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Re: Group 4 @Jarred Dunn thank you - sounds great; I'll definitely look at Op. 6 No. 2 and Op. 63 No. 3 while working on 50/3. I don't think I have ever thought about how a specific composer handles a particular…
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- Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn!
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Re: Group 4 My name is Alex; I am an amateur pianist from Columbus, Ohio, and am fairly new to tonebase. I am super excited to join my first ever Two Week Intensive! This course was such a great idea; obviously,…
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Re: Let's Play New Music! featuring pieces from "Expanding the Repertoire: Music of Black Composers" (by Dr. Leah Claiborne) @Juan Carlos Olite amazing - thank you so much for sharing your beautiful, heartfelt performance! I bought the sheet music for Florence Price's sonata a couple of years ago but never got around to…
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Re: Piano Progress by Year - Thoughts? I’m 54 years old and started playing when I was 6. My dad said: “now that you’re 6 years old, you will learn to play the piano”. My dad is a music teacher and a terrific,…
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Re: TWI signup: Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn! @Dominic Cheli got it. Thanks!
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- General Information and Sign-Up!
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Re: TWI signup: Improve your Chopin Mazurkas with Jarred Dunn! I guess the exact dates and times of the live classes are still TBD/TBA?
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” This may also be a good space to remember the great André Watts who died yesterday (07/12/23). https://youtu.be/0NLgfsAbnyg https://youtu.be/bzQvGgCyn2g
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Re: Digital baby grand : what is your experience @Joseph Boucher I have an older version, the Yamaha AvantGrand N1 which I bought about 15 years ago. It was a floor model, so I had to shell out "only" 8 k for it. Best investment I've ever made.…
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Re: Sindre's practice diary @Sindre Skarelven I can hear the resonances of Grieg, Chopin and Granados that others have suggested, but really, this piece has a style that's very unique and entirely your own.…
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- Your Practice Diary
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Re: Piano Progress by Year - Thoughts? @Rui "Don't practice mistakes" - so, so important. My first professional piano teacher impressed that on me, too. It's one of the best principles to help you avoid wasting time and hampering your…
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Re: How far can your hand stretch on the piano? I can reach an unassisted 11th, but in the context of playing a piece, it would be a "one and done" event, and then my hand would have to relax into something smaller for a moment.…
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Re: If you could master the technique of any pianist, living or dead, who would it be and why? @Vickie horowitz Daniil Trifonov, indeed! A consummate artist, and in so much more than in his astounding technique.
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Re: If you could master the technique of any pianist, living or dead, who would it be and why? @Mariela and of an awesome, but much abused piece for which a very fierce competition from countless greater and lesser virtuosos has developed over the decades - Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit" -…
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Re: If you could master the technique of any pianist, living or dead, who would it be and why? @Dominic Cheli what a breathtaking performance! I love how he begins the emotional climax at bars 63-70 not in a trumpet-like fortississimo but "cantabile" and almost tenderly,…
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Re: If you could master the technique of any pianist, living or dead, who would it be and why? Maurizio Pollini I'm dating myself here because as far as technique is concerned, he was the idol of my teenage years, and that sort of thing is hard to shake off.…
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” @Peter Golemme thank you so much - what a discovery! I had never heard of her, but I absolutely love what I've heard on YouTube so far, for example her Mendelssohn "Rondo Capriccioso": https://www.…
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” @geraldw I was still a teenager when she played the 2nd Saint-Saëns concerto in my hometown of Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1980s. It was a triumph, and people were flocking to the record stores (we…
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” O.K., one more and then I promise I'll shut up: This may be the place and the time to point out, for those who may not have followed closely the XVII Tchaikovsky Competition,…
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” @Tommytone 100% agreed - after all these decades, her "Iberia" and "Goyescas" are still reference recordings on which other performances are measured.
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” @Vidhya Bashyam Boris Giltburg is totally amazing; he definitely is among my top favorites!
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” Another artist from a younger generation whose technique and musicianship are equally astounding and who does not seem to be well known at all is the Ukrainian pianist Vitaly Pisarenko.…
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” @Ionela Butu agreed! And I always knew him as one of the last students of Heinrich Neuhaus, but I didn't know - until I read up on him a minute ago - that he evidently also had the same teacher as…
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” If I were to name my personal all-time favorite among the great pianists of the 20th century, it would have to be Wilhelm Kempff – a Prussian prodigy who entered the Berlin conservatory (Hochschule…
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Re: “Who are pianists that you think more people should know about?” @Dominic Cheli a handful of old people, like me, still consider his recording of the Schumann concerto one of the best performances ever of that piece. There's also a wonderful collection of Chopin…
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Re: What's the most challenging piece you've ever learned and how did you tackle it? @Lc I love that! I think I'll keep that image in mind and will in the future strive toward the serene winter lake with thin, shiny ice and magical creatures,…
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Alexander Weymann

a_weymann

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Passionate amateur; piano lessons starting at age 6 from my father, but professional teacher not until age 15. Since then, I've been practicing with a vengeance. Won a couple of prizes in youth competitions in my late teenage years but ultimately decided on medicine as my calling and profession. Couldn't imagine life without music in general and without the piano in particular.