Her hands are so tiny that her fingers barely span more than a few keys at a time.

She uses a booster seat to get level with the keyboard and it takes all her concentration to play without looking.

But even before she is three years old， Lavinia Ramirez has astounded experts—with her first public performance on pianoTrue.

It might have been only a note-perfect rendition of Mary Had a Little Lamb at her music schools end of term concert， but she was being hailed as a mini maestro in the making—and Britains youngest piano playing star.

Her teacher Matej Lehocky said her talent was “remarkable” for someone so young， describing her ability as “outstanding”.

“To play at her age is something extraordinary， something very special，” he said. “Usually children that young are not able to control themselves or do what they are told. Normally they just run down the keys and get bored.” Lavinia， who celebrates her third birthday today， had been learning to play for only six weeks before she stepped out to perform before a 200-strong audience at a local church hall on the outskirts of Plymouth.

By that stage she had been to only eight lessons. Mr Lehocky， who studied at the prestigious Prague Conservatory of Music， agreed to tutor her after realising she was exceptionally bright and clearly interested to learn.

She loves listening to classical music and occasionally asks him to play for her. Bizets Carmen is her current favourite.

“She is so mature for her age that you forget youve got a two-year-old sitting there with you，” he said. “Its as if she is five or six. Shes really only a baby though， so of course there are times when she gets distracted. But what she has is something exceptional. Her hand-eye co-ordination is remarkable.”

“She can play Old MacDonald Had a Farm using both hands at once. I think in about eight months time she will be able to sit a Grade One exam. I cant recall anyone doing that at the age of three.” Lavinia was nicknamed Little Miss Mozart after performing at the concert.

Neither of her parents plays an instrument but she became interested in music after getting a toy piano for Christmas.

Her mother Jenna Ramirez， who also has nine-month-old daughter Florelle， said： “I dont know where Lavinia gets her brains from—shes more intelligent than me. Before she was two she could write numbers and letters and recognise them in books. She told me what a trapezium was the other day. She seemed to be on the toy piano all the time so we asked her if she wanted to learn， and she said she would.”

Mrs Ramirez and her husband Ian， both managers at a Tesco supermarket， bought her an upright piano when they realised she had such a thirst to learn.

由于手太小她的手指每次只能觸及幾個(gè)鍵。

她通過(guò)坐在增高椅上才能夠到鍵盤，盡管如此，彈奏鋼琴時(shí)卻能全神貫注，心無(wú)旁騖。

不到三歲的小女孩拉維尼婭·拉米雷斯第一次鋼琴演奏會(huì)技驚四座，讓專家也大跌眼鏡。

是的，音樂(lè)學(xué)校期末音樂(lè)會(huì)上拉維尼婭雖然只是嫻熟地演奏出了一曲《瑪麗有只小羊羔》，但是這位小小鋼琴手卻被認(rèn)為是迷你鋼琴大師，是英國(guó)最年輕的鋼琴演奏明星。

她的老師馬捷·拉霍赤基稱贊這位小姑娘有著驚人的音樂(lè)天賦。

“這樣的年齡就能彈奏出這樣的曲子簡(jiǎn)直太棒了，非常特別?！崩蠋煼Q贊道，“像這么小的孩子一般還沒(méi)有自控能力，也不能一直都很聽(tīng)話。通常只是亂彈一氣，很快就沒(méi)興趣了。”今天是拉維尼婭三歲生日，在普利茅斯郊區(qū)的教堂里面對(duì)兩百來(lái)人的觀眾彈奏之前，她僅僅學(xué)了六個(gè)星期的鋼琴。

上臺(tái)之前，她僅僅學(xué)了八堂課。來(lái)自久負(fù)盛名的布拉格音樂(lè)學(xué)院的拉霍赤基在獲悉小姑娘很聰明而且還很樂(lè)意學(xué)鋼琴之后便同意當(dāng)其導(dǎo)師。

小姑娘非常喜歡聽(tīng)古典音樂(lè)，她偶爾會(huì)讓老師彈奏給她聽(tīng)?，F(xiàn)在拉維尼婭對(duì)比才的《卡門》很癡迷。

“拉維尼婭比同齡小孩要成熟很多以至于當(dāng)她坐在你身邊時(shí)你甚至感覺(jué)不出來(lái)她只是一個(gè)兩歲的孩子，感覺(jué)像五六歲的。有時(shí)候她也會(huì)分心，畢竟她還是個(gè)孩子。但是她擁有出眾的天分，手眼配合相當(dāng)了得?！瘪R捷說(shuō)。

“她能同時(shí)用兩只手彈奏《老麥克唐納德有個(gè)農(nóng)場(chǎng)》。我認(rèn)為再有八個(gè)月她就能參加了一級(jí)考試了，這對(duì)于其他三歲孩子來(lái)說(shuō)是難以想象的。參加完演出之后，大家都稱拉維尼婭為女版小莫扎特。”

拉維尼婭的父母不會(huì)演奏任何樂(lè)器，但是拉維尼婭在圣誕節(jié)收到一架玩具鋼琴后便對(duì)音樂(lè)產(chǎn)生了濃厚的興趣。

她的母親珍娜·拉米雷斯（還有一個(gè)九個(gè)月大的女兒弗羅萊）說(shuō)：“我們不知道她為什么那么聰明，她比我聰明很多。兩歲之前，她就能寫(xiě)數(shù)字和字母，在書(shū)上看到都能認(rèn)出來(lái)。幾天前她還給我解釋什么是梯形。她整天都和自己的玩具鋼琴在一起，我們就問(wèn)她想不想學(xué)鋼琴，她說(shuō)想。”

在了解了女兒學(xué)鋼琴的強(qiáng)烈愿望之后，同為英國(guó)樂(lè)購(gòu)超市經(jīng)理的拉米雷斯夫人和她的丈夫朗為女兒買了一臺(tái)豎式鋼琴。