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Hello, and welcome to the PianoChess™ Stream! I am Video Game Pianist Martin Leung, and I will play piano and chess at the same time. You may challenge me to a chess game. Please make sure to have read the rules in its entirety below before challenging me. Thank you, good luck, and have fun!

PianoChess rules: http://bit.ly/pianochess

Welcome to my live stream! I'm Martin Leung aka Video Game Pianist!

Only for the first 5 minutes of the stream, I will take requests to learn pieces not on my repertoire list! Afterwards, I will only take requests on my repertoire list.

To request me to learn a video game music song on the spot (any song not listed on my repertoire list), Super Chat or donate 20 USD!

To request a song listed on my repertoire list at http://bit.ly/vgp_repertoire, Super Chat or donate 5 USD!

Live chat rules:
Be courteous to everyone. Chat only in English. No channel advertisements. No call-outs or witch-hunt attempts. No swearing. Do not make any requests for Video Game Pianist to play unless you make a Super Chat as described above. For any requests for Video Game Pianist to learn a song that is not on his repertoire list and the request is made after the first 5 minutes of stream, you may revise your request with the comparable USD amount to request a song or songs listed on the repertoire list. Any request may not be held over to the next stream.

Donation link: https://streamlabs.com/videogamepianist

Fine print: (There is an extra charge of 2 USD for every minute of original music (not including repeated music) past 3 minutes in length from the original music of the requested song.) Also, it is highly preferred but not required to submit a link to publicly accessible and free sheet music for me to learn a new video game music song. Please do not submit links of scanned published sheet music.

Super Chats are the preferred method to make a request. If you are unable to make a Super Chat, you may make a donation via Streamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/videogamepianist#/

* If you use currency other than USD, please make sure your amount is equivalent to the corresponding USD before making a Super Chat. Thank you.

Reviews

"Martin Leung, a pianist who gained fame on YouTube, brought down the house with his signature blindfolded performance of the theme from Super Mario Brothers." -Seth Schiesel, The New York Times

"…a brilliant pianist…" - Leo Cotterell, The Times (United Kingdom)

"Pianist Martin Leung totally rocks the house." - Chris Kohler, Wired

"The concert also included a performance by pianist Martin Leung..." - Grace Jean, The Washington Post

"There were a couple of piano solos by Internet pioneer Martin Leung that garnered some of the loudest cheers." - Scott Iwasaki, Deseret News

"Martin Leung, the “video game pianist” famous for a blindfolded medley of “Mario”
tunes..." - Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities

"Nowhere were the contrasting motifs of video-game music more evident than the transition from jubilant -- and blindfolded -- Internet sensation Martin Leung's buoyant rendition of the theme to "Super Mario Brothers" to his later knockout performance of the emotional "Final Fantasy" theme, a layered symphony in itself." - Michael J. Pollack, The Westfield Leader

Biography

Video Game Pianist (VGP) aka Martin Leung is one of the first musicians to play video game music on the internet. In 2004, a video of the formerly called The Blindfolded Pianist playing Super Mario pieces with the Super Mario theme played blindfolded premiered on eBaum’s World and gprime.net. The video soon became viral, and about one year after the premiere of the video, VGP performed at PAX 2005 at the Meydenbauer Center, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema as part of the Celebrity Guests Signature Series with 21 encores after VGP’s concert, and the BradyGames booth at E3. In 2006 VGP performed at PAX 2006, the BradyGames booth at E3, an iam8bit party at Gallery 1988, Harucon II, The Union Club of Cleveland, was featured in MTV’s “The G-Hole,” and appeared in an article on the front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Arts section. The article is titled, “Pianist Makes a Name as Video Game Virtuoso.” In 2007 VGP performed at the 4players.de booth at the Games Convention (Germany), Solon Center for the Arts, and Case Western Reserve University. VGP has performed video game music in 17 countries.

More recently, VGP performed at PAX West 2018, PAX West 2016, the Jonathan Club, San Francisco Comic Con, Indianapolis Comic Con, and at Tampa Bay Comic Con. In March 2019 VGP will perform at Britton Recital Hall at the University of Michigan.

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