![]() ![]() The Franz Liszt International Piano Competition takes place every five years. “I like the sound,” Chen simply said of the piano. ![]() In an interview with Postmedia five years ago, Chen said he began composing after playing nursery songs and lullabies for his younger siblings on a toy piano. I t’s a privilege to know him as a person.” “What sets (Chen) apart is not only his technical ability, but also he’s a phenomenal musician, with a phenomenal ear, an incredible brain, and last but not least an incredible heart,” Engle said. and it has to come through you, personally.’ “Liszt music is notorious for being the most difficult from a technical standpoint, so I said (to Chen), ‘What’s going to set you apart is if you convey the meaning, the fun, the drama, the warmth of the music. But he’s also able to communicate the emotion of the music. “As far as the instrument goes, he has more than phenomenal - really incredible - co-ordination and speed,” Engle said of Chen. While the pandemic meant Engle wasn’t able to attend the competition with Chen (his father went with him), she was able to watch a livestream of the event. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]() ![]() But certainly in terms of friendships, they've been few and intense. But I didn't feel like I was missing anything because this is what I wanted," he says. I would at the time practice four or five hours a day, and I'd have to get my homework done. "On the other hand, they also long to connect with other kids, and they can't find other kids like themselves."įor his part, Haimovitz says he didn't have many friends as a child, mainly because he was so focused on the music. Gifted children are more likely to be introverted, Winner says, and spend more time alone. "They feel like they can't find other kids like themselves, so they feel kind of weird, maybe even like a freak, and feel like don't have anybody to connect with." "If a child suddenly at age 3 goes to the piano and picks out a tune and does it beautifully, that has to be because that child has a different brain."Ĭhildren who are extremely gifted tend to be socially different, too, Winner says. "But I believe that anything that shows up so early, without training, has got to be either a genetic or some other biological basis," Winner says. It's not clear whether a prodigy's brain is any different from the brain of other children, in part because there have been no studies comparing the brains of prodigies with those of average people. Music Interviews Don't Call This 12-Year-Old Concert Pianist A Prodigy You will see parents who say, 'I wasn't like this my husband wasn't like this.' It seems to sometimes just come out of the blue," Winner says. "People are fascinated by these children because they don't understand where it came from. And that's typical, Ellen Winner, a psychology professor at Boston College who has studied prodigies, tells NPR's David Greene. My mother is a pianist and took me to many concerts."īut nothing in his family history explains where Haimovitz got his extraordinary talent. "I grew up with a lot of classical music in the household. So it was pretty meteoric," Haimovitz says. "By the time I was 12, 13 years old I was on the road playing with Israel Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and some of the great orchestras. He rushed into the classical music scene at age 10 after Itzhak Perlman, the famed violinist, heard him play. Matt Haimovitz is 42 and a world-renowned cellist. Cellist Matt Haimovitz made it big in the classical music scene as a little kid. ![]()
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