"Hey, your child plays the piano so well, he must be going to go professional in the future, right?"
"Oh, it's a pity that this kid is so talented and doesn't go professional..."
"If you learn well, you have to specialize, and it is best to become a pianist in the future!"
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"Mom, do I have to be a pianist?"
Many times, our expectations of children tend to gradually increase with the improvement of children's abilities, and once he makes us have a windfall, we will become more and more strict with him. When the child makes his achievements on the road of music, we will begin to look forward to whether he can embark on the path of career, let him focus on this matter in the future, and enter an ideal music conservatory seems to be a more important choice for them, and unconsciously think less and less about whether he has other possibilities and ways out.
Does playing well mean that you must go a professional path? It seems that the gifted child who is favored by God seems to have a more brilliant future than other piano children, and it is indeed possible that he will show his ambitions in front of the piano, but if because of this possibility, you have tied him to the piano road, then from the moment he really embarks on the moment of focusing on the piano career, for him, he is confined to the circle of music, and if he comes up with new ideas in the future, it may be too late to try different fields.
Piano educator Chen Da once retorted: "To play the piano well, you don't have to go to music college." Every piano boy actually has more possibilities, so he gave a few real examples, such as Christopher Taylor, the winner of the third prize of the Ninth Van Claiborne International Piano Competition, who was a student in the Mathematics Department of Harvard University that year, and Jon Nakamatsn, who won the first prize of the first Van Claiborne International Piano Competition, who was a high school German teacher who taught and educated people... Compared with the title of pianist, they have a different state of life of their own.
(Piano educator Chen Da)
"I want to tell all my friends that there are many people who learn piano in the world, but if you set the goal of learning piano as a pianist, the probability of success is almost the same as buying a lottery ticket." There are many people who want to become professional pianists, but how many can go to the top? Don't put your eggs in one basket, maybe you will meet a different version of yourself, which Chen Da himself is a living example.
As a pianist in residence, he is also a practitioner who dares to explore more possibilities for himself, before officially embarking on his piano career, he opened a company, did business, and even cooperated with the Department of Psychology of Beijing Normal University to establish the "Beijing Normal University Psychometrics and Service Center", creating the first psychological consulting company in China. Although he grew up under the piano education of his mother Zhou Guangren, he did not only cling to the road of music, but also made his own glory in other fields. Music is always the navigation of his life, but he has never missed the scenery along the way.
In fact, there are many celebrities in the world who surprise you are hidden versions of musicians, behind them there is an endless connection with music, such as Einstein and his violin, Planck and his piano, James Allison and his harmonica, etc., although in physics, biology, medicine and other fields have already made remarkable achievements for future generations, but privately they still have a piece of their own music ocean, Music is their best companion in their leisure time and thinking, career and music achieve each other, and inspiration is constantly flowing at this time.
(Einstein)
Music never limits a person's future possibilities. It's your best friend, your best love, the best medicine, and it shouldn't be your only weight. Admission to conservatory is certainly a good choice, but if you think about it from another angle, if you have the opportunity to try more new adventures, it is not impossible.
If your child is extremely talented in music and has a strong interest in music, please slow down your strong expectations, and then wait a little while to reduce the pressure and burden of your child learning to play the piano, so that the child can make his own judgment. After all, music will never leave him, nor will it limit his future steps, so that he and music friends can learn to get along, and maybe there will be a windfall.
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