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Semifinalist it is!
Well, I am a semifinalist of the Rubinstein. The finalists were the Chinese guy Hao Zhu, who was apparently always the staff favorite; a Czech[…]
In the second round!
I’ve just advanced to round two of the Anton Rubinstein piano competition. It’s at the Hochschüle für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, Germany.[…]
Compositional atmospheres.
Slow passages should be heart-wrenching or unsettling. Moderate passages should be soothing and/or thought-provoking. Fast passages should be commanding and/or electrifying. The passages to all[…]
“Pick a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.” – Confucius
Here lie some sheets, on which I was working today, to a draft of the completely damper pedal-less “Toccata in A-flat Major,” begun Nov. 2008,[…]