Exploring Musical Genius 🎵 The Incredible Life of Derek Paravicini

Derek Paravicini is blind, severely autistic and has learning difficulties, yet he is a world-renowned pianist and musical prodigy. This talk, conducted by his mentor Dr Adam Ockelford explores his incredible life and abilities as well as autistic talent and musical creativity in general. You'll also find a LOT of Derek playing live in here!🎵
If you are interested in Derek and his amazing abilities, we highly recommend 'In the Key of Genius', written by Adam Ockelford which covers Derek's early life in depth - www.amazon.co....
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👨🎹ABOUT DEREK:
#derekparavicini is a musical savant. His extraordinary talent developed alongside blindness, severe autism and learning difficulties. With the gift of perfect pitch, a photographic musical memory, the ability to transpose anything instantly to any key, and his incredible abilities to learn by ear and improvise, Derek loves connecting with people via his music and absolutely loves taking requests for songs, styles and keys!
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📰📽️🎧 / derekparavicini - News + Live Requests on Facebook
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📽️🎧derekparavicin... - Derek's Amazing Jazz Quartet
📽️🎧 de.... - Derek on Twitter
📰www.derekparavi... - Concert Dates + General Info
🧑🤝🧑www.ambertrust... - The Amber Trust Works with Visualy Impaired Children Through Music
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[@autumnleaves2766]

Always great to hear Derek playing. What a talent he is ! It's wonderful that Dr Adam Ockelford has nurtured and mentored Derek since early childhood, allowing him to make a living for himself as he gives recitals all over Britain and the world. Derek wouldn't have been able to do this by himself. It helped that Derek came from a well-off family (he's a nephew of Andrew Parker-Bowles, ex husband of Camilla) so he could go to an excellent special school where his great talent could be nurtured. There must be some gifted savants who don't get this level of support. Another great talented savant from Britain is the artist Stephen Wiltshire, who could draw complex buildings from memory at an early age.

[@derekparavicini]

You've raised an extremely important point about other people in Derek's position deserving the same opportunities. If you're interested, take a look at ambertrust.org/ - Adam founded this charity back in 1994 to address exactly this issue and to give musical support to children with visual impairment, and other complex needs. For children in this situation music can really be critical to cognitive and social growth and we couldn't agree more that support should be avaliable to everyone.

[@jilyurmhmpily6243]

When you have a pure heart not contaminated by the world, God can work through you.

[@jeanetteh.9240]

The soprano sang beautifully, and Derek accompanied her with great sensitivity.

[@parakeethunter5176]

Love Derek and Adam! It's more than just their music and wisdom, it's their great energy that is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face, even when feeling down. They wash away the feelings of hopelessness, and always give a fresh breath of life and optimism for the world.

[@keep_walking_on_grass]

15:50 incredible

[@johna8947]

Really fascinating. Thank you Adam and Derek- such a gift to music lovers. Thank you!!

[@iloveesr]

This really deserves more likes

[@jeanetteh.9240]

Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers, Derek!!

[@discreetfire]

Bravo Derek! and thank you Adam. It is always a treat when my KZbin alert is another brilliant and original musical performance by the maestro himself, Derek Paravicini!!! Love from Chicago, IL in the United States of America.

[@l3p3]

I like how he repeats things, that "Toy organ from the loft" sounded nice so I can very much understand why one would repeat it.

[@FutureAbe]

I love his echolalia, it’s so precious

[@njmcd]

Echolalia is the autistic tendency to repeat words and phrases.

[@njmcd]

It adds to Derek's charm ❤

[@michaelmole5435]

Great crowd very nice! Heartwarming when they started singing

[@TheSeverusSnape]

This is lovely, thank you for uploading the video for all of us to enjoy.

[@VivianSmiling]

Thank you so much for sharing this video! Derek, you're absolutely gorgeous and Adam, too! 💖 God bless you both!

[@gr8catsby]

Thank you for adding subtitles!

[@johnrayker6245]

Wonderful. Thanks for the insights and amazing performance from both of you, Derek and Adam.

[@benlovemusicuk]

Can't believe I was at the same college as this guy what a talent!

[@michaelmole5435]

Age 4!! That’s like as good as I could EVER hope to be!!

[@derrikferguson3219]

Derek is what we like to call back home “talented”.

[@henryjones8287]

People I'd like to see talk / play together: Derek, Jacob Collier, Marc Rebillet, and Terrance Shider.

[@WhompingWalrus]

Thank you for the video. Subs are great. Dude's a fascination & an inspiration.

[@plaincoils]

I’m kinda curious whether people who don’t have much experience learning or playing musical instruments have the same sense of just how astounding and atypical his playing really is - particularly the improvised portions. beginning with the unique way he approaches rhythm, especially rhythmic changes; this actually informs how he proceeds to assemble chords from individual notes, progressions from chords, and key changes from progressions. it's like a crystalline matrix or an organism that grows by building larger and larger structures from the same pattern... self-similar at all levels - from the basic rhythmic structures to the intricate, atonal fills - it's an audial fractal. anyway, playing like this is not common, nor is it easy to learn how to do, and it is definitely not naturally intuitive for most musicians. for many I think this exemplifies a nearly unattainable level of mastery. I am just really curious if this is what others are hearing, or does it just sound like some interesting, well-played music to most...? because in actuality, I'm not sure it's likely that very many people have ever heard someone play like this before.

[@sax5055]

Extremely well queried and postulated. I play 10 instruments and keyboard is the main one. I show my wife Derek’s video and point things out. Like when he’s really Presto Con Fuoco, but you still hear the melody in the middle of complex, dissonant, chord progressions, including varying tempos on fingers within the chords. Then you notice the melody has moved from right hand to left hand and back again. And maybe the style went from ragtime to boogie during the melody transition. Yes, she hears the melody in the chord progressions, but has no concept of how hard that is. I’ve given up saying anything other than “you have no idea how hard that is.” Very brilliant of me. I believe that if you’ve never tried the instrument you’re watching, it’s not possible to have a full understanding of the performance. But it’s that way with virtually everything in life. I can’t really describe the diving experience off the island of Corfu, Greece unless you’ve seen similar waters. Does anyone know exactly how hard the clarinet’s glissando part is at the opening of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. I play clarinet. I get it. I can’t do it. Derek, I get it. I can’t do it.

[@bmd42]

simply wonderful entertainment, thank you so much!!!

[@carolinegray3150]

I am watching the rest of the video lovely music and very good

[@carolinegray3150]

He’s very good

[@Artscardshop]

Wow

[@ninabonita892]

I've read about it and I think if you hadn't pushed him to start speaking, he would have had more special abilities. Activating his speech center turns off other special possibilities in his brain, (from my opinion, of course, pls don't shoot me :)) thank you for the video, amazing!

[@emilybh6255]

Adam's audio could stand a lot of improvement!.

[@derekparavicini]

Apologies for the audio issues. We've now subtitled most of the video so hopefully that helps to make it clearer! We filmed this video several years ago when we were first experimenting with live-streaming on Facebook and we didn't really intend the recording to be a permenant high quality record at the time. Anything similar that we record now and in the future will have much higher quality audio and video. Hopefully this one is still mostly followable and interesting. =)

[@guitarnotator]

JOHN 9:2-3 KJV

[@Enregardant]

How does it bother Derek when the piano is out of tune?

[@SharmaGhostTV]

Ma

[@pollyling8852]

Never get bored listen to Derek history. 👏👏👏👏

[@l3p3]

Double request: I would like to see/hear him playing other instruments, at least a Rhodes piano and an organ. And please, I need a lot of Bach! Even better: Bach on a Rhodes! Sex on a stick! Thanks! Or even better: Listen to Gould playing Goldberg Variations and improvise in that theme on a Rhodes. Haha! That would be like the best thing in the universe to people like me! I am sorry but the only tune from the video I knew is the bumblebee and even that is so boring after the tenth time hearing it.

[@Kalumbatsch]

I wonder what he could do with a modular synthesizer.

[@carolinegray3150]

Other nice music playing too

[@bogdandumitriu4723]

Thank you mr. Ambasador

[@carolinegray3150]

Nice playing of fair city

[@SamuelLiebermann]

No point in leaving the talking in the video with that kind of quality. Can't understand word. If you can't record properly, add subtitles. Otherwise leave the talking out.

[@Ix10n70]

Samuel Liebermann just make it louder. I caught everything.

[@derekparavicini]

Apologies. We are adding subtitles to the video right now, please bare with us! This video was recorded several years ago on a phone for live-streaming purposes. It wasn't really intended to be a permenant record at the time! We came across it in the archives while sorting through Derek's videos recently and decided it was worth putting it up because the atmosphere at the event was so good and the talk is interesting (and Derek was on good form!). We also wanted to use it because it addresses some of the questions people commonly ask about Derek and his life (and we will have newer content on this as well). Don't worry though, currently and moving forward our audio is much better than this!

[@carolinegray3150]

This man is a genius the important thing thing ,I am hard of hearing in one ear,and I can hear the talking

[@SamuelLiebermann]

@@carolinegray3150 He may be a genius, but I'm here to listen to Derek.

[@derekparavicini]

We've now added subtitles to most of the video. Hopefully this makes it a little easier to follow!