Music written by Kyan Pennell before he died has been brought to life I Video

Musicians from all parts of Australia and beyond have answered the call of a heartbroken mum and brought to life the haunting music composed by her son Kyan Pennell before he died in a freak accident in the Mary Valley. SEE THE VIDEOS.

The Australian musical community has answered the call and brought to life the haunting composition penned by Tuchekoi youngster Kyan Pennell before his tragic death at the tender age of 12.

Kyan died on Monday, January 31, when he became pinned between a gate and a trailer on his parent’s Mary Valley property.

After his death his heartbroken mother Amanda Brierley discovered the classical piano piece Kyan had been working on before since taking up the piano seven months ago.

Amanda put the call out for musicians to help bring Kyan’s work to life.

Countless people responded, but three artists two pianists and one cellist stood out.

Lindsay Walker, Katrina Li and Gillian Pereira all responded with their versions of the composition.

Amanda responded to Lindsay’s video, saying it brought tears to her eyes.

“Lindsay has done a phenomenal rendition here,” she wrote.

You can watch the videos at the bottom of the article.

Its haunting melody will likely be played at Kyan’s funeral this Sunday.

Amanda and Ian, Kyan’s dad, knew their son was musically talented, but had no idea just how talented.

“We found a piece of music he was writing, and want to put a call out for anyone that reads music to play it and bring him to life, if only for a moment,” Amanda said.

“Make this go viral – I would love to have an orchestra play it.”

Amanda had never heard the music Kyan was writing before he died.

“I found this. Kyan was composing his own classical (I could be wrong but I think he said ‘modern’ classical) and I never heard what he was composing,” she said.

“Is there anyone that can read music and play it and send it to us?

“If I remember rightly he told me about this and there were bits that repeated, and changed tempo, with light and shade, but he didn’t write that down. It would mean the world to us to hear his composition.

“This was just the intro, it is unfinished, he was building up to a grand midsection and then would do an ending, but he never got to complete what was in his mind’s eye. He imagined it to be performed by wind and string instruments, and of course his beloved piano.”

Piano was Kyan’s calling.

“He was 12, and had seven months of learning, teaching himself music theory, performance and composition, and he had committed to memory multiple classical pieces and some modern pieces (but just so he could bring a crowd in, and then educate them with the beauty of classical he would say cheekily).

“For background Kyan died tragically on the 31st January 2022, opening our gate, for his dad, with his little sister in the car. He was so full of life, with a beautiful mind, and passion for classical music. He wanted to be a concert pianist and spent every waking hour on the piano he scraped and saved to buy. He was diagnosed with Aspergers and ADHD and used that superpower to become an incredibly beautiful and unique human who just wanted to learn and excel at everything he could, about everything there was.”

While some performances of Kyan’s music have already been submitted to Amanda and Ian are hoping to collate them and would still love an orchestra to play it together.

“Edited to note that we’ve had some lovely renditions come in and I’d like to collate at some point in some way. If anyone can contribute and allow his beautiful unfinished work to be played through the hands of others please do. Please share this far and wide, go viral, all over the world.

“Please upload your videos on here so we can all share in the memory of Kyan and have his music live on with the help of musicians everywhere. He would have been so chuffed that all these wonderful people are now playing his music.

“Little did he know he was actually composing his own funeral song.

“He did tell me that many people have to die to become famous, well my beautiful boy, here we are.”

“It would mean the world to me if individuals, groups, orchestras, could bring him to life through this little intro he had begun, we will hold his funeral on Sunday and I am hoping to play his beautiful music for all to hear, if I can. I’ve made a public post on my Facebook to share his handwritten piece. His love of classical was deep and he was teaching himself music theory, performance, and as I only just discovered, composition too.”

You can submit more videos here:

https://www.facebook.com/amanda.brierley.73