If you want to hear more of Whitaker’s talent for yourself, his music is for sale on Amazon.As one parent of a child with autism put it after watching Paravicini, who has performed at venues from Las Vegas to Buckingham Palace and has been featured on “60 Minutes,” the Englishman with light-brown hair is an extraordinary reminder of something else: When asked about why he thought his brain was illuminated in such a way, he simply said “I love music.” “I didn’t even know that that was happening,” Whitaker said. Limb presented Whitaker with his brain scans showing how his brain lit up when he listened to music, the musician was amazed. “It’s sort of borrowing that part of the brain and rewiring it to help him hear music.”ĬHECK OUT: Hundreds of People Are Being Cured of Blindness Every Day With Cheap, Minutes-Long Surgery “It seems like his brain is taking that part of the tissue that’s not being stimulated by sight and using it … to perceive music,” Limb told CBS News for the 60 Minutes interview. Even when Whitaker was simply listening to one of his favorite bands, his entire visual cortex lit up. Limb was surprised to find was that Whitaker’s brain seemed to have repurposed its own disused visual cortex in order to build other neurological pathways. Limb was fascinated by what might’ve been going on inside Whitaker’s brain, so with the permission of the musician and his family, Whitaker underwent two MRI exams-first while being exposed to different stimuli, including music, and then while he played on a keyboard. Charles Limb, a neurologist who also happens to be a fellow musician. Such is the height of Whitaker’s talent that he caught the attention of Dr. LOOK: Man Carries Blind Dog for 800 Miles So She Can Build Confidence Walking the Rest of the Epic Hike on Her Own Now only 18 years old, Whitaker has since toured around the world, headlined prestigious venues from Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center, and won a number of music awards.
One day after hearing it at the recital, Whitaker was playing this difficult piece of music by ear-all five parts, usually performed by five different people, at the same time. I walk into the studio and he’s playing the opening of the Dvorak Quintet.” “So Matt and his mom came to hear, you know, the night I played. So there’s five of us,” Sakas told CBS reporters. “I was performing a couple of recitals and the Dvorak Piano Quintet is a piece actually for a piano and string quartet. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School for the Visually Impaired, recalls the moment she decided to take Matthew on as a student when he was five years old, making him the youngest person to ever attend the school. RELATED: Blind Man Develops Smart Cane That Uses Google Maps and Sensors to Identify One’s Surroundingsĭalia Sakas, the director of New York’s Filomen M. The piano prodigy from Hackensack, New Jersey can now play anything he hears-from Dvorak to Beyonce, his repertoire is immense and fluid.
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