Yuja Wang, Age 11, Piano

Yuja Wang, Age 11, Piano, Beijing China

I am so impressed with her articulation and the fluidity of her piano technique. Wow! You will love her video. It is amazing impressive!

Biography:

Born in Beijing in 1987, Yuja began studying piano at age six, with her earliest public performances taking place in China, Australia and Germany, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing under Ling Yuan and Zhou Guangren. Following three years, from 1999 to 2001, at the Morningside Music summer program at Calgary’s Mount Royal College, an artistic and cultural exchange program between Canada and China, Yuja moved to Canada and began studying with Hung Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone at the Mount Royal College Conservatory. In 2002, when Yuja was 15, she won Aspen Music Festival’s concerto competition and moved to the U.S. to study with Gary Graffman at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she graduated in 2008. In 2006 Yuja received the Gilmore Young Artist Award.  In 2010 she was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.  Yuja is a Steinway Artist. Biography from http://www.yujawang.com/.

Colin, Age 10, Fiddle

Colin, Age 10, Fiddle, Meridian ID

Colin has been taking fiddle lessons since he was 5 years old. He also plays the guitar and loves to play at church and community events. My favorite memory of Colin is when he walked around fiddling for all of us at a church pioneer activity. Nothing brought the spirit of pioneers better than that. The video below is from him playing his fiddle at the Idaho Open Fiddle Contest, 2011.

Yeonsu, Age 11, Oboe

Yeonsu, Age 11, Oboe, Seoul Korea

Yeonsu has been playing the oboe since she was about nine years old.

Grande Fantaisie Concertante, Op. 47

by Charles Colin

Zachary, Age 10, Flute

Zachary, Age 10, Flute

Zach has been playing the flute since he was seven years old and is a flute student of Jim Walker.  Zachary has played flute masterclasses with: Adrienne Greenbaum, Jennifer Rhyne, Dr. Donna Shin, Dr. Ralph Guenther, Dr. Hal Ott and Ann Marie Yasinitsky. (See Source)

Flute Concerto in D - Rondo

by Amadeus Mozart

April 6, 2008

Riley, Age 11, Trumpet

Riley, Trumpet, Age 11, Meridian ID

This is a video of Riley playing for his elementary school talent show June 2011. He is currently studying with Dennis Keck and previously studied with Mikel Bartol both in the Boise, ID area. Riley has been playing the trumpet for four years and loves to practice. The neat thing about the performance is that the school had him play as the opening number of the assembly. There was a flag in front and the audience stood and put their hands over their heart. Many parents and teachers including two uniformed service men had tears running down their faces. What a neat experience!

Star Spangled Banner

Lyrics By Francis Scott Key 1814

Melody Written by John Stafford Smith.

Arranged by Fabrizio Ferrari

"Dedicated to the Twin Towers, Pentagon and plane crash in Pittsburgh fallen by the terrorist attacks against the United States of America on date September 11, 2001."

Accompanied by Lacey Holzbauer