Last week a young pianist and composer premiered an award-winning original Wingfeather score at her piano recital! Says her mother,
My ten-year-old daughter, Lyla, is a huge fan of the Wingfeather Saga books. This summer, her piano teacher challenged her students to write an original composition. Lyla took up that challenge and wrote hers based on the fourth book in the series. In the piece the boys are running with the Stone, encountering the giant spider, and the trolls are fighting. She even taught herself how to use notation software to finish her piece. Anyways, she won the Young Composer’s Award tonight at her recital where she played her original piece. Thank you so much for inspiring her. She is already working on another piece based on the series—a much sadder piece, she tells me.
Lyla and her piano instructor
Lyra, your composition is marvelous, and your hard work and dedication blows me away. Please keep composing!
To view Lyla’s composition, click here.