Episode 75 - How Ballet Pianists Prepare For Ballet Classes

Enjoy this light-hearted and insightful episode we are bringing you today which is all about the physical preparation we do before we play for a ballet class or classes. Our idiosyncrasies if you will. Some days we might only have one or two, but it can be up to three or four.
At the end of the day ballet pianists are artists and we are performing for the duration of a ballet class, so we do have individual rituals that then enable us to play as best as possible for the dancers. It might be arriving early to have coffee so you aren’t flustered, or morning exercise to energise the body, or compartmentalising your tunes to give yourself an idea about what you might play.
This episode is an easy listen as we give you all the banter and charm you’ve come to expect from the Ballet Piano Podcast. It’s about the physical preparations we do and you can really learn more about us as pianists and how we get ready to bring a ballet class to life with music.
Akiko plays the same class throughout the week at a top ballet school, and her professionalism leads her to changing the music every single day in order to keep inspiring the young dancers. That requires a lot of physical and mental preparation and is testament to the high calibre of pianist she is.
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