Maggie Ruoyu Deng

I have been playing the piano since I was five, and I’ve been in love with it ever since. Playing the piano has always given me a sense of peace and satisfaction that I don’t get out of many other things. 
I started out learning the basics in a group class, then started private piano lessons. Later, I transferred to learn with my current piano teacher, Vivian Kwok. In third grade, I participated in my first video competition and was one of the second place winners, and I got to play at Carnegie Hall. In fourth grade, I participated in another video competition and was one of the second place winners again, although I didn’t get to play live because of Covid-19. 
During quarantine, I had more free time to practice piano, but I couldn’t go in person to my piano teacher’s place. But, I still learned a lot of new and fun pieces by both classical composers such as Chopin and Schubert and more recent pieces by composers such as Yiruma. 

You can find Maggie’s 2022 19th Century Music Competition piano performance here.