Australian piano prodigy full#

Australian piano prodigy full#

“He was so full of life, with a beautiful mind, and passion for classical music. On Facebook, Amanda also responded to the musicians saying, “ would have been so chuffed that all these wonderful people are now playing his music. “It makes me see beauty through adversity.” “I am extremely humbled by the responses of people,” Amanda told. And now members of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra have released a performance of the full work. So far Kyan’s piece has received video performances on the piano, cello, and on various music softwares. “He imagined it to be performed by wind and string instruments, and of course his beloved piano.” “This was just the intro, it is unfinished, he was building up to a grand midsection and then would do an ending, but he never got to complete what was in his mind’s eye.

“If I remember rightly he told me about this and there were bits that repeated, and changed tempo, with light and shade, but he didn’t write that down. In her post, Brierley also explained, “he wasn’t formally trained in reading/writing music, all self taught so could be wrong, I don’t know.

It didn’t take long before musicians began responding to the post, which has now received over 150 comments, and 115 shares, with renditions of Kyan’s composition. “It would mean the world to us to hear his composition.” “I never heard what he was composing.” Kyan’s mother Amanda Brierley posted on Facebook, sharing a copy of his manuscript, “Is there anyone that can read music and play it and send it to us? When his parents were going through their late son’s belongings, they were surprised to discover an unfinished composition in the middle of a blank exercise book. Unbeknownst to his parents, Kyan had also begun composing classical music prior to his death. He loved classical music, and Brierley shared on Facebook that he even learned non-classical pieces just so he could “bring a crowd in, and then educate them the beauty of classical music”.

Kyan was neurodiverse, and his family described his diagnosis as a ‘superpower’ which helped him to focus on and achieve whatever he put his mind to. Kyan tragically died in a freak accident caused by a gate closure on his family’s property in Mary Valley on 31 January 2022. He scrimped and saved in order to buy his first piano, and by using YouTube tutorials, he had soon learned to play 30 pieces of classical music by memory, including Chopin’s Fantaisie Impromptu, and Beethoven’s Für Elise. Seven months ago, 12-year-old Kyan Pennell from Brisbane, Australia, began teaching himself music theory, performance and composition.