KOCHI: Meet Robin Thomas, well known piano teacher and performer. Interestingly, he also serves as a piano teacher to many new-gen music directors.Robin lives, dreams and breaths music, and has been enthralling audience for over 20 years now. Now he is busy with composing, setting tunes, arranging music and helping out music directors for background scores in films. And he is all set to do a live programme at Malabar Utsav slated to be held next month. Not just that. He has many other feathers in his cap, one includes singing track songs for more than 50 films. Robin who plays piano has completed his course from the Trinity College of Music, London. Explaining his work on the keyboard, he says, “Piano enriches and fills up the space in a song or a film.” Through his hard working he managed to get a programming keyboard and started programming music for many events and films. A native of Thrissur, now settled in Kochi, he started learning Carnatic music when he was in standard one. “Basically I am a singer. After schooling I started giving stage shows. After doing many live programmes I realised that my passion rested in piano and I wanted to enter the film industry,” Robin says. Carrying with him the passion to be a pianist, he started learning piano under the guidance of Fr Thomas Chakkalamattom at Chetana Music Academy, Thrissur. “Today people are more interested in fusion music. But I play western classics and am much more passionate about jazz, blues and Latin styles of music,” he says.Robin who also plays a new-generation instrument Keytar, is one of the regular members in a band called Orfeo, a Kochi-based quintet band formed long ago. The band specialises in western classics. He feels lucky that he got the opportunity to work with many famous musicians, including M G Radhakrishnan, Devarajan master, Jhonson master, Raveendran, Perumbavoor G Raveendranath and many other new-generation music directors. “It’s a pleasure to be a teacher and it gives more satisfaction. Students tend to ask many doubts and clearing those doubts itself increases my knowledge,” he said.But all the same, performing at live shows brings in a different kind of satisfaction, he says. Hence along with teaching, Robin makes it a point to be always engaged with live shows. “My biggest dream is to keeping learning music till my last breath,” he says. He was also a faculty of Royal School of Music for around six years in Dubai, Oman and Kuwait. And currently he is engaged in piano classes and music at his studio ‘Liquid Music’ at Maradu in Ernakulam.
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