preferred audience!

[tds]

who is your dreamt bunch of audience?

[pocorina]

people who are genuinely interested. people who all love me, but people i do not know personally. that's about it.

[tds]

...........but people i do not know personally.

oh really? any particular reason for that?

[BoliverAllmon]

I just want an audience. I really don't care who they are. Just fill those seats.

[pocorina]

Yes, there's a reason. I find it really strange that Chopin was scared of large, impersonal audiences, but didn't mind a close circle of intimate friends. It's exactly the opposite for me. Concerts where people i want to impress are present scare me, because if i go wrong i have to face them, but an anonymous audience, no mattter how large, can never terrify me, or make my heart speed up so much as one beat. I don't have to face them again

[BoliverAllmon]

Yes, there's a reason. I find it really strange that Chopin was scared of large, impersonal audiences, but didn't mind a close circle of intimate friends. It's exactly the opposite for me. Concerts where people i want to impress are present scare me, because if i go wrong i have to face them, but an anonymous audience, no mattter how large, can never terrify me, or make my heart speed up so much as one beat. I don't have to face them again

I thought Chopin hated large audiences because he thought they were ignorant of real music.

[Waldszenen]

People who've never heard what I'm playing, so if I stuff up they don't really know, or care.

[pocorina]

I thought Chopin hated large audiences because he thought they were ignorant of real music.

nope, he said he felt asphixiated by them. he got very nervous

[soundtrk]

Small audience (50-100), people who knows the finer points of music, people whom I know a little bit (and therefore try to impress ) but are not intimate friends/family.

[paris]

deaf people-the best audience! lol 

[sonatainfsharp]

People who are there to enjoy the music, but not some hot-headed undergrad that thinks he will impress me by asking me all kinds of insane questions about the music I just played.  I love these types of discussions when appropriate, but not after a performance. Just sit back, shut up, and ENJOY the music for once! (This comes from my own personal experience. Studying music in college almost ruined me--it took me YEARS before I could ENJOY music after studying it so darn hard.)

[Waldszenen]

I'd HATE to play in front of anybody from this forum - you all know too much about music; you'd all be like "hey you used the wrong fingering for this trill in bar x and you need more articulation here blah blah blah!"

[tds]

I'd HATE to play in front of anybody from this forum - you all know too much about music; you'd all be like "hey you used the wrong fingering for this trill in bar x and you need more articulation here blah blah blah!"

i am not too fond of piano recitals, but i'll come to yours. tds*prepares to seal his mouth*

[chopinisque]

Someone who actually cares about what I'm playing, how I'm playing it and in the music. A plus would be someone who listens objectively and not with preconceived views.  If I'm going to play for someone, I'd rather have them pay attention and be honest...

Afterthought:  Not complete strangers... I wouldn't be motivated to play for them... I'd only be scared...

[pocorina]

Well, there is one thing about playing piano which gets to me every time. People who can't play just DON'T appreciate how hard it can be, how octave glissando is hell on a stick and how much time it takes to really get to grips with a rapid passage. I guess what I am trying to say is that my ideal audience would be pianists who are fully aware of how hard my pieces are to play, and are in awe of how I have mastered them <rubs hands together>. That will be all, my friends.

[m1469]

absolutely anyone with a receptive heart and mind 
(sometimes my cat was my best audience)

[pizno]

On one hand, it is easy to feel comfortable if I know the audience consists of non-pianists.  But in the end, that's a little hollow.  It's much more satisfying to play for knowledgeable people if I do well, (if they thought I did well too!) but much more nerve wracking!  I like to know the people love me no matter what, or are at least less critical than I am when I listen to pianists!

[Ben]

Somebody who's never heard my programme before

[tds]

i used to think that argerich, ashkenazy, and friends, should be there enjoying my performance.

hmm...such a fantasy from a youth. tds

[etudes]

audience who never care about wrong notes (lol. becoz i always play wrong note)
and has some musical background and know something more about music
not like know beethoven from fuer elise or moonlight sonata (first movement)
and turn off his or her mobile phone

[dlu]

deaf people-the best audience! lol 

Deaf and blind for me...I'm always over-conscience about how I look at the piano, and with some of the modern works that I play you must had a complete lack of inhibition on stage. I would prefer...the dead.
DLu

[pianowelsh]

It would be people who really love music! who dont come to a concert with a preconceived idea of how every piece on your programmes should (like 'cortot plays it at this metronome mark', 'oh Gould inverts that chord in his **** recording!') I really hate that!!! People who can see past the odd wrong note who evaluate on the lines of creativity enthusiasm and communication and who have no idea who i am ( a blank canvas so to speak)

[Skeptopotamus]

well, definitely not general audience cause im like pure modern.

[Chrysalis]

people i don't know, people who don't know me or my playing
people who like music