Good self-thought pianist looking for teaching

[Terry-Piano]

Hello , im Terry , a 20 year old
          I was interested in music all my life and today im totally obsessed by it...
 I sang in a choir (les-petits-chanteurs-du-Mont-Royal, a prestigious choir in Montreal) when i was youung
Then i got interested in guitar in my teens
And when i was 16 i discovered the amazing geniuses
Mozart , Beethoven , Bach and started researching heavily their music and discovering classical music...
It's been 4 years now... I listen to a lot of things (From Scarlatti to Liszt)

now to my topic... my only goal in life is to become one of the best pianists in the world , I already self-thought myself so many things just by listening and reading scores at the same time... i now can read anything... but not at sight instantaneously.. I can also play tremendously hard things (la campanella , some chopin etudes , fantaisie impromptu , many mozarts and beethoven's sonatas, some scarlatti,debussy and many bach preludes as well(the fugues i cant seem to be able to read properly..) I know there is always room for improvement and i'd like a good teacher (one whom i can admire for his genius) I'd love some suggestions... i enjoy bernhard's posts.. he really sounds like a teacher... i live in quebec , canada... anyone help

[monk]

... my only goal in life is to become one of the best pianists in the world...

BEWARE, Terry!

If that's really true, you are in great danger to become very unhappy!

Because it's not in your hands whether you become one of the greatest. That you can play insanely difficult pieces says nothing, absolutely nothing. Many people can do that.

At our music university we have some of the best piano teachers in the world, e.g. Kaemmerling and Krajnew. Students come from all over the world to be teached by them. And they all can play those insanely hard pieces.
But most of them, you don't hear anything of after they have finished their studies. Some of them even go insane! There is a frightening number of insane pianists!

So, set yourself REALISTIC goals. E.G.: "I want to become a really professional pianist. I want to play so well that I get as much gigs as possible."

And: Do it for the love for the music - not for "becoming one of the best", for competition, for being admired!

And, very important: Get some other life goals! You seem to think that having only one goal is a sign of seriousness; but it's just running around with blinders manically.

Best Wishes,
Monk

[Saturn]

I don't have much to add here.  Just wanted to say that was a GREAT post, monk.

- Saturn

[Terry-Piano]

Thanks , maybe i exxagerated a little saying THE BEST.... since that is impossible... and i dont play to impress anyone except myself... I find endless beauty in music and want to make it a profession... the real point of the topic is i want a good teacher that can help me clear some stuff out so i can progress twice as fast

my message wasnt intended as bragging ... but i am indeed serious and have no idea what i could do except devote all my free time to music... and i think self-isolation and madness is not an uncommon sight with serious pianists.. thanx for your concern , but ill go utterly mad if i chose too

[thierry13]

Well, if you want a good teacher, just call at a music school. And if you're from Montréal, go see at the piano section of archambeault...maybe they will know someone or some school! And when you say you play those pieces, do you mean you play PARTS of them or their finished and you could play them in a concert?

[Terry-Piano]

I could perform them in a concert... but only because i improvise well... not because i know the whole piece yet... the finished pieces i have mastered are : a few chopin nocturnes ( op9 no 1 op9 no 2 4th noctrune and the posthumous one in c minor) a few beethoven sonatas : pathetique , appassionata mvt.2 , moonlight(trouble with 3rd movement tho ) the easiest chopin etudes ( no. 3 , 6 , 9 , ) i play alsmot all of them... but im blocked in all of them.. example : etude no.2 ( TOO HARD) I;m starting Alkan's beethoven concerto transcription... very nice piece... i can also play 3 paganini/liszt etudes... but not completely again....
I play a lot of mozart... and bach preludes too..i'd like to meet you.. we could have a little concert...im 20 years old and i live in quebec too