ABRSM and Mr. Matt Bacon’s Concert

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything”. Keeping that in mind, a guitar workshop was organized in association with the Associated Board of Royal Schools Of Music (ABRSM), on the 23rd of February, from 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. in Stobart Hall. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Matt Bacon, who is a guitarist and composer and serves as the Head Guitar Faculty at the famous A.R. Rahman’s K.M. Music Conservatory, Chennai, since 2015. The workshop was attended by guitar enthusiasts of La Martiniere, aspiring to build their future out of their passion about guitar and music. The whole workshop was conducted under the supervision of Mr. Dinesh Khundrakpam.

Following the workshop, on the evening of the 24th of February at 7:30 p.m., Mr. Bacon performed some classical guitar compositions which included a Spanish Ballad, Romance by an anonymous composer, Layenda, Asturias by Isaac Albaniz, Capricho Arabe, Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tarrega.

The students of La Martiniere College also performed in the musical event which included solo guitar performances by Austin Evans, Samuel Castillo, Rohan David, Isaac Tomlinson Verma, Aditya Badhani and Aryaman Gurha and a duo performance by Fazz Ali Khan and Aditya Badhani.