5/18/2023 0 Comments Evan piano prodigy“I love the challenge of a new piano,” he said. Of course, when he goes to perform, he has to play on a piano he’s never touched before. He practices on three pianos in his house. Now he has only one more matriculation exam in math to complete and then he will receive his high school diploma. By then, he was already flying to competitions and the school principal suggested it would be better if he were home-schooled. He attended a regular school until seventh grade. He loves his hometown, he said, because it’s “near strawberry fields.” Levanon lives near Tel Aviv in Hod Hasharon and has two older brothers and a younger sister. The American concert pianist Murray Perahia told Levanon that before a performance, “you learn a lot and then forget it as soon as you’re on stage and then you just play the piece.” It feels really natural for me to read music and then memorize it.” Like in a sonata, one time something happens and then you know it will happen a different way. It’s like when you see a movie and you understand. You understand that if it goes this way, it will then go that way. “I always wonder what it would be like to memorize a long speech,” he mused. On stage, there is no sheet music for him to follow it’s all in his head. Levanon has what appears like an effortless ability to memorize music. “I try to understand what the composer wanted,” he explained, so that he can perform it and “make it my own.” When he starts learning a piece of music, he incorporates music theory to grasp the piece’s structure and history. He said he has had the opportunity to meet with “so many different amazing pianists, and I draw inspiration from everyone.” Levanon has had a variety of teachers over the years, explaining that he learned something valuable from each because “teachers look at different music in different ways.”
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