Hello everyone. Today, I would explain
about history of music competition that I am currently participating in and why
I join in this competition.
First, I would explain about competition's
history. The competition is called "Student concourse of Japan". It
is started in 1947, held by Mainichi newspaper. This competition has five
categories of instruments; violin, piano, cello, vocal music, and flute.
Violin, and piano has three categories,
elementary school (Grade 4 to Grade 6), middle school(Grade 7 to Grade 9), and
high school (Grade 9 to Grade 12). You have to win two rounds of smaller
competition held in five cities (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyushu, and Hokkaido)
competition in order to compete in the national concourse. I won the first
round in Tokyo already this year, and will be playing for final round to be
Tokyo representative on October 20th.
Jury members are different in every city.
There are nine judges in each city.
The judges are famous teachers or famous
players of each city. However, judging member is every year different.
I have to play three pieces of music. They
are
Wieniawski: ecole moderne No. 6
Mendelssohn; violin concert No. 1(Only one
movement)
Prokofiev: violin concert No.2 (Only one
movement)
Wieniawski is a solo music, so if I make
any mistakes, it is easily to know mistake.
Mendelssohn’s violin concert No.1 is really
similar to his piano concert, op. 40. This is because someone asked Mendelssohn
to write concert for piano and violin. He wrote them separately but these both have
same pitches and melody sounds very similar.
Prokofiev wrote this concert in Paris. This
is kind of ballet music, and it is very similar to the scores of Romeo and
Juliet. The characteristic of this music is that it changes in many way pitch,
mood, and rhythm.
I want to win, because if I get a first
prize, that means number one of Japan, and concert opportunities might come.
I WILL DO MY BEST
I WILL DO MY BEST
Picture of Wieniawski
Picture of Mendelssohn
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