world number one pianist

Chapter 85 Piano Competition Grades
The next day, everything was settled, and many newspapers and magazines were starting to publish something about this Golden Piano Award.

For example, champion He Shen, runner-up Yue Li, etc...

The conservatories in each state have also started to promote, and on their official websites, they have begun to create a wave of momentum for their award-winning contestants.

But these are not particularly attractive, basically only a few people who pay attention to the Golden Piano Awards will see them.

Even the Golden Piano Award piano group is the highest level piano competition in Huaguo.

Although the professional recognition of the Golden Piano Award is not bad, in fact, very few people care about it.

Ordinary passers-by read the newspaper, and there is a high probability that they will just oh, and people from the music academy will basically not take this news very seriously.

After all... the most powerful awards are all abroad.

Foreign awards are divided into comprehensive awards and individual awards. The comprehensive award is generally a comprehensive type of competition, using the works of different composers to compete.

However, each competition will have a specific theme, such as the tenth birthday of Brahms, or the tenth anniversary of Beethoven's death, which will give everyone a theme.

Just during the competition, we must play some works of Brahms or Beethoven.

In addition to these, there will be some other settings.

For example, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is the most comprehensive type, like a long-distance marathon.

In addition to the relatively complete competition mechanism, the performance skills and the number of competition repertoires required by this competition are the most difficult among the international piano competitions.

After the contestants pass the first round of review, the second round of the competition will require a 60-minute recital, and then cooperate with a famous chamber music group to perform a quintet work given by the organizing committee.

When it comes to the third round, the contestants need to prepare a 50-minute solo concert within a limited period of five days, and perform two famous concertos with the local symphony orchestra.

There is an important performance arrangement almost every other day, and there are four rehearsals with the symphony orchestra in the middle. This competition method is more rigorous for the players to hone their performance.

The time is tight and the tasks are heavy. Many of the works will not be works that you have practiced, but some works that you have not studied.

Crazy compression of time, squeezing out the last bit of potential of pianists all over the world, through their performance, to choose who is the strongest player of this year!
This is the strictness of the comprehensive piano competition.

Individual competitions are completely different. Individual competitions generally refer to competitions for a single composer, such as the Chopin International Piano Competition, the Liszt International Piano Competition, and the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition.

These competition repertoires are limited, you can only play works by Chopin, Liszt and Tchaikovsky.

Each round, you need to play for a very long time.

Taking the Chopin International Piano Competition as an example, the first round needs to play a nocturne, an etude, a ballad, a scherzo or a barque.

Three songs determine whether you have the qualifications to set foot on the Chopin Concert Hall in Warsaw.

The second round consists of ballads, scherzos, and boat songs specified in the previous round, and another one should be selected, which must not be repeated with the previous round.

In addition, you will also need to play a waltz, a mazurka, and a polonaise.

There are four works in total.

The third round is also Chopin's works, you need to play Chopin's works for a full hour, and you must not repeat the previous ones.

In the fourth round, choose any one of the two Chopin piano concertos.

If you want to qualify for the Chopin International Piano Competition, you need at least 10 completely different Chopin works.

Ten pieces, completely different types of works!

He Shen only managed three songs now. Although the etudes had already arrived in the account, the system was updated before they could be used.

The requirements of the Liszt International Piano Competition are similar, basically there are about ten works of different types.

The requirements for the player's repertoire are very large.

To be able to serve as the judges of the Chopin International Piano Competition, one must have won the ranking of the Chopin International Piano Competition before.

For example, Li Diyun, Chen Sa and others.

Even someone like Lang Liangyue who has a great reputation in the world is not qualified to be a judge of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

Even though this piano competition in Huaguo was difficult, it was still not enough.

Too few people are involved, and their status in the world is too low.

Not even the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition at Dongying next door.

After all, the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition can be regarded as one of the most authoritative piano competitions in Asia, and the Golden Piano Award can only be regarded as a national level.

If you want to prove yourself, you can only go to other people's territory to prove yourself, and if you go to other people's territory, even if they don't target you, the natural disadvantage of away games will always make you feel uncomfortable.

And these top competitions in the world have one thing in common, that is the age limit...

Only players under the age of 28 can participate in the competition. If you are over 28, then sorry, you will basically not be able to find any competition to prove yourself. You can only rely on releasing solo albums or playing music meeting.

And a concert...

If you don't have any reputation, then absolutely no one will come to support you, how can you prove yourself?
Do you keep stuffing business cards into other music record companies or brokerage companies?
Unless your strength has reached a level recognized by the entire circle, no matter who has heard of you and praised you, otherwise...

The world-class piano competition championship is the best way to debut.

So, in the final analysis, the status of the Golden Piano Award is still too low. If this competition is a world-level competition, then He Shen, who won the championship this time, can basically sign a contract directly with a brokerage company and prepare to become a professional musician.

But all of this has nothing to do with He Shen. He Shen unsteadily got up from the bed, and after finishing today's two hours of basic skills practice on the piano, he got up and rubbed his shoulders.

The body is a little sour, but it's okay, it doesn't affect too much.

After being forced to drink glucose and energy drinks yesterday, he didn't have much mental problems, mainly because he used too much energy.

He Shen shook his head, rummaged through the closet, and found a slightly more formal dress.

A black sweater that was washed a little whitish, and a pair of gray jeans. After letting myself look a little more energetic, I pushed open the door to the basement and walked out of the darkness into the sunlight.

Today, he made an appointment with Wednesday to go to the Music College of Jiangzhou Normal University to sign a contract.

After the contract is successfully signed, he will become a full-time employee of Jiangzhou Normal University.

(End of this chapter)