Ethan Loch, an 18-year-old pianist from Falkirk enters the final round of BBC’s Young Musician competition’s championship round. Ethan Loch’s performance was described as “spellbinding” by hosts Jess Gillam and Alexis Ffrench. Let’s see who is Ethan Loch in detail.
BBC Young Musician 2022 program
Blind pianist reaches BBC Young Musician 2022 final. BBC Four and BBC Radio 3 will broadcast the competition’s grand final tomorrow.
Ethan commented that the competition is a “wonderful, friendly atmosphere” in an interview with BBC Scotland’s The Nine. He declared, “I loved it. Then it was crazy because I could hear everyone clapping when they called me and I arrived up there.
“I was so honored to be on that stage.” “Music has honestly been my world for my entire life, past, present, and future,” he remarked.
For my entire life past, present and future, music has honestly been my world. “My first exposure to the piano was when I was 18 months old. “I remember this moment, the clearest of my childhood, just literally reaching up. Ethan has been studying the piano since the age of four.
As soon as I went up there, I could just hear all those amazing overtones and all those amazing sounds.” Ethan said that he feels that music is “just another language” for him. He said: “One of my favorite things to do is improvise. “Whenever I’m improvising I always think about how I feel, and what I want to communicate to everyone. “It’s something you can’t really express in words, honestly.” “It’s an amazing experience when you’re out there on the stage.”
Who is Ethan Loch?
Ethan Loch was born in 2004 in Canada. He was born with a congenital defect that renders him entirely blind, Mr. Loch was raised in Canada until he was five years old and started taking official piano lessons at the age of four. However, he was only 18 months old when he first experienced the instrument.
Ethan spent hours playing the piano as a youngster, copying his first idol, Rowlf the piano-playing dog from the Muppet Show. He played the DVD “Horowitz in Vienna,” his second source of inspiration, nonstop. At the age of four, his mother started him in official piano instruction; however, he now studies with Fali Pavri (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). He has been writing music since he was a little child, and he enjoys creating inventive songs.
At a Music in Lanark event, Ethan gave his debut major concert and premiered “Wallace at Lanark,” a huge composition that depicts the life of Scottish hero William Wallace.
For more details, check https://www.ethandavidloch.com/bio
What are Ethan’s Achievements?
A BBC radio documentary titled “Batman and Ethan” focused on Ethan and the freedom a blind child can achieve via studying with the gifted teacher of the blind, Daniel Kish.
In 2016, Ethan get his first major foreign honor from the Vatican. For his talent to compose music “full of colors” as an inspiration to everyone, he was awarded the Premio Asoluto prize at the 15th International “Giuseppe Sciacca” awards in Rome.
Ethan was the winner of the “Advanced” class in the 7th James Waterhouse Loretto Piano Competition in 2017. He gave a performance at Steinway Hall in London as part of that reward.
Ethan has taken part in two of Poland’s amazing festivals of Chopin. Later, he won the third and fourth divisions.
In 2018, Ethan placed in the top three in the EPTA Belgium International Piano Competition.
At the age of 14, Ethan earned his ATCL (Associate of Trinity College London) in 2019 with a score of 92/100.
Ethan won the Scottish International Youth Piano Competition in July 2019 as part of the Moray Prize at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
People’s reaction to Ethan’s performance on Social media
Azmi Anuar tweeted,
BBC Young Musician 2022: Inspiring blind Scottish pianist Ethan Loch reaches the grand final. The Scotsman
Anna Lapwood tweeted,
I will never forget this performance. Ethan Loch is blind and has never seen a firework, yet he managed to paint their colors so vividly. The music is incredible. He has a brilliant YT account, so go and give him a follow!https://t.co/bXCvAoACI2
The Nine tweeted,
‘I held the trophy and it was quite wobbly… I was really hoping I wouldn’t smash it!’ 18-year-old Ethan Loch was born blind – but that hasn’t stopped his passion for music. The Scottish piano prodigy speaks to #TheNine after winning the #BBCYoungMusician2022 keyboard final.
Jeffrey Sharkey tweeted,
What beautiful performances from two talented pianists @RCStweets. Many congratulations to Ethan Loch for winning the keyboard final!
The Amber Trust tweeted,
We are delighted to cheer on former beneficiary Ethan Loch as a competitor for the title of BBC Young Musician 2022! He will be performing in the Keyboard Category Final on Thursday 6th October at 7 pm. Good luck Ethan!
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