Big Day

Set off for SCH in the morning to attend rehearsal for tonight's PPC..

Met old and new yq frens and had a great time catching up on each other's life as well as exchanging ideas on yq matters.. haha fun, fun!

The prize winners' concert was ok, I particularly liked qing lun's dizi and also dedric's suona performance, marvellous expressions and techniques mann.. got a great deal to learn

Had a chat with liu lao shi after the whole thing, encouraged me and told me to pick a few pieces that i really like and feel it inside out.. so that it would become my 'signature piece'.. haha hmm sounds logical.. shall start some indepth analysis to certain pieces soon

us with qu lao shi and liu lao shi in the middle

Inspiration

Attended yangqin masterclass today at SCH by Prof Liu Han Li from Shenyang Conservatory of Music. Learnt a great deal about music analysis and how to go about performing it.. It was quite brain stimulating and really opens up my dimension about music performance. Oh ya and he gave each of us a book which contained his yq compositions plus some of his thoughts about yq performing, techniques of playing and it's history.. Flipped through and some of those are really chim man.. haha guess i would understand these big theories overtime

Gotta start practicing new pieces for Diploma exam next year.. still contemplating whether to take nafa or nus one.. Oh and Qu lao shi said she hopes to hold a concert next year (if she can find sponsors) featuring all her students.. Wow great! another performance platform gained

2006 National Chinese Music Competition

Just finished my finals in the yangqin open category yesterday... Came in 2nd!

Phew... Finally can enjoy my vacation!!! It has really been a busy semester for me

YEAH

Woke up at 6am today to have breakfast and do some warm up prep runs for my preliminary round.. felt really excited and to a certain extent.. anxious

(yea, i'm the only female competitior)

Left home early following the advice of my teacher.. and guess wad.. i reached esplanade @ 8.00am. Not a soul in sight at the reporting place.. had another 30 mins b4 the actual reporting time, so i just get changed and waited for qu lao shi...

At backstage, i did more warm-ups and settled down to wait for my turn.. (i'm competitor no. 2)

During my performance, i felt i did quite ok (although not my best), except for a few missed notes during the fast section of my set piece.. but teacher was quite happy with my performance

Ahh was so nervous when the results were annouced, especially when jj said that only 2 competitors got into the finals.. wouldnt forget that moment when my no. was announced, i felt euphoric!

Outside, my payco supporters were wild.. fortunately i didn't disappoint them..

and thanks jean for coming down so early in the morning to support me