Hungarian pianist mulls Indian, Western classical fusion

On a recent trip to India, where he has performed thrice earlier, Hungarian pianist Balazs Fulei mulled composing a mix of Western and classical Indian music.
String and wind instruments used in Indian classical music are likely to go well with the western classical music, says the musician who began playing the piano at the age of eight.
"The problem I think is in the tuning because Indian instruments are tuned using a different system. So putting them in one stage, is a question for me, but I always think about that," he says.
The pianist was in the city for a concert held recently at the Piano Club of The Imperial hotel in association with the Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre.

Currently an assistant professor at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Fulei began his journey as a pianist when the instrument was introduced to him merely as a toy.
By the time he was 13-years-old and started his music education, he was sure he "wanted to do this."

The musician says the interest for piano in the West is nowhere near decreasing.
"Almost every second or third child in Europe studies the piano," says Fulei, who began playing the piano at the age of eight and has performed at important stages across the world, including in India, US, Japan, China, Israel and Australia.

Colloquially abbreviated as the piano, the pianoforte is a keyboard based musical instrument, often employed in western classical and jazz music.
"The piano is the main instrument of the western classical music. It has come a very long way before the modern piano came into existence. The hapsichord and clavichord were the instruments that existed before the piano," says Fulei, who has been playing the instrument for 22 years now.