![]() To interpret what you see and what you feel. ZHANG: It's beyond the speaking language because I have to use 10 fingers. MARTIN: But music isn't just any language. ZHANG: She read the music, and the music is a language. MARTIN: Here's her teacher on a talk show explaining why she thinks Brigitte is able to progress so quickly. That's very - for that, 3 years old, it's really amazing. ZHANG: I said, now, can you play right-hand D major, left-hand C major, right-hand G major? Then she went - boom, boom, boom, boom, boom - make all the different, right moves. Her teacher says she is still amazed how quickly Brigitte learned. Brigitte's parents have to place a stool under the piano bench to keep her feet from dangling above the ground. MARTIN: That's Brigitte's mother, Nicole Sun. NICOLE SUN: The first time I heard she - playing a piano piece, I was so deeply moved. TAO ZIE: At the beginning, I never expected she's going to be a prodigy or anything. MARTIN: Brigitte's father, Tao Zie, signed her up for Zoom classes - you know, something to do during lockdown. ZHANG: From the lessons, I observed she has a curious mind, and she loved to learn. MARTIN: That's Brigitte's piano teacher, Felicia Feng Zhang. She is only 4 years old.įELICIA FENG ZHANG: Brigitte came to me when she was just 2 months after 3 years old. A year later, she became the youngest winner of the prestigious Elite International Music Competition, which grants the winner a performance on stage at Carnegie Hall. MARTIN: Last fall, Brigitte Xie took up the piano. Some of us have even taken up a musical instrument, perhaps the piano. ![]() Some of us have even followed through, a gesture at self-improvement or just a way not to go stir-crazy in COVID times. In 2019, he took home the win at the e-Piano Junior Competition, an international event held in Minneapolis for classical pianists aged 17 and under.At some point over the last 18 months, each of us has probably thought about taking up some new pastime. ![]() The CBC named him among the “Top 30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30” in 2013 when he was 10. That was when he was awarded a top prize at the Canadian Music Competition in the seven-year-old category. Then you have this talent, on the other hand, that is world-class and he can stand in front of the greatest conductors and musicians of the world at the age of 17.”Ĭhen has been winning competitions and earning attention since he was seven years old. “When you chat with him, you see somebody who appreciates anything and everything someone will do for him. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The final showdown took place in Geneva, Switzerland.Ĭhen wasn’t only the first-prize winner: he also took home the Young Audience Prize, the Rose-Marie Huguenin Prize, the Fondation Etrillard Prize, the Concerts de Jussy Prize, the Socété des Arts Prize and the Steinway Prizewinner Concerts prize. The 40 pianists were then cut down to nine semi-finalists, and then four finalists. This year’s edition of the Councours de Genève initially featured 182 candidates, which was cut down to 40 pianists aged 16 to 29 from 14 countries by a jury. “We were in tears after every round he played,” said Jean Grand-Maitre, the former artistic director of Alberta Ballet who enlisted Chen to play piano as part of his final piece for the company, The Memory Room, in May as part of the High Performance Rodeo at the GRAND. The next issue of Calgary Sun Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.
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