Marc Yu

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Marc Yu (born January 5, 1999) is a musical child prodigy. He plays the piano and the cello. Marc has been playing the piano since the age of two, and the cello since the age of four. He also exhibits a prodigious intellect in academic subjects, having advanced to high school-level math by the age of seven. In 2005 he was named a Davidson Fellow, making him the youngest recipient of this award.^[1] He has been featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the Ellen Degeneres show, as well as being featured on the television program National Geographic: Brain Child.

Marc learned the piano at age two. While at a friend's party, Marc heard the children in attendance singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb," at which point he went to the piano and taught himself to play it. He started formal lessons at age three. He asked his mother, Chloe Hui Yu, to play a second instrument, and after visiting an instrument store, he picked out the cello. Marc also has perfect pitch, a rare aptitude that only one in 10,000 people have. Marc is home schooled.

His musical idol is Lang Lang, whom Marc has met and played with on several occasions. Lang calls Marc "Little Mozart."