Friday, September 7, 2012

Piano prodigy

  • Piano Prodigy Benjamin Grosvenor: 'How Silly, That Was Quite Easy' (PHOTO ...

    Is it just us, or do you also brace yourself for a minor existential crisis every time you gear up to read a story about a child prodigy? They all begin in a similar vein... While you could barely wipe yourself, this precocious child had sold out their ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Student is a piano prodigy

    Sindy Yang of Trumbull was one of a group of young piano students from across Connecticut who recently gathered to perform, having placed as winners in the 35th Annual Renée B. Fisher Competition for Young Pianists.

    www.acorn-online.com

  • Ottawa pianist wins Canadian music competition

    Ottawa piano prodigy Suren Barry has won the piano category at the 41st Canadian National Music Competition. Barry, who attends Carleton University, performed before a panel of international adjudicators in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

    www.ottawacitizen.com

  • Musical prodigy brothers score high in top piano exam

    PIANISTS Cameron and Ross Smith have hit the right note and scored top marks in a piano exam. The brothers, from Turton , who both attend Turton School passed their Performance Diploma in Piano - a musical feat usually achieved by students in their ...

    www.theboltonnews.co.uk

  • Benjamin Grosvenor: The people's prodigy

    He may be a former child prodigy but you wouldn't necessarily expect pianist Benjamin Grosvenor to stop the traffic.

    www.standard.co.uk

  • Neil Sedaka, singer-songwriter – portrait of the artist

    I was a child prodigy at the piano: I started to play by ear at the age of seven, studied with a private teacher at eight, and at nine got a scholarship to the Juilliard school in New York.

    www.guardian.co.uk

  • Review: 'Why Stop Now?' wastes its talented cast

    "Why Stop Now?" tells the story of a gifted piano prodigy named Eli who, because he's played by Jesse Eisenberg, is a walking fermata of nervousness and hyperawareness.

    www.latimes.com

  • Not music for old men

    Dai Liang sits in front of his piano on the stage of Culture Center of Xicheng District in a recent night. After a deep breath, he sends his fingers dancing on the black and white keys.

    www.chinadaily.com.cn

  • Brother-Sister Goodbye

    Ethan gained fame last May when the piano prodigy's rendition of "Piano Man" earned what is now more than 1.3 million hits on YouTube.

    www.westportnow.com

  • Child Prodigy Finds College Admittance Elusive

    His mom says he also likes playing the piano (He gave a recital at age three.), tennis, table tennis, Wii games and watching TV.

    www.voanews.com

  • Page 3 Profile: Nicholas McCarthy, one-handed piano player

    He played as a junior at the Guildhall School of Music and this month he became the first one-handed pianist known to have graduated from the Royal College of Music.

    www.independent.co.uk

  • Chilly Gonzales - Solo Piano II

    ... Andrew WK's proverbial in a New York piano-battle - not to mention his world record-breaking longest-ever solo concert - musical prodigy and on-stage livewire Chilly Gonzales returns with his second anthology of self-penned neo-classical piano works.

    www.list.co.uk

  • Legendary US pianist diagnosed with cancer

    He started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of 3. His debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra took place when the prodigy was only 12-years-old. Cliburn studied at Juilliard, won the famed Leventritt Competition and performed with a ...

    rt.com

  • Instinct Launching Browser-Based Guitar Teaching Tool for Beginners

    Though they're launching with a guitar teaching tool, they plan to branch out to other instruments after their public launch. Instinct co-founder Blake Jennelle plays piano and guitar, and formerly founded MyDunkTank and ran marketing for TicketLeap ...

    betakit.com

  • The child- prodigy

    Osimanchukwu would only be six next January, but he is already a master with the guitar and piano. His electrifying dance steps would make late pop icon, Michael Jackson green with envy.

    www.thenationonlineng.net

  • New World Symphony marks a silver anniversary amid a packed Florida ...

    Among the highlights of the Symphony of the Americas (www.symphonyoftheamericas.org) series will be two concerts by the brilliant young pianist Conrad Tao, a former prodigy who has since turned 18, appeared with major orchestras and received glowing ...

    southfloridaclassicalreview.com

  • Three for the Mode

    Pianist and composer Steve Kuhn '59 has played in formidable quartets and quintets, inventive big bands, graceful string orchestras.

    harvardmagazine.com

  • Fortissimo takes on Jet Tone's Touch Of The Light

    Directed by Chang Jung-chi, the film is based on the real life experiences of blind piano prodigy, Huang Yu-siang, who plays himself in the film.

    www.screendaily.com

  • 'Annie' for Sun, a New 'Woolf' for Fear

    ... Nova as an "electro-pop operatic adaptation" of part of Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? The composer-creator is Dave Malloy, one of the co-creators of "Three Pianos," and the director is Rachel Chavkin, founding artistic director of the TEAM ("Mission ...

    www.nytimes.com

  • Classical music: Concerts to make a joyful noise

    The Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra will kick off its eighth season with "Passion and Prodigy," featuring 9-year-old pianist Gavin George in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 (Oct. 21); "Dvorak in Detail" will include cellist Luis Biava performing ...

    www.dispatch.com

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