12-year old piano prodigy to play at Eurovision Festival for Young Artists

Twelve-year-old pianist Stas Drzewiecki has become the youngest-ever finalist of the Eurovision Festival for Young Artists. However, the festival is nothing new to the piano prodigy, who has already won the European Television Festival in Villena, Spain and several awards at the Moscow Piano Competition. Drzewiecki was born in Russia and began piano lessons when he was four. He went on his first international tour in 1994, to Japan with the Sinnfonia Varsovia. He has also played in Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Canada and has already released two albums. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 2) T.J.