Nine-year-old Wilson Liu Performs Prokofiev's Prelude

♪♪ At Juilliard, I finally got the chance to meet Hung-Kuans youngest student, Wilson Liu.

♪♪ Beautiful.

Thank you.

Prokofiev?

- Yeah.

I think he wrote this when he was a student.

Just like me.

Just like you.

And he wasn't much older than you were when he wrote it.

Oh, wow.

- Yeah.

How long have you been playing that?

- Couple months.

Couple of months?

Yeah.

- Howd you get that all in your head?

Thats pretty good.

Thank you.

What's your favorite composer?

I mean, at first I loved Chopin, but I can't play it obviously.

Not yet.

I have little hands, what you say, so I can't play any Chopin.

But I love Beethoven, Bach, Mozart.

Theyre pretty good.

- You know what, everything.

Yeah, everything.

So how much do you practice a day, Wilson?

Averagely.

two to three hours since theres school and stuff.

And on the weekends, more.

Like four or five?

Maybe.

- That's a lot of time.

I mean...

So you don't mind practicing?

No.

- You like practicing?

Yeah.

- Are you a careful practicer Wilson?

Depends on if I can actually play good or not.

So if I have to practice, like to make it better, so I would have to practice slowly in order to get, like, the details.

- Sure.

Yeah.

You know, you know, they say that practicing slow...

Slow is fast.

- Yeah.

Makes sense.