2021 8th Global Outstanding Young Performers Piano Competition (GOCAA)
The final results were officially announced yesterday,
The highest score won the overall championship in all piano categories under the age of 18
Awarded the title of "Contracted Young Performer"
He is Ding Yidi
Born in Shanghai in August 2011, Ding Yidi received musical enlightenment at the age of 4 and a half, and began to formally study piano at the age of 5, under the supervision of Professor Zhou Heng, director of the International Piano Art Center of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, as well as British pianist and Steinway artist James Brawn, famous composer and improvist Professor Liu Nianji, Dr. Wang Shu of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Jin Yi and other teachers.
Yidi's father told me that Yidi was a sunny, happy "little warm man" with a bright smile on his face. When he sat on the piano stool, he was calm and full of affection, listening to the sound of the piano as if an adult was playing; but jumping off the piano bench, he was completely a childish child, showing the lively and naughty side of a 7-year-old child. And the most gratifying thing for his parents is that he is particularly loving, especially imaginative, and full of love for life.
In his room was a train made of cardboard boxes with 52 fluffy dolls sitting in it, and in his world, those dolls were all his babies, and he was their dad. Every day when practicing, I have to bring a few and put them on the side of the piano, saying that they will receive "musical enlightenment".
Yidi's father also said that they attach great importance to the all-round development of the child's morality, intellect and body, and pay attention to the cultivation of cultural heritage, because learning any discipline to a certain height and then moving forward must look at the foundation and cultural heritage of this person. Therefore, in addition to the piano, they usually take Yidi to watch Chinese and foreign classical concerts, rock, drama, dance, children's chorus, musicals, etc.; lead Yidi to visit art exhibitions, creative exhibitions and other beautiful art exhibitions.
They will also ask Yidi to work hard in the study of literature and poetry, mathematics, nature, English and other disciplines. Even before the exam, Yidi practiced for about 2 hours a day, and he needed more time to absorb all kinds of knowledge, enrich his knowledge, and go into nature and feel everything in heaven and earth.
It is true that Yidi did not systematically practice Cherny 849, 299, 740, but it does not mean that he does not play etudes, I will choose the tracks according to his personal needs. Our current piano education for children is often easy to enter a misunderstanding, overemphasizing the importance of technology, and even learning etudes for many years.
In fact, technology should be for the service of music, for relatively young children, technical training is to let them master some basic playing essentials, such as accurate rhythm, correct fingering, grasp of syntax, etc., just like writing to learn the stroke order first, this is a set of basic skills that allow you to "correct" the way.