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Casio India came on board as Associate Sponsor for Hornbill Festival and has also pledged to help support the music schools in the state with workshops, visits by acclaimed keyboardist and more.
Post that in February, Casio India announced, ‘Casio Piano Clubs’ for Nagaland.
At a meeting between the Advisor TaFMA and Shri Kulbhushan Seth, Vice President – SAARC Countries, Casio India has agreed to launch its “Casio Piano Clubs” in all the districts of Nagaland phase wise.
Shri Kulbhushan Seth said that Casio tied-up with TaFMA in this initiative of taking quality music education to every corner of Nagaland. Through this initiative of Casio, Music Schools will get ‘Master Music Trainers’ visiting the institutes to conduct ‘Master Classes’, and Casio equipment’s at special discounted rates.
TaFMA will identify existing music schools in the districts and help in tie-up for Casio Piano School.
For the first phase,the five districts that have been identified are :
Mokokchung School of Music – Mokokchung,
Little Spring School – Zunheboto,
Clearwater Creative Arts- Wokha,
Mountain Music Academy-Dimapur,
and Elite Music Ensemble-Phek.
They also announced that ‘Casio The Pianist’ a piano competition will take place soon to recognize existing Piano talent in Nagaland.