This brings us to the nature-nurture debate which has no single answer. Some but not all parents believe in "tiger parenting" or pushing your child to succeed at all costs. There are those who passed conservatory levels but not at a performance level or comfortable playing even in front of relatives. Many Asian parents enroll their kids into music programs or with private teachers. Have to assume there are some people who are born gifted or more talented than others. I didn't pick up piano again until 3 decades later and have been playing since. Coming from a non-musical family, mom didn't think I had the talent for music and the lessons lasted only a month. We play music as brain exercises to keep our minds sharp.ĭon't like to overgeneralize being Asian & starting early would make you a piano prodigy. A lot of adult learners like myself play for fun and don't get into advanced repertoire. Starting early does allow you to master certain piano techniques for pursuing a career in music. Why on earth would someone have to have research to give and opinion? You seem to want to attack my opinion but you say you have no research on the topic.
Your opinions can’t all be ‘common sense’ when no one has any idea what is accurateBut I never said all my opinions were common sense.
If every opinion on PW required research to back it up one could eliminate the majority of PW posts. Luckily, most parents aren't like LL's father with his enforced practicing and much worse. Lang Lang did but we don’t know what others did.It's just common sense. I’ve not seen any research about the number of hours practiced by a 3 yo who later becomes a professional, so I don’t assume they are not practicing many hours per day, don’t think you should either. I doubt many three year olds practice an hour/day!Ĥ. Those that start very young probably don't practice much in their earliest years. It's not possible to decide how much advantage, if any, is gained by starting very young.ģ.
#William zhang piano prodigy professional#
The examples you gave clearly show it's not necessary to start at a very young age to become a professional musician.Ģ. Provided that, it doesn't seem to make a huge difference or a difference at all, age 3, 8 or 9. I would suggest that starting very young may be an advantage, but the key element is to have a good foundation by the beginning of adolescence, and from there on have very good teachers and put on it a lot of work. So to me there's no real answer to the question. On the other hand there's people like Leonard Bernstein who started at age 10, wich doesn't seem to have limited him in any way. Much later than many others who started at age 3, wich seems to be a pretty common standard even among world known players as Lang Lang or E.Kissin. Bruce Liu, the first prize, started at 8 according to Wikipedia. I'm reading now about last Chopin competition winners and there's a mixture of starting super young, and starting a little bit later. If we think long term, with the goal of becoming real musicians, is it necessary to start so young, instead of say age 7, 8 or even older? I guess we all have watched sometimes those videos of a 3 o 4 years old child (usually asian) playing effortlessly virtuous piano passages, and people immediately labelling them as the new Mozart.
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