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UMI GARETT (angel of piano)
In May 2009, 8-year-old piano prodigy Umi Garrett appeared on NBC’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show. It was such a sensation that her young career has since skyrocketed, receiving requests to perform worldwide and appearing regularly with symphony orchestras in the US and around the world.Among her highlights in 2010 was an appearance with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops sponsored by NPR’s From the Top, and her orchestral debut with the Desert Symphony in Palm Desert, California in December, 2009, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.23 in A major.
Both performances thrilled the audiences with brilliant playing and charm, earning enthusiastic standing ovation and establishing Umi as a definitive rising star in classical music.
Outside of the United States, Umi has thrilled classical patrons in theatres from Panama to the Netherlands and beyond. Not many 11 year old girls can claim to have traveled the world like Umi: she made her first debut on the Asian continent with the Wuhan Symphony Orchestra in 2010 when she was just 9 years old, and has recently performed with Liepaja Symphony Orchestra in Latvia as her first European Orchestral debut. Umi performed solo repertoire at worldwide music festivals in Italy, Luxembourg, Australia, Japan and Panama throughout her young career.
The young pianist has also captivated European audiences in 2009 as a performer in several concerts at the Vianden Music Festival in Luxembourg and Germany in
selected solo and chamber music works.
She was recognized as the little star from America and was featured on
live Luxembourg television in an interview as a “wunderkind.” In 2012, most recently Umi was invited to perform a solo recital for a company “Japan Times” in Tokyo, Japan.
Within the US, Umi has performed with a diverse set of orchestras including Charlotte Symphony in Florida, Thayer Symphony in Massachusetts, Saddleback Symphony in California, Indiana Chamber Orchestra in Indianapolis, and the Missouri Symphony in Columbia, just to name a few.Aside from having delivered unparalleled experiences in the concert hall with symphonies worldwide, Umi has won first prizes at the Southwestern Youth Music Festival and the J.S. Bach Competition where she competed with pianists up to the age of 18. She has been a winner in the J.S.Bach Competition for two consecutive years, and has also recently won first prize at the Liszt Competition in Connecticut and International Chopin Competition in Hartford with a perfect score from all three judges, and was subsequently invited to perform at Carnegie (Weill) Hall.
A devout student of the piano, currently Umi is studying with Mr. John Perry at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, California.
HERE THE ONE OF UMI GARETT'S PERFORM :D
