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look inside New York's Young Concert Artists agency, and the extraordinary
challenges of creating a career in big time classical music. The YCA, a
special agency/tutor/performance
manager and mentoring organization, chooses 5 musicians every year between
the ages of 10-18, then instructs them for 3 years before setting them off
on their professional careers. The film follows two exceptional musicians
for a year, both of whom have won the YCA International Competition, their
prize being a debut in New York and 3 years of management. Our subjects
are Mayuko Kamio, a 14 year-old violin prodigy who is starting her
American performing career as she attends Jr. High School and Juilliard,
and Adam Neiman, a 22 year-old American pianist who,
as the film closes at the end of his YCA term, is chosen to play with the
Chicago Symphony, one of the world's great orchestras. The film features
interviews with many stars of the music world who were discovered by YCA
and also includes a scene with Isaac Stern, in the last filmed interview
of his life,
as he reminisces on his own professional beginnings. |
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