Official Trailer ✅: Season 3 Eps 18 feat. Priscila Navarro, "the New Peruvian Figure of the Piano"

7 May 2023 · 4 min

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This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube trailer titled "Official Trailer ✅: Season 3 Eps 18 feat. Priscila Navarro, 'the New Peruvian Figure of the Piano'" (published May 7, 2023). The excerpt includes an interview-style excerpt with Dr. Priscila Navarro, a Liszt-focused concert pianist and competition winner, who discusses her Liszt repertoire, competition results (second place at the inaugural New York Liszt Competition in 2021; semifinalist at the 2020 Netherlands Liszt Utrecht competition, canceled due to COVID), her approach to creating engaging programs, audience development, and connecting to her Peruvian roots. A host/presenter also appears, promoting the full conversation’s YouTube premiere and the split audio podcast release. Content type: YouTube trailer/episode promotion.

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I am a big Liszt lover, so I always have Liszt repertoire that I'm working on or that I've recently performed. It's fortunate that there is a lot of competitions honoring Liszt. And they all have different repertoire, different focuses. So I've been happy learning all this music for competitions. In 2021, there was a New York Liszt Competition, the first edition of the New York Liszt Competition, and I won second place. And the year before that, in 2020, I was a semifinalist in the Netherlands List Utrecht competition, but unfortunately that competition was canceled due to COVID. I really believe in creating a rich musical experience for the audience so that it's not just that they are going to listen to great classical music works, but that they are in some way having this whole experience that is, you know, designed for them and intended to help them connect to the composer, to the performer, to the music world in general. You know, and there are many ways of doing that. Creating a program that is engaging is one of those ways. And then showing all the sides of your identity is also part of, you know, being a full artist. It's very important to me to not only, you know, excel in the classical music world but connect to my roots and to people from Peru. The world needs something besides the traditional pianist. You know, we used to think that being a pianist was, you you know, practicing all day and reading the biographies of composers and, you know, having the best Liszt Ascendental Etudes or achieving that kind of, you know, only artistic excellence. And of course there is the side of that, but the world today needs an artist who is able to engage audiences because the audience is not any, it's, isn't anymore ready-made. The audience is not just there. We have to create the audience. We have to show that classical music is relevant. It's relevant today and it's relevant to regular people. And that is part of our responsibility.
To hear the entire conversation with Dr. Priscila Navarro, LISST International Competition winner, concert pianist, educator, and the new Peruvian figure of the piano. Please join the chat during the premiere of this special episode this Tuesday, May 7th, 8 PM Eastern on my YouTube channel. The audio podcast will be split into two parts. Part 1 will be dropped on your favorite podcasting platform at the same time of the video premiere. See you on Tuesday!