My name is Michael and I will be 36 soon. If you ever get to visit Australia I can tell you more about where I live :)
Your love for music and the sharing of it shows that you have definitely a good grasp of what it takes to be a performer.
You are right, and it took me a long time to work out why all those exercise on Hanon are important to build a solid foundation for your piano playing skills, and I hope to spend more time playing or enjoy listening to music this year.
wao! australia, someday, God willing, I would love it, especially to see some concert in Sydney, it would be fabulous, and go to some of its beaches! If some day you visit venezuela do not hesitate to tell me, despite the situation, people do not stop going to the concert in the center of accionsocial, in the theater teresa carreño, etc and well most of the Venezuelans are very beach. ..
Hanon is very important, you never stop playing, you can graduate from piano but you always have to do exercises of hanon, keep it in mind
favorite composer? piece? What do you like so you can listen?
I see music as a spectrum of sounds, just as food is a spectrum of flavours. I will listen to anything that introduces new sounds and ideas to my mind, so it is not unusual to find my playlist filled with anything from classical to experimental music.
I only found out about theremin very recently, and realized that augmented and virtual reality for music was invented a long time ago!
in that aspect we think the same, I am a conservatory musician but not only I like classical music, I like many more genres, and provided you have good rhythm and a good melody, no matter the genre, even something interesting is the music dissonant and the composers who perform it as Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky when I saw this in the history of music (academic matter of the conservatory) I stay very present and the types of music that one can create, in reality the music is something big that still we do not finish understanding, type the works of bach that even the scientists analyze