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« English ‘talknshow’ Good afternoon, everyone, What I would like to share with you today is one of my most thrilling experiences ever. I’ve been practicing piano since I was 6, so this year is my tenth.

It’s been a long intense journey, yet there was a week when it felt really special.

I mean it was special among special moments. 4 years ago, on my 6th year, I had to take a class called Musique de Chambre.  In this class the pianist usually plays with another instrument (a violin, cello, flute, etc), but I was surprised to find out that I had to play a 4 hand-piece of music, by Brahms.

Indeed, I needed to share my piano with someone else which was a new thing for me.  So, this is the music sheet.

It is set of 16 waltzes that are played successively.

It’s a bit torn ahahah.  My partner’s name is Quentin.

We got sent by our teacher to an intense piano training week.

My teacher said that we had the capacity for it, and that’d we learn a lot of things technically and musically.  At the beginning of the week, we had lot of difficulties coordinating ourselves, mostly because our hands came to meet themselves and thus causing shocks, and that would interrupt our performances.  A lot of different teachers would come and teach us, and some were even coming from abroad; we had a Russian teacher, that had a real strong accent, which made it difficult for us to understand her.

And we also had a Japanese teacher, who ended up second ranked in an international piano contest, and her name I think, was Aiko.

It was still really funny, because they would tell us about their lives, and we would learn more about how the classic music professional world works.

Though it was also really traumatising.

Their manners of teaching were really harsh (classic music requires lot of discipline and manners); they would shout at us, and even sometimes slam the partition on the piano; that usually left us in a state of shock.

But outside of a class room, they were really nice and respectable people. .... »