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Topic: What do you do if you don't teach or accompany but still perform?  (Read 1607 times)

Offline Bob

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For a living as a pianist. 

If you're not a teacher and you don't want to accompany, but your skills aren't good enough to be out on the world stage.  How do you survive, if you plan on making a living as a pianist?
Favorite new teacher quote -- "You found the only possible wrong answer."

Offline imbetter

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Well, if you're not good enough to play a lot of concerts and make money that way you pretty much either have to teach or do something none-musical.
"My advice to young musicians: Quit music! There is no choice. It has to be a calling, and even if it is and you think there's a choice, there is no choice"-Vladimir Feltsman

Offline franz_

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Not
Currently learing:
- Chopin: Ballade No.3
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- Rachmaninoff: Etude Op. 33 No. 6
- Bach: P&F No 21 WTC I

Offline Bob

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Is there anything else performance-related that is not a large concert or accompanying?

Maybe running around on the college recital "circuit" but that still wouldn't pay much. 
Favorite new teacher quote -- "You found the only possible wrong answer."
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