![]() ![]() Private institutions and International schools are included in this special offer. S$10 per head for the School Special, applicable to all schools, with limited tickets available only for school bookings of 10 students and above. Joining Alexander here is a mix of older and younger associates, including journeyman bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. He has released two albums, My Favourite Things and Countdown, the latter of which he will be showcasing for fans at his highly anticipated show in Singapore later this year. Piano prodigy Joey Alexander is a fixture of the jazz world at the age of 16 and his new album shows how his sound has matured and grown into graceful original compositions. The debut album from jazz piano prodigy Joey Alexander, 2015's My Favorite Things showcases the 11-year-old's stunning keyboard virtuosity. Since then, he has gone on to play at jazz festivals in Jakarta, Copenhagen and the world-renowned Lincoln Centre in New York. He went on to develop at such a rapid pace that word got around and UNESCO invited him to play for Herbie Hancock at the tender age of eight. One of the worlds most loved jazz pianists, Joey Alexander burst on to the scene via Motema Music with his astonishing, twice Grammy nominated top-selling. Growing up, Bali-based Alexander learnt jazz from his father. Indonesian jazz pianist Joey Alexander is the youngest performer ever to be nominated for the prestigious music award. The child prodigy is being brought to town by Esplanade as part of the Mosaic Music Series. When he was 6 years old, his parents brought home a mini keyboard and to their astonishment. Three-time Grammy-nominated jazz piano prodigy Joey Alexander will make his Valley Isle debut at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Castle Theater at 7:30 p.m. The Joey Alexander Trio is at the National Concert Hall on July 12.Joey Alexander, the 14-year old Grammy-nominated jazz pianist from Indonesia, is scheduled to perform with this band The Joey Alexander Trio at the Esplanade Concert Hall on Tuesday, November 7th. Joey Alexander is considered to be a Jazz Prodigy in Indonesia.I think I am still being normal, you know. But nonetheless, he insists: “I do play video games, I watch movies. Life for young Joey now consists of performing, traveling and recording, with home schooling added in too. 542K subscribers Subscribe 47K views 6 years ago Self-taught piano player and child prodigy Joey Alexander is the youngest-ever Grammy. It is exciting, for sure, but of course, I am thankful to be able to travel around the world too.” Child Jazz Prodigy Jams With Harry Harry Connick, Jr. It is the centre of jazz, that’s what people would say. “It’s has a different energy, and there are a lot of great musicians here that I’ve had a chance to work with. “I thought, being in New York, I could express more with the music I was playing than back home,” he says of the big move. Both that record, My Favourite Things, and Countdown, were nominated for Grammys. He played the Newport Jazz Festival that summer, moved to New York, and released an album that made him the first Indonesian to enter the Billboard Top 200. Having shown what he’d got, Joey and his family were soon in demand at the top table of US jazz. “I was a little bit scared of it but I was thinking positively: it was this one opportunity for me to show what I had got.” With the impetuousness of youth, Joey chose to play Monk’s ‘Round Midnight’, and his world changed overnight. In 2014, when he was just 10 years old, Marsalis invited Joey to play the the Jazz at the Lincoln Centre gala. This maturity beyond years was what struck the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, who says he’s “never heard anyone who could play like him.” He gave Joey his chance to impress a big American audience. “I think of it as composing the moment, that’s what you are trying to do.” “It’s the freedom to express myself,” he says of jazz improvisation. At age 11, Hancock who listened to classical music at the behest of his mother played Mozart’s D major Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His playing, especially on his new album Countdown, has a mastery of understanding and expression that any professional player would be proud of. With jazz, precocity usually runs into the brick wall of improvisation, which limits the depth of playing of most young players. ![]() The phrase ‘child prodigy’ is common for young pianists, but more in the classical realm than in the jazz one.
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