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11-Year-Old Classical Pianist From Fairfield County Says Music Takes Him To 'Different World' 11-Year-Old Classical Pianist From Fairfield County Says Music Takes Him To 'Different World'
11-Year-Old Classical Pianist From Fairfield County Says Music Takes Him To 'Different World' Beethoven. Chopin. Haydn. Mozart.  Eleven-year-old Fairfield County pianist Cary Wang of New Canaan has a musical repertoire so long that when you get to the end, you've forgotten where you started.  Cary made his piano debut at the age of six with Claude Debussy's Le Petit Nègre at Carnegie Hall in December 2015 and hasn't looked back.  He's gone on to win first prize in national and international piano competitions, and, in December 2018, he won a competitive Manhattan School of Music Annual Concerto Competition — the youngest performer in the 10-to-13-year-old age group — w…

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