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Offline johnlewisgrant

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Piano Hero 2016
on: May 10, 2016, 04:31:38 PM
Haven't seen a post on this.   So here goes.   11 year old wins the CBC's "Piano Hero's Contest", playing Chopin's Ballade #1.

Here's the performance.   Scroll down the page a little.

https://music.cbc.ca/#!/blogs/2016/2/Piano-Hero-2016-the-winner

Not bad at all for an 11-year-old.  That octave-playing, in particular, although not perfect, is pretty impressive for what must be still small hands.   The interpretation is mature.
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Offline klavieronin

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Re: Piano Hero 2016
Reply #1 on: May 11, 2016, 11:36:57 PM
Speaking of amazing youngsters, here is 12 year old Gavin George playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.1;

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Re: Piano Hero 2016
Reply #2 on: May 16, 2016, 12:21:30 AM
Russia and eastern asia are overrun by wunderkind such as these.
 

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