A grieving mother is asking musicians to help finish her 12-year-old son's only classical music composition in time for his funeral on Sunday.
Kyan Pennell passed away on January 31 after a tragic accident at his family's Tuchekoi property, south east of Gympie, when he was caught between a trailer and a gate.
Amanda Brierley said Kyan started teaching himself how to play the piano seven months ago and, unbeknownst to her, was trying to write his own music.
"The thing that has given us some little part of Kyan to hold onto is when I found this composition he was working on in the middle of a blank exercise book," she told ABC Radio Brisbane.
"I didn't realise that he knew how to write music.
Ms Brierley said Kyan's passion was ignited after the family had access to a piano during a two-day trip away.
Before his accident he could play more than 30 pieces of classical music, including Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu and Beethoven's Fur Elise, mostly by watching tutorials on YouTube.
"He was neurodiverse and it gave him this complete superpower to just focus on something and do justice to it," Ms Brierley said.
Call-out attracts dozens of submissions
Earlier this month Ms Brierley posted a photo of Kyan's unfinished work on social media and asked musicians to complete the piece.
"This was just the intro, it is unfinished," she wrote.
"He was building up to a grand mid-section and then would do an ending but he never got to complete what was in his mind's eye.
Ms Brierley said she had received dozens of submissions and hoped to collect as many as she could to help honour her "beautiful boy".
"Finding this composition was an unexpected gift from him," she said.
"I just want to be able to change his memory from a tragic accident to something of beauty for others as well."
