Baby got Bach! Ivory-tickling tot, 5, makes youngest-ever debut at NYC’s Carnegie Hall this weekend
NY Post
Alec Van Khajadourian plays to his strengths.
And the five-year-old, a piano prodigy from Los Angeles, is poised to show off his strong suit — on one of NYC’s most storied stages this Sunday.
“I can’t wait to get on stage at Carnegie Hall and play for everyone,” little Alec enthused to The Post. “I’m so excited!.”
The ivory-tickling tot will be the youngest virtuoso performing at the NY Classical Debut Awards Gala Concert this weekend, when elementary and middle school age children from 10 countries — including Turkey, Macedonia, Macau and Poland — will show off their skills at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall.
“Alec is our youngest performer ever,” said Pietro Molteni, the founder and artistic director for the Gala Concert. “And, according to my records, the youngest performer in the history of Carnegie Hall.”
Representatives for Carnegie Hall, however, told The Post they could not “confirm anyone to be the youngest person to perform here since we don’t have complete records of the Hall’s earliest days.”
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