My Piano Life

My life revolves around art, music, and school. Music is the one that has the most important part of my role between both school and art. I started playing the piano when I was in Kindergarten, at first I was hesitant in playing the piano. My parents were the ones that forced me in at the beginning. I was like a machine playing on the piano, keeping a steady beat like the metronome, I wasn’t using any expression in my performances, I once felt that piano was a pain for me, I didn’t find my voice during that time. After several years of playing the piano without my heart into it, I quit playing for several months. This was probably for the best in my condition, my parents told me that I could never play as great as the professionals, not unless I try harder and harder, to put more thought into it and to practice more, but how could I be able to do that if I didn’t put my heart into it?

I began to grow an interest to piano once more when I listened to these songs arranged on the piano, Brave Song arr. by Animenz and My Dearest. When I listened to those two songs, I felt like I wanted to find my voice in the form of music on the piano. So I decided to go back to playing piano with the same teacher for a couple of months. I liked playing songs with a soft melody in it, or songs with a strong message in them. I then got a new piano teacher, who introduced me to the Duet Festival, Masterworks Festival, composing and piano competitions. I would like to thank her, because without her, I wouldn’t have the perseverance to keep on playing piano. She pressed me on, she taught me a lot of technique that I needed in order to play songs that I wanted to play. My teacher was more strict than my previous teacher, and maybe that’s what I needed in order to grow to love the art of music even more, and to finally find my voice in piano.