INOCENCIA, PUREZA, PRODIGIO, GENEROSIDAD

Andre Rieu y Akim Camara
He descubierto este videoclip. Mientras lo miraba, lágrimas cálidas y saladas caían por mis mejillas. Me pregunto por qué. Creo que porque ver la cara de este niño llena de inocencia, de naturalidad y espontaneidad, de pureza de espectación...Un niño que aún no ha llegado a la edad en que parte de eso se va perdiendo. Todos los niños del mundo deberían tener derecho a vivir su niñez, su niñez llena de pureza, de inocencia, de espontaneidad y de espectaciones... qué lejos estamos de eso, qué triste...
Al mirar la cara de este niño, sentimos que hay esperanza y futuro en el mundo....Lástima que algunos crecen y pierden todas estas cualidades, a muchos no se les puede culpar, han sufrido o sido testigos de momentos terribles, otros, como Andre Rieu, de seguro con mucha más suerte las han logrado conservar. Ojalá muchos más niños en el mundo tuvieran la suerte de Rieu.
Admiro a Andre Rieu por ser un artista generoso, cálido y muy humano. Gracias a él podemos apreciar y sentir esto.

Adjunto la biografía de Akim, tomada de Wikipedia.

Biography

[edit]Early life

Akim is a biracial child of mixed African (paternal) and European (maternal) descent.

[edit]Music career

At only two years of age Akim took up violin lessons under instructor Birgit Thiele at the Marzahn-Hellersdorf School of Music. Akim was at this point still in diapers and speaking in unintelligible toddler gibberish yet he was remarkably able to remember music heard^[2] and the names of all orchestral instruments. Moved by his remarkable memory and natural "ear for music" Akim's teacher began instructing the toddler twice a week in 45 minute sessions.^[3] Akim participated enthusiastically and, due in part to his remarkable memory, the toddler was learning unbelievably fast. After six months of this fairly light training regimen little Akim had his debut performance in December 2003 at the age of two in a Christmas concert "Schneefloeckchen, Weissroeckchen" put on by the Marzahn-Hellersdorf School of Music.^[4]

Birgit Thiele and the music school principal, Gudrun Mueller, messaged Andre Rieu, the celebrity Dutch violinist, regarding Akim's prodigious talent through his website. Rieu responded swiftly. He sent a camera crew to Berlin to film little Akim on the violin. What he saw astounded him. He hastily took action and invited the parents and grandmother of the boy to his studio in Kerkrade,Netherlands along with Akim. Three year old Akim's performance at the studio was apparently so impressive that it left all of the orchestra members in astonishment and disbelief.

Within two weeks little Akim was performing with Rieu in concert at Kerkrade's Parkstad Limburg Stadion filled to near max capacity with an audience of 18,000 people on a toddler-size violin and wearing a tiny custom-made concert tuxedo and dress shoes. After amusing the crowd with a "water trick" toddler Akim then performed Ferdinand Kuchler's violin concertino in G, opus 11 followed by a brief encore performance. Akim exited stage right after two massive standing ovations and roaring cheers.^[5]

Following the success of Akim's performance the little boy had to be essentially hidden from the public eye as many German television stations began pursuing him for appearances. Rieu took the toddler under his wing, so to speak, paying for his musical lessons on both violin and piano and overseeing his instruction (both musical and otherwise) so that Akim will remain "a nice boy"^[6] and not become "an insufferable child prodigy" as Rieu fears would be a possibility without his influence.

With his uncanny ability to memorize a musical piece after hearing it only once or twice, Akim's talent developed rapidly and his youthful enthusiasm and passion for the violin only grew. After an interview and appearance on a Danish TV show the young prodigy performed once again with Andre Rieu. This time Akim was performing a more complex piece, Felix Mendelssohn's Dance of the Fairies and at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, and with an appropriately bigger violin. He also sang "Pie Jesu" with Carla Maffioletti.^[7]

Akim has since performed on television with the likes of Wolfgang Fischer and Richard Clayderman.^[8]

Aquí con Carla Maffioletti, se le ve algo asustado, tal vez se sienta mejor con el violín....


A los cinco años de edad

Ya más grandecito.... con Richard Clayderman


Creciendo física y artísticamente.