加州8歲華裔鋼琴神童--Marc Yu (圖)

加州8歲華裔鋼琴神童--Marc Yu

     

這個男孩兒，出生並生長在美國加州的八歲鋼琴神童Marc Yu, 從兩歲起開始學鋼琴，三歲起向媽媽要求學第二樂器--大提琴。他具有極好的音樂天賦，聽過的鋼琴曲， 就可以坐在鋼琴前麵憑印象彈奏出來。 六歲的時候，已經舉辦過鋼琴與大提琴個人獨奏音樂會，接受了APA，Oprah, Jay Leno 和NBC電台，電視節目的采訪。現在他的北美，亞洲十幾個國家的巡演音樂會已經預定好了許多。他自稱是鋼琴家，大提琴家，他的崇拜偶像是郎朗，俄國鋼琴家紀辛(Evgeny Kissin)，及大提琴家馬友友。


看了APA對他的采訪錄像，及今年夏季Marc Yu和郎朗在拉斯維加斯的舒伯特的幻想曲四手聯奏音樂會錄像後，真為這個鋼琴神童的出現而欣喜萬分。他的智商一定是高於150的。世界上凡是能成名的鋼琴家，音樂家大多數是都是神童，藝術和音樂需要天賦。。。除了天賦之外，就是對音樂的狂熱，激情與勤奮，還要有正確的老師，引路人和機遇。。。


他的未來一定看好！讓我們關注著這孩子吧。希望他的路走好。。。
Marc Yu的官方網站： http://www.marc-yu.org

APA對他的采訪：
APA interview with Marc Yu (六歲)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EhGdTe3yM


Marc Yu 和郎朗合作四聯手彈奏舒伯特的《F小調狂想曲》
Lang Lang & Marc Yu - Schubert Fantasie in F minor in Four Hands (1)
Lang Lang and Marc Yu in Las Vegas, June 2007


Marc Yu 和郎朗合作四聯手彈奏舒伯特的《F小調狂想曲》
Lang Lang & Marc Yu - Schubert Fantasie in F minor in Four Hands (2)


Marc Yu 和郎朗合作四聯手彈奏舒伯特的《F小調狂想曲》
Lang Lang & Marc Yu - Schubert Fantasie in F minor in Four Hands (3)

下麵是APA有關Marc Yu的英文報道，供參考：

Outsmarted by a Six Year Old Again: Hanging Out with Mr. Marc Yu

By Ada Tseng

Easily the cutest interviewee APA's ever had, piano/cello prodigy Marc Yu makes us wonder why we were such slackers at six and three quarters.

Marc Yu is becoming quite the talk show veteran. You might have seen him first on Jay Leno, where he played Mozart on the piano, told some clever music jokes, and argued intensely with Jay about whether or not there was a tooth fairy. Marc left such an impression that Leno brought him to Chicago to see Oprah. After his appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show (which he was chauffeured to in a limousine, by the way), he made a second appearance on The Tonight Show, this time performing the cello. Most recently, he stopped by the set of Ellen DeGeneres, where he told her, to Ellen's bemusement, that he had read her book and then received a standing ovation from the audience for his thunderous performance of Ginastera.

Little Marc Yu is has accomplished so much in his young age, that his little life timeline is divided into months and fractions instead of years. Example: Marc started playing the piano at 3 and 11 months. Seven months later, at age 4 and 5 months, Marc became a National Winner in the 2003

Auditions of the National Guild of Piano Teachers. Soon, he decided he wanted to start learning a second instrument, so his mother Chloe took him to a music store to pick one out. He started cello lessons at 4 and 1/2. At 5 and 2 months, he passed the Certificate of Merit in both piano and cello exams with honors (Excellent, 5+), scoring 100% on one of his theory tests and 99% on the other.

Of course he did.

Most recently, at 6 and 5 months, Marc was the recipient of the Davidson Fellowship in Music. He was the youngest ever winner of the award that is usually given to youngsters that are closer to the 18 year old upper limit. Then, on July 24th, 2005, at the ripe age of 6 and a half, Marc Yu made his orchestra debut with the Capistrano Valley Symphony.

Marc practices for five to six hours a day, and his mother has to make sure he stops so that he doesn't overextend his fingers. He is currently being homeschooled, and Chloe had dedicated her life to helping nurture his intellect and growth.

Other than music, Marc also likes playing soccer, doing math, and going to art museums.

When I first meet him, Marc is sitting on a bench, wearing his cute gloves, fiddling with some sort of contraption. Turns out, it's his pedal extender; at 4 feet tall, his legs can't quite reach the pedals of the piano yet. He shows me how it works, giving me a demonstration of how to raise it and lower it and how it attaches to the existing piano pedals, for my own educational purposes. I pay him back later, showing him how put a video camera on a tripod, secretly hoping that in addition to being a piano/cello prodigy, a math wunderkind, art history expert, and proficient composer in the future, he might also one day become renowned award-winning nine-year old director, and I can pretend I had a small part in the chain reaction of his precocious geniusness. Marc has already traveled to many parts of the world performing, and he gives free concerts in rest homes. He even composes his own music. This is one remarkable kid. Many believe that he could be the next household-name pianist.

I find myself running about, following Marc around the building of the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, where he is currently a scholarship student. He carries his cello stool upside down, pretending the circular stand is a wheel, and speeds around the hallways as if he is driving a racecar. He shows me the portraits of his idols Lang Lang and Yo-Yo Ma hanging on the Colburn walls.

His eyes brighten and his nose wrinkles when he is excited about something. He talks about how, like Lang Lang, he also won a prize at age five, playing the exact same sonata -- the Sonata in C-Major by Mozart. When he saw Lang Lang in concert for the first time, he says he was so inspired that he came directly home to the piano, practiced until one or two in the morning and wouldn't go to sleep.

For a child that has so much discipline and focus and credits to his name, Marc Yu refreshingly seems like a normal kid. That is, until he gets in front of a piano. Or when he talks about learning geometry and pre-algebra. But for someone who has been on national television multiple times and has performed everywhere from San Diego to Washington DC to Chicago, Marc almost seems a little bit shy, often looking around in bewilderment and hiding behind his mother, Chloe, when she is proudly talking about her only son.

With such ambition at such a young age, Marc embodies a pure-of-heart enthusiasm that is impressive and infectious. Watching him play, with his little head bob intensely with the music, and seeing his little fingers go, whether it is quickly spanning the piano keys or speedily drawing the bow across the cello, one feels honored to be in the presence of something special.


(By Lunamia)