He quickly became a whizz on a real guitar, being able to shred like the super-quick heavy metal guitarists in a few months and was also writing his own tunes. First he proved himself to be a master at the Guitar Hero video game, to the extent where he could play tunes while holding the fake guitar behind his head. Gillies was already a gifted guitarist before he tried his hand at piano. So did Gillies' musical ability just come from nowhere? Not quite. Just last week, he won a $3500 gifted learners award from the Ministry of Education to cover 35 lessons with Auckland teacher Justin Bird, a former concert pianist. With a role of more than 2000 students it’s a lot busier than the country school he was attending at Oromahoe, but Gillies loves it there.
Gillies is attending Manurewa High School. This year, after three years living up north in Kawakawa, Gillies and his family are back living Manurewa. The video was posted in 2011 but has just gone viral.
He passed his grade five piano exam with an A+ and 'high distinction' and passed NCEA level 1 in music, with excellence. According to 'Fox & Friends,' a kid wowed customers in Costco as he casually played the piano like a young Billy Joel.
Pele Gillies with his teacher, former concert pianist Justin Bird. He finished second in the open category, first in a number of junior categories and won the cup for aggregate points in his age group. In September 2020, Gillies took part in the Northland Performing Arts Competition Society’s piano contests. Munford and Cottle arranged for a local supporter of the arts to sponsor Gillies so the cost of his lessons was covered. The rather shy, introverted kid revelled in the occasion. Munford introduced Gilles to Kerikeri piano matriarch Jill Cottle, who invited him to play at a concert at her house. Gillies became an obsessive researcher of classical piano music, finding obscure and forgotten gems and discovering who his favourite composers were. He mastered the exercises with ease and was hooked. Pele just tagged along out of curiosity.īut Pele Gillies had a go, thought it was fun and took home a few exercises. It was Gillies’ younger brother, who actually had the initial interest in piano. Music teacher Maree Munford was offering lessons at the country school Gillies went to at the time, Oromahoe, in the Bay of Islands. He played piano for the first time when he was 11, in September 2019. Pele Gillies is a 13-year-old piano prodigy. When 6-year-old Guillaume Benoliel sat at the piano stool to rehearse Rachmaninoff's Italian Polka, his feet dangled in the air. He could be a dark horse." A South Auckland teen is wowing audiences and winning prizes with his prodigious talent after just two years at the keys. Watch young piano prodigy rehearsing Rachmaninoff. Plus, his showman skills, his flair for the dramatic, and his blazingly fast little fingers skimming over the keys are entertaining all on their own.“Let’s keep an eye on this one. At the very least, you'll get to see his enthusiasm for playing the piano. Well, whether the video is real or fake, be your own judge and watch this kid. This kid isn't real." Another says, "I don't even know how his hands can do that at his age." One naysayer wrote, "I'm calling CGI on this one. Many commenters are calling the kid a phony. His performance has generated lots of fans, with one person saying "he is so cute and talented and dramatic." But some people think the little boy is just too good to be true. The clip has even made the front page of the social news site Reddit, because so many people are talking about the 5-year-old and sharing his video. His father, Andy Lee, films as the little boy plays complicated classical music on the piano, mature beyond his years. A video of a 5-year-old piano prodigy from Hong Kong is officially viral, with more than 1 million hits on YouTube. Like us on /TrendingNow and follow Trending Now on Twitter: and newest talent making waves on the Internet comes in an unexpectedly small package.
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