Young music prodigies: Checkout these gifted children (on the piano, guitar & other instruments).
‘Little Mozarts’: Two Kurdish kids in Germany amaze with their piano skills
Kurdish brothers Yad, 8, and Shad, 6 (living in Germany) started learning the piano two years ago from their dad. However, their skills are so good now that their friends refer to these kids as the “little Mozarts”.
“I realized they both had an ear for music so I started teaching them on a small keyboard…after five or six months they reached a level where they didn’t need me anymore. I bought them better instruments and tried to find a music school and a good teacher. Then, I contacted Für music academy. The kids did a placement test and were very successful,” says father Qalandar. Read more here.
Blind 14-year-old piano prodigy plays duet with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden
14-year-old Logan Riman is blind but that has not stopped him from becoming a piano prodigy (he started taking piano lessons when he was only 2). The teen added another accomplishment to his list of accolades — playing with the “Piano Man” himself, Billy Joel.
Logan Riman performed at the Garden of Dreams Foundation talent show, and people at the foundation wanted thank him with a surprise. So, they arranged for him to meet Billy Joel.
From the Great Stage to the World’s Most Famous Arena ✨ #GDFTalentShow performer Logan joined @billyjoel at the piano during soundcheck at @TheGarden last Thursday! #DreamComeTrue #PianoMan #TBT [?: Myrna Suarez] pic.twitter.com/dXTxTRjXax
— Garden of Dreams (@gardenofdreams) July 18, 2019
12-year-old Indian Boy Plays Piano at Lightning Speed
There are several music fans who want to know who is the fastest piano or keyboard player in the world. While speed alone is not really an indicator of a piano player’s musical genius, most accomplished players can move very fast on the keyboard,
12-year-old Lydian Nadhaswaram play from Chennai (India) left the audience in awe with his piano skills on the talent show ‘The World’s Best’. Nadhaswaram first played Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Flight of the Bumblebee at the suggested tempo, which impressed the judges. Then he played it faster, at 208 beats per minute, and then at 325 beats per minute.
Here’s the video of the performance.
Nadhaswaram’s first name Lydian is based on the Lydian Mode (the first mode of scale in music). Nadhaswaram also plays other instruments such as the guitar, mrudangam and tabla (Indian percussive instrument).
11-year-old with Autism Masters the Piano
11 years old Jacob Velazquez, diagnosed with a form of autism, began taking piano lessons at the age of four. He has now been interviewed on national television, appeared live in concert with Harry Connick Jr. and performed with a handful of symphony orchestras.
14 year-old aces the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) diploma in just 10 months
14-year old Brampton boy shows exceptional aptitude and attitude, aces the Royal Conservatory’s highest level piano exam after studying for only 10 months.
Those who can play the piano will tell you that its not the same playing on a digital keyboard, as opposed to playing on a good digital piano with real piano like keys.
That what happened to Brampton teen Bradley Snel, when he was gifted a digital piano by his parents.
“Three years ago, my grandmother gifted me a digital keyboard for Christmas which I taught myself to play. Then my parents got me an upright piano. The depth of the keys in the upright piano is very different from the digital one. Once I started, I just wanted to keep going”.
Snel loved the digital piano so much that he would practice on the piano for hours – he diligently practiced for six hours or more everyday.
As a result, Snel was able to ace the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) diploma in just 10 months; Most students take around 2.5 to 3 years to achieve this feat.
The teen is being tutored by Jarred Dunn – a Juilliard-trained pianist, working as a chamber musician/soloist – who has been teaching Snel for the past two years. Dunn imparts piano lessons (via Skype) to Bradley from his home in Rome.
Dunn, said he first heard Snel play a Mozart sonata that he had self-taught himself. That coupled with the youngster’s earnestness to learning music impressed him.
“Before our lessons (via Skype) Bradley works out his plan for a piece, scrupulously analyzing it interpretively and technically. His giftedness is an abnormality among preteens and it signalled to me that he probably had other capabilities that were uncommon. These include his tenacity for reading books of ambitious depth and learning multiple languages, as well as taking demanding music and school courses simultaneously.”
With Snel, Dunn uses the Taubman Approach (helps pianists hone their technique without causing injuries or strain), which he learned from the late Dorothy Taubman, a famed American teacher.
Also performing on April 10th a promising young artist named Bradley Snel on #Piano. #Brampton #concert #ComingSoon
— BCMCS (@v_bcmcs) April 4, 2016
13-Year-Old Wiz Plays Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ on Piano, and He’s Very Good
So how has your piano practice been going lately? Have you learnt anything new lately? Have you taught much to your left hand? Does it know what to do when your right hand is playing the melody?
Just watch this video right away, and besides getting mesmerized (the first time your jaws are going to stay open), its also a great video to learn how to use both your hands.
This piano performance is by 13-year old Yoham Kim from Seoul, South Korea. watch him play Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ and he’s really very very good (this video is going viral).
Eleven-year-old Walmart Yodeling Kid
The Yodel Walmart kid needs no introduction, his original video, garnered lot of attention from all around. And now an ‘EDM remix’ of the boy’s style of playing is out. And it is actually pretty damn good. The short remix pitches the famed yodel down and injects a whopping kick.
Eleven-year-old Mason Ramsey took the internet by storm when he broke out in a yodel among Walmart shoppers in Southern Illinois (Harrisburg, in Saline County). Wearing a red bow tie, cowboy boots and a belt with an oversized buckle, he sang Hank Williams’ “Lovesick Blues.” Ramsey also broke out into “Hey, Good Lookin'” in another Walmart store over a year ago. That internet video landed him a Tennessee radio station repeat performance.
13-Year Old ‘The Piano Gal’ Plays Music Composer John Williams’ Best Musical Creations on the Piano
Checkout 13-year old Sara Arkell aka ‘The Piano Gal’ ticking the ivories and playing Music Composer John Williams’ famous musical creations on the Piano. In the video, she has included songs from Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Jurassic Park and ET.
Sara finished in the Top 5 in last year’s CVX Live “Next Big YouTuber” contest, and encouraged by the results, this year Sara has attempted something even more challenging. Arkell created the mashup with the help of arranger Jason Lyle Black, and has played John Williams most famous compositions.
15-year Old Blues Prodigy Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram, the New B.B. King?
He’s just 15-year old and many think that he could be the next B.B. King. Meet Christone “Kingfish” Ingram of Friars Point Mississippi who has played the White House and soon he will be on a tour to France.
Exposed to Gospel music at a young age (thanks to his family’s church), and Blues which he heard through musicians in his Delta neighborhood.
Kingfish began playing the drums when he was 6; three years later he took up the bass guitar, at the age of 11, he began playing lead guitar. By the age of 14, he had mastered all three instruments and has added vocals to his ever growing list of talents.
Watch: Christone Kingfish Ingram play the guitar
9 Year Old Plays Fantasie Impromptu and Libestraum
Here’s a 9 year old, who deftly plays some of the most difficult piano pieces, and has also started performing at concerts. See him playing the playing Fantasie Impromptu and Libestraum and feel amazed.
But then every-time we see a video of a child showing immense potential we all tend to go overboard and probably may not do the same if it was being performed by an adult.
Nevertheless, this little boy Gavin George looks full of promise, and hopefully we’ll see him touring the world one day.
Piano whiz kid displays piano skills at Costco
While parents need to go shopping for several reasons, kids usually get bored unless of course you are going to buy toys or sports gear for them.
A little piano whiz kid is bored while his parents are shopping at Costco, until he spots a piano on display.
Checkout what happens next. Get amazed with his piano playing skills!
Chinese Girl Plays Piano and Guzheng Simultaneously
Checkout this 9-year-old Chinese Girl who can play the Guzheng (chinese traditional instrument) as well as the piano. In this video, you can see ‘He Yue’ playing both the instrument at once. While her skills on the Guzheng is apparent, it seems she is new to the piano.
He has been playing the Guzheng for aroud five years now, and has been learning piano for the past one year.
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Lydian Nadhaswaram from Chennai was on The Ellen Show and there he said that he could play two different songs on two different pianos at the same time. So a mission impossible on one, and a harry potter on the other, both have different timing.
Now that’s interesting and a bit curious to see how he does that. Can’t find any video.
Here’s Lydian playing Mozart’s Turkish March, blindfolded.