Recognize the Difference
By Roberta Pili | December 14th, 2008 | Category: Cover | 1 Comment »As long as someone can play piano, he or she is not necessarily a pianist. The way to become a professional pianist is not a simple scheme or pattern which can be used and experienced equally by every person.
I am not speaking about simple piano playing, what I often prefer to define as a pushing down of keys, depressing pedals like the accelerator of your car with a typewriter technique. Not at all.
It is very important not to strive after a quite impersonal and unattractive style of playing.
How do you consider your being a pianist?
Did you set your own mission statement about your personal musical development? If not, believe me, you should.
Unless you want to play rather for yourself in your free time and not for public.
But remember: being a pianist is only the step before you become an artist…
So, I just came back from our trip to Robertas concert at Carnegie Hall. To start with – Roberta, it was a magic moment to hear you playing. Not only hearing, but also seeing, because music is all together, tones, spirit and interpretation… Isn’t the main target of music to touch the audience? Never mind if professionals or not? But besides this, the whole programm you played so virtuously, as if you would have been Beethoven himself, was comprehensive and I am really awestruck of your performance, rich of personality and privacy.
A great compliment to a pianist I wish a great artisitc future and that many people will have the opportunity to know the true promise of your music.
NYC, Carnegie Hall, Sunday, March 15th, 2009 7:30 pm/Zankel Hall – a magic evening, never forget it…