Six Year Old Performs In Carnegie Hall
Posted on 20 April 2010 by LynThomas in Uncategorized
Clara Tu, a 6 year old from Southbury, Connecticut, has won various piano competition awards since 4 years old. Now the child prodigy has three dates to play at Carnegie Hall. Tu was taught by her mother and has only been playing for around 2 years.
“I like when my fingers move around and I like to make happy songs or sad songs. It’s really fun,” the first-grader told NBC.
On October 18th, 2008, 8 year old third-grader Kailah Young, had been the youngest piano player to play Carnegie Hall. Kailah is also an expert harp player.
The phenomenon of very young talented musicians competing with skilled adult musicians is not a new one.
In May 2009 the world’s youngest string orchestra played Carnegie hall. It was only as the young players (aged up to 12 years old) slid from their seats and stood up at the finish of their performance, that the audience finally realized just how young the performers were.
William Crotch, Norwich, played the organ in St Jame’s Palace, before the King, in 1878, at the age of three and a half. He composed the oratorio The Captivity of Judah at the age of 14 and at 22 he became a professor at Oxford University.
The French Composer Charles-Camille Saint-Saens composed his first piece of music for the piano in 1839, at four years of age and gave his first public recital at five.
American Martin Gould published his first composition at 6 years old, in 1919. In 1995 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
New Zealand’s greatest classical pianist, Richard Farrell, made his radio debut at age 4, in 1930. At seven Farrell performed his own composition in a public concert with the Wellington Symphony Orchestra.
Yo-Yo Ma, born to Chinese parents in France in 1955, performed before audiences at the age of 5. He played the cello before President John F Kennedy and Dwight D Eisenhower when he was seven. On October 3rd, 2009, President Barrack Obama appointed Ma to serve on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
French classical pianist, Ingmar Lazar made his public debut at age six, in 1999. At nine he gave a recital at the Garibaldi Theatre at Figline Valdamo in Italy.
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