Opportunities For Collaboration: How Pianists Can Work With Other Musicians?
Although piano playing is considered to be a solo affair, much of the repertoire of a pianist is, in fact, collaborative. There was a time when aspiring musicians were encouraged to specialize in the area of their expertise when it came to music making. This was for them to develop a selling point that is unique to them. Today, young musicians are encouraged to be more flexible and engage with all aspects pertaining to performing as well as teaching. So how does this affect an aspiring pianist? Unlike in the past, today being a pianist is not limited to being a part of a solitary practice such as, the trajectory that follows playing in a recital which is then followed up with solo touring. There are very less solo performers that manage to sell out stadiums as compared to scores of others that work as pianists in schools, conductors, accompanists, and so on. Pianists are a regular sight in almost every institution such as schools, in universities where they ar...