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Disability

Ability

  • Born 25 weeks early
  • Oxygen therapy caused loss of sight
  • Later discovered his autism
  • Perfect Pitch
  • Can play any song only hearing it once
  • Can identify a 10 note chord
  • Can change any song into whatever, key, or style he wants

Black and White Rag

Effects

  • Limited speech
  • He is an echolaliac and will repeat your question in his answer
  • I.Q. of a 4 year old
  • Cannot tell left from right
  • Cannot count to ten

Derek Paravicini

A Musical Savant

By: Hunter Smith

Accomplishments

Background

  • At age seven he played at the Tooting Leisure Center in South London
  • At age ten he received Barnado's Children's Champion Award presented by Diana Princess of Welsh
  • At age nine he played at the Barbican Halls in London
  • Other venues include Mandalay Bay Area in Las Vegas and Scott's jazz club in London

Currently

  • He has a CD out called "Echos of the Sounds to Be"

Performing

  • Because of his autism, he does not think long term
  • This causes him not to be nervous during performances
  • Also because of his autism, his emotional capacity is small
  • However he manages to put emotion in the music he plays
  • No other baby at the Royal Berkshire Hospital born that premature had survuved
  • Talents were first discovered by his nanny, Winfred Daily, when he was two
  • When he was five Adam Ockelford, a teacher at the Linden school for the Blind took him on as a student.

Lessons

  • Adam Ockelford broke Derek of his bad habbits and taught him proper technique
  • Before lessons, Derek used the back of his hands, elbows, karate chops, and even his nose.

Resources:

Brittany Maier

Derek Paravicini

  • http://www.derekparavicini.net/
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191163/Derek-Paravicini-blind-severely-disabled-master-song-hearing--What-secret.html
  • http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/derekparaviccini.html
  • Similar to Derek
  • Blind- because of oxygen therapy after being born premature
  • autistic
  • A savant with perfect pitch and large musical memory

Brittany Maier

  • https://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/professional/savant-syndrome/profiles-and-videos/profiles/brittany-maier-playing-by-ear/

Photo Resources

  • Derek- http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01411/Derek-Paravicini_1411653c.jpg
  • CD http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41W0UiUgtXL.jpg
  • Young Derek- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191163/Derek-Paravicini-blind-severely-disabled-master-song-hearing--What-secret.html
  • Brittany Maier- https://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/professional/savant-syndrome/profiles-and-videos/profiles/brittany-maier-playing-by-ear/

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