List of child music prodigies
Piano and organ

List of child music prodigies

Section Title: Piano and organ
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Name	Born	Instrument	Debut	Notes

Tori Amos	1963	Piano	3	Taught herself piano at the age of 2. Won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five.

Martha Argerich	1941	Piano	4	Orchestral debut at age six

Kit Armstrong	1992	Piano	5	Concerto debut at eight; Morton Gould Young Composer Award for five consecutive years

Claudio Arrau	1903	Piano	5	Could read notes before letters

Daniel Barenboim	1942	Piano	7

Enrique Batiz	1942	Piano	5	Now a conductor

Emily Bear	2001	Piano	5	Composed and released her first piano album at age five

Vincenzo Bellini	1801	Piano	5	Began studying music theory at two, the piano at three, and by the age of five could apparently play well

Georges Bizet	1838	Piano	9	Entered the Paris Conservatory at age nine

Victor Borge	1909	Piano	8	Won a full scholarship to the Royal Danish Music Conservatory at age nine

Ethan Bortnick	2000	Piano	6	Perfect pitch at age 3, Composing at age 5, First Sold out headline Concert at age 6, Orchestral debut at age 8 with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra.

Lili Boulanger	1893	Piano, violin, cello, harp	Attended Louis Vierne's organ classes at the Paris Conservatoire at age six

Cameron Carpenter	1981	Organ	11	Performed J. S. Bach's complete The Well-Tempered Clavier from memory at age eleven.

Frédéric Chopin	1810	Piano	7

William Crotch	1775	Organ	3	Became a composer and first Principal of the Royal Academy of Music

Georges Cziffra	1921	Piano	Entered the Franz Liszt Academy at age nine, after some four years performing in a traveling circus

Per Enflo	1944	Piano	7	Won the Swedish competition for young pianists at age eleven in 1956 (and again in 1961)

Richard Farrell	1926	Piano	4	Made his first radio broadcast at age four; at seven played his own composition (a lament on the death of an archbishop) in a public concert with the Wellington Symphony Orchestra

Carl Filtsch	1830	Piano	6	Composed concerto at thirteen; died at age fourteen

Glenn Gould	1932	Piano	4	Attended The Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) at age 10; passing his final Conservatory examination in piano with the "highest marks of any candidate"; attaining "professional standing as a pianist" at age 12

Horacio Gutiérrez	1948	Piano	11	First piano recital at age four. Orchestral debut at age 11 with the Havana Symphony.

Johana Harris	1912	Piano	8	Composed works as early as age six and began her career as a concert pianist at age eight

Margaret Rosezarian Harris	1943	Piano	3	Toured the US between ages 3 and 6; went on to success in adulthood as a conductor and Broadway musical director

Felix Hell	1985	Organ	8	Became a church organist at age eight; won competitions at age nine; began recording and touring shortly thereafter

Josef Hofmann	1876	Piano	10

Leslie Howard	1948	Piano	5	Perfect pitch, and ability to recall anything by ear, first cited in The Herald, Melbourne, when he was 5 years old.

Helen Huang	1982	Piano	8	Performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age eight

Evgeny Kissin	1971	Piano	10	Entered music school at age six

Elizaveta Klyuchereva	1999	Piano	6	Entered the Moscow Conservatory music school at age six

Aimi Kobayashi	1995	Piano	3	Performed concerts at age three and with orchestras at age seven, performed at Carnegie Hall, etc.

Lang Lang	1982	Piano	Began playing at age two; entered Beijing Conservatory at age eight; won international competitions at age thirteen

Ingmar Lazar	1993	Piano	6	Solo debut at age six at the Salle Gaveau in Paris

Franz Liszt	1811	Piano	9	Performed first major concert at age eleven

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	1756	Piano, violin	4	One of the most prolific composers of the Classical Era. Performed all over Europe with his father Leopold and sister Nannerl

Paquita Madriguera	1900	Piano	11	Billed as "The Mozart of Spain" during her 1916-1917 concert tour; later married Andres Segovia

Yukie Nishimura	1967	Piano	5	Composed her first piece at this age, and hence won the competition at the age of 8.

Leo Ornstein	1895	Piano	Entered Saint Petersburg Conservatory at age ten

Sergei Prokofiev	1891	Piano	Composed an opera at age nine

Camille Saint-Saëns	1835	Piano	5	Gave his first public recital at age five

Ernest Schelling	1876	Piano	4	Began studies in Europe at age seven

Philippa Schuyler	1931	Piano	11

Clara Isabella Siegle	2000	Piano	4	Studied under Irish-born mother from age four. Prize-winner in Nurnberg from 2007 to 2015.

Dimitris Sgouros	1969	Piano	7	First public recital at age seven; Carnegie Hall debut at age twelve with Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto

Ruth Slenczynska	1925	Piano	11	Played with a full orchestra at age eleven; writer of Forbidden Childhood

Claudette Sorel	1932	Piano	10	Debuted in recital at New York's Town Hall at age ten, and played with the New York Philharmonic at age eleven.

Conrad Tao	1994	Piano, violin, composing	4	First public recital at four; first concerto at eight

Nobuyuki Tsujii	1988	Piano	10	Performed with the Century Orchestra, Osaka, at age 10; first recital at age 12

Alicia Witt	1975	Piano	7	Won several piano competitions in the years after her debut Aside from being a music prodigy, "Alicia, possibly started reading at the age of six-and-a-half, seven months".

Yuja Wang	1987	Piano	7	Performed in several piano competitions and concerts before moving to Canada at age eleven to study at Mount Royal College.

Noah Grey-Cabey	1995	Piano	5	Youngest soloist to perform at the Sydney Opera House

Joey Alexander	2003	Piano	6	At the age of six he could play Thelonious Monk by ear.

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Witt as a pianist, is a music prodigy.

final_sentence: Witt as a pianist, is a music prodigy.