Its supposed to be promos mugging period now, but I'm spending more time on the computer T_T hongrui! control!

One of my favourite pastimes is to watch little cellists on youtube. Sometimes I see these young talents play and I start feeling zibei. At other times, I feel a little more motivated.

Today, I just stumbled across another jewel. Matthias Balzat.



I'm going to learn and play this piece for my CT1 next year, but this 8-year old kid just rocks.

So do all the other kiddos. Oliver Aldort (awesome pianist too), Tessa Seymour, Daniel Hass, Nathan Chan.

Daniel Hass has the best technique among them in my opinion, but I simply love Nathan's expression and interpretation.



I think to be a good performer, you really have to start super young and get everything right. Maurice Gendron wrote in his book The Art of Playing the Cello, that a musician's muscles will start to lose flexibility when he reaches 18 years old. (That's like next year O.o) And mr. gooi did tell us before that if you're going to be a professional performer, by this time you should already be reaching roughly jonshin's standards. Small kiddos, with the right guidance, can become virtuosos easily in perhaps 5 years, but an adult might need to learn for like a few decades, but he still won't be on par with the kid.

And so, I'm a compo major :)
And I've decided that I'm not going to try for YO anymore.. Painful decision, esp when annie posts something fun about YO on almost every single one of her blog posts, and you find that you really want to be a part of it. Sigh I've been catching every single concert since sec 2.. but there's no way I can make it in time for the october 24th audition, and I don't think I would want to try it next year. Oh well..