Derek Trucks

Derek Trucks

male, 30 years old
slide guitar, Blues guitarist, The Allman Brothers Band, Taper-friendly musician, From Jacksonville, Allman Brother…childprodigy
Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Trucks took up the guitar at age 9, and it was quickly...
Claudio Arrau

Claudio Arrau

male, deceased (1991)
childprodigy, classical music, naturalized citizen of the United States, pianist, baroque, Classical pianist
Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean pianist of world fame for his deep interpretations of a huge, vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 2...

Michael Kearney

male, 25 years old
Giftedness, University of South Alabama, Postgraduate, Guinness World Records, Ritalin, associate's degree…childprodigy
Michael Kevin Kearney (born January 18, 1984) is a former child prodigy known for setting several world records, and teaching college at the age of...
Terence Tao

Terence Tao

male, 34 years old
Chinese American, Fellow of the Royal Society, From Adelaide, Chinese Australian, childprodigy, University of California, Los Angeles
Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic...
Philippa Schuyler

Philippa Schuyler

female, deceased (1967)
Journalists killed while covering the Vietnam War, roman, musician, African American, composer, pianist…childprodigy
Philippa Duke Schuyler (August 2, 1931-May 9, 1967) was a noted American child prodigy and pianist who became famous in the 1930s and 1940s as a...
Adora Svitak

Adora Svitak

female, 12 years old
Non-fiction writer, Good Morning America, American, author, childprodigy, blogs
Adora Lily Svitak (born October 15, 1997) Usually known simply as Adora Svitak. Svitak is an American child prodigy and internationally published...
Jay Greenberg

Jay Greenberg

male, 18 years old
Songwriter, juilliard, juilliard school, Sony BMG artist, CBS News, September 11, 2001 attacks…childprodigy, American child musician
Jay "Bluejay" Greenberg (born December 131991, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American child prodigy composer who entered the Juilliard School in...
Morton Gould

Morton Gould

male, deceased (1996)
Vaudeville performer, wor, Songwriter, Conductor, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Jewish…childprodigy
Morton Gould (December 10, 1913 - February 21, 1996) was an American pianist, composer, conductor, and arranger. Born in Richmond Hill, New York,...
Rudolf Serkin

Rudolf Serkin

male, deceased (1991)
Musician who left Nazi Germany, Jewish, childprodigy, eger, Musicians who left Nazi Germany, Curtis Institute of Music
Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 - May 8, 1991) was a Bohemian-born pianist. He was born in Cheb (Eger), Bohemia (now Czech Republic) to a...
Ruth Lawrence

Ruth Lawrence

female, 38 years old
advanced level, English, Jewish person, St Hugh's College, Oxford, Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford, knot theory…childprodigy
Ruth Elke Lawrence (born August 2, 1971) is an Associate Professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of...