Lydian Nadhaswaram is not your average 12-year-old kid. With merely four years of training behind him, the Chennai-born pianist has bagged the top spot at the first edition of America's global talent hunt show, The World's Best.

"I want to go to the moon and play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata," says Nadhaswaram when asked of his aspirations, after he first made the boisterous claim during his outing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.