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Practicing makes perfect only if you know what to practice and how. Playing beautifully is not about how much exercises you've done but about knowledge. ONLY FOR PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS AND PLAYERS.
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About Ilia
Here's a place for a large resume with a long list of educational institutes, big names, events, concerts, orchestras, competitions and masterclasses. I personally don't think it's so much important. There are a lot of good performers who can't really explain well how they play, there's a lot of renowned teachers who teach in a traditional way. And if this way is good the majority of piano students should play piano well.
I'm a Russian pianist living in China. You can't imagine how many young students here learn in a traditional way, doing countless hours of exercises, high lifting fingers etc etc. And how many high level Chinese pianists do you know? There should be thousands and thousands of them if the system is right. I only know three names, and in my opinion they are not really very high level.
I start playing piano at 4, and graduated from children school (7 years), college of music (6 years), conservatory (5 years) and DMus (2 years) and still didn't know how to play piano. I knew that some pieces I would't be able to play at all, Rach's 3rd or Liszt's Transcendentals. Yes, I have my International Piano Competition Grand Prix Diploma and have played with orchestras if that's what you want to know.
In my teen ages I injured my hands twice by practicing a lot trying to follow the instructions my teacher gave me. The pain was such that I couldn't even keep a spoon; having dinner, brushing teeth or dressing up could be done only through tears and tortures. That's how I realized that the way I played (and how it was taught not only to me but to majority of students) is not quite right. I had a lot of questions on how to do this and that, I saw people who could play so effortlessly and easy that it seemed everyone could do it, and all I had was "you have to practice more" with some variations. Studying in college I quitted twice, on the 3rd year and then on the 4th year, half a year before the graduate exams. I was pretty sure that music is not what I should do in my life.
Nevertheless, I returned and went through all this educational marathon (20 years in my case) trying to find the answers. The main idea that keeps me on track was - if someone can do this so well, why can't I do? what's the reason? am I not so talented? does my body, arms, hands made in different way?
It took me 16 years after I've already graduated to learn all that I know now, to play with such confidence and comfort, that I didn't have time to build a well-looking resume.
But now I have the most important: I know what to do and how to do thing at the piano, and it's such an amazing feeling now every time I touch my piano again and make such a beautiful music. And I want to help you to make your way to piano freedom much shorter and much more exciting than my was.
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- 1st Year
- 2nd Year
- 3rd Year
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1st Year
2nd Year
3rd Year
4th year
- English
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You can only play as good as you know how to do it. You can only express as much as the tools allow you to do.
Excellent technic is not a privilege but is a must for a truly art. But it's the most important for you to feel yourself euphoric while you practice or perform. It's so amazing to feel that you have no borders now to play anything you want with freedom and ease.
It's not about how much time you sit at the piano (though you still should practice), it's not about playing scales, fingers strength and individualization exercises, rhythmic variations for xx minutes at the beginning of your practice section, it's not about following rigit instructions (lift your fingers high, keep your elbows out, aline your finger with the key, make wrist circles, find places for relaxation etc). And it's not about using different methods for different tasks, one method for runs, another for chords, three types of playing octaves, two or more ways to play staccato, finger technic or arm weight technic. In a real performance you have no time to think about all this nonsense and to change different methods of playing. All you can is to feel the keys, to feel your body and to listen to sound you made by your intention.
Also it has nothing to do with how talented or not you are. Piano technic is all about KNOWLEDGE and it's pretty easy. Because there's not so many things you should know:
1. what is tension, what's the reasons for it and how to move without creating tension. (The right way of moving at the keyboard is that you have nothing to relax from);
2. how to play single voice line (scales-like and arpeggios-like, thumb crossing);
3. how to play chords, octaves and double notes;
4. how to control the sound;
5. how to leap securely.
That's all. And only one method for playing everything. Just set yourself up at the piano correctly, know how to do and do whatever you want. It's not just about learning to play, it's more about working on yourself getting better. This is a learning not with your buttocks but with open mind and honest heart. If you are searching for truth about piano playing I'm here to help you.
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- 10h: $680
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The first lesson with Ilia will allow you to get to know each other and discuss your needs for future lessons.
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