Word: yuan
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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...
He’s been successful in that endeavor, by anyone’s estimation. Yuan has performed at venues from Carnegie Hall to Taipei’s National Music Hall. After compiling an impressive resume that boasts first place in the Haddonfield Concerto Competition, a full tuition scholarship to Julliard School of Music, and The Taiwan Youth Music Scholarship, Yuan also raked in this past year’s Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) concerto competition. Next year, he will be carting his talents south to Yale for graduate study in music...
...arts-versus-everything-else question still confronts him. An Economics concentrator, Yuan has played with the idea of entering the finance world. For one, he acknowledges that the life of a concert pianist, paid on commission for each performance, does not include the perks of a steady desk job and a reliable income...
...Three years from now, if you see a cardboard box in New York, that’s going to be me,” Yuan jokes...
...really don’t compose songs, but every once in a while, I get a wave of inspiration,” says Yuan. “I see a beautiful girl and I’m going to marry her, and then I compose a song...