Tiffany is many parents' cherished daughter. But to have good children one must be a good parent. Her parents are very good indeed. They are role models for thousands of young parents.
2:40 and here we see musical genius at a very young age. Already bored of traditional harmonies, Tiffany has begun composing experimental, atonal, minimalistic masterpieces, much like many of the greatest minds of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
There isn't one of us who played, play, or want to play piano, who go to concerts, watch the competitions and listen to accomplished pianists like you, who haven't wondered hundreds of times, how you go from middle C to Rach 3....thank you so much for sharing this incredible never before documented journey with us .....
The patience of your parents and that focused playing for so long are just fascinating! Thanks for posting (also 5hrs might have been ambitious then I guess lol ).
This honestly was not boring at all. it was the most precious thing I've ever seen. I absolutely loved this, especially on the part where you were talking about a song you made and you said "I used my heart to think of it." I'm not gonna lie, I shed a few tears! ABSOLUTELY. POSITIVELY. PRECIOUS! 😭😭😭
Thank you for actually running the footage. I'm not bored. I'm mesmerized. There's a lot to unpack. That's so. Normal. And the part where you sang along with the the pop song as well. I can see little you watch your fingers working, and getting a degree of freedom most kids never get. A lot to be learned. Something about learning isn't about the goal, it's about observing and letting your mind/body subconsciously learn?
Enjoyed your repeated notes playing, I was reminded of Gregorian chants. Very touching to hear such a young child describe their playing as from their heart..!
Tiffany, You are very serious pianist and musician since the beginning of Your practice in the deep child's age! 🤣 And Your parents, I've understood, are very kind people!😀 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
Aw your mother truly supported your passion! The “yayy” after you stop playing! Omg so cute. I vividly remember my mother on the phone with my first piano teacher and I had a recording of Clair De Lune playing on the family computer, pretending I could play. I love how music captivates us, even in our youth. Great video!
@11:50 Your mom is so amazing... the support she was giving you! She was asking those questions to get you to think about your composition, to critically think, what you liked about it, what you didn't, etc! I love these vlogs so much! ❤❤❤ You have my support on patreon!
That's so interesting watching a four year old embracing this instrument and developing her coordination, absorbing the process of pressing the keys, listening to the musical notes--taking it all in. Don't judge yourself at all--you were a tot and bonding/imprinting with this musical instrument. It's fascinating,, and you were also extremely fortunate to have parents who went many extra miles to provide this to you at such a young age, and wow! You are really gifted and have been blessed in your life! Thank you for sharing your down-to-earth human perspectives and experiences as an extraordinarily skilled young professional, and your lovely, brilliant music with everyone! :-)
It is fascinating to see the musical seed that was planted at a young age, and to have it come to fruition in the release of your album. The pure enjoyment and sense of wonder a child can feel with a few simple notes is something to admire, and I believe this along with your parents' encouragement allowed you to develop into the artist you are today. The personal connection you have with Schumann's music makes your interpretation even more compelling. I'm very much looking forward to listening to your album.
Cute :) A tiger migrated to a much larger cage still runs in small circles for the first days. Too many keys compared to the toy piano, falling back to familiar patterns :)
You were so fortunate to have such patient parents who clearly loved their little baby girl. At the time they would never have been able to know the quality and quantity of your prodigious talent.
I am humming those note now and it's going around and around in my head 😊 nice. I didn't find it boring. It must have been good ear training for u and sensing the vibrations 👍
Now that melody is stuck in my head lol... My mind will play variations for me in my head the whole day :) As a kid I too was quite patient with stuff... Things I really cannot comprehend myself doing today
It's funny how similar your musical beginnings mirror mine. I don't have any memory of this, but one day when I was around the age of 3 or 4 (around 1980 /1981my parents had taken me to a toy shop that also happened to sell basic Bontempi keyboards. Apparently, I screamed the place down until they bought it for me. The first piece I can remember playing was Silent Night (and performed it in a school assembly during my first year in primary school). From there, I can remember my parents upgrading the Bontempi to a small Yamaha keyboard. After that, things took a bit of a twist. Because there wasn't room in the house for a piano my parents bought me a second hand Yamaha Electone organ of late 70's vinatage. I made really good progress on this and even upgraded this organ to a more modern Electone in the late 80's. It wasn't until the early 90's that I started to gravitate towards the piano and classical music. I didn't actually own a piano until 1995! I feel now that this roundabout way to the piano has hindered my piano playing in some ways (I feel that my touch on the piano isn't terribly good). But I guess the one advantage of going down the Electone organ route is that nowadays I play the classical organ as well as the piano. I've taken some very good pianists to the pipe organ I play and they have all been terrified of it, they take one look at the pedals and go to pieces!
Those "three notes" are such hope to mothers out here of young ones starting with piano. I even am surprised I did not skip the video 😂😂😂. ❤❤❤❤. Somewhen even Mozart started with much less notes than his later masterpieces.
I'm sitting eating breakfast with the silliest smile right now. My mother recently found a video like this of myself with a guitar. Guitars are huge when you're four, but I still managed to play a (highly repetitive) melody.
I feel our careers could have been so similar. I used to play my great aunt's piano whenever I went round to see them. I see now why I ended up as an electrical engineer rather than a concert pianist. I only use to play two notes! I told people is was a sputnik. If only I could have managed three notes my life might have been so different.
Not sure if you saw this Tiffany, but you got a fine mention on the ClassicsToday website review of a Llŷr Williams’ Schumann recording release. Reviewer Jed Distler wrote: "Tiffany Poon (Pentatone), for example, brings more abandon to No. 4’s broken chords while liberating No. 6’s rapid left-hand triplets from their usual cookie cutter uniformity. ". So nice for you!
I'm really looking forward to your new album, Schuman is a fantastically brilliant composer.. I wish you all the best in the new year. Your faithful listener and viewer Thomas from Germany.
2/11 is my birthday, too 😂. The poster with numbers on the wall was so cool… 4 years old to count to 20? Your parents might expect you to become a mathematician or accountant 😂
One of many things I get from this nice video is that your parents were great parents. They recognized talent and did what they could to support it. Very often in life it takes 2 generations at least to create a person who is really an artist (Mozart is the classic example). That requires parents with the insight and instinct to support the nascent talent they see in their kid. It's really pretty rare. I'd also say, I myself know quite a few kids around age 9 or 10 who have been practicing and learning piano for a few years. Many of them can play the written notes on a score, but rush through the rhythm as if they just want to get it over with as soon as they can. I feel in this video it's obvious from the very beginning you had an excellent rhythmic sense and understood that to make music, not every thing can be rushed, which I think is also pretty rare.
Omg! They got you a boston for your 1st piano!? Your parents are amazing! 👏 Do they still have it? That would be so cool for nostalgia! Im getting ready to shop around for my first grand and I will be trading in my upright, but you better believe I'm keeping my roland digital keyboard, that's what I learned to play on the 1st couple years of study. So I'm keeping it for nostalgia 😊
I can’t emphasize enough how much i relate to ur childhood videos! especially areas where ur parents aren’t musicians but supported you 🥹 i wish my mom had recordings of me though😹😸
8:12 Not bored at all. I found it fascinating! So wonderful to see the support and love your parents have for you and how much you were enjoying yourself. Pretty nice that your first real piano (an upgrade from your toy) was a Boston upright. Wow! This video definitely put a smile on my face this morning. Thank you. PS - Do you happen to have the sheet music for your song? All the best to you!
So, Barney was Tiffany's muse when she started to learn to play the piano. Who knew!! 😁 And no, I'm not bored watching this, I'm smiling like a kid who just got a new Christmas catalog.
Thank you for sharing this, it's so funny looking at it now, but it also shows how patient and supportive your parents were, encouraging you to play. I do wonder know, and I hope we get an answer in this series, when did you actually decide that you wanted to become a pianist? Doing it for fun, as a hobby, is one thing, thinking about a professional career is something else of course.
Rather than your parents pushing you to learn the piano, you were leading them to something you loved to do and they helped nourish that. At 4 years old it is not common to have that deep of an interest. You looked so intrigued almost hypnotized by the sound, I wonder if your perfect pitch was developing or was already developed that you were hearing something magical.
I just realized the piano Tiffany is playing is a Boston upright (designed & sold by Steinway & Sons, built by Kawai). So now I guess we know where her love of Steinway & Sons pianos began. 🤔
Now we wanna see you play that piece you made up as the Tiffany in the present. Seeing you play that was so cute and funny, i was also waiting for the cadence multiple times lmao. 12:23 And you creating a theme and variations too lmao
It is a really good upright. "Boston" is Steinway design produced some other factory. I like how you play the three notes. Just listen to the magic of these tones. The remark about your attention span! Wow. Ha, that is true, kids can concentrate if they are fascinated.
Did you just unintentionally roast Philip Glass' minimalism? 😂 The level of patience and absorption you displayed in playing those repeating sequences of notes is actually very fun and interesting to watch. I'd call it "Variations on a Theme from Little Tiffany's Heart" and it's drilled into our heads now like a Philip Glass piece.
Your first composition on the piano is still influenced by your toy piano. The toy piano has four keys and you just gradually expanded to six keys or three notes in two octaves. Quiet a logical development 😊
It is so interesting to see how a child plays piano. I had no access to a piano, but there was one in the kindergarten, and when i played a key and listened I was told not to because "I couldn't play". So I guess there was very little pedagogy expertise there, very little empathy.
Tiffany, the short extracts from your earliest videos are fascinating, I also think they are historically important and should be preserved and available on TH-cam. Please can you post a new topic in which the clips featured here (and more?) are played in full with original sound (without you talking over them as an adult)? I am sure that many would appreciate this. From Jeremy24.
A Boston might have been expensive ! Especially since your dad couldn't know for sure you would continue ! Would you recommend getting an expensive piano for kids or even for yourself, as a beginner ?
okay. fun question. Which piece do you remember the page in front of you, in terms of oldest memorie. cant wait to discuss that one tomorrow amongst us. thanks for the inspiration to you and little tiffany.
Better than Philip Glass! You should publish it as you op. 1. It really is quite astonishing that your mother had the foresight to record so much of your early keyboard explorations.
Tiffany is many parents' cherished daughter. But to have good children one must be a good parent. Her parents are very good indeed. They are role models for thousands of young parents.
你不斷重覆彈奏同樣的旋律，媽媽仍很有耐心地拍攝完畢，並嘗試探討你內心嘅諗法....，至今仍支援你做的一切
你有今日嘅成就，除了自身的努力，父母的栽培，及支持功不可沒👍
2:40 and here we see musical genius at a very young age. Already bored of traditional harmonies, Tiffany has begun composing experimental, atonal, minimalistic masterpieces, much like many of the greatest minds of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Thank you for cheering me up ❤
If we follow our inner child, we will remain curious, open-minded, motivated and simply human ❤
There isn't one of us who played, play, or want to play piano, who go to concerts, watch the competitions and listen to accomplished pianists like you, who haven't wondered hundreds of times, how you go from middle C to Rach 3....thank you so much for sharing this incredible never before documented journey with us .....
The patience of your parents and that focused playing for so long are just fascinating! Thanks for posting (also 5hrs might have been ambitious then I guess lol ).
This honestly was not boring at all. it was the most precious thing I've ever seen. I absolutely loved this, especially on the part where you were talking about a song you made and you said "I used my heart to think of it." I'm not gonna lie, I shed a few tears! ABSOLUTELY. POSITIVELY. PRECIOUS! 😭😭😭
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Looking forward to listening to the diaries.
I can tell that you were very loved by the way your mom talked to you and how she didn’t interrupt you or walk away. She’s a very patient parent.
4 years old and already has the hands of a concert pianist and an appetite for practice.
Thank you for actually running the footage. I'm not bored. I'm mesmerized. There's a lot to unpack. That's so. Normal. And the part where you sang along with the the pop song as well. I can see little you watch your fingers working, and getting a degree of freedom most kids never get. A lot to be learned. Something about learning isn't about the goal, it's about observing and letting your mind/body subconsciously learn?
Enjoyed your repeated notes playing, I was reminded of Gregorian chants. Very touching to hear such a young child describe their playing as from their heart..!
This wasn't boring at all. I laughed my head off! 😂😂😂
Thoroughly enjoyed the “growing up of becoming a pianist” from you. Your mum was very encouraging. Looking forward to your next video.❤
Nice to see from your childhood. Cute. It's nice memories to have.
Thank you Tiffany. Adorable then, adorable now. Keep striving!
I love this. Please share more of your childhood memories with us.
very real. thanks for the reflection.
I was not bored Tiffany. This was fascinating. Compelling watching. I wish I was in NY to party with you. I would love to hear you play live.
Tiffany, You are very serious pianist and musician since the beginning of Your practice in the deep child's age! 🤣 And Your parents, I've understood, are very kind people!😀 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
Aw your mother truly supported your passion! The “yayy” after you stop playing! Omg so cute. I vividly remember my mother on the phone with my first piano teacher and I had a recording of Clair De Lune playing on the family computer, pretending I could play. I love how music captivates us, even in our youth. Great video!
@11:50 Your mom is so amazing... the support she was giving you! She was asking those questions to get you to think about your composition, to critically think, what you liked about it, what you didn't, etc! I love these vlogs so much! ❤❤❤ You have my support on patreon!
Loved it! A big Thank You to your mom for filming your 4 year old self, and to you for posting it so that we all could watch it w/ you. RogerC 1/29/24
That's so interesting watching a four year old embracing this instrument and developing her coordination, absorbing the process of pressing the keys, listening to the musical notes--taking it all in. Don't judge yourself at all--you were a tot and bonding/imprinting with this musical instrument. It's fascinating,, and you were also extremely fortunate to have parents who went many extra miles to provide this to you at such a young age, and wow! You are really gifted and have been blessed in your life! Thank you for sharing your down-to-earth human perspectives and experiences as an extraordinarily skilled young professional, and your lovely, brilliant music with everyone! :-)
cute to the max ! 🥰
It is fascinating to see the musical seed that was planted at a young age, and to have it come to fruition in the release of your album. The pure enjoyment and sense of wonder a child can feel with a few simple notes is something to admire, and I believe this along with your parents' encouragement allowed you to develop into the artist you are today. The personal connection you have with Schumann's music makes your interpretation even more compelling. I'm very much looking forward to listening to your album.
Super cute. "The birth of a pianist". Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing these precious childhood vids with us, Tiffany!!! Wonderful and fascinating to watch!!! 💜🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🎹🎵🙂🙂🙂🤗🤗
Cute :) A tiger migrated to a much larger cage still runs in small circles for the first days. Too many keys compared to the toy piano, falling back to familiar patterns :)
You were born to play piano. Those little hands had the form already without anyone teaching you. Mommy was so sweet n loving ❤❤❤
You're so lucky to have this footage! Cherish it 😅
Your parents were very patient people 😂
I think you may have been slightly affected by the 4-key limitation of that toy piano. 😀
That must be it
It's always a pleasure to watch you.
Love from Nigeria 🇳🇬❤❤
You were so fortunate to have such patient parents who clearly loved their little baby girl. At the time they would never have been able to know the quality and quantity of your prodigious talent.
I am humming those note now and it's going around and around in my head 😊 nice. I didn't find it boring. It must have been good ear training for u and sensing the vibrations 👍
Awww thats an amazing video. Thanks for sharing
That was a cute glimpse back. One can see that your musical journey got off to a good start.
Awesome, Tiff-and happy Bday to you mom!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Congratulations on your album release.
Now that melody is stuck in my head lol... My mind will play variations for me in my head the whole day :)
As a kid I too was quite patient with stuff... Things I really cannot comprehend myself doing today
Look at where your heart got you, bravo! And haha, 'normal kid' playing Old Macdonald in F#
wonderful
"I used my heart to think of it" ❤🥹
I laughed when you mentioned about Philip Glass, is this what minimalistic music sounds like 🐿
It's funny how similar your musical beginnings mirror mine. I don't have any memory of this, but one day when I was around the age of 3 or 4 (around 1980 /1981my parents had taken me to a toy shop that also happened to sell basic Bontempi keyboards. Apparently, I screamed the place down until they bought it for me. The first piece I can remember playing was Silent Night (and performed it in a school assembly during my first year in primary school).
From there, I can remember my parents upgrading the Bontempi to a small Yamaha keyboard. After that, things took a bit of a twist. Because there wasn't room in the house for a piano my parents bought me a second hand Yamaha Electone organ of late 70's vinatage. I made really good progress on this and even upgraded this organ to a more modern Electone in the late 80's. It wasn't until the early 90's that I started to gravitate towards the piano and classical music. I didn't actually own a piano until 1995!
I feel now that this roundabout way to the piano has hindered my piano playing in some ways (I feel that my touch on the piano isn't terribly good). But I guess the one advantage of going down the Electone organ route is that nowadays I play the classical organ as well as the piano. I've taken some very good pianists to the pipe organ I play and they have all been terrified of it, they take one look at the pedals and go to pieces!
I have been following your work since my youth)
Thank you for growing with me together 🫶
@3:00 Awwwwww! And Whitney Houston @4:38 Awwwww! 😊❤🤭
It was sooooo funnny !!!! Yes Now that melody sticked to my brain 😮
Those "three notes" are such hope to mothers out here of young ones starting with piano. I even am surprised I did not skip the video 😂😂😂. ❤❤❤❤. Somewhen even Mozart started with much less notes than his later masterpieces.
I'm sitting eating breakfast with the silliest smile right now. My mother recently found a video like this of myself with a guitar. Guitars are huge when you're four, but I still managed to play a (highly repetitive) melody.
I love these tunes with chords of 2nds.
thats so fun to watch ^^ we want more!
I feel our careers could have been so similar. I used to play my great aunt's piano whenever I went round to see them. I see now why I ended up as an electrical engineer rather than a concert pianist. I only use to play two notes! I told people is was a sputnik. If only I could have managed three notes my life might have been so different.
Tiffany,... I like Ure Down To Earth. With Piano and Outside Nature.
Love You,.. (x). !
Not sure if you saw this Tiffany, but you got a fine mention on the ClassicsToday website review of a Llŷr Williams’ Schumann recording release. Reviewer Jed Distler wrote: "Tiffany Poon (Pentatone), for example, brings more abandon to No. 4’s broken chords while liberating No. 6’s rapid left-hand triplets from their usual cookie cutter uniformity. ". So nice for you!
I'm really looking forward to your new album, Schuman is a fantastically brilliant composer.. I wish you all the best in the new year. Your faithful listener and viewer Thomas from Germany.
2/11 is my birthday, too 😂. The poster with numbers on the wall was so cool… 4 years old to count to 20? Your parents might expect you to become a mathematician or accountant 😂
One of many things I get from this nice video is that your parents were great parents. They recognized talent and did what they could to support it. Very often in life it takes 2 generations at least to create a person who is really an artist (Mozart is the classic example). That requires parents with the insight and instinct to support the nascent talent they see in their kid. It's really pretty rare. I'd also say, I myself know quite a few kids around age 9 or 10 who have been practicing and learning piano for a few years. Many of them can play the written notes on a score, but rush through the rhythm as if they just want to get it over with as soon as they can. I feel in this video it's obvious from the very beginning you had an excellent rhythmic sense and understood that to make music, not every thing can be rushed, which I think is also pretty rare.
looking forward to the party in ny.
This is just great. Your parents must have believed in you to get you a Boston piano at age 4!
Omg! They got you a boston for your 1st piano!? Your parents are amazing! 👏 Do they still have it? That would be so cool for nostalgia! Im getting ready to shop around for my first grand and I will be trading in my upright, but you better believe I'm keeping my roland digital keyboard, that's what I learned to play on the 1st couple years of study. So I'm keeping it for nostalgia 😊
At least we now know what the encore will be at the Album Release Party. All of a sudden I feel slightly less bad about not being there.
Loved it so much!!! So fixated on that pattern, lol. Interesting how you had the little finger of your left hand crooked so tight.
I can’t emphasize enough how much i relate to ur childhood videos! especially areas where ur parents aren’t musicians but supported you 🥹 i wish my mom had recordings of me though😹😸
That was amazing! It's great to see you learning as such a small person :)
Zen-like meditative dream state. Watching the river run.
8:12 Not bored at all. I found it fascinating! So wonderful to see the support and love your parents have for you and how much you were enjoying yourself. Pretty nice that your first real piano (an upgrade from your toy) was a Boston upright. Wow! This video definitely put a smile on my face this morning. Thank you. PS - Do you happen to have the sheet music for your song? All the best to you!
"I used my heart to think of it."
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So, Barney was Tiffany's muse when she started to learn to play the piano. Who knew!! 😁
And no, I'm not bored watching this, I'm smiling like a kid who just got a new Christmas catalog.
Ah....Chinese New Year Eve!! 👍👍👍👋👋👋😊😊😊
Thank you for sharing this, it's so funny looking at it now, but it also shows how patient and supportive your parents were, encouraging you to play.
I do wonder know, and I hope we get an answer in this series, when did you actually decide that you wanted to become a pianist? Doing it for fun, as a hobby, is one thing, thinking about a professional career is something else of course.
Rather than your parents pushing you to learn the piano, you were leading them to something you loved to do and they helped nourish that. At 4 years old it is not common to have that deep of an interest. You looked so intrigued almost hypnotized by the sound, I wonder if your perfect pitch was developing or was already developed that you were hearing something magical.
"Vexations" Op. 1 by Tiffany Poon, 2001.
I just realized the piano Tiffany is playing is a Boston upright (designed & sold by Steinway & Sons, built by Kawai). So now I guess we know where her love of Steinway & Sons pianos began. 🤔
I'm about to go to bed. I think those 3 notes are going to be in my dreams tonight 🤣
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i love your sense of humor
Now we wanna see you play that piece you made up as the Tiffany in the present. Seeing you play that was so cute and funny, i was also waiting for the cadence multiple times lmao. 12:23 And you creating a theme and variations too lmao
It is a really good upright. "Boston" is Steinway design produced some other factory.
I like how you play the three notes. Just listen to the magic of these tones.
The remark about your attention span! Wow. Ha, that is true, kids can concentrate if they are fascinated.
Did you just unintentionally roast Philip Glass' minimalism? 😂
The level of patience and absorption you displayed in playing those repeating sequences of notes is actually very fun and interesting to watch. I'd call it "Variations on a Theme from Little Tiffany's Heart" and it's drilled into our heads now like a Philip Glass piece.
It would be so cool if you commissioned a piece based on the piece you played as a child.
No bored here.
This was great! Have you or will come perform in the SF Bay Area? 👏👏
Love that Barney is properly dressed
Your first composition on the piano is still influenced by your toy piano. The toy piano has four keys and you just gradually expanded to six keys or three notes in two octaves. Quiet a logical development 😊
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It is so interesting to see how a child plays piano. I had no access to a piano, but there was one in the kindergarten, and when i played a key and listened I was told not to because "I couldn't play". So I guess there was very little pedagogy expertise there, very little empathy.
Not sure why, but, I didn't realize how young you were until you said you watched "dvd"s growing up lol
Tiffany, the short extracts from your earliest videos are fascinating, I also think they are historically important and should be preserved and available on TH-cam. Please can you post a new topic in which the clips featured here (and more?) are played in full with original sound (without you talking over them as an adult)? I am sure that many would appreciate this. From Jeremy24.
The making of a prodigy. Obviously, was something there. Not just random playing. So Cute! I'm glad you're not playing Barney music!😄
A Boston might have been expensive ! Especially since your dad couldn't know for sure you would continue !
Would you recommend getting an expensive piano for kids or even for yourself, as a beginner ?
Channeling end-stage R Schumann at keyboard 😂
So cute! And speaking of Glass , what’s your current take on his Etudes? 👍🤗🙏
Always follow your heart
okay. fun question. Which piece do you remember the page in front of you, in terms of oldest memorie. cant wait to discuss that one tomorrow amongst us. thanks for the inspiration to you and little tiffany.
Those three notes, maybe you are recalling the Do-Re-Me song
Barney…..!
Better than Philip Glass! You should publish it as you op. 1. It really is quite astonishing that your mother had the foresight to record so much of your early keyboard explorations.