“I just play and enjoy the music,” Alan Yang Tudela said, admitting he was hoping to get the first prize.
On February, Tudela emerged champion in the 2011 Young Artists’ Competition organized by the Guam Symphony Society.
Also this year, he won first prize at the Tumon Bay Musical Festival in March.
Tudela told Variety yesterday he was nervous “at first” on Saturday’s night competition knowing most of the participants and professionals.
“While he started playing he put all his feelings in the music,” said Tudela’s teacher Ao Zhang, also the DoReMi musical school president and music director.
Zhang said Tudela has the potential to become professional, adding the Tudela played the rhapsodical concert piece “Csardas” the most famous composition of Vittorio Monti.
The piece, Zhang added, is difficult for 11 year-old boy to play.
His first violin teacher for two years was Wang Yi of DoReMi Music School.
Now, Zhang himself took charge in developing the musical skill of Tudela.
Tudela started playing violin at 4 and his music was always dedicated to his father Alejandro C. Tudela who had passed away, his mother Hua Yang Tudela said.
“What a wonderful Christmas present for my son to give me. Thank you for sharing my dreams, my life, and my inspiration,” the mother said.
She also thanked Zhang for the encouragement to his son, and Young Mi Kim, a piano teacher who accompanied Tudela in his solo performance.
When asked how he will spend the $1,000 prize, the young Tudela said he will buy Christmas presents for his mother.
Zhang said he was confident that Tudela would emerge champion in the Bridge Capital LLC’s “CNMI Got Talent” competition at Pacific Islands Club on Saturday night.
“He has a bright future. The school and I are very proud of him,” Zhang said.
Tudela said it was his dream to become a professional violinist.
He said he’s ready for any competition, adding when he joined in competition abroad “I would tell them that I’m Chamorro and I came from Saipan.”
