7/8/2023 0 Comments Piano prodigy emily"I grew up listening to my mom play and that's kind of where it all started," he said.īenjamin not only plays the piano and organ but also has musical skills in percussion and the ukulele, which he brings out for special occasions. Then, by the age of 7, he was playing the organ for his church's worship services. "I get to show them what I can do!"īenjamin said he started begging his mother to teach him to play piano, so she started teaching him at the age of 5. "I have all my friends, some teachers and everyone I know is going to be there," he said. "It was crazy and it was so much fun," he said.īut, Benjamin says he's even more excited for this weekend because he will be playing with the Great Falls Symphony this weekend. Last weekend was Benjamin's first experience playing with a symphony. Emily Hodson said Maestro John Zoltek of the Glacier Symphony was so impressed with Benjamin Hodson’s playing that he invited him to come perform twice with the Glacier Symphony September 21-22 in Whitefish and Kalispell. "We were like 'What oh my goodness this is crazy!'.then, six days later they say 'go break a leg,' he literally went and broke a leg skiing down the hill."ĭuring the final competition, symphony conductors throughout Montana are invited to listen to the finalists’ performance. "We just couldn't believe he won," she said. "It was my idea to do the slam poem," his father Dan Hobson laughed. So, after his grand, contemporary piano concerto he took the microphone and performed a slam poem he wrote about Robert Frost. His said an English teacher at North Middle School introduced slam poetry. So, he brought out one of his newer hobbies and talents-slam poetry. When he won the junior division, he had to put on an encore performance. ![]() He was awarded $500 and the opportunity to play with the Great Falls Symphony. The entrants must perform a memorized concerto, which is a musical composition usually about 30 pages long. In January, Benjamin won the Montana Association of Symphony Orchestra (MASO) competition in the junior division. MASO is a statewide concerto competition held every two years in Bozeman. "It's totally fine that I didn't get the chance because I got to watch my son up there with the orchestra and that made his mom very happy," Emily said.
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