The quarantine period was difficult and hard for everyone. What made you compose "The Waltz of Isolation"? Today, I have my own way of expression and my own music which expresses my own feelings and concerns. I loved the sounds he was making and it definitely helped me that my father was by my side every step of the way.
I'm glad people love my music and come to my concerts! What influenced you to practice music and specifically the piano? Were you influenced by watching your father play the piano or did you find your own way to express your emotions?Ĭertainly, the fact that I was listening and watching my father playing the piano made me want to explore this instrument. I am a kid who loves music and with many hours of practice and perseverance, I try to reach a high level. The truth is that despite what I have achieved, I do not feel like a professional. Hello Stelios! Please tell me what would be your answer if I were to ask whether you think that you are too young to play piano professionally?
Greek City Times speaks with this uber talented young musician to learn more.
Stelios says his favourite pianist is the late Canadian Glenn Gould, best known for his technically demanding renditions of Bach variations.Īlready displaying a flare for composing, two of Stelios’s works written for his sisters, Veronica and Anastasia, as well as a third piece ‘Isolation Waltz’, have been met with critical acclaim. Stelios was born in Athens in 2012 to Fotis and Agathe Kerasidis, both pianists who now teach him. He first performed in public at the age of three. But certainly in terms of friendships, they've been few and intense.Stelios Kerasidis is a ten year old award-winning pianist and composer, named amongst the Top 100 Global Child Prodigies at the Global Child Prodigy Awards in 2022. But I didn't feel like I was missing anything because this is what I wanted," he says. I would at the time practice four or five hours a day, and I'd have to get my homework done. "On the other hand, they also long to connect with other kids, and they can't find other kids like themselves."įor his part, Haimovitz says he didn't have many friends as a child, mainly because he was so focused on the music. Gifted children are more likely to be introverted, Winner says, and spend more time alone. "They feel like they can't find other kids like themselves, so they feel kind of weird, maybe even like a freak, and feel like don't have anybody to connect with." "If a child suddenly at age 3 goes to the piano and picks out a tune and does it beautifully, that has to be because that child has a different brain."Ĭhildren who are extremely gifted tend to be socially different, too, Winner says. "But I believe that anything that shows up so early, without training, has got to be either a genetic or some other biological basis," Winner says. It's not clear whether a prodigy's brain is any different from the brain of other children, in part because there have been no studies comparing the brains of prodigies with those of average people. Music Interviews Don't Call This 12-Year-Old Concert Pianist A Prodigy You will see parents who say, 'I wasn't like this my husband wasn't like this.' It seems to sometimes just come out of the blue," Winner says. "People are fascinated by these children because they don't understand where it came from. And that's typical, Ellen Winner, a psychology professor at Boston College who has studied prodigies, tells NPR's David Greene. My mother is a pianist and took me to many concerts."īut nothing in his family history explains where Haimovitz got his extraordinary talent. "I grew up with a lot of classical music in the household. So it was pretty meteoric," Haimovitz says. "By the time I was 12, 13 years old I was on the road playing with Israel Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and some of the great orchestras. He rushed into the classical music scene at age 10 after Itzhak Perlman, the famed violinist, heard him play. Matt Haimovitz is 42 and a world-renowned cellist. Cellist Matt Haimovitz made it big in the classical music scene as a little kid.
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