“Artistically he would leave me lots of freedom and just loved it when I found something unexpected in the music. Even though he belongs to a very different generation, we had this wonderful relationship.” And she particularly enjoyed his style of teaching. He taught me a lot about Chinese history and culture. “He loves Chinese culture, and he is a big collector of Chinese art. She played like a finished artist at the age of 14.” In turn, Yuja was greatly impressed by Graffman’s knowledge of Chinese culture.
She was remarkable among remarkable students. Graffman recalls, “Wang’s technique was impressive, but it was the intelligence and good taste of her interpretations that distinguished her. She had always wanted to study with the eminent pedagogue Claude Frank, but when Yuja arrived for her audition, it was Gary Graffman who took her under his wing. Yuja Wang continued her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I had to play super clean, rhythm-wise, note-wise, as he has a good ear.” “He was adamant about rhythms,” she recalls, “and I was always scared if he was around. I like music and the piano was like a toy, I would just play around.” However, her father was a bit of a disciplinarian. The piano was their wedding gift, “and it was kind of sitting there at home. She likes to tell interviewers that her mother wanted her to be a dancer, but that she was lazy and chose the piano because she could sit down.
Yuja Wang is deliberately vague about her emergence as a prodigy. Her mother, Zhai Jieming, is a dancer and her father, Wang Jianguo, is a percussionist who made his living transcribing taped recordings into musical scores. Born in Beijing, China, on 10 February 1987, Yuja Wang comes from an artistic family. Perhaps William, or indeed one of other four youngsters featured in this article, will appear on the cover of Pianist one day.Combining phenomenal technical brilliance and dramatic outfits, Yuja Wang is one of the hottest tickets on the classical music stage. The performance brought tears to the eyes of host and actress Melissa McCarthy, as you can see in the clip.
CHINESE CHILD PIANO PRODIGY TV
The following year, he appeared on American TV show Little Big Shots and performed Chopin's famous Minute Waltz Op. Seven-year-old William Zhang first become known to the international public when he appeared at Carnegie Hall in 2019 after winning First Prize in the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition. In fact, the two have previously played together. Like Elisey, seven-year-old Agafia is another child prodigy from Russia. Many of the comments below the video point to how she is able to portray so many of the piece's emotions at such a young age.
Seven-year-old Agafia Korzun above plays it like she's known it for years. You can find out more about Elisey Mysin here.Ĭhopin's Nocturne No 20 in C sharp minor is one of the composer's most famous and adored pieces. The Russian-born youngster is thought to have been just eight years old when this video was filmed. He blew his audience away with a performance of Mozart's Concerto No 3 in D Major in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia. Since the above performance, he has taken home the Grand Prix prize at the 1st Grand Piano International Competition for Young Pianists in Moscow (2016), and 2nd prize at the 1st China International Music Competition (2019). Now 19 years old, he is living up to his potential. Incredible! The young Russian performed Liszt's famous 'La Campanella' at the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory Alexander Malofeev was just 13 years old when this was filmed in 2014.
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