Although I am based in England, I
don't think many of
the pianists featured on this website live in this country (except Benji
Grosvenor - who performed at the 1st Prom in London's Royal
Albert Hall in July, 2011 and Faye Evans). They're
mostly from the United States, Canada, Japan, Russia and China. I guess
we don't go in for this in England.
Michael Jackson died in
2009 and I've
frequently heard him described as a musical genius, yet he didn't play
musical instruments. The children featured on this website, are true
musical genii (or is it geniuses in modern parlance?). Please explore
the site; when the site is finished, there will be over a thousand video
links to these amazing child pianists. There will eventually be
detailed information about many of them too.
There are
many young pianists around the world today, many of them pre-teen. We would
hope
to help to bring the limelight to these amazing classical pianists, as
is
deserved by them. The
level of
genius that is displayed by these kids should not be allowed to go
un-noticed.
Pop performers are making it big with either deliberately concealed or non existent talent. I may be wrong, but I believe that Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, otherwise known as Lady Gaga, has more pianistic talent than she currently demonstrates, but as her default performance act appeals to a much larger audience than would classical piano recitals, who can blame her for doing what she does? BTW, I like what she does so I'm not knocking her!
I've been wondering
why there are such brilliant pianists of pre-teen age. How is it
possible for
an 8 year old to play Chopin and Rachmaninov in such a way, that it's
indistinguishable from a performance given by a top concert pianist? If
we were
blindfolded and could only hear, most of us wouldn't know the
difference, if
there is one.
I've never
given much thought to
re-incarnation before, but I was listening to a discussion on BBC radio
one
morning (9th August 09) about that subject. It was suggested that there
was no
such phenomenon as a 6 year old Mozart composing a piano concerto. The
suggestion was that he had lived before and was just continuing from
where he
left off. Silly, or not?
The
interview was sparked off by the parents
of a four year old boy in America who, through his nightmares, can
describe
accurately an air dogfight over the Pacific between the Japanese and the
Americans in WW2, where a plane went down and the pilot was killed. The
boy is
describing the incident from the perspective of that pilot. He has named
his toy
soldiers after three of the pilot's comrades, whom he could never have
known about.
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