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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Perreira gets bpTT head-start for music career

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If the mu­si­cal tal­ent of bud­ding pan-tuner Aaron Per­reira is any­thing to go by, then the fu­ture of the steel­pan move­ment is in good hands. Per­reira, 18, a for­mer stu­dent of Bel­mont Boys Sec­ondary School (for­mer­ly In­ter­me­di­ate,) is the proud re­cip­i­ent of a spe­cial tro­phy award­ed by en­er­gy com­pa­ny bpTT as the Most Out­stand­ing Stu­dent in a pan con­struc­tion course. Pre­sen­ta­tion of the award was made on Mon­day by Ron­da Fran­cis, cor­po­rate re­spon­si­bil­i­ty man­ag­er, bpTT. Shar­ing the mo­ment was Bar­ry Yeates, founder and man­ag­er of Pan De­vel­op­ment Un­lim­it­ed (PDU).

Per­reira, who hails from Bel­mont, was ho­n­oured as the best stu­dent in the four-week In­tro­duc­to­ry Course in Pan Con­struc­tion (for Schools) 2010. Con­duct­ed on an an­nu­al ba­sis by PDU, the train­ing course is fa­cil­i­tat­ed by bpTT which en­joys a rich tra­di­tion of in­volve­ment in the steel­pan move­ment. Fran­cis con­grat­u­lat­ed Per­reira on his out­stand­ing achieve­ment and urged him to con­tin­ue his per­son­al de­vel­op­ment in the pan and mu­sic are­na. She al­so of­fered him a once-in-a-life­time op­por­tu­ni­ty to pur­sue his mu­si­cal ca­reer abroad, cit­ing as an ex­am­ple a for­mer win­ner of the award, Bri­an Benoit. "If you keep on the right track and ex­cel in your stud­ies, we can as­sist you to fur­ther your ca­reer," she in­formed him.

An ec­sta­t­ic Per­reira, who is a mem­ber of the bpTT Rene­gades Youth Steel Or­ches­tra, said the award will en­cour­age him to take his mu­si­cal tal­ent to its full po­ten­tial. "This is a great in­cen­tive for me since I want to pur­sue a ca­reer in mu­sic, spe­cial­is­ing in pan as the main in­stru­ment," said Per­reira, who is cur­rent­ly study­ing mu­sic at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine. PDU man­ag­er Yeates said Per­reira ex­celled in punc­tu­al­i­ty, at­ten­dance, per­son­al at­ti­tude and ap­ti­tude and abil­i­ty.


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