Mr. Zawahri, who is believed to live in isolation in Pakistan, is a prodigious student, Mr. Brachman said.
Mr. Powell proved to be a prodigious student, and by the time he was a teenager, he was playing the guitar on national radio programs and at dances and parties in the lower-middle-class suburbs of Rio.
A prodigious student but not a naturally gifted writer, Naipaul admits, in "Reading & Writing" (1999), that his ambitions, which began when he was eleven, were "for many years a kind of sham.
Obvious in retrospect (though not likely to be repeated often, given its strenuous demands on performers and listeners alike), the program made for an extraordinary journey, from the relatively conventional sensibility of a prodigious student composer in the First Symphony to the unfettered one of an indomitable master in the Fourth.
A prodigious student, she graduated from nursing college several years early, while still a teenager.
Scholars both, they are prodigious readers, listeners to, and students of, art.
A gifted math student and a prodigious reader, he went to Paris in 1946 to finish high school.
Michal Kaznowski, of the Maggini Quartet, recalled that Fleming was "an extraordinary teacher, with a prodigious memory for how a student had played one or two years earlier".
She attended the coeducational Amherst Academy, where she was recognized by teachers and students alike for her prodigious abilities in composition.
So for the first time, thanks to an architecture professor at Cooper Union and his students, the city's prodigious and possibly unknowable water system is being celebrated in a gallery show.
