Nine-year-old Wilson Liu Performs Prokofiev's Prelude
Clip: Season 51 Episode 14 | 3m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
Nine-year-old pianist Wilson Liu performs Prokofiev's Prelude Op. 12, No. 7.
Nine-year-old pianist Wilson Liu, a student at the Juilliard Pre-College program, performs Prokofiev's Prelude Op. 12, No. 7.
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Nine-year-old Wilson Liu Performs Prokofiev's Prelude
Clip: Season 51 Episode 14 | 3m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
Nine-year-old pianist Wilson Liu, a student at the Juilliard Pre-College program, performs Prokofiev's Prelude Op. 12, No. 7.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ At Juilliard, I finally got the chance to meet Hung-Kuans youngest student, Wilson Liu.
♪♪ Beautiful.
Thank you.
Prokofiev?
- Yeah.
I think he wrote this when he was a student.
Just like me.
Just like you.
And he wasn't much older than you were when he wrote it.
Oh, wow.
- Yeah.
How long have you been playing that?
- Couple months.
Couple of months?
Yeah.
- Howd you get that all in your head?
Thats pretty good.
Thank you.
What's your favorite composer?
I mean, at first I loved Chopin, but I can't play it obviously.
Not yet.
I have little hands, what you say, so I can't play any Chopin.
But I love Beethoven, Bach, Mozart.
Theyre pretty good.
- You know what, everything.
Yeah, everything.
So how much do you practice a day, Wilson?
Averagely.
two to three hours since theres school and stuff.
And on the weekends, more.
Like four or five?
Maybe.
- That's a lot of time.
I mean...
So you don't mind practicing?
No.
- You like practicing?
Yeah.
- Are you a careful practicer Wilson?
Depends on if I can actually play good or not.
So if I have to practice, like to make it better, so I would have to practice slowly in order to get, like, the details.
- Sure.
Yeah.
You know, you know, they say that practicing slow...
Slow is fast.
- Yeah.
Makes sense.
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