Being born with a natural talent for anything is a gift, but when you
become a master of the piano before your tenth birthday, it’s a miracle.
This miracle’s name is Elisey Mysin, and he’s from Russia. He’s
incredibly cute with blond hair and an angelic smile, and at first glance,
he’s like any other boy his age. When he starts to play, jaws drop.
Elisey was born in the city of Stavropol, in southwest Russia. According
to his family, Elisey loved the piano before he was even born. His older
feel Elisey start to move and react to the music. It was almost like he
was dancing!
It’s no wonder that Elisey started to learn to play the piano when he
was just three. It became apparent very quickly that Elisey went beyond
gifted and into prodigy levels of skill. His teachers began to compare
him to the ability Mozart himself had exhibited at the same age. That’s
quite a compliment! Elisey more than lives up to it.
He appeared on Russian television when he was only five,
accompanying fellow Russian pianist Denis Matsuev. They played a
song called Blue Bird, and the viewers were blown away by his talent.
Since then, Elisey has continued to study and currently attends the
Central Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory. He is a
student of Natalia Trull, an award-winning Russian pianist. He is now
only twelve but has still had a career that pianists two or three times his
age would envy.
He has performed many more times with fellow piano virtuoso Denis
Matsuev. Elisey has also played with Russia’s National Symphony and
Youth Symphony orchestras, played Chopin’s Nocturne in C♯ minor on
television and at the seventeenth International Piano Forum.
The maturity and expressiveness Elisey displays is unbelieveable for
such a young boy. It seems that if you’re a prodigy the usual rules do
not apply. If you want to see and hear it for yourself, check out this
video recorded at the Moscow Conservatory. He plays Mozart’s concert
No. 3 in D major and his perfomance is perfect, even though he can
barely reach the pedals. One commenter explains this remarkable gift
perfectly: