I need to practise well to be in sync with them,” he says. “This will be my first performance with an orchestra and a professional conductor. On September 27, Lydian will perform at the NCPA along with the Symphony Orchestra of India at its season finale, where he’ll join the SOI to play Franz Haydn’s piano Concerto Number 11 in D major. It takes a village to put together a concert, but all Lydian needs is a piano. Each time the squeak of the camera flash rose above the music, he echoed it on the instrument, perfect to the note and the pitch. At Mumbai’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), where Lydian and his father, Tamil music director Varshan Sathish, arrived recently in matching canary yellow kurtas for a photo shoot with Forbes India, there was no tearing him away from the piano: His left fingers kept tapping away when he would turn right for the camera and vice versa. Once he’s in front of the piano, though, he needs no handholding. But he still prefers to clutch on to his father while crossing the road. Lydian’s teen growth spurt has now pushed him inches over his father’s shoulder, and his mop top’s a tad more outgrown and dishevelled. Then 11, and after barely two years of playing the piano, Lydian had impressed the New York socialite circle with a mastery over complicated Western classical pieces-from Beethoven to Mozart, Chopin and everything in between-that were beyond his pithy frame and years. Billionaire American investor Michael Novogratz had it shipped to his Chennai house after he heard him play at a music salon in the US. The Steinway grand piano reached Lydian in 2017 from halfway across the globe. Little coincidence perhaps that the object he showers most of his affection on at home is a Steinway, the Rolls-Royce equivalent among pianos. “I love a Rolls-Royce,” he says with a disarming smile. ![]() Not speed monsters, but classy, luxury ones. Once in a while, the 13-year-old surfs the internet looking for YouTube videos on cars.
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