Wanting to go to Vienna.

[svms012]

Hello! For some time now i have wanted to attend the Vienna Institute of Music and Performing Arts. But for the past few weeks i have begun to feel that i have started too late in piano. Some kids were placed in the academy at age 9! How old is too old to get invited by the academy? My teacher has given lectures here, and many other places such as paris, and warsaw. but im apprehensive to tell her how badly id like to attend.

[lostinidlewonder]

It seems the best person to ask all your questions to is your own teacher. If they accept all ages then I don't see the problem attending even if you where 80 years old! One student of mine teaches swimming and she does the lower grades which are mostly little children aged 4-6 years old. But she has also a couple of older students who never could swim in their whole life but want to try to do it. Of course you know how to play piano, you wont sink. So what do you hope to get out of attending the institution? What knowledge do you think you are missing out that you could get from attending?

[svms012]

This instituts has been my dream for so longg. So many of the greats attended like my favorite Mitsuko Uchida. and i guess im also hesitant because i really dont know if im good enough.

[birba]

Mitsuko Uchida is your "favorite"?!

[thierry13]

Mitsuko Uchida is your "favorite"?!

Maybe his favorite of those who attended there? Would make more sense 

[svms012]

aha. no. mitsuko uchida is my favorite pianist who attended the school. my favorite overall pianist is either wilhelm kempff, or vladimir horowitz.

[birba]

ALRIGHT!!!!  RIGHT ON!!!!  Kempff is also one of my favorites.  I don't think there has ever been anyone like him.  Even Brendel says his 3 favorites were Cortot, Fischer, and Kempff.

[birba]

 I was just remembering, when I did the Beethoven course with Kempff in Positano, more than half of the students were studying in Vienna.  Seidelhoffer was the big name in Vienna back then.  Curious.  I mean, curious you want to go to Vienna and Kempff is one of your favorites.  Probably has to do with Beethoven.

[svms012]

you studied with kempff!?

[franz_]

Who is teaching piano now in the Vienna conservatory?

[birba]

you studied with kempff!?

Well, what it consisted of was you played a sonata (it was a Beethoven seminar on the sonatas and the concertos) and then he talked about it and then played it back.  (That was the best part) But I think what Kempff had to teach us, couldn't really have been taught.  It had to do with composing as you played.  Playing as if you had composed it.  And he was an incredibly prolific composer, by the way.

[svms012]

you are so freakingg lucky. I would die if i would have met kempff.

[thierry13]

Well, what it consisted of was you played a sonata (it was a Beethoven seminar on the sonatas and the concertos) and then he talked about it and then played it back.  (That was the best part) But I think what Kempff had to teach us, couldn't really have been taught.  It had to do with composing as you played.  Playing as if you had composed it.  And he was an incredibly prolific composer, by the way.

You are indeed very lucky 

[birba]

Who is teaching piano now in the Vienna conservatory?

You know, I went to the Vienna site, and NOWHERE is the faculty mentioned.  I don't get it.  NOWHERE.  Or maybe I just don't know WHERE to look...

[thierry13]

You know, I went to the Vienna site, and NOWHERE is the faculty mentioned.  I don't get it.  NOWHERE.  Or maybe I just don't know WHERE to look...

I know, I tried to look too, but I didn't find anything lol.