"I was a slow starter when it came to talking, uttering my first sentences only when I was about four years old. I started learning the piano when I was six and made rapid progress, playing technically demanding pieces in public only a few years later. Expressing myself in music is therefore as natural and necessary to me as speaking or writing." 

Henry Edmundson
Petrotechnical Experts Career Planning Manager

I was a sort of minor musical child prodigy, which by the way is relatively common. Grand though this sounds, it is a watered-down version of the genuine article — the child prodigy who instinctively plays music from the age of 3 or 4 and proceeds through childhood, pubescence and adulthood to a life filled with music performance. It is an extraordinary fact that almost all great performers of Western classical music, whatever their instrument, start at this incredibly young age without even thinking about it. Vladimir Horowitz, the greatest pianist of the 20th century, famously said that if you hadn’t played a concerto (usually a very demanding piece of performance accompanied by a symphony orchestra) by the age of 10, you never would. And it’s usually earlier than 10.