I've been intentionally neglecting the piano, viola, and other musical things in favour of revising for my A level...but then, I've been neglecting that too! Sat down to go through my anthology pieces this afternoon, only to find the CD is in the car, which my sister and partner are using for the day ( Read more... )

Spent a good hour tonight on the Chopin Waltz. Got as far as the last two pages working through it and addressing various difficulties along the way. The chromatic bit in the middle is where I'm having the most difficulty at the moment.

Also had a blow on the clarinet for the first time in a while, reminded myself of a few scales and diaphragmatic

...Alderley Edge orchestra performed Beethoven's 3rd concerto with him last night, also Dvorak 6 and The Merry Wives of Windsor overture. I'm still on a bit of a high from having been sat about ten feet away (on the viola desk) from a top-class concert pianist! He was absolutely amazing both in rehearsal (where he was completely modest and amenable ( Read more... )

Today I recorded all the G8 scales and arpeggios, then all my repertoire. The whole thing took an hour and a half. Unfortunately lots of the repertoire had mistakes and memory slips in, but that's the nature of a performance situation. It's amazing how quickly a piece slips out of your head when you haven't played it for several weeks! So the plan ( Read more... )

Spent about 45 mins on the piano today doing sightreading and scales. Set up the recording equipment ready to do my recording session but because it was getting late, put the actual recording off until tomorrow. No viola practice done ( Read more... )

Spent about an hour working on two Schubert Moment Musicals (Musicaux?), nos 3 and 5 both in F minor. I've worked all the way through no 3 now, also made a start on the middle section of no 5 ( Read more... )

Also in the last couple of days I've signed up to Facebook, so if any of you are also on Facebook feel free to friend me.

There are places in the music for the next Alderley Edge concert (a week on Sat!) where I'm totally and utterly lost. So I took the music home from the rehearsal, though haven't looked at it yet ( Read more... )

No practice done yesterday due to going to the CAOS end of year meal ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a while since I last wrote an entry...Saturday was of course the CAOS spring concert, and it actually went very well indeed. We had a rehearsal on Wednesday evening which went on for 3 hours, then on Thursday I did some piano practice and a bit of viola.

Had tonibunny and spiritsense staying at my house as they were both playing in the concert, so ( Read more... )