Port Vila, Vanuatu (PressExposure) April 22, 2010 -- Clara Tu, a six year old from Southbury, Connecticut, has gained various piano competition awards from the time she was 4 years old. Currently the child genius is booked for three events to perform at Carnegie Hall. Tu was trained by her mother and has just 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 an interviewer at NBC.
Eight year old third-grader Kailah Young, was the youngest piano player to play in Carnegie Hall, as of October 18th, 2008. Kailah is also an expert harp player.
The phenomenon of child prodigy musicians competing with skilled mature musicians is not a new one.
May 2009 saw the world's youngest string orchestra play in Carnegie hall. It was only as the young players (aged up to 12 years old) slipped out of their seats and stood up at the conclusion of their performance, that the audience finally realized just how young the performers were.
At the age of three and a half William Crotch, Norwich, played the organ in St Jame's Palace, before the King, in 1878. He wrote the oratorio The Captivity of Judah at the age of 14 and at 22 he was a Professor at Oxford University.
Charles-Camille Saint-Saens, the French Composer, wrote his first piece of music for the piano in 1839, at four years of age and gave his first public performance at five.
American Martin Gould published his first composition in 1919, at 6 years. In 1995 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
New Zealand's famous classical pianist, Richard Farrell, made his radio debut, in 1930, at 4 years old. At seven Farrell performed his own composition in a public concert with the Wellington Symphony Orchestra.
Yo-Yo Ma, born in 1955, to Chinese parents in France, played before audiences at the age of 5. He played the cello before President John F Kennedy and Dwight D Eisenhower while he was still seven. On October 3rd, 2009, President Barrack Obama appointed Ma to assist on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
French classical pianist, Ingmar Lazar debuted publicly at age six, in 1999. At nine he performed at the Garibaldi Theatre at Figline Valdamo in Italy.
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