Before a recording.
Practicing for a concert is very different from a regular practice session to maintain your chops and learn new music.
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Life of a Pianist
To Listen is to Expect to Hear Things
To commit to listening is to be one with the sound, to resonate your body and soul immersed in it. And true self-expression is to let your own body and language be highjacked by your inner convictions and passions. The masterly of music may be to balance those two extreme states of being.
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Pianovan Adventure, Nov. 15-20: Report
I was playing on streets, surrounded by noise. Garbage truck. Babies wailing. Cell phones ringing. However, surprising number of people said the same thing in different words. How I provided an oasis in the middle of all the city noise.
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Pianovan Adventure①：Planning
I will be driving a “pianovan” – an upright piano in a van – around the San Francisco Bay Area between Monday, Nov. 15 to Friday, Nov. 19th to try to reach isolated and/or underserved communities with the power of music that I believe can help. If you want to join me in my adventure in any way let me know! I welcome all questions, suggestions, connections, collaborations, volunteers, donations, bed/rooms, etc.!!
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To Seize Each Moment
Over the decades of the pursuit of my pianism, I have now come to ensure not just the attention and the proper timing that each note requires, but to send each off with love and care. It’s just like life. The most precious things in life tend to be ephemeral.
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