Rosenthal agreed to help teach Ethan after sitting down with him the next day. When he was 8, the family attended a Billy Joel concert - and his father took him backstage, where they met Joel’s musical director, Dave Rosenthal. He will give some proceeds from the Columbus show to WOSU-TV (Channel 34), a PBS member. Since then, he has also raised money for veterans groups and PBS. His brother, Nathan, was born with a congenital heart defect and has had several surgeries.Įthan performed at a 2008 concert to benefit Miami Children’s Hospital (alongside Smokey Robinson and Beyonce and others) that raised $12?million. It began as a desire to assist children’s hospitals. “The kids are looking forward to it,” said Tatiana Kats, artistic director of the choir.Įthan has turned what he loves into a notable philanthropic endeavor and already helped raise more than $40?million for charity. Typically, I have a lot of audience interaction and bring people up onstage."Īccompanying Ethan on Wednesday will be a four-piece band and - for four songs - about 50 members of the Columbus International Children’s Choir. “I never really know what’s going to happen. His spontaneity also explains why Ethan can’t describe what his Wednesday show will offer, except to say he will play a variety of music - with pop, classical and Broadway tunes among his favorites.īeyond that, however, Ethan doesn’t work off a script, preferring to banter with the audience and see where the concert goes. He is very instinctive.” The family has been escorting the future star to numerous music competitions in Italy, and recording some of his best performances.In the five years since, he has performed more than 450 shows on five continents.
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Even though he still doesn't know how to read notes well, indeed almost not at all, he takes his position on the keyboard and repeats the pieces. husband and I noticed that he had perfect pitch. For a year and a half now, has been doing remarkable things, both for his age and for the time it took him to learn. From there I realized that Alberto was well suited. “I was always at home, so we started playing with a small keyboard, in order to do something stimulating. “He started playing during the months of the first lockdown,” Alberto's mother, Alessia Cingolani, says.
Even though he couldn't read music when he started-and is in fact still learning-he has what they call absolute pitch, which is the ability to identify and recreate any musical note. They began with practice sessions lasting 10 minutes and gradually increased as Cingolani matured. When their son was 3 years old, they introduced him to the piano, and quickly spotted his natural affinity for the instrument. His father works as a teacher in the Lombardy region and his mother is a singing instructor. The video of the performer quickly went viral online, garnering over 5 million views on Twitter.īased in the Marche region in central Italy, Cingolani comes from a musical family.
Five-year-old Italian piano prodigy Alberto Cartuccia Cingolani stunned audiences at the 10th International Musical Competition in Penne, in the Abruzzo region, with a masterful rendition of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. So it's fitting that a fellow young star is bringing his music to life. The classical music composer Mozart is one of the most well-known child prodigies, who famously began writing compositions when he was about 5 years old.
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