There is freedom in music

I had the pleasure to interview a lady in an advance level of piano.  Her playing was, to be kind, stiff and lifeless.  I spent the next hour going over the most basic of technique – a basic scale.  Teaching her how to make even a scale to sound like music and not a drill or exercise.  This 15 year old was most keen and asked me how to play with feeling.  How to bring what is inside into her music.  Unfortunately, as it sometimes happens, her mother,  was more interested in cost, chose a “cheaper” teacher without proper training and had a more open schedule to accomodate their lives instead.

There is more to music than the prestige of music competitions and excelling in examinations.  Here, students learn to sense freedom in music and feel it deeply.  To play the piano is more than to follow the notes.  It is to breathe and give life to an otherwise lifeless score. Music is an expression of one’s soul.