A Child Prodigy

Lang Lang, born in June 14, 1982, is a gifted child. He is a natural pianist who is from Shengyang in Liaoning, China. When he was two years old, a popular cartoon—Tom and Jerry became his first touch with the western music, which caused a drive to learn piano. One year later, he began to learn piano with Professor Zhu YA-Fen. At the age of five, he won the Shenyang Piano Competition. Furthermore, he started his first public ceremony to show his skills.
However, his talent in piano, to some extent, became his setback in his journey of success. At the age of nine, because of the different opinions in music, his tutor kicked him out of the lessons, which indicated his dismay and hopeless feelings about his future. Fortunately, his music at the state school noticed his sadness, and she gave him much comfort as well as encouragement. This brought him new love and hope again. After a while, with Professor Zhao Ping-Guo, Lang Lang won the first prize in Xing Hai Cup Competition in Beijing; he was only 11 years old. Two years later, he won another competition in Japan. In addition, he began to study with Gray Graffman later.
So far, Lang has performed with many distinguished pianists around the world. His talent has also been shown to the celebrated critics who called it the most exciting young keyboard one. And all of these achievements stem from a ordinary cartoon—Tom and Jerry--the one you must have seen before too.