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Offline loonbohol

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I need help in my future career.
on: August 24, 2009, 04:51:23 AM
It is really in my heart that I can be a composer.
but the environment does not permit it.

In the Philippines, there is only one university that has a department of music which is University of Santo Thomas.
The department has only one course : Bachelor in music.

most music in the Philippines are plain boring.  I like simple music but there is a line that separates plain from simple music. Unlike in Japan, United Kingdom, Korea, United States,
The Philippine music use a unpoetic syntax , Plain guitar instruments , Wrong orchestration.
The shows in the Philippines have no incidental music at all.
If there are, It is inharmonious with the situation or the incidental music is borrowed from outside the country.
Singers in the Philippines had songs borrowed songs from outside the country which was famous 20 years ago.


I wish I could be a composer but there are no composition coursees in the Philippines.
I have no choice but to study abroad.
But I could not pay the financial price.
but I wish to study here
https://www.geidai.ac.jp/english/music/index.html
or
https://www.siba.fi/en/

After thinking, I realized that I have to compose out of my league, If I will be a composer in the Philippines. I need to be a genius or compose something indifferent.

I was able to think of it when my fellow Filipino people when I was in China saw me present a performance of just one-half of Winter wind etude.  For them it is nosebleed

But I will be an ordinary performer in the eyes of the foreigners.
Yet I have no match for lang-lang,Yundi-lee or an ordinary performer in Japan


So My first question is:
How do I fulfill my career as a composer?

My second Question is:
How can I study abroad?
If someone here is a proffesor please help me?

My Third Question is:
Should I quit?







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Offline db05

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Re: I need help in my future career.
Reply #1 on: August 24, 2009, 05:32:31 AM
Welcome back.

I see I'm not the only one who's been thinking of quitting music. I got depressed, and when classes started, got sick also. When I got better, I felt too awful to go back to music school.

Can you come to Manila and study? There are several other conservatories and there may be hope, however small, for you if you really want it.
I'm sinking like a stone in the sea,
I'm burning like a bridge for your body

Offline loonbohol

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Re: I need help in my future career.
Reply #2 on: August 24, 2009, 08:57:56 AM
Show me all the possible careers music can offer.
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Offline imbetter

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Re: I need help in my future career.
Reply #3 on: August 24, 2009, 01:17:30 PM
The most important thing right now is to keep practicing. Then when the time comes worry about this.
"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 communist

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Re: I need help in my future career.
Reply #4 on: August 24, 2009, 01:35:25 PM
How old are you now? like 14 or 15? anyway, instead of thinking about what will happen in 2 or 3 years allocate this time to practicing. If you are good you could probably get a scholarship which would help solve the money issue. Don't quit.
"The stock markets go up and down, Bach only goes up"

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Offline db05

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Re: I need help in my future career.
Reply #5 on: August 24, 2009, 04:40:21 PM
Show me all the possible careers music can offer.

Gosh, I don't know what to say. I'd been banking on the possibility of teaching piano and/ or guitar. That is all. I'm already 20. but I haven't reached the advanced levels of either instrument yet.

You're still young, so you can train to be a performer and get into conservatory. After that, I have no idea.  :-\
I'm sinking like a stone in the sea,
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Offline communist

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Re: I need help in my future career.
Reply #6 on: August 24, 2009, 05:09:14 PM
You can get a teaching job with any field of degree
"The stock markets go up and down, Bach only goes up"

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Offline loonbohol

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Re: I need help in my future career.
Reply #7 on: August 25, 2009, 04:22:25 AM
My Idea is about studying composition abroad.

If the University Conservatory will let me of one etude,one full sonata and any song.

What should I prepare if I will enter the composition.
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