Piano Hero 2016

[johnlewisgrant]

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.

[klavieronin]

Speaking of amazing youngsters, here is 12 year old Gavin George playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.1;

[pianoworthy]

Russia and eastern asia are overrun by wunderkind such as these.