ABOUT KEVIN CHEN
Kevin Chen was this age when he started playing piano.
What is 6 years old?
The Chopin Olympics takes place in this city and country.
What is Warsaw, Poland?
This is the city and country the composer was born in.
What is Warsaw, Poland?
The only global event that this competition stopped for.
What is World War 2?
The reason Kevin Chen could play with no paper music to read from.
What is that he memorized his concerto.
The instrument that Kevin Chen competed in.
What is the piano?
The next Chopin Olympics will happen this year.
What is 2030?
The age that Chopin died.
What is aged 39?
The reason why the 2025 competition was so remarkable for Canada?
What is the fact that 5 Canadians made it into the first round and that a Canadian achieved silver!!
The amount of hours each day that Kevin Chen practiced for the performance.
What is 6 - 8 hours a day?
What place did Kevin Chen come in when he competed in the 2025 Chopin Olympics?
What is silver place?
This is the name of Poland's most famous composer.
Who is Fryderyk Chopin?
How might Chopin have recorded his music back then?
What is possibly with pen and paper.
The age group of individuals that can compete in this olympics.
What is aged 16-30?
The word that is a synonym for will-power and personal resolve.
What is determination?
The city, province and country Kevin Chen grew up in.
What is Calgary, Alberta, Canada?
The reason this is called an 'olympics'.
What is because it is the highest level of competition in piano and is world-wide.
The reason Chopin is so well known.
What is the fact that he composed so many amazing piano concertos.
The person who won first place in the competition and the country he is from?
Who is Eric Lu and the USA?
The judges praised Kevin Chen's performance, saying that it was "superhuman virtuousity". The meaning of virtuosity is this.
What is exceptional ability or style, especially in theatre and fine arts.
Kevin Chen earned the highest degree possible at this Canadian music school.
What is the Canadian Royal Conservatory of Music?
A concerto is this.
What is a piece of classical music written for one or more solo instruments?
The years that Chopin lived.
What is the 1800's (1810 - 1849)
The way Kevin Chen could balance playing piano, his job and the rest of his life.
What is a good schedule and a lot of discipline and a lot of support from other people
The ability to have self-mastery over yourself to do difficult tasks and stay focused on those tasks.
What is self-discipline?