Master the Art of Piano Playing

Forte Piano School of Music has been providing quality music education to the community for over 16 years. Founded by Avik Chakravarty, who goes by the musical artist name Era Surfer, our school has grown to become a leading institution for music education in the area.

and Avik Chakravarty, is a professional musician and musical artist, with over 35 years of experience with music and keyboard instruments. He has been teaching piano and keyboards for the last 17 years. He studied Electronics and Communications engineering from MSRIT before shifting interests to music full time. Avik was brought up in the IISc campus, surrounded by scientists, many of whom were musicians too, and was a part of the IISc music group Rhythmica, where he started performing on stage at a semi professional level, apart from being involved with music in school and participating nationally in social science exhibitions in the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan.

Avik also started the band Rainburn, where he played extensively in music competitions and shows in and around south India. After leaving Rainburn, in 2012, Avik started performing piano solo, and in 2020, after a road accident, he took up the name Era Surfer, where he started producing and performing original Synth pop music. Avik is an ARSM level pianist having completed Grade 8 Piano performance and Grade 8 Music Theory from ABRSM.