The magical thing about western classical music is that someone, say Beethoven, composed it centuries ago, and people have been playing that same piece, note for note ever since then. The idea is to not mess with perfection. "You are simply the vehicle for the music," says Anurag Naidu, who'll play a gig with his eponymous trio at The Little Door on Tuesday.

Naidu's initiation into music began with Hindustani classical thanks to his father when he was about four. But then, he heard the western piano soon after, and he's been hooked since then. "Its polyrhythmic structure — the idea of multiple notes playing simultaneously — intrigued me," he tells us, adding that he was also drawn to its methodical nature, where you go through the rigour of perfecting every key as it was originally played.