04/01/2026
Dear Students and Parents
On behalf of Stephen's College of Film Music, we congratulate Akash Mayya for successfully completing the "Advanced Tonal Dictation" course with flying colors. He secured distinction by scoring 90/100. He is my youngest and most dedicated and devoted student.
It is a wonderful course designed by Professor Thomas L Durham for the Juilliard School of Music Newyork USA undergraduate program.
The book covers all the chord progression with inversions in all the keys, modulations to the nearly related keys, secondary dominants, diminished sevenths and secondary diminished sevenths, neopolitan 6th chords, Italian 6th, French 6th and German 6th chords. A very methodic approach to help an aspiring student to master the Aural skills - seeing the notes and chords through ears or listening and writing.
I really appreciate his father and mother (both are doctors by profession) for their wonderful support and encouragement. They both are taking utmost care in providing and arranging a proper music education to their son. Akash is also very interested in learning, not only piano but also the compositional techniques and the science behind the divine art of arranging and orchestration.
He is just 13 years old, and for his age, he has achieved the advanced level of musical notes and chords Transcription technique (listening and writing), which is a unique blessing bestowed upon him by the Almighty God.
He is also studying first year Harmony with me. In three months, he will be completing the first year Harmony course as well. He is also studying 7th grade theory of music and 7th grade piano with me.
In this age of computers and AI, Akash is inclined towards learning real and good music. I am really glad that his parents also have the same intentions of making their son get first-hand knowledge of traditional music.
Once again, I congratulate Akash Mayya for a fantastic achievement.
God bless you, Akash.
Music is Divine 🌹
