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Sindre Skarelven
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Sindre_Skarelven
Pianist, composer and piano teacher
Oslo, Norway
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Sort of an “all-round pianist”. I specialized in popular music and jazz in my education, but have focused mostly on classical in later years. I do some occasional arranging and composing.
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Re: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! 🥳🎹🥂
@Jenny Great! :)
Sindre Skarelven
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3 yrs ago
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Re: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! 🥳🎹🥂
@Natalie Peh Yes! I need to get back to the inventions soon too! :)
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Re: Week 2: Crafting the story, and finding your intent!
I'm back from vacation with family for Christmas, so I could finally make a recording of the third movement of the Mozart k310 in A-minor. This movement need more work to feel secure (as do all :P),…
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Re: Week 2: Crafting the story, and finding your intent!
@Derek McConville Great playing, Derek! I hear your progress threw this difficult piece. Also enjoyed your backstory very much.
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3 yrs ago
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Re: Group-journey threw J.S. Bach - Two part inventions!
@Natalie Peh What a great start to the new year! Very refreshing with the triplet version. Wonderful playing :)
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Re: Sindre's practice diary
@Will Green Thank you, Will! :)
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Re: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! 🥳🎹🥂
@Andrea Buckland Thank you, Andrea! Looking forward to a great year on TB!
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Re: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! 🥳🎹🥂
@Ching Lee Goh I love this plan, and the pieces you are working on!
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@Natalie Peh This sounds like a great plan! Looking forward to hear from the Partita and other pieces threw out the year!
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@Michelle R Sounds very wise, and I like what you are saying here! Enjoying the process is so important and the reason for doing this. Good luck with this :)
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Re: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! 🥳🎹🥂
@Vidhya Bashyam I love this! Looking forward to follow your progress threw 2023 :)
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Re: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! 🥳🎹🥂
@Gail Starr Sounds great, Gail! I would love to hear you play chamber music sometime :)
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Re: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! 🥳🎹🥂
@Michelle R Thank you, Michelle!
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@Juan Carlos Olite Awesome! The G-minor ballad is especially dear to my heart, and one I've spent many many hours on myself. It will be worth the effort!!…
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Re: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! 🥳🎹🥂
@Vidhya Bashyam @Juan Carlos Olite @Gail Starr @Natalie Peh Thank you so much for the support, and happy new year! It's quite easy to make a goal and put up a list,…
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Re: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS! 🥳🎹🥂
@Leah Olson Thank you! :)
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This is great! I usually don't have New Year's resolutions, but I love this idea so here it goes. I know there'll always be pieces and things I need to learn that show up during I year.…
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Re: Week 2: Crafting the story, and finding your intent!
@Hazel Thank you for your thoughts on these pieces. I did listen to Oleg's performance, very beautiful!
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Re: Week 2: Crafting the story, and finding your intent!
@Natalie Peh Thank you for this great back-story! Very interesting. I just bought a Mozart biography that I'm looking forward to. (Currently reading about Beethoven)
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Re: Week 2: Crafting the story, and finding your intent!
@Vidhya Bashyam Beautiful playing, Vidhya! A very tender and calm performance in my ears. Also liked your back-story, makes it more personal.
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@Natalie Peh Thank you, Natalie! I'm glad you liked it! Yes, the keyboard (Nord piano) is pretty cool :)
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Re: Week 2: Crafting the story, and finding your intent!
@Juan Carlos Olite Thank you, Juan Carlos, for painting a picture of what this music is about, and give a feel of the surroundings and soundworld of the composer. The music get's even more alive!
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Re: Week 2: Crafting the story, and finding your intent!
@Ching Lee Goh Thank you for sharing! The poem gives us so much more understanding of what this piece is about and trying to communicate. A beautiful message!
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Re: Week 2: Crafting the story, and finding your intent!
@Michael Beautiful playing, Michael! Great job with the fiorituras and ornaments. Very cozy with the fireplace crackling in the background.
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Re: Week 2: Crafting the story, and finding your intent!
@Will Green This hymn is very well known in Norway, and sung a lot around Christmas here. I looked it up, and the original German title is Schönster Herr Jesu, Herrscher all Herren.…
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