

ABOUT
One of South Africa's greatest pianists and one of the youngest people to come in first at the SABC Music Prize Competition.She was named among South Africa's 10 Most Inspirational Women Achievers in 2003.Her 2006 album Transfigured Mozart was released to coincide with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday.
BEFORE FAMEShe was only 10 when she debuted with the Johannesburg Symphony, winning her first national gold medal in the ATKV Prelude Competitions when she was 12 and her first international gold at Sicily's Third International Piano Competition when she was 14.
PERSONAL LIFEShe was born into a political family, although her mother was an opera singer who was her first piano teacher.
The meaning of the name Malan: Calming, Relaxing FUN FACTSPianist Petronel Malan were born on Monday, in a leap year, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of Dragon, it is 48 days until Petronel Malan next birthday.
- 38Jan. 06 1987