Austin Peralta: Allan Holdsworth's piano prodigy passes at age 22.

Austin Peralta has passed away at the age of 22. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Peralta

Peralta was a piano player, devoted to music from his very young years when he started taking piano lessons at age 6, and continued his music studies with Eleanor Lindboe and Sara Banta at Pepperdine University. He has also studied with the noted jazz pianist Alan Pasqua and saxophonist Buddy Collette. He won the Shelly Manne New Talent Award given by the Los Angeles Jazz Society in 2003.[2] He performed all over the world including Germany and Japan, where he had his first tour in 2006.

At age 15, Peralta was also a featured performer at the 2006 Tokyo Jazz Festival, appearing with his own trio,[3] as well as a live performance with major jazz and jazz fusion stars Chick Corea, Hank Jones, Sadao Watanabe, John Patitucci, Omar Hakim, and the young Japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara. At age 16 Peralta appeared at the internationally-known Java Jazz Festival (2007). 

In 2012 he was performing regularly with Allan Holdsworth and Virgil Donati.

Peralta's first CD, Maiden Voyage, featured bassist Ron Carter,[2] and his second release Mantra included bassist Buster Williams.

Peralta was the son of the Z-Boy skateboarder and film director Stacy Peralta.[4] He contributed to the original soundtrack of his father's documentary film Riding Giants with a piano solo.

Peralta appeared on the track "DMT Song" on Flying Lotus' album Until the Quiet Comes (2012).

He died on November 21, 2012, at the age of 22. No cause of death was given.[5]