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ZHANG: It's beyond the speaking language because I have to use 10 fingers. MARTIN: But music isn't just any language. ZHANG: She read the music, and the music is a language.
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33, D783, No.10 on a Schimmel K213 Grand Piano at Classic Pianos Watch the full video below. MARTIN: Here's her teacher on a talk show explaining why she thinks Brigitte is able to progress so quickly. 10 year old piano prodigy, Gavin Nan, playing Waltz in A minor, Op. That's very - for that, 3 years old, it's really amazing. Feedback Learning the piano has the potential for flow, because we. ZHANG: I said, now, can you play right-hand D major, left-hand C major, right-hand G major? Then she went - boom, boom, boom, boom, boom - make all the different, right moves. But other experiences can utilize the principles of challenges to engage a user. Her teacher says she is still amazed how quickly Brigitte learned. At 5 years old, Jonah already accomplished more in music than most of us could eve.

Brigitte's parents have to place a stool under the piano bench to keep her feet from dangling above the ground. MARTIN: That's Brigitte's mother, Nicole Sun. NICOLE SUN: The first time I heard she - playing a piano piece, I was so deeply moved. TAO ZIE: At the beginning, I never expected she's going to be a prodigy or anything. MARTIN: Brigitte's father, Tao Zie, signed her up for Zoom classes - you know, something to do during lockdown. ZHANG: From the lessons, I observed she has a curious mind, and she loved to learn. MARTIN: That's Brigitte's piano teacher, Felicia Feng Zhang.

She is only 4 years old.įELICIA FENG ZHANG: Brigitte came to me when she was just 2 months after 3 years old. A year later, she became the youngest winner of the prestigious Elite International Music Competition, which grants the winner a performance on stage at Carnegie Hall. MARTIN: Last fall, Brigitte Xie took up the piano. Some of us have even taken up a musical instrument, perhaps the piano. Some of us have even followed through, a gesture at self-improvement or just a way not to go stir-crazy in COVID times. We hope that you enjoyed watching this wonderful performance today by this 5-year-old piano prodigy!At some point over the last 18 months, each of us has probably thought about taking up some new pastime. He is truly a natural! And it is astounding to know that he cannot read music yet and still is able to play such complex pieces with just hearing the notes and playing by ear. When watching the video of Alberto play, it is amazing to see his tiny hands fly across the piano keys with such ease.
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Even though he still doesn't know how to read notes well, indeed almost not at all, he takes his position on the keyboard and repeats the pieces. For a year and a half now, has been doing remarkable things, both for his age and for the time it took him to learn. husband and I noticed that he had perfect pitch. From there I realized that Alberto was well suited. “I was always at home, so we started playing with a small keyboard, in order to do something stimulating. “He started playing during the months of the first lockdown,” shared Alessia Cingolani, Alberto's mother. When he was 3 years old, Alberto’s parents first introduced him to the piano and quickly saw that the boy had a natural affinity for the instrument. His father works as a music teacher and his mother is a singing instructor. 16 in C major wowed the audience.Ī video of his performance was shared online, and it has since garnered over 5 million views on Twitter. Recently, he performed in a music competition, and his incredible rendition of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. This little girl was also clearly born to play the piano. Alberto Cartuccia Cingolani is a five-year-old Italian pianist who only started learning how to play the piano in 2020. That is, unless, youve got a God-given knack for it like that 4-year-old prodigy who visited the Steve Harvey Show.
