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Born blind, Steven Tanus, 24, is the first visually impaired student to earn a Bachelor of Music degree at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
He will graduate this month with 10,866 other graduates. Opening ceremonies for the 2018 NUS class will take place from July 12-19.
Speaking at the New Paper seated next to a grand piano at the NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, he said: "I do I do not want to be known simply as a good blind pianist, I want to be recognized as a good, blind pianist. "
Encouraged to learn music at the age of four, he had only official piano lessons at age 16. This did not happen. is that after meeting Mr. Stephen Tamadji, a renowned pianist in Jakarta, in 2012, that he fell in love with the instrument that he describes as an entire orchestra contained in a large box.
Now he learns the pieces in the ear and by memory, it takes on average two months to learn each new piece.
For this, he thanks his friends and teachers of Yong Conservatory Siew Toh for their patience
He said: "It is a small and intimate. When I feel discouraged, my friends tell me that they will not be "
M. Tanus has won medals at international piano festivals in Vienna and Tokyo as part of competitions for the disabled, but he dreams of a day of competition on an equal footing.
He plans to pursue a master's degree in piano in Europe
M. M Thirukkumaran, 25, will also graduate this month. He had scored 173 points for his PSLE and was so bad in his studies that his school almost expelled him in Secondary 2.
He said that he has already scored one in 50 for a algebra test in Sec 3.
Thanks to his teacher of mathematics, Mr. Tan Thiam Boon, he arrived at the top of his class for the next test that year
M. Thirukkumaran will now get a Bachelor of Science in Business Analytics with the highest distinction. He will also address his peers on the occasion of the graduation ceremony
M. Thirukkumaran is also a recipient of a scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, where he hopes to address social issues related to the environment. 19659002] Next year, he will pursue a masters degree in computer science abroad, perhaps at the University of Edinburgh.
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