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| Coco Ma |
Leaside piano prodigy Coco Ma, with her dad Jimmy, is spending a week at the Munich Music Camp for young people being run by Lang Lang, the international piano artist. Coco, 13, is one of just 12 students who were chosen for the all-expenses paid honour out of some 300 applicants worldwide. It is an exiting time for Coco but like many talented children she seems to have a maturity that surpasses her years. “I’m a little excited,” she confessed and then added, “a little nervousness is enough.” The opportunity to learn from Lang will be a mind-expanding experience for Coco. He is a 31-year-old Chinese expatriate who now lives in New York. Lang traces his first interest in classical music to an occurrence at the age of two. He watched a Tom and Jerry cartoon titled The Cat Concerto that featured as its music the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt. Below is a promotional video which was intended to seek applicants.