“Right before the concert the jitters are there, but once you start performing it’s easier – because you’re playing, you’re not thinking about what could go wrong. “Because you have to get nervous – otherwise it’s kind of like it’s not important to you. 1 2 3 This is a list of young children (under age 10) who displayed a talent in music deemed to make them competitive with skilled adult musicians. “It propels you to really think about where are the parts where you need to be more secure, so you know that you’re ready and willing to perform,” Hsieh explained. A child prodigy is defined in psychology research literature as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer. What one of her teachers told her, she said, was to get nervous about a week before each performance. At the time, she’s also learning to take public performing in stride. ![]() While Hsieh acknowledges that there is a lot of music she’s eager to learn, she cites Mozart and Franz Liszt as her two favorites. With the latter group – a San Francisco ensemble that plays music by women exclusively – Hsieh will solo in the Piano Concerto by Amy Beach, America’s first prominent female composer. Hsieh has other concert dates in the offing: a solo recital for a Long Island group later this season, an appearance with the Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic next season. These are people I’m with every Saturday. “Everybody’s very supportive – it’s not so competitive as I was expecting it to be. “I have a lot of friends there,” she said. There she takes the usual kind of academic courses, such as math and American government music comes on Saturdays, where Hsieh spends the day at Juilliard studying theory, composition and other subjects.Īs far as Hsieh is concerned, Juilliard isn’t the cutthroat place some people make it out to be. Monday through Friday, Hsieh attends the Professional Children’s School, a special school for 4th-through 12th-graders who are starting careers in music or other specialties. Last fall, Hsieh and her family moved to New York so she could enroll in Juilliard’s preparatory division. The FSO was on the lookout for a replacement for another teen-aged pianist – Navah Perlman, daughter of violinist Itzhak – who had to cancel her FSO appearance because of illness. Hsieh performed the Mozart last year with the Denver Chamber Orchestra, and it was the conductor on that occasion – JoAnn Falletta, one of a number of increasingly noted female conductors – who recommended Hsieh to the FSO. Besides piano, Emily enjoys singing, yoga, and studying Feng Shui.Orchestral dates have given her the opportunity to play such musically and technically demanding pieces as Felix Mendelssohn’s Concerto in G Minor and Mozart’s last piano concerto, the lyrical No. Emily graduated with her Bachelor’s degree from Pepperdine University studying under Rufus Choi. For winning first prize in the Grand Prize Virtuoso International Competition, Phan will be performing at the Mozarteum Concert Hall in Salzburg, Austria. Miss Phan recently made her second Carnegie Hall Debut in NYC as a winner of the American Fine Arts Festival. She has participated in festivals including International Institute for Young Musicians (IIYM) and Duxbury Music Festival (DMF). She has won gold medals in the Music Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC) Theme Festival and won the first place prize in the Musical Arts Competition. Emily was named “National Winner” for four consecutive years in the National Guild Piano Auditions. Nixon Presidential Library, Carnegie Hall in NY and throughout the US and Europe. ![]() She has had the opportunity to perform at venues such as the Richard M. Born in 1995, American pianist Emily Phan has been studying the piano for 19 years since the age of 4.
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