February 19, 2015

World Class Pianist Names To Know

By Olivia Cross


If you play the piano, or any instrument for that matter, you will know how much time and effort it takes to become really good at it. It takes even more to become a professional, and to be recognized as a world class pianist is a huge feat that not many are able to accomplish in their careers. The honor of being called as such belongs to a few of many musicians, and these are some of those pianists that you should know about.

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.

By the time she had entered her twenties, Yuja Wang was already performing classical piano to audiences around the world. She is the winner of a number of prizes and awards. These include the concerto competition at the Aspen Music Festival in 2002 and the Gilmore Young Artist award in 2003. She is currently signed to Deutsche Grammophon with an exclusive five-disc contract.

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.

Albert Frantz only really started playing the piano when he was seventeen, which is quite astonishing. Earlier lessons in childhood proved futile and his then piano teacher told his mother she would be better off throwing away all her money. One of his greatest achievements to date is being the first person in over 10 years to win a Fulbright scholarship, which he used to study 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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