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Ironically, Yuan says that it was his memory slip that jolted him into realizing that piano was what he wanted to do—his ego “fell twenty stories down” after the competition...
...says that, like most four-year-old boys, he would have preferred to spend his childhood playing sports. Instead, he sat in a classroom stuffed with 24 other fidgety kids who, like himself, had been forced rather than enticed into piano lessons...
...enrolled in a pre-collegiate Julliard program, filling his Saturdays with piano lessons, music theory, and ear-training. He started participating in every big competition that he could find. He had conquered the little league of music, and was now looking for something bigger...
Born in Taiwan and relocated to Troy, New York as a child, Yuan hit the musical track early on. His mother enrolled him in a group piano lesson at age four...
Though Yuan initially saw his piano-playing as “forced labor,” his perspective changed after a traumatic event...