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PJF · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:48 am Post subject: May I call you Anh?

Hello Mr. Tran, my name is Pierre, but you can call me Pete. I'm a 27 year old aspiring concert artist living in Acadiana (a region in southern Louisiana populated mainly by people of French-Canadian descent). I'm currently pursuing a Master's degree in piano pedagogy. I've been enjoying your website for some months now. I'm glad to see you've a forum up and running. It's a little empty, but that will change.

Let's get those intellectual juices flowing! Very Happy

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lol_nl · Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 32 Location: Ede, Netherlands

Ok, I'll introduce myself as well. My name is Yiteng, I'm from Chinese descent, but I already live in Europe for about 9 years (I came here when I was 4, so calculate how old/young I am Laughing

). At the moment I live in the Netherlands. I have been playing piano for about 5 years, and my favorite composer is Chopin, followed directly by Liszt, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert and Rachmaninov.
I agree that it's quite empty, but I'm already trying to make commercials everywhere so they will flow in Smile

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chopin · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:40 am Post subject:

Hi

Thanks for your messages. You can call me Anh. Sorry that I haven't checked the forum recently. I just cleaned up some inappropriate messages today. Thank you very much for getting more visitors to this forum. I hope the forum will be better in the future.

Anh

PJF · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:37 am Post subject:

Yes Anh, it's empty. Don't all forums start that way? Your website is so well known and well made, more will show up.

We pianists are patient.
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nathf · Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Melbourne, Australia

I might introduce myself too Smile

Im Nathan. Ive been playing piano since I was hmm...about five, and have recently gotten a great fondness of Chopin's work and it's almost all I play now-days. After Chopin, my favourite composer would probably be Beethoven. Im of Polish descent, but live in Australia. I plan on moving to Poland in about two years for a while where I want to study at one of the conservatories. Currently I'm about 17 and am still working through the last parts of high school....and I just finished learning Mazurka op17-2 =)

scherzo · Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 1

Hello to all!

I'm Sara.I am 15 years old,and I live in Belgrade(Serbia).I've been studing piano since I was 6 years old,and now,I will start from this month with conservatory.

Chopin is my favourite composer!I have played his works when I started to learn the piano,and for this 9 years,I still think that he is the best genius ever! Very Happy

(I already started to preparing for the next Chopin competition in Warsawa... Wink

)

I am happy to see forum like this,about Chopin,and I'm hoping that this forum will be even better in near future!

Sara

MorrisseyMan · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:32 am Post subject:

Hey everyone.

My name is Lochlan, and I am a 16-year-old semi-professional pianist. I play Jazz piano on gigs, and classical mainly at home.

I have been playing for 8 years, self taught. About 3 years ago, I was taught Jazz piano, and have been playing Jazz since then. I have always loved classical, and now I am beginning to play.

1uc · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

Hello pianists

My name is Luka, I'm from Slovenia (you know Europe, small country next to Italy - yap thats where I come from) Laughing

anyways I play piano for about two years now, I'm self-taught so I could use some of your profesional advice on which fingering exercises are good and so on and so on Very Happy

and YES I absolutely adore Chopins music. Very Happy

I could listen and play it forever and I will Laughing

btw: What I "play" Embarassed

now is: Chopin - Waltz op 64 no.2, Chopin - Nocturne op.9 no.2, Chopin - Piano and Cello sonata 3. mov. Largo, Mozart - Alla turca, Mozart - piano sonata no.15 k545 1st mov., and now I'm in about half way of Liszts - Liebesträume no.3. ...and that's about it I think.
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enchantedpianist · Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Posts: 41 Location: Vietnam

1uc · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

hey.
I never said I CAN play it Smile

I'm trying... I mean I will be able to play it and if it's the last song I ever learn Smile

what I start, I must finish. And these passages you said...that's hard yep... But the problem with me is I'm self-though and I have absolutely NO technique...and please don't tell me to go out and find myself a teacher because I don't have money... Sad

Sometimes I ask myself "why I am doing this...i'll never be able to play this..." and sometimes I just play you know trying and practising and enjoying Smile

anyway for how long do you play the piano?
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wanderer · Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Posts: 73

Well, if you practiced slowly and weren't tempted to speed up right away, you could "technically" play the piece without a teacher, even if it took much longer time to finish.

Good luck!

Manolito Mystiq · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 6 Location: The Netherlands

Hello there everyone,

I'm Manuel, a Dutch musician (both a Peruan and Dutch-Indian descendant), and currently I'm a conservatory student at Rotterdam, studying Flamenco Guitar (World Music Department, as vague as the department can be called).
I'm by no means a pianist, heavens, I don't even have a piano.
The only thing remotely close is a Roland 5-octave keyboard.
I'm planning to work on my pianoplaying, though, especially since it comes in handy with music theory and music analysis.
Fortunately I can grasp the theoretical/terminological parts very easily, so it's the practical part which needs more work.
Any recommendations how to start playing piano? I just played the first prelude to Bach sight-reading it. Probably not with the added emotion and dynamics, though.

chopin · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject:

Welcome! I don't belong to any school of music. Music is my hobby and I studied piano with a private teacher.

I'm now quite busy and doesn't have much time practicing. Last week I played again my favorite barcarolle op.60 and realized that I need to read the notes again.

I don't know. For starters, some easy Bach, Mozart, Czerny?