This six-year-old story is news (to me): Weicheng Zhao plays his transcription of one of the great orchestral masterpieces, Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra all by his lonesome. It's amazing.
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This young man has quite a great talent and impressive finger and pedal technique, but to be fair, high kudos must be given to the pre-programing of sequences since it is obvious if you watch and listen closely, he is actually only playing about 20% of the notes you are hearing. The rest is being triggered, controlled, and played by pre-programmed computer sequences. Nonetheless, the end result is quite impressive.
You think?
Zhao was appointed a full-time faculty member of the Electone Organ at the Tianjin Conservatory of Music. In 2009, Zhao took a leave of absence to pursue study of the pipe organ with Cherry Rhodes at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. One year later, he took both Second Prize and Audience Prize at the Mader National Organ-Playing Competition in Claremont, California.
He has completed the Graduate Certificate program at USC and is currently enrolled in the university's Master of Music degree program. He is organist at St. Bede the Venerable Catholic Church, La Cañada, California — a long way to the Electone Organ faculty.