He’s an extremely talented cellist,' said. Play 01:07 Four-year-old US piano prodigy flourishing amid pandemic When Brigitte Xies parents signed her up for piano classes during the pandemic, they just wanted to keep her busy. Brigitte Xie of Ridgefield, Connecticut, began taking lessons during the coronavirus lockdown in June 2020, her father, Tao Xie told the New York Post. But that didnt stop the young musician from impressing the best of his adult contemporaries with his unbelievable classical music skills. 0 1:59 A three-year-old pianist recently became the youngest individual to win a prestigious music competition which earned her a performance slot at Carnegie Hall. Born in 2011, Chen embarked on her music journey at just 4 years old with the aim to please her father who. Anke Chen plays with passion and personality. “He was so moved and felt so impressed that he invited me to Japan immediately after that,” said Li, who sports a similar shock of thick - though jet-black - hair.īorn in Chongqing, Sichuan province, Li was an accomplished accordion player by the time he was five. At a height of just over five feet, an instrument like the cello nearly eclipses the body of 11-year-old child prodigy Malik Kofi. Anke Chen, also known as ‘Encore Chen’, is a piano-playing prodigy from Tianjin in northeastern China who has been wowing audiences across the world for a few years now. The bond was instantaneous - transcending any differences of age, nationality and character between the two men. Prodigy is the culmination of everything PianoDisc strives forthe absolute best piano player, powered by cutting-edge technology, with a simple, streamlined experience just for you. The Chinese child prodigy started playing piano at the age of 3, won his first competition aged 5, and today age 27, he is on Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Li, 24, met Ozawa three years ago, when the firebrand conductor heard the soft-spoken, contemplative musician play a Liszt sonata in Vienna.

“He is my mentor, a teacher and friend,” said Li of the 71-year-old Japanese maestro, famed for his mane of silver hair, who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly three decades. Li, considered one the world's best young musicians, owes much of his recent artistic maturity to an unlikely friendship with renowned Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa. Chinese piano star Li Yundi speaks during an interview in Hong Kong June 11, 2007.

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