Week 4 — Share Your Playing 🎶

We’ve reached the final part of the challenge.

You’ve chosen your piece, worked through the details, explored character and imagination — now it’s time to share where you are.

 

This week is about capturing your playing and putting it out there!

 

On April 3rd, we’ll host a live Watch Party, featuring submissions from across the community. This is a chance to hear each other, reflect on the process, and celebrate the work that’s gone into these past weeks.

Your Focus for the Week until April 3rd.

Record and submit your piece (or an excerpt).

That’s it.

No need for multiple takes, no pressure to polish everything. A single honest run-through is more than enough.

A few suggestions:

  • Record a full take, even if it’s not perfect
  • Let the character and musical idea lead!
  • Keep going, even through small slips
  • Think of it as sharing, not performing

How to Participate

  • Upload your video directly in the forum
  • Or share a link (YouTube, Google Drive, etc.)
  • Include the piece and anything you discovered while working on it

Whether this is your first time sharing or something you do often, this moment matters. It’s where the work becomes something real.

Looking forward to hearing what you’ve been building.

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    • Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
    • Michelle_Russell
    • 11 days ago
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    Hi everyone. I hadn't planned to submit anything, but I needed to have something fun to work on over the past little bit. It's been a rough few weeks (my father passed in February, and then my father-in-law just passed this week), and I needed some bright and cheerful moments in my days. Only the a section is even remotely ready, and there are still hesitations I haven't quite yet ironed out, but here is about 30 seconds of the Allegro (some say Allegretto) in F which I have been working on:

    https://youtu.be/SrfZpGKcVck

      • Mom, fitness instructor, lover of music
      • Michelle_Russell
      • 10 days ago
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           Thanks so much for your kind words. 

    • Noel_Nguyen
    • 11 days ago
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    It sure is the time for last minute additions! I'm probably too late, but just in case:

      • Claudia.4
      • 10 days ago
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       Dear Noel, you play beautifully. Your fingers move so fast, I have great respect for that. Thank you so much for sharing, your recording was a real pleasure. What exactly is standing on your grand piano? And what is displayed on the screen? You played from memory, right? Warmest regards from Germany, Claudia

      • Philosophy teacher and piano lover
      • Juan_Carlos
      • 10 days ago
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       Charming and cheerful Mozart. Bravo, Noel!

      • Noel_Nguyen
      • 10 days ago
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       Thank you so much for listening, and for your encouraging words!

      Re: fast fingers. I have to say that the light action of my piano (Baldwin SD-10 with a German action!) really helps. But fast Mozart is always difficult. It requires another kind of virtuosity than the late romantic repertoire that I usually play. Using the best fingerings that one could find is essential.

      Re: my screen. That's for my recording software! I use Studio One. And yes I do play from memory. The software shows the sound wave that I produce with my playing. I find it soothing to watch when I play!

      • Noel_Nguyen
      • 10 days ago
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      Thank you for your kind words! That's my favorite Mozart sonata.

      • claudiadm73
      • 7 days ago
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       How I enjoyed your performance, dear Noel!👏😃 I really admired your technique and your clarity of execution 👍. You demonstrate great confidence in setting and balance and your colors are vivid and narrative. The ornaments are also very fluid and precise…bravo 🥰🥰

      • Noel_Nguyen
      • 7 days ago
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       Thank you so much for your encouraging words! Now my haters will hate me even more. Joking🤣. Truth be told, to me, my performances always feel like disastrously cursory approximations😅. That is why I like to practice exaggerating every detail, knowing that half will be lost in performance. But that is the nature of this art and I just have to accept that nobody will hear the best of me, unless they live with me😆.

      • claudiadm73
      • 6 days ago
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       The same thing happens to me too, my dear😅😅😅😂😂😂I hug you🔆

    • Ursina_Boehm
    • 10 days ago
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    I didn’t submit a video as, once again, I had to realize that I am a slow learner. These 4 week challenges are too short for me in order to submit a somehow satisfying video 😪. I think I can only participate in these challenges with pieces that I have already learned in the past and that need some polish to bring them back to performance level. I am very impressed with the progress of the other participants! Great work 👏👏👏! I look forward to the event today! Best regards and happy Easter from a slow learner 😂🎹😂

      • Ursina_Boehm
      • 10 days ago
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      https://youtu.be/q3FjRI3HMjY?is=lqA2JnGWiyIZb7oK
       

      That is a progress video from the beginning of the piece that I had chosen for this challenge 😀🎹😀

      • Maria_F
      • 10 days ago
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       I don't think it makes you a slow learner! I was busy with other pieces this past month, so I don't think I can submit anything, and if I do it would be full of mistakes!

      • Maria_F
      • 10 days ago
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       I just listened to your recording. Excellent job, and your piano is beautiful (and very shiny)! I assume that is your Bösendorfer?

      • Ursina_Boehm
      • 10 days ago
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       thank you for your kind words. Yes, that is my Bösendorfer 😀

    • Angela_Fogg
    • 10 days ago
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    Congratulations to all those who have submitted recordings. Alas, mine will be late as usual but I am determined to do it! Enjoy the Concert watch party later- I will have to catch up with that as well. Usual busy end of term stuff and family things, nothing to complain about really but sometimes I just can’t get everything done!

    • Have a growth mindset, no matter what!
    • Gail_Starr
    • 10 days ago
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    Rough take after 1 month.  Many thanks to the TB NYC IRL Team (Noah & Dominic & Ben), Jarred and my dearest Mozart buddies Sindre & Natalie) for getting me to finally start this lovely Sonata.  It's been on my bucket list forever!

      • Noel_Nguyen
      • 10 days ago
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      I love your full sound! This is no tinny Mozart. Beautiful playing!

      • Astrida_Gobina
      • 10 days ago
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       Clear brisk energy of pure mischievousness and joy! 💐💐💐

      • Claudia.4
      • 10 days ago
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       Dear Gail, I really like the energy with which you play. It's captivating and I immediately want to practice more. Thanks for sharing. Greets from Germany!

      • Pianist, composer and piano teacher
      • Sindre_Skarelven
      • 10 days ago
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       Amazing playing, Gail! You have such a great touch for this movement! 👏🏻 Looking forward to our continued work with this sonata. 

      • Graeme_Cameron_Wilkinson.1
      • 10 days ago
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      Impressive playing Gail! Brava!!

    • Maria_F
    • 10 days ago
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    Excellent playing, everyone!

      • hot4euterpe
      • 10 days ago
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       Yes, I second that! Just catching up on the extra postings after traveling all day.

    • Claudia.4
    • 9 days ago
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    Dear Dominic, this Mozart Challenge has definitely brought me back to the piano. I'd love to do another Mozart month and learn the next movements, if I may make a request? Best regards, Claudia 🙏

      • Noel_Nguyen
      • 9 days ago
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       I second that! Those challenges have led me to unexpected joys. For instance for the Mozart I decided to record something at the last minute, just to have a break from practicing Liszt, and that little Mozart piece is turning out to  be a favorite in my family. Now they're asking for more of this and less of the "fast noisy stuff"😆.

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