I know I ask a lot of questions about the same topic, but I really have no idea about a lot of this. So does anybody know what the life of a classical concert pianist is like?
2007-07-19 08:50:57 · 6 answers · asked by pianotime 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
Short answer - every day, you get up , practice your butt off, and wait for the phone to ring. If it does not ring often enough, you end up working in Sears.
Gotta go - phone is ringing . . .
2007-07-19 09:27:19 · answer #1 · answered by Mamianka 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well I just had a woman ask me the other day where she could get a job as a concert pianist, she didn't want to have to travel. I felt so bad for her, because if you don't live in New York where else can you work. In New York you could at least work at the met or play in the orchestra for Broadway. or other theaters. All that study and talent and nothing to do with it, I also advised her to think about teaching at Juilliard Music School, or if she ever though about teaching privately. That seems such a shame, but there's not much call for classical pianist today, unless you would be content being a sessions pianist I think that's what they call them, ( studio pianist).
2007-07-19 11:15:23 · answer #2 · answered by chessmaster1018 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
we have here in the phils a world reknown lady pianist Cecille Licad. She performs a gentle role of a mother to her kids and sets schedule for rehearsals at home. I believe her kids watch her concerts. She does cook also. she's a common TAO (human) here in the phils when out of the piano seat. a writer wrote:
...as if she has torn the music from the page and made it her own, takes us on a whirling dazzling movement of runs, crescendos, diminuendos, dissonances and harmonies which leave the listener breathless. Her fortes resonate inside our bones, and her pianos and pianissimos seem to draw the very breath from our souls.
2007-07-24 14:51:26 · answer #3 · answered by bukayo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can answer from my own experience - and my wife's, likewise a concert pianist. To survive: 1. Constant work at your craft, endless hours at the piano, plus continuous reading and listening to others. 2. Must have excellent training by top people, and graduate from a top school. 3. Have many commercial recordings with international sales and reviews. 4. Know a lot of influential people. 5. Be willing to travel constantly. 6. Learn to be a good speaker, preferably in several languages, for master classes and interviews. 7. Have articles or books published AND SOLD. 8. Perform in some of the world's top venues AND get reviews for your pains. 9. Compose AND get published AND internationally distributed AND performed by top artists. 10. Be prepared to accept that, even if all of the above has happened, it is already in the past - and you have to make things happen again and again and again. 11. Oh, by the way, talent helps. The more successful you become, the more opposition you will encounter.
2017-03-17 15:22:03 · answer #4 · answered by Vladimir 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The life of a pianist is full of treble.
2007-07-19 10:10:57 · answer #5 · answered by kaisergirl 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
ten fingers touch the keyboard, eyes stare at the front or sky, always swing the body from left to right or right to left.....
when come to talking, they always start with do, re, mi, fa, sou , la, ti , dou......
2007-07-19 09:40:50 · answer #6 · answered by harijanti 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋