While he is traveling for his concerts, he is also looking at schools such as Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology for college admission. Life as an artist can be difficult, Raymond fully realizes. Everyone should have the privilege to have access to great music, Raymond said.ĭespite his early success as a musician, Raymond does not know whether he wants to pursue it as a career. That's where he regularly gives outreach performances at nursing homes, cancer centers and fundraising concerts for children’s hospitals. He enjoys sharing his passion for music with the community, having initiated the “Music for Love" project. He studies violin with Nancy Hunt and he is the pianist of the Hochstein Capriccio Scholarship Piano Trio, former concertmaster of the Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra, and co-concertmaster of his school orchestra. Raymond's love of music expands to chamber music and violin as well. Earlier this summer, Raymond won the concerto competition of the Walnut Hill Music Festival and had his Boston debut performing the full Grieg Piano concerto with the Mercury Orchestra. Wang is proud of her son's accolades and works her schedule around his travels, most recently traveling this summer to Chicago for a performance. Raymond was also featured on NPR’s "From the Top" show taped at Eastman Kodak Hall and recently was selected as one of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation's Young Scholars, serving as an ambassador for promoting classical music and music education. Since making his orchestral debut with the Ashdod Symphony in Perugia, Italy, at age 11, he has soloed with several orchestras such as Genesee Symphony, Greater Buffalo Youth Symphony, Hochstein Youth Symphony, and Mercury Orchestra of Boston. "I don't really belong to a clique," he said. He has his core group of friends at school that share his interest in math and music and is on the school's math team and orchestra. "Sharing music is my passion," said Raymond, who will be entering 10th grade at Pittsford Sutherland High School. Raymond was always a self-starter, his mother said. He has been a state competition medalist on his school science Olympiad team for the past three years as well. Leonard Bernstein Introduces 7-Year-Old Yo-Yo Ma: Watch the Youngster Perform for John F.Aside from music, Raymond is an accomplished “mathlete.” He is the first-place winner of the 2012 Mathnasium National TriMathlon, the New York State Champion of the MathCounts competitions in 2013 to 2015 and a two-time USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad qualifier. You can contribute through PayPal, Patreon, Venmo and Crypto.
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Watch more of her performances on her YouTube channel. And find more prodigy performances in the Relateds right below. Then, soon enough, Deutscher uses the notes to start improving a sonata. Above, 6o Minutes correspondent Bob Pelley pulls four random notes out of a hat. Aged nine, she wrote a concerto for violin and orchestra, which she premiered in a 2015 performance.” And at “the age of ten she completed her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna on 29 December 2016 under the patronage of conductor Zubin Mehta.” Fast forward to age twelve, you can watch Alma pull off something that, at this point, shouldn’t come as a surprise. At age seven, she completed her first major composition, the opera The Sweeper of Dreams. As her Wikipedia page tells us, “At age six she composed her first piano sonata. Last fall, 60 Minutes spent some time with Alma Deutscher, a prodigy on the piano and the violin.