He will also be representing Orange County at a competition which will be held mid-July in southern California.Įvan emerged as a piano prodigy in July last year in a contest called VStar Kids for Vietnamese American children. Photo by VnExpress/Quoc Leįor winning the competition, Evan was awarded a trophy and $300. “Evan did his best with all his inherent innocence without any anxiety or pressure.”Įvan and his winning trophy. “Winning the first prize was a real surprise for us,” Le said. However, since Evan is still very young, Le said the family had made sure not to put too much expectation or pressure on him. Quoc Le, Evan’s dad, said his son was very eager to compete with other children. Evan said he had memorized the piece a long time ago but spent a lot of time refining his technique with his piano teacher before taking part in the contest. The competition was divided into three segments, and Evan competed in the aged 11 and under category. Vietnamese drumming prodigy wows world-famous rock bandĮvan was the youngest contender to participate in the piano competition, which was held by the Orange County Music Educators Association.I want to be Alma, not Mozart." © 2016 The Classical Art, All rights reserved. I'm very big! And secondly, if I just wrote everything Mozart wrote again it would be boring. But I don't really like hearing people calling me Little Miss Mozart because I don't like being called little. In addition to her compositional gifts, Alma is also a prodigy on the violin and piano-thus why some would compare her to Mozart.Īlma Deutchser, however, is not pleased with that comparison.ĭuring her appearance on Today, she said: "I love Mozart very much. But no: It turns out that Deutscher, in a wondrous display of stylistic understanding and taste, composed the trio herself." "If someone had accidentally entered the first half of the opening concert, he would no doubt have assumed that the Piano Trio was composed by a major composer, probably Viennese, from the early years of the nineteenth century. ![]() Music critic Noam Ben-Zeev wrote about this performance in Haaretz: Her opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, was performed this summer at a music festival in Israel, along with her piano trio. "I dreamt that it was a beautiful piece by Mozart which he had written, but when I woke up, it turned out that it was actually me who thought about it in my dream." "The beginning of my opera came as a dream," Alma said. She talked about the inspiration behind some of her music with Ellen DeGeneres: in late October and played some of her music on the Today Show and the Ellen Degeneres Show. Alma has said that sometimes beautiful melodies will stream into her head while she is jumping rope or resting. Her attempts at composition started by the age of four. She started playing the piano as a two-year-old, the violin at age three. ![]() ![]() She has also written a short opera called The Sweeper of Dreams, and Alma recently finished a second opera based on the story of Cinderella.Īll these accomplishments lead to inevitable comparisons with the young Mozart, who composed his first symphony at age eight.Īlma was born in England and lives with her parents in Dorking, Surrey. The Music of Alma Deutscher, featuring her works for violin, viola and piano, was the best-selling classical album last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Alma Deutscher, age 8, is a music prodigy who recently released an album of her own compositions.
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