Good morning everyone, let me introduce myself

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City: Casaletto Lodigiano

December 17, 2016, 09:39

I must preface that I was very pleased to find a website like yours on the web, dedicated, as described on your home page, to "reactivating" and disseminating the dying artistic side in our country.

My piano history is quite complicated, much like my life has been up to today at age 53.

I graduated in 1990 with Maestro Riccardo Risaliti (with whom I still maintain a relationship of great esteem and friendship today) and began my concert career at the age of 17, ending with my last concert in '94.

Then I dedicated myself to teaching for many years.

At a certain point, I had such a rejection crisis that I reached a point where I could no longer even listen to any musical piece.......and I dedicated myself to something else entirely.

To not bore you excessively, I will go directly to last year when I suffered a serious health accident that was leading me toward death; 33 terrible days in the hospital that changed me inside and made me reflect deeply on the meaning I was giving to my life.

To make a long story short, a few months ago my passion for music and the piano reignited strongly and I resumed studying. At first, it felt like being a young boy again, Hanon, scales etc., to restart years of abandoning the instrument.

Today I am successfully relearning some pieces that I used to perform in my last concerts: Ballade op.23 no.1, Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise, Chopin studies etc.

This is, in short, my story.

Warm greetings to everyone.

Marcello

Thesimon

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City: Ariccia, RM

December 17, 2016, 10:03

Good morning Marcello and welcome. Yes, our main idea that guided us in creating this space was precisely to create a place for the reactivation of musical culture. For obvious reasons, this involves a certain level of selection. Not by chance our forum, unlike others on the internet, has fewer members and is considered more "academic". While many users of other forums might say this with a derogatory meaning, we take it as a great compliment.

I am truly pleased that you have resolved your health problems and that you have decided to get back into the game by recovering what you had musically let drift away.

I hope you will feel at home among us.

See you soon.

giovannip

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Posts: 553

December 17, 2016, 11:45

Hi Marcello, it's nice to have you in this community. I hope you can find the serenity you lost and the desire to resonate again.

marcy63

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City: Casaletto Lodigiano

December 17, 2016, 12:14

Heartfelt thanks to both of you!!

nancy

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December 17, 2016, 14:29

welcome Marcello!!!

when music resonates inside, one can step away even for a long period, but then it returns even more important than before!!!!

pianoexpert

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City: rocca di papa

December 17, 2016, 17:52

Welcome Marcello, you will surely make a great contribution to our Forum. As Nancy well says, it is impossible to repress the Music inside us. It always resurfaces triumphantly. Welcome

marcy63

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City: Casaletto Lodigiano

December 17, 2016, 18:53

nancy wrote:
welcome Marcello!!!
when music resonates inside, one can step away even for a long period, but then it returns even more important than before!!!!

Thank you, Nancy, I perfectly agree with you. In my case, after having faced death, music is helping me so much..... to be reborn and to reopen my heart to myself......

marcy63

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City: Casaletto Lodigiano

December 17, 2016, 19:00

pianoexpert wrote:
Welcome Marcello, you will surely make a great contribution to our Forum. As Nancy well says, it is impossible to repress the Music inside of us. It always resurfaces triumphantly. Welcome

Hi Paolo, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, just as it was a pleasure to see and listen to your videos on piano technique. The first rule of the musician/pianist is that one NEVER stops learning.

I am certain that this forum will be a wonderful way to engage and to share, in addition to passion, one's own personal experiences.

Angelo60

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City: Cavernago

December 18, 2016, 21:24

Thank you for telling us these facts, painful as they are, but also with a positive aspect. For me too, music, even just as a listener, has always had a special place, something that makes me find myself again, that pushes me to try to be less banal.

thank you.