Playing the piano at a professional level can take years and years of practice and dedication. Even then, it is incredibly difficult to become a world class pianist. Very few pianists ever receive such worldwide recognition and as such, to be ranked as one is a huge honor indeed. The following individuals are a few examples of highly rated pianists.
Yuja Wang comes from Beijing, China and at twenty-eight, she has accomplished a lot. She comes from a background of music, as her mother used to dance and her father played percussion. She began learning the piano when she was 6 and learned to play at the Central Conservatory of Music in her birthplace. When she was 11, she was actually the youngest person to enter Calgary's Music Bridge International Festival.
Yuja Wang had barely entered her 20s and was already a classical piano performer in recitals across the globe. She has won a number of awards and prizes over the years. In 2003 she was the winner of the Gilmore Young Artist award and prior to that, she won the concerto competition in the Aspen Music Festival. Wang is signed to Deutsche Grammophon, where she has an exclusive five-record deal.
Rebecca Penneys is American-born to Russian-Jewish parents in the mid forties. Her childhood was spent in L. A., where she started learning to play the piano when she was just three years old. When she was nine, she had her first solo recital and by the age of eleven, she was a Los Angeles Philharmonic soloist.
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.
For almost thirty-five years, Penneys has been a teacher at the Eastman School of Music. She is particularly recognized for teaching the keyboard technique known as Motion and Emotion, which is a focused method of improving a pianist's individual performance. She is a teacher at the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, and a lot of her students from this festival and elsewhere are international award-winning pianists and teachers in their own rights.
Albert Frantz is a pianist who comes from Pennsylvania. His career in piano started extremely late by most measures, as he only really tapped into his talent when he was 17. This is after his own mom was advised to throw her money in the trash instead of spend it on piano lessons for him by a former piano teacher. Frantz is the first pianist in at least a decade to win a Fulbright scholarship, which led him to Vienna to study.
Albert Frantz says that all of his success in piano comes from not only his natural ability, but also the wonderful teachers who have taken the time to perfect his skill over the years. In fact, he strongly advises all those wishing to learn to play to really try to find the best teacher available. Frantz performs and is also a teacher of the instruments. He has played endorsements as well for producers like Bosendorfer.
Yuja Wang comes from Beijing, China and at twenty-eight, she has accomplished a lot. She comes from a background of music, as her mother used to dance and her father played percussion. She began learning the piano when she was 6 and learned to play at the Central Conservatory of Music in her birthplace. When she was 11, she was actually the youngest person to enter Calgary's Music Bridge International Festival.
Yuja Wang had barely entered her 20s and was already a classical piano performer in recitals across the globe. She has won a number of awards and prizes over the years. In 2003 she was the winner of the Gilmore Young Artist award and prior to that, she won the concerto competition in the Aspen Music Festival. Wang is signed to Deutsche Grammophon, where she has an exclusive five-record deal.
Rebecca Penneys is American-born to Russian-Jewish parents in the mid forties. Her childhood was spent in L. A., where she started learning to play the piano when she was just three years old. When she was nine, she had her first solo recital and by the age of eleven, she was a Los Angeles Philharmonic soloist.
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.
For almost thirty-five years, Penneys has been a teacher at the Eastman School of Music. She is particularly recognized for teaching the keyboard technique known as Motion and Emotion, which is a focused method of improving a pianist's individual performance. She is a teacher at the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, and a lot of her students from this festival and elsewhere are international award-winning pianists and teachers in their own rights.
Albert Frantz is a pianist who comes from Pennsylvania. His career in piano started extremely late by most measures, as he only really tapped into his talent when he was 17. This is after his own mom was advised to throw her money in the trash instead of spend it on piano lessons for him by a former piano teacher. Frantz is the first pianist in at least a decade to win a Fulbright scholarship, which led him to Vienna to study.
Albert Frantz says that all of his success in piano comes from not only his natural ability, but also the wonderful teachers who have taken the time to perfect his skill over the years. In fact, he strongly advises all those wishing to learn to play to really try to find the best teacher available. Frantz performs and is also a teacher of the instruments. He has played endorsements as well for producers like Bosendorfer.
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