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How to Win an Audience Before You Say or Play a Single Note #Shorts

3 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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A violinist shares how to connect with your audience before playing. Speak briefly about the pieces and your creative process. It calms your nerves, builds a real connection, and makes the audience feel like allies instead of judges.

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I think try to find something about your art that makes it unique from somebody else. Whenever we do our recitals or something, we want to show our personalities. We want to connect with the audience in kind of a face-to-face way. I also find that it unnerves me. It kind of calms me down a little bit when I can talk to an audience, show who I am as a person, and then also talk about the pieces and my process around it. And to have a little bit of that connection beforehand, I almost feel like the audience is on my side. We're in this together. I can't wait to have a moment with them. I think the hardest thing is when you're only playing the violin, it's very hard in a very short amount of time to show who you are. And so you want to maximize how you can present yourself. And so I think having something to say before you perform or something. Mm-hmm.