Programming is a vast topic and lots of people wrote about it. Truth is I’m still experimenting, that’s not an easy task and there is no ready-made recipe. Over the years, I learnt a few things from my mistakes, and here are my 5 top advices about programming. Read more …
The classical musical world is nowadays obsessed with a new goal : Reaching new audiences. Everyone is giving his take on the subject, from playing in uncommon venues to playing with an unexpected outfit or a new concept of concerts as well as crossover concerts to reach a new audience. Well, my first question is : what’s wrong with the current audience? Read more …
Two years ago, I published a post entitled The 5 most difficult piano pieces trying to determine the top 5 most difficult solo works for piano. I got lots of comments mentioning piano concertos, and today I wanted to take a look at these pieces for piano and orchestra. Remember this ranking does not thus escape my subjectivity – these are the most difficult piano concertos according to me. Read more …
In my last post, I discussed about the top 5 improvements Internet brought to the musician’s life. But nothing is ever totally black or white and Internet has some negative effects too. Today, let’s review 5 of the top reasons why internet doesn’t help Classical musicians. Read more …
Every day I receive dozen of articles about how internet is great for classical musicians. It’s true and we can’t deny it: Internet changed a lot of things in our lives : you can purchase music from your home and listen to it instantly, you now have virtual friends, you can share your experience with people, the list could be very very long… But what did it change in my professional life? Does internet improve my professional life? Let’s first see the top 5 reasons why internet makes things easier for me. Read more …
First post of the year : 2010 just ended and 2011 shows the tip of his nose. My best wishes for a prosperous 2011! I do not know about you, but for me, 2011 will be full of great events. A lot of work ahead and the joy of seeing that the 2010 work really paid off. Read more …
In the previous post about my past year, I mostly wrote about changes in my piano technique and the pianist’s loneliness. During this year, my perspective of the pianist’s job has tremendously evolved and my working life has changed drastically. Let me talk about four aspects of my work I had to improve and which have helped me a lot to develop my professional activities. Read more …
As I am reading a lot about music, I want to share with you 3 articles which particularly interested me this week. Read more …
Last year, I decided to take time away from the music business. I needed to take a step back and breathe, reorganize my work, to work on me and set guidance for the upcoming years: I had to go from the relative liberty allowed by my school work to the total freedom I got in September 2009. This year seemed very short to me and was far from useless, I learned a lot, and I have been pursuing my research, but under my own and only supervision this time. Read more …