12 YEAR OLD PIANO PRODIGY PROFESSIONAL
Her parents are also professional pianists and were her first teachers. I don't want to make a mistake or do something I shouldn't," she explains.įor Alexandra, the piano is a natural extension of her hands, and always has been. But now: "I'm not scared, I just feel more responsibility. She was only four years old when she gave her first concert and she wasn't worried or nervous then. She recognises that being good enough, and having to please an audience, gets harder over the years. For me, it was very important to hear those words," this young pianist admits. What is it like when a legend refers to you like that? "You feel a great sense of responsibility. She has been based in Malaga province since Putin soured relations with the western world with his invasion of Ukraine and, in a few days, she will be performing there as well, giving her first recital in the province at Malaga's Palacio de Ferias on 3 July.
"Like any other girl of my age," she says.Īt the age of 14 (she will be 15 next month), Alexandra Dovgan, who is Russian, is a revelation, a prodigy who has become a teenage genius at the piano keyboard. Because she doesn't only play the piano, although that is what she does most: she also goes to school, goes out for a milkshake with her friends and likes to do sport. And, despite all that, she gets up at 7am to run along the beach in Mijas.
She insists time and time again that she is "just a normal girl", but she has just come back from Germany after spending some time in Italy and in a few days' time she will fly to Switzerland before returning and performing in Malaga.
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