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Brigitte's feet dangle above the ground when
the petite girl sits on the piano bench, her hands moving
gracefully across the keyboard.
With long brown hair in a ponytail and bow, she cast her dark
eyes shyly downward when her mother, Nicole Sun, asked if she
likes piano and if it was fun. "Yeah, fun," Brigitte replied.
Brigitte's father, Tao Xie of Ridgefield, Connecticut, signed
her up for piano lessons on Zoom about a year ago to give her
something to do during COVID-19 lockdown.
"At the beginning, I never expected that she's going to be a
prodigy or anything," he said. "But yeah, it turns out it's
amazing."
Brigitte was the youngest winner of the prestigious Elite
International Music Competition, which earned her a spot at
Carnegie Hall. She was supposed to play at Carnegie Hall as part
of the American Protégé International Music Talent Competition
in November 2020. That got postponed to this November and now to
November 2022 due to COVID-19.
Brigitte's mother gives credit to her piano teacher, Felicia
Feng Zhang.
"Brigitte came to me when she was just two months after three
years old," her teacher said. "From the lessons, I observed she
has a curious mind and she loves to learn. We call that
passion."
(Reporting by Roselle Chen; Writing by Cynthia Osterman; Editing
by Sandra Maler)
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