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Oct 30, 2024 · After The Piano, the young pianist was invited to perform at the King’s Coronation Concert at Windsor Castle, was made an ambassador of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, and starred in her own documentary The Incredibly Talented Lucy – a 70-minute-long Channel 4 programme exploring how she communicates through music.
- Blind 15-year-old pianist Lucy plays enchanting Bach prelude ...
Lucy, a 15-year-old blind and neurodivergent pianist from...
- ‘Music is vital to her’ – how neurodivergent The Piano star ...
Lucy is the exceptionally talented blind and neurodivergent...
- Blind 15-year-old pianist Lucy plays enchanting Bach prelude ...
Lucy is completely blind and has a chromosome 16 duplication, which is a rare condition affecting mental health with autism traits and affecting overall communication. Lucy is hypermobile and suffers with CVS. She is in remission from bi-lateral retina-blastoma and is globally developmentally delayed.
Oct 31, 2023 · Lucy, a 15-year-old blind and neurodivergent pianist from Yorkshire, captured imaginations around the world when she appeared in Channel 4’s popular TV show The Piano earlier in 2023. Since being crowned unofficial ‘winner’ of the competition in March by judges Lang Lang and Mika, Lucy has become a rising star in music.
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Feb 23, 2023 · A 13-year-old blind pianist and cancer survivor impressed passersby in England this month while performing Chopin's Nocturne in B flat minor on a public piano. The Ravenscliffe High School student, who had tumors in both of her eyes at a young age, has autistic traits and is globally developmentally delayed, was videoed playing the piano flawlessly on Channel 4’s The Piano.
- Stevie Wonder
- Ray Charles
- George Shearing
- Art Tatum
- Marcus Roberts
- Ronnie Milsap
- Nobuyuki Tsujii
- Lennie Tristano
- Kuha’o
- Diane Schuur
The first pianist Stevie Wonder needs no introduction and is known for hits like Superstition, Sir Duke and I Just Called to Say I Love You. But the piano wasn’t the obvious career for blind musicianStevie Wonder who was born several weeks premature, resulting in retinopathy of prematurity. Wonder was undaunted by the challenges limited sight posed...
Unlike Stevie Wonder, the next pianist on our list Ray Charleswasn’t born blind instead, he developed problems at age seven due to what doctors now believe to be juvenile glaucoma. But Charles learned to play before glaucoma set in and could still navigate a keyboard and resolved to keep navigating it. Notably, he sang as he played and had an immed...
Next, we have famous jazz pianist Sir George Shearing who was born to a London coal miner in 1919. Despite being born legally blind, this Shearing didn’t see blindness as a limitation, instead, he taught himself music beginning piano lessons at the age of 3. Shearing is probably best-known for his composition Lullaby of Birdlandbut he’s also recogn...
Another blind pianist to mention was Art Tatum who was arguably one of America’s greatest piano virtuosos of all time. Famously, Fats Waller said of Tatum as he entered a club, “I only play the piano, but tonight God is in the house.” Tatum was legally blind, a consequence of infantile cataracts and he was also largely self-taught, starting out pla...
Marcus Robertsis another pianist whose blindness emerged in childhood losing his sight at the age of five. When his parents gifted him a piano, Roberts literally walked into it and was delighted. He spent hours picking out radio melodies by ear and cites fellow blind pianist Stevie Wonder’s I Wish as a memorable example. For years this self-taught ...
Singer and pianist, Ronnie Milsapwas born blind and is best known for his country music. But, despite his difficulties seeing, his more immediate challenge was his mother, who saw his partial sight as punishment from God. So, Milsap grew up raised by his grandparents and began reading braille at age six. Despite his school’s heavily classical music...
Nobuyuki Tsujii is yet another famous pianist to be born blind. Tsujii began playing piano by ear when he was two years old and by the time he was seven, he started reading braille music. A composer and a pianist, Tsujii won the gold medal in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition jointly with another competitor debuting his first piece in...
Blind jazz pianist Lennie Tristano first made himself known as an accomplished player of cool jazz. Although Tristano’s eyesight was never perfect, he wasn’t born blind. Instead, his sight deteriorated throughout his childhood because of exposure to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. This didn’t stop Tristano from studying music at the American Conserv...
Kuha’o Caseis the youngest blind pianist to be catapulted to fame on this list. After discovering a love of music, the Hawaiian-born musician taught himself piano and organ. Kuha’o’s name translates to ‘extraordinary gift,’ and it feels especially apt that his child prodigy learned the piano despite his blindness. He has the remarkable ability to r...
Andy lastly, we have Diane Schuur who shares her partial sight condition, retinopathy of prematurity, with fellow famous blind pianist, Stevie Wonder. And like the other piano players on this list, blindness didn’t deter Schuur from pursuing her career. Instead, she began learning piano while attending the Washington School from the Blind. Her care...
Apr 12, 2024 · Lucy is the exceptionally talented blind and neurodivergent pianist, who stunned TV audiences in their millions when she appeared on Channel 4’s new programme The Piano, all about celebrating music-making in one of the most accessible venues: train stations.
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May 11, 2023 · Lucy Illingworth, a 13-year-old blind and neurodivergent pianist, first marveled the world a few months ago. Her performance of a Chopin nocturne on a piano in a train station in Leeds shocked the judges of the British talent show The Piano, and moved passersby to tears. Now, Lucy has played for a much larger audience in an unbeatable setting ...
