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I find him charming as well as charismatic ... He's so musical, wow!

Have you heard of him yet? His performance in a recent competition in China.

mms://61.131.4.183/xmpiano/cs3_01.wmv (preliminary round, 132M)

mms://61.131.4.183/xmpiano/bjs2_01.wmv (semi-final round, 241M)

(Note: this is not the DG advertising machine at work ... if you know what I mean :-)

Awesome! thanks newport

There's this quite charming video of him on youtube playing the chopin etudes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Nr_yuneFQ

scary... o.o

Cheers
Ted

Feeling down? (And stop bickering! This one will raise your spirit.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrZ1qSKSxZU

(I don't know, it's said he learned Rach 3 in 4 days .. scary .. o.o)

when i see kids like this, i have to ask myself "why am i even bothering trying to be good at playing the piano, even less making a career out of it?"

depressing...

That is when you tell yourself "I play the piano because of my love for music. I understand there will be good days and bad days, high points and low points, but I WILL learn by trying and I am not afraid to do so. We only pass this way once... make it count."

Excuse the slight pep-talk

Oops ... I said I wanted to raise people's spirit, not the other way around!

what's his program for the semifinal round?

His semifinal round program:

Stravinsky: Petrouchka
Gaoping: Nocturn
Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op.28