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11-year-old pianist sets Guinness record

2012-07-26 351 Dailymotion

A child prodigy plays the music of another young piano genius.<br/> <br />Mozart's "Alla Turca" was the first piece of music Ethan Bortnick learned to play on his toy keyboard.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: Ethan Bortnick, pianist, saying (English):<br/> <br />"On the little toy keyboard, I was playing everything that I heard I would just start mimicking on it. But I was very bad because my little keyboard, it was like ten keys, but then I learned it for real - but after my parents saw they finally said I could have piano lessons."<br/> <br />The 11-year-old has shared a stage with stars like Beyonce and Elton John and he headlined a show in Las Vegas at the age of nine.<br/> <br />For which he earned the Guinness World Records title of "The World's Youngest Solo Musician to Headline his own Tour".<br/> <br />Now the sixth grader is hitting the road again for a 22 city U.S. tour titled "It's All About Music".<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: Ethan Bortnick, pianist, saying (English):<br/> <br />"I'm going to play all kinds of music, classical, jazz, pop, my own music, all kinds of music. I'm also going to do a lot of interactive with the audience."<br/> <br />The "It's All About Music" tour will run from July 27 until September 2.<br/> <br />Tara Cleary, Reuters.

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