My Compelling Story

Mrityunjay Sharma is a professional instrumentalist based out of the capital city of India, New Delhi. Born in 1996, Mrityunjay is a famous composer, singer-songwriter, musician and philanthropist. He began his musical journey at the age of three. He is accredited by Guinness World Records as world’s #1 pianist in the longest piano recital for continuous 127 hours. His school, Junior Model School, had no music classes. Hence, he started playing the harmonium during the school assembly. Later, Mrityunjay assisted his father in cultural programmes, playing the harmonium. Mrityunjay did not have the keyboard, so his father used to arrange rented keyboards for him so that he could explore the instrument of different company brands. In 2006, he was admitted in Sangeet Bhushan, a scholarship-funded, four-year diploma course to provide the core knowledge of Indian classical instrumental music, from Rukmini Devi Lalit Kala Kendra, Pitampura, Delhi. When Mrityunjay was 12 years old, he made debut as a music director in the Ramleela act function in 2008 and continued to give background score every year till 2012. He was excellent in academics and was the topper in 12th standard. Sharma is completing graduation in 2016 from Shri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi with a degree in commerce. He had wanted to play the harmonium for an uninterrupted stretch of time ever since he was in third grade when he heard about a college student playing the guitar for 66 hours. The dream resurfaced by a chance mention of the Limca Book of Records in 2014. Then he called Sudhanshu Bahuguna, begging him to guide his training sessions for the record attempt. Bahuguna realised the boy was ready and agreed to accept him. That was in March 2014. A year later, Sharma successfully tried for the Limca Records in March 2015 by playing the piano for continuous 52 hours and surpassed the previous national record of 50 hours. His teachers at SRCC chipped in by allowing him to skip classes to practice for Guinness World Records and Limca Book of Records attempts; a 1964 batch alumni, Billy Gupta, gifted him the synthesizer on which he would go on to make both his record attempts; and a classmate gave him a precious Rs 200 to cover the travelling expenses from his college to Bahuguna's Swarnimm Sangeet Mahavidyalaya. Mrityunjay Sharma is a BHEL - Foundation for Academic Excellence and Access scholar. The scholarship covers his expenses of studies, while also providing maintenance allowances and nurturing for his dreams. Being obliged for society, he composed and developed music therapy for autistic children and mass people in March 2016. He has performed across the nation for different organisations, clubs, and collaboration programmes at SRCC including Indo-Korea, Indo-UK, Indo-US, and CII National Conference. Among his favourite performance venues are India Habitat Centre, SRCC auditorium, Hotel Taj, etc. He is working on to bring the fastest pianist title record to India by surpassing the existing world record of most piano-key hits in one minute, which is currently held by Hungarian pianist, Bence Peter. Achievements: Academics Award for scoring top marks in 9th standard, SV, 2009 Yuva Talent Hunt Winner Award, RPVV, 2012 Academics Award for scoring top marks in 12th standard, RPVV, 2013 Special Prize Award for creating national record in Limca Book of Records, SRCC, 2015 Limca Book of Records holder, 2015 Principal Medal Award for Extraordinary achievement, SRCC, 2016 Certificate of Recognition for performance at world’s Longest Piano recital, SRCC, 2016 Guinness World Record holder, 2016