Marc Yu

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Marc Yu

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Marc started playing the piano at the age of three years and 11 months,{{Cite web |title=Outsmarted by a Six Year Old Again: Hanging Out with Mr. Marc Yu |url=https://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article/35012 |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=www.international.ucla.edu}} and the cello at the age of six.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} He began undertaking formal lessons later that year. Marc has [[perfect pitch]].{{Cite news |title=My Brilliant Brain |url=http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/tv/my-brilliant-brain/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170102214327/http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/tv/my-brilliant-brain/ |archive-date=2017-01-02 |access-date=2024-04-10}}
Marc started playing the piano at the age of three years and 11 months,{{Cite web |title=Outsmarted by a Six Year Old Again: Hanging Out with Mr. Marc Yu |url=https://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article/35012 |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=www.international.ucla.edu}} and the cello at the age of six.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} He began undertaking formal lessons later that year. Marc has [[perfect pitch]].{{Cite news |title=My Brilliant Brain |url=http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/tv/my-brilliant-brain/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170102214327/http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/tv/my-brilliant-brain/ |archive-date=2017-01-02 |access-date=2024-04-10}}


Marc exhibited prodigiousness in academic subjects, and advanced to high school-level math at the age of seven. In 2005 he was awarded a [[Davidson Institute for Talent Development|Davidson Fellow]] scholarship,{{Cite web|url=http://www.davidsongifted.org/Search-Database/entry/A10652|title=Davidson Fellows Scholarship Recipients - 10th Anniversary Success Stories|website=www.davidsongifted.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-29}} making him the youngest recipient of the bottom-tier award.[http://www.ditdservices.org/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=107&NavID=4_8 005 Davidson Fellows]
Marc exhibited prodigiousness in academic subjects, and advanced to high school-level math at the age of seven. In 2005 he was awarded a [[Davidson Institute for Talent Development|Davidson Fellow]] scholarship,{{Cite web|url=http://www.davidsongifted.org/Search-Database/entry/A10652|title=Davidson Fellows Scholarship Recipients - 10th Anniversary Success Stories|website=www.davidsongifted.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-29}} making him the youngest recipient of the bottom-tier award.[http://www.ditdservices.org/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=107&NavID=4_8 005 Davidson Fellows]


He has been featured on ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]'', ''[[The Ellen DeGeneres Show]]'' (in which he received an accordion), as well as being the focus of a ''[[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]]'' special titled "My Brilliant Brain".
He has been featured on ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]'', ''[[The Ellen DeGeneres Show]]'' (in which he received an accordion), as well as being the focus of a ''[[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]]'' special titled "My Brilliant Brain".
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[[Category:Nueva School alumni]]
[[Category:Nueva School alumni]]
[[Category:21st-century American male musicians]]
[[Category:21st-century American male musicians]]
[[Category:21st-century American male pianists]]



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