CHLOE CHUA / Menuhin Competition 2018, Junior semi-finals 

She's dancing with the violin, actually!

Visual explanation of "feeling the music"

Good!!

Besides her absolutely excellent playing...

Yea.. the smile and seriousness levels changes.. following the intonations.. amazing..

Yes, and her range is enormous. 20 months later she is spicing up the tango! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oLI3zb5W0Uo.html

Truth be told she should have won first place outright in 2018. I do not understand the decision to divide first place. It wasn't close.

she's Chloe not Chole

@@kumiyui3564 (Just a typo)

@@daviddiamond2415 could edit it yk

hope its going good!!!!

Are you still at it?

@@elanor5080 i think she already quit haha

@@sutrisnokaloko6860 Yeah its insanely difficult, and then theres vibrato, good luck with that at age 30

Dave Allen People can start when ever they want! Never too late!

yes she is

More like destroyed 😂

intellectually

😂😂😂

I know right

Now she already is!

Bruh stop saying facts we already know

She already is whirld famous

@@barryherbaut286 sub to me plz

@Hypercar Piggy "Young lady" Read the comment, before saying stupid shit...

My fellow 2SETter....lol Agree!!

She even still has 4 fine tuners 😅

She definitely practice 40hrs a day ^^

She obviously practices 40 hours a day AND has Asian parents!

Annalisa Du Gard orrr she practices 40 hrs a day and loves playing violin

What's more astounding is you're apparent belief that it's the country that makes the person. She is absolutely amazing, for reasons that are entirely her own, and the women that gave birth to her, not anyone else's including her countrymen.

@@JacksonHansen-xc5kq really? See if anyone could have done that at such a young age, growing up in say, Cambodia or Haiti. Of course, she has tons of innate talent but you don't achieve this level in this craft if your family (or country) is in survival mode.

@@Jkl62200 I wasn't speaking to family, only country. /Not/ the same. More importantly, I was disputing the sentiment, not necessarily reality.

Ahhh … Singapore is now not poor it now one of the richest nations in the world it has the third highest GDP in the world and it one of the most expensive country in the world.

lilianwriter She is better than most of the seniors in this competition !

Oh Erik, indeed she is! What a miraculous talent. You can reach me at lilianwriter@gmail.com if you would like.

TOTALLY AGREE

24.33 minutes of heaven on earth with a million mega-watt smile.

Oh I agree with you completely!

Not necessarily. They are *very* established violinists and teachers from some of the biggest music schools in the world. They are the most qualified to judge these competitions, as they work with students on a daily basis (sometimes). It is not such a hard job.

But when everyone is talented it becomes significantly more difficult to weed out the better ones. Imagine their job as standing in a field of brightly lit torches and trying to pick out a few that shine brighter, it's not going to be easy.

They are all bows 🤣🤣🤣

@@ChiefHerzensCoach well they can just click the "not interested" button

The 70 dislikes have no *souls*

They are probably jealous lol

the dislikes are from australia

Such a beautiful comment, full of emotion. I agree with you 100%!

✨❤️✨

Hi Chole although I have just showered I just love your violin 🎻 videos I also admire you so much I am practicing violin too but I think you are so talented and your music is beautiful 😍 Greetings from Hong Kong 😊😘

Sleepless in Mexico.

While (as you know), I share your wonderment at the extraordinary emotional depth and sensitivity that Chloe displays in this recital (and of course everywhere else), my reflections go off in what I think is a different direction. A natural view, and one that might be read into your questions, is that in order to express such profound emotions, Chloe must first bring them to the stage, so to speak - and so be somehow unusually mature - and then find a way of expressing them in performance. But I think this cannot be right. By all accounts, outside of music Chloe is a normal child. In the comments under the Atlanta Mendelssohn, someone who attended the festival - "Lyra Chen" (the sister of the conductor perhaps?) - says "When I met her, Chloe was very childlike and playful, so unlike her stage performance." And this local article about the Festival/Chloe makes this much evident: see the photo towards the end of Chloe holding a picture, basically beside herself with childish glee when playing with two friends who look even younger. (The article is machine-translatable.) atlanta.americachineselife.com/%E8%8B%A5%E6%95%8F%EF%BC%9A%E7%90%B4%E5%BC%A6%E4%B8%8A%E7%9A%84%E8%AF%97/ So to understand the emotional depth and intensity of Chloe's performances we have to look not in her character but elsewhere. In my view we need look no further than the music itself! The emotions Chloe expresses on stage are not emotions she brings _to_ the music: rather, they are _in_ the music, and all she does is bring them out (and so of course experiences them when so doing). Of course, the question arises as to how she manages to do that. But again the answer is relatively simple: her technique enables her to perform the composition in accordance with her understanding of it, and so of how it should be played, and so with the emotions that are in it. To have such understanding just _is_ to be so musical! That is, performance does not require two things of an instrumentalist in addition to technique - namely character (deep and mature emotion) and musicality - but only one - musicality - since to be so very musical just _is_ to be able to perceive the deep and profound feelings that are embedded in the greatest works. In other words, I think "musicality" is both modularised and rich/broad. Because it is modularised, a child can have it without consequences for other aspects of the child's mind. In this respect, it is like chess- or maths- genius. But because it is rich/broad, it does have consequences for musical expressiveness: one can no more hive off emotional depth from musicality than one can hive off e.g. pattern-recognition from chess- genius. I guess what I am suggesting boils down to this. If e.g. the latest extraordinary victory by a grandmaster aged 12 doesn't incline one to pursue thoughts of past lives and the like, neither should Chloe's extraordinary performances on stage.

yes

BarNuun To realize it and write this enlightened remark: 15 years.

Most pageturners are other pianists or musicians that have nothing to do that day

@@jeffrey1448 That's right.The pageturner is also a pianist.

Love your ambition 👍👏👏👏

Its me o l

Ty

Piazzolla Histoire Du Tango 1930 IS THE BEST THING I HAVE LISTENED TO OMG AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

@@curriebiscake3757 same

@@curriebiscake3757 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z1_6EnZoSro.html She has a better performance with this accompanist

It's worth wearing tuxedo when listening!

ignisfatuus OH ARGREE !!!!

She played Mozart at Zhuhai Competition so beautifully too.

i much much agree she is much much better, esp if you skip beyond the performative flares by closing the eyes

yea i agreee

I m 😢 tearing too..

10:26

*angel

！！！ wow ure right! its soft and gentle

So much passion when played Carmen as should be. She's enjoying it too . Love it! I hope she doesn't get too technical in the future as she grows. Best!

it's called inspiration of God.

If there wasn't a video I'd swear it was Fritz Kreisler.

haha... It's like she went into a trance or something and when she opens her eyes, she looks kind of lost for a moment. lol

22:21 too but she’s saying ‘why u still here go practice’

Aren’t we all?

Haha you are right!

You guys need to get a clue. They are disliking because that's their opinion. Its called an opinion for a reason! There's no need to shit on others for having a different opinion than you.

those are from ones she beat.... badly

No it's because they just gave up on playing the violin.

Where’s your logic Actually you don’t need to be better than her to give an opinion. Or else all sports commentators would lose their job. Another example: when you’re talking about politics and criticising politicians you wouldn’t expect yourself to do better than them right? Even if you do, that’s not what gives you the right to comment about them. That right comes from freedom of speech. Ps I like her by the way. It’s just that your logic annoys me.

Sí, de hecho lo es, ¡y espero que gane el primer premio!

She is from my country , Singapore 🇸🇬. I would like to see Yunchan Lim (South Korean🇰🇷) pianist play with Chloe Chua in a concert 🎵. Both are prodigies … ❤

Yes, Chloe played with her entire being, fully immersed in the emotions of the pieces she was playing. That was why her playing could bring tears to people's eyes.

Yes, that one defies all my understanding of the world. You would think you'd have to have lots of grown-up experiences to play that Piazzolla, say, but she hasn't. Maybe she understands the emotion through the music rather than the other way round?

​@@andrewroberts8139 I certainly think it is possible that Chloe should come to know new depths of emotion, or even new emotions, from the music she performs. Her musicality - her ability to grasp the meaning of what she is playing - is really remarkable. But I'm not convinced that the Piazzolla really does have emotional content that is alien to children. The object or context of the love, joy, longing, loss, sadness etc. in Piazzolla is, of course, alien to children, but those feelings themselves seem to me to be quite commonly familiar to them. Don't many or even most children have intense experiences of such emotions in relation to their own lives and the lives of others around them?

No but I agree. She’s amazing