ATLANTA – 10-year-old Milton pianist releases album of authentic compositions: 

He’s appeared on nationwide tv, carried out at Carnegie Corridor, and launched an album of his authentic piano compositions.

Oh, and did we point out he’s solely 10 years previous?

We’re speaking about unbelievable piano prodigy William Zhang, after all, whom we first featured again in 2020. Since then, the Milton fifth-grader wrote many of the items featured on his album “Authentic Compositions for Piano: Sonatas and Extra, 2019-2021.” That mentioned, writing music is nothing new for the younger artist.

“Once I was 4, I improvised a chunk referred to as ‘Black Night time.’ I didn’t know the right way to improvise correctly then. So, it was kind of simply very primary,” says Zhang.

After all, the items on his new album are something however primary. The three-part “Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor” evokes the feelings surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, as seen by way of the eyes (or, goggles) of an 8-year-old.

“The primary few months within the pandemic, we have been super-nervous,” he says. “We solely went to the grocery retailer as soon as — the Kroger — and I wore swimming goggles!”

The maturity in his music makes it straightforward to overlook that William Zhang remains to be only a child; he loves constructing with LEGO bricks and taking part in Minecraft, and drew the photographs of well-known composers which line his follow room. However not like different elementary schoolers, William has additionally carried out at Carnegie Corridor. It was again in 2019, and the performer says all of it glided by in a blur.

“I do keep in mind one snapshot that I used to be taking part in there, however I keep in mind at backstage, as a result of after me there have been different individuals taking part in,” the pianist remembers. “I actually loved their performances as a result of I kind of performed.”

Play-conducting backstage or taking part in piano onstage, it’s more and more clear that William Zhang is changing into one thing of a Mozart for the fashionable age. To listen to extra of William’s music, click on right here.

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