Saturday, February 21, 2015

World Class Pianist Names To Know

By Olivia Cross


The piano is an instrument that requires many years of hard work and dedication to master. To be rated as a world class pianist is a huge honor, and very few of the numerous musicians world wide get to experience such a title. These are some of the names to know when it comes to such a rating.

Yuja Wang is a twenty-eight-year-old pianist from Beijing in China. Her mother was once a dancer and her father a percussionist, making her background and upbringing and truly musical one. She was introduced to the piano at the age of 6 years old and was a student at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She was the youngest entrant in the Music Bridge International Festival in Canada when she turned 11.

Yuja Wang had barely entered her 20s when she was already a performer of classical piano in recitals worldwide. She has won numerous awards and accolades in her time, including Aspen Music Festival's concerto competition and the Gilmore Young Artist award at the beginning of the millennium. Her record company is Deutsche Grammophon, where she is exclusively signed to a 5-disc deal.

Born to Russian and Jewish parents in Los Angeles in nineteen forty-six, Rebecca Penneys began her journey with piano from an early age. She started learning when she was just 3 years old. By the time she was 9, she had already performed in her first solo recital and became a soloist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the age of 11.

Rebecca Penneys was, in 1965, the youngest individual to ever have entered the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland. The competition eventually created the Special Critics' Prize in her honor. She both performs and teaches in summer festivals all over for many years now.

Rebecca Penneys has been teaching at the Eastman School of Music since 1980. She is recognized for the Motion and Emotion keyboard technique, which focuses on the individual performance of each pianist. She also teaches at the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, and many of her students have gone on to win prizes internationally and teach on an international level.

Hailing from Pennsylvania, Albert Frantz began his piano career very late in life at the age of seventeen years old. This is quite remarkable considering that a piano teacher of his in his childhood recommended that his mother throw her money away rather than give him piano lessons. He has achieved much in his short career, becoming the first pianist in over ten years to Fulbright scholarship for studies in Vienna.

Frantz thanks the teachers he had over the years for taking the time to hone his God-given talent and perfect his skill. He advises anyone wishing to learn the piano, or who would like their children to start taking lessons, to find the absolute best instructor possible from the very beginning. Albert Frantz is also a teacher and counts producers like Bosendorfer as clients for playing endorsements.




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