What should you be able to play, if you want to study the piano ( germany?)

[semme]

What should you be able to play, if you want to study the piano in a university
( in germany?)


doesnt really look like its tough. a guy i met once said he only practiced an hour a day..

[steve jones]

It was my understanding that most music performance degrees (in the UK)  required applicants to have an AB Gr8 in their main instrument, and atleast a Gr5 in a second. However, I know someone who got in to a university with just a Gr7 in piano.

If you are talking about going to a top conservatoire, then its a different matter. I have no idea what would be required to get you into Julliard for example.

[jamie_liszt]

Hey

 When i played for a well known person in the conservatorium (which is the university) over where i am, he said its tough, i was being praised by everyone (not just the family) but in competitions etc. with my heroic polonaise and chopin pieces, i went to him and he said i wouldnt last a week there, if he brought 10 students to listen they would laugh at me, maybe he was being a little hard and over exagerating so i understood.

If you study piano at uni (or another instrument), you will be surrounded by people who can also play and know ALOT, so IMO you would need to be perfect with scales, if they ask you to play, c major, b minor, b major, b flat major, a minor, e major arpeggio dim. etc. whether, piano, forte, crescendo up and diminuendo back you have to know them, without any stops, pauses, uneven playing, and they have to be played at a fairly fast speed, probably 100 bpm 4 notes per beat minimum. Also good octaves, sixths etc. In your pieces you have to take note every detail, phrases, everything!! Your sightreading must be pretty good, you wouldn't have to sight read like any mozart sonatas or anything but anything they give you, you must be able to play it at a moderate speed with not many mistakes. Plus the basic thoery skills of course, composition/harmony/chords/cadences/ Oh and i hate this but Aural, Clapping, Singing Ear skills.

Its very hard, over here its like that but i dont know about germany, i say it would be probably the same.

[kghayesh]

If you study piano at uni (or another instrument), you will be surrounded by people who can also play and know ALOT, so IMO you would need to be perfect with scales, if they ask you to play, c major, b minor, b major, b flat major, a minor, e major arpeggio dim. etc. whether, piano, forte, crescendo up and diminuendo back you have to know them, without any stops, pauses, uneven playing, and they have to be played at a fairly fast speed, probably 100 bpm 4 notes per beat minimum. Also good octaves, sixths etc. In your pieces you have to take note every detail, phrases, everything!! Your sightreading must be pretty good, you wouldn't have to sight read like any mozart sonatas or anything but anything they give you, you must be able to play it at a moderate speed with not many mistakes. Plus the basic thoery skills of course, composition/harmony/chords/cadences/ Oh and i hate this but Aural, Clapping, Singing  Ear skills.

Hey, aren't all of these the basic requirements that every pianist is supposed to be able to do

How can you be a pianist without playing all scales, arpeggios, making crescendos

[jamie_liszt]

I know its basic requirements, Im just letting him know that if he want to goto uni to major in piano, dont even think about it if you dont know every scale perfectly. They Obsess over it and they do go mental and get angry if you dont know your scales up to scratch.

[semme]

ok, thx for the info. i still have a lot of work to do