by shawn | Jan 19, 2014 | Sharing
She may only be 9 years of age, but Emma Servadio has been learning to play the piano since five years old. Since then, she has already composed three piano pieces of her own. Now, she has been asked to play “Shimmer”, one of her original compositions, at...
by shawn | Jan 12, 2014 | Sharing
She might be only 13 years old, but don’t be fool by her age. Coco Ma has already passed the Royal Conservatory’s second highest test for the piano, known as the ARCT. The young piano prodigy hails from Leaside in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She claims to be like...
by shawn | Jan 9, 2014 | Sharing
Nelson music aficionados Joe Gibbons, Joe Rifici, and Neville Claughton are currently in the process of setting up a “public piano” in central Nelson in New Zealand. Joe Gibbons, the head of Great Plains Stainless, a Nelson-based worldwide specialty...
by shawn | Jan 5, 2014 | Sharing
Michael Robertson has never taken any piano lessons before, yet he is still able to unravel a soft rendition of Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” by ear. In fact, he is also able to personalise the song with his own melodies. The 23-year-old first started playing the piano at a...
by shawn | Jan 2, 2014 | Sharing
Despite being 95 years of age, Joe Vento is proud of it and will always smile his widest whenever he reveals his age. Till this day, the gray-haired showman is still seen performing on a Steinway in the 1960s-themed lobby of the off-Strip Royal Resort each weekend. He...