Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard student in 10 years to give a benefit concert when she performed for Phillips Brooks House at Sanders Theater. Her next recital will be at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. later this month, and she has been invited to compete in the Gina Bauchauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City. And to top it all off, she will be performing for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this fall...
...roommate of three years, Tracy Valezquez '86, agrees. Mia, she says, is very dedicated to her piano-playing but "when she is out of the practice room, she becomes just one of the girls." She emphasizes that there's more to Mia than playing the piano. Mia seems to do "more in addition to her practice than most of us without such a commitment...
...piano playing days then almost came to a halt, but an inspirational experience pushed Mia back to tinkling the ivories, this time for good. "One night I saw this 10-year-old performing a concerto with the Boston Pops: She was my age. That really struck home, and I was thinking, 'Boy, she is incredible.' She played a Haydn concerto, I remember distinctly. I was so impressed that right after that concert I started to practice and I said if someone at that age can be that good I really want to know how far I can push myself...
...began giving classical concerts at 12. By the time she arrived at Harvard, she had already won several national competitions, such as the Baltimore and National Symphony Orchestras' Young Soloists Competitions, the Beethoven Competition for Young Soloists and the Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition (Prepatory Division...
With all these competitions and awards under her belt, Mia could have entered any conservatory in the country where she could concentrate solely on her music. But, she says, she realized there is more to life than just playing piano. So she picked Harvard...