I want to go places and help people with music. “I went to the northern part of Japan where there was an earthquake in 2011, and I went to three elementary schools. “I would like to be able to perform around the world and to use my music to help other people,” says Umi. Umi, a freshman at the Pacific Academy in Irvine, says she practices three to four hours a day and hopes to use music to help others, discovering it could heal when playing for three elementary schools in northeastern Japan after an earthquake and tsunami ripped through the area in 2011. The ending is just awesome, so I like it a lot.”
4 YEAR OLD PIANO PRODIGY ON ELLEN PLUS
Plus youll also receive updates on new and trending stories, photos, and videos. Share this story: Get your awesome News and Inspirations. Watch this amazing little girl show off her talent and hard work. I’ve performed it before and I like it so much because it’s exciting, and very beautiful at times. Joey is a 4 year old piano prodigy that has been playing piano for a year. The Mendelssohn composition is one of my favorites, really. I’ve always wanted to play it at a concer,t so it’s actually a very great thing that I get to perform it in Los Gatos, and I’m very happy that I can. “The Mozart sonata is really fun, and I really love it a lot. “Every one of these pieces is one of my favorites,” says Umi. Now, Umi, between shows in Montana and a mini Northwestern tour through Oregon and Washington, is performing at the Los Gatos High School Theatre on May 3 at 2:30 p.m., where she will be presenting some of her favorites pieces, including Mozart’s Sonata in D Major and Chopin’s Scherzo No. “A really cool experience for me performing,” she says, “was when I performed on a cruise ship that went from Barcelona, Spain, to Miami, so it was really fun performance, on a moving ship crossing the Atlantic.” Since then, she’s traveled the globe, performing in Europe, Australia, South America, Asia and in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Although she says she started playing because her friends were taking lessons and “having lots of fun,” it quickly became clear the young pianist had an aptitude for tickling the ivories.Īt age 8, Umi dazzled Ellen DeGeneres when she performed on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show.” A couple years later, in 2012, Umi won the Osaka and Chopin International music competitions. Umi began playing piano when she was 4 years old. The piano prodigy already has a lengthy list of performance credits, and soon she will add Los Gatos to the tally. 3 with the Desert Symphony in Palm Desert, but she has performed for a VIP broadcast of NPR’s “From the Top” at Joshua Bell’s home in New York City. Not only did she perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. At just 14 years old, Umi Garrett is one of the best young pianists in the country, winning multiple awards and accolades throughout her young life.
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