At only 10 years old, a young manosquin makes his first piano recital

Junxi Xue walked the floor of the Conservatory in front of around fifty people for her first recital, Wednesday November 20. Alone for an hour, he played around ten pieces by great composers like Mozart and Beethoven.

Remember his name carefully. Junxi Xue. This very promising young boy performed this Wednesday, November 20 in front of around fifty people at the Manosque Conservatory, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. For the first time, he played ten piano pieces alone for an hour.

A young prodigy that his teacher, Blandine Pouré, was already following closely before advising him this year: “It's a great pleasure for me. I've followed him to all his concerts, his auditions. We're going to be able to do some work background”.

And she is full of praise for him: “He is remarkably intelligent, unusual, he works. He has a great personality, he is capable of great sensitivity, he knows what he wants. For example, he invents his own little exercises. He tells me, to get my brain working: I do C major on one side, C minor on the other,” she rejoices.

Two hours of training per day

Wednesday evening, this young talent was thrown into the deep end. Mozart, Poulenc, Fauré, Chopin, Beethoven… All the great pianists he admires, and some of whose compositions he has played. About ten pieces in all.

“It’s like when you read a book, there are stories that I really like. In music, it’s the same,” says the young man. And at the age of 10, he already seems to have understood everything. “The passion for the piano is the most important thing for me. You have to play with emotion, not just like a robot. You have to think a little. What does the composer mean? And then, you have to work , so as not to strike a false note, but you absolutely have to understand, otherwise it doesn’t work,” he explains.

Junxi Xue trains two hours a day in addition to her private lessons. Also good in science, it was with a little apprehension that he climbed onto the stage. Before the performance, his teacher gave him her final advice: “Stay focused, don't lose track. You have to concentrate for an hour, there can be emotion. You will have to stay the course. And then, I think that, as he wants to give a lot, he will have to stay in the music, not wanting to show too much, but staying focused in the music, in what he shares with the public. it is musical.”