11-year-old Syrian violinist admitted to Vienna University of Music

The Syrian musician girl, Brolin Thani, learned music before she learned to walk and speak, and the environment in which she lived contributed to the development of her musical talent for playing.

 

 The sound of the violin played by her two older brothers attracted her more attention than the usual children's games for those of her age, and when she was eleven years old, she won the "Golden Note" award in Austria, and she was able to enter the prestigious Vienna University of Music and Arts.

 Brolin, whose name in Aramaic means "the Jewel", moved with her family from the Syriac town of "Rish Ainu" in the "Ras al-Ain" area in northeastern Syria to Austria, her father registered her with his other children in scientific schools and in an orchestra institute.

 

Her father, George Thani told Zaman al-Wasl that his little girl proved her remarkable merit in playing the violin, which prompted the institute's administration to choose her among 500 students to study at a higher level due to her talent and distinction, and she was not more than 6 years old at the time.

 

At the age of nine, Brolin led an orchestra of 60 musicians of different nationalities, during which she played the children's song "Tik Tik, O Umm Suleiman" by the icon Fairuz, while her sister led the band in the song "Anta Omri" by Umm Kulthum.

 

After that, Brolin competed in several art competitions for different age groups and achieved first places with her sister, Semedra, noting that her 17-year-old sister taught Arabic music students and her brother is an oud player who played many concerts and held many concerts.

 

 

 

After Brolin reached the age of eleven, she participated in the "Golden Note" competition in Austria and achieved first place in it. In the honoring ceremony, she was chosen to play in the most prestigious and important place for music in Austria.

 

After Brolin was eleven years old, she participated in the "Golden Note" competition in Austria and won first place.

 

In the last honoring ceremony, she was chosen to play in the oldest and most important place for music in Austria. Usually, any famous musician needs a year or two to reserve a role to play in it. And theatrical arts, which is the largest musical university in the world and has 3,500 students.

 

It came as a surprise to the family, and a date was set for a playing exam in front of 12 professors from several countries at the same university.

  

Brolin, who was the youngest examinee before the committee, performed a piece of "Vivaldi", and she was stopped playing after 3 minutes and before she finished playing, and the second presto was stopped after less than two minutes and the third after a minute and a half, and we learned from the professor who chose to record that the committee had enough time. Specified for playing if the player proves his competence and a high level of playing.

 

The approval then came via e-mail to enroll in MDF university, which is still eleven years old, to be the youngest student at the prestigious university in the world and has been studying for three years.

 

 

 

 

Brolin and her two brothers "Masaad and Semendra" formed the "Palmira" band to introduce Syrian art through music, where they gave a special concert at the house of the world musician Mozart in "Salzburg".

 

According to the testimony of the journalist presenter of the ceremony, the walls of Mozart’s house heard for the first time Arabic music more than 230 years after his death, where classical pieces were played and some songs of Fairuz and Umm Kulthum, as well as passages of Syrian Syriac folklore were played at the King’s Palace.

 Brolin was invited to play in a concerto concert in the "Mosaic Fraine" hall in Vienna, which is one of the most important halls of world music houses, during which she won many awards and certificates, the most important of which was an invitation to learn and train by the most famous musicians of the world in Germany and the Czech Republic.

 

Psychologists and sociologists believe that musical preparations are inherited, and there are many musical talents among prominent authors in history, such as (Mozart), for example, discovered before the age of six and sometimes before the age of two or three years.

 

 Recent psychological and social research indicates the importance of the age stage from 6-7 years in the development of children's musical sense and that the first years of childhood from the ground on which the child becomes familiar with music and begins his first experiences of perception and simulation of the songs he hears and moves his whole body in a unique rhythmic way During which he feels pleasure and by the age of six he has acquired an active relationship with musical symbols and then plays, performs and perceives with increasing degrees of accuracy.