Names of finalists of the annual competition of the children’s award named after Gulbaba were announced in the capital of Turkmenistan.Among 183 young talents 66 winners were chosen.
The best of the best musicians, dancers, artists, inventors and sportsmen, received memorable gifts and diplomas of honours of the competition.ORIENT has visited brothers of the Atayev who have become already popular with our readers, as the most music family.
Children today mark a big holiday.After all, Mekan Atayev has become one of the 19 finalists representing Ashkhabad at the competition.And, to congratulate the big brother and Mekan is only 13, relatives have gathered at a solemn tablecloth.
Now, there are two full owners of the prestigious children’s award in the family of officer Mergen Atayev.The father very much is proud of successes of his sons and advises his younger children to follow the example of Mekan and Mukam.
When our younger son Mukam became the owner of the award named after Gulbaba, we also together congratulated him from the bottom of the heart, the father of family says.
Certainly, it encouraged the elder to move towards success.Mekan prepared for the competition within a year.As the entire family we studied his new songs and pieces of music.
But that he appeared in the final, even for us it became a pleasant New Year’s unexpectedness.
The fact that names of finalists of competition are announced during the festive winter holidays, gives a magic touch to the award named after Gulbaba.To become the prize-winner during this winter fantastic time when all children wait for especial gifts and fulfilment of their most treasured desires is twice pleasantly.
Here Mekan shares that to reach the final competition was his old dream which was carried out with arrival of the New Year.Ahead is submission of new tops and grandiose plans for the future.
Among visitors of the festive event is one of the instructors of Mekan, head of the department of wind instruments and percussion instruments of the Ashkhabad music school №4 Dovlet Agalyev.
According to the teacher, at present at the art school about 300 young talents are trained.The educational institution annually holds inter-school competition among pupils of the school, revealing talented instrumentalists.
Names of winners take a place on the board of honours.In 2020 the guitarist Maksim Gurbanov became the prize-winner of the school competition.
The fact that our schoolboy Mekan Atayev has become the owner of the prestigious award named after Gulbaba, is of great importance for the school. It proves that our teachers could instil necessary knowledge, and help the young talent to open his abilities, tells Dovlet Agalyev
During the winter holidays Mekan and Mukam continue to play music, the younger brother and the little sister join them. The family quartet grows up. For now outside their window a sports field is under construction, children already plan on how between music lessons, rehearsals and classes at the comprehensive school, they will go in for sports classes.