Some ideas of Qi Zhang's performance

Zhang Qi, she is actually study from the same teacher with my high school classmate, who is now studying in Shanghai Conservatory of Music. For understand better about Zhang Qi, I asked my classmate some questions about her. To be frank, I thought she was a teenage girl when I saw the video at first. She is 26 years old, and everybody thinks she is awesome. All right, let’s work this out musically. The piece she played on the video is called "The Love for Three Oranges", an orchestral suite by Prokofiev. I would not talk about technique, because her technique is extremely perfect. Therefore, I am going to explore this piece. This is an orchestral music, so we need to realize the instrumentation. Zhang Qi’s performance represented that she totally understood vocal principle in each instrument, for instance, if you listen carefully, you may find out she used different techniques to express both different sounds between brass and woodwind. In addition, her tonal handling was very in place. This made her sounds very close to an orchestral. Thus I think she is absolutely a genius.

Journal writing 2

what makes a successful musician

The most important skill to have if you wish to become successful with anything, inclulding music, is Attitude. An old Chinese proverb once said, 90% of the journey towards success is over once you have stepped outside your front door.

Furthermore, practicing is also very important. Practise= Success! Yes it sounds hard, but it is very easy. As long as you have enough patience, and love your instrument as well.

What's more, opportunities, which for artists are equally important. If you are working extremely hard, but have the lack of opportunity. You won't succeed as well.