It takes ten fingers to play the piano, but when this pianist needed a little help, she turned to an unlikely source… her nose!
For today’s Daily Joy, enjoy the beautiful playing and humor of 16-year-old pianist Agata Sorotokin playing the piano with her nose.
San Jose, California Agata performed on Show 289, recorded in April 2014, at age 16.
Show 289 bio:
Agata Sorotokin (piano), 16, is from San Jose, California and attends the Harker School. She studies with John McCarthy at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory School. Agata performed in Carnegie HallÕs Weill Recital Hall as a winner of the American Fine Arts Festival Competition. She has received first prizes in the 2013 Music Teachers Association of California Concerto Competition Northern Division, the 2012 Pacific Musical SocietyÕs Scholarship Competition, the 2012 Ross McKee Foundation Piano Competition, the 2010 Marilyn Mindell Junior Competition, and the 2010 El Camino Youth Symphony Concerto Competition. Agata has attended the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Institute for the past four summers. This coming summer she will attend the Aspen Music Festival and School. Agata is also a mentor in the writing program at the Harker Middle School, and she served as an editor and a contributor of her schoolÕs literary magazine ÒEnlightÕning.Ó
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